What did you do in the garden today?

[Charlie Wooster]

Picked a few superhot peppers.. been a slow go so far.. some do better than others.. frustrating plants to deal with some years..

 

[Sueby]

I'm still getting eggs from everyone except the ex-broody. But she & another are losing feathers. Seems early to molt. Both EE. So I'm with @Acre4Me - this year my new birds were RSL. I love the different breeds & eggs, but in the end I only keep chickens for eggs. I don't want to feed & care for chickens all winter & get no eggs. Nor do I need a broody.

 

[Sueby]

my gees and a few chickens are molting. I broke 1 silkie broody as it is too hot. I don't want to loose her. she can sit when it gets cooler.

My broody always seems to pick the hottest weeks of the year to decide to do it. & she is a tough one to break.

 

[jerryse]

Rain is over until Wednesday. Things should take off growing now. I may receive my seeds today or this week. Very humid early but will be less humid as it heats up.

 

[Sally PB]

Started picking some peppers a few days ago, the end of June. I know that might not sound very much to lots of you here, but typically I don't have any peppers ready to pick until mid to late August where I live. The difference this year was that I started my own pepper seeds inside the house 8 weeks before our last frost date. My pepper plants are about 3 feet tall already whereas in prior years, buying 6 packs at the big box stores, my pepper plants would be about 6 inches tall this time of the summer.

This BLOWS MY MIND!!!

I have never, ever gotten peppers before August. Purchased plants, started plants, doesn't matter. My pepper plants are 4" tall (habaneros) to 9" tall (King of the North sweet peppers). I think I see a flower bud nestled waaaay down in one or two plants.

I have given them Tomato Tone (organic stuff for tomatoes/peppers) and Alaskan Fish Fertilizer. They've been watered during the drought, and it's been plenty warm. I don't know what their problem is.

 

[Charlie Wooster]

This BLOWS MY MIND!!!

I have never, ever gotten peppers before August. Purchased plants, started plants, doesn't matter. My pepper plants are 4" tall (habaneros) to 9" tall (King of the North sweet peppers). I think I see a flower bud nestled waaaay down in one or two plants.

I have given them Tomato Tone (organic stuff for tomatoes/peppers) and Alaskan Fish Fertilizer. They've been watered during the drought, and it's been plenty warm. I don't know what their problem is.

Mature Pepper plants need less N and more P&K cut back Nitrogen back to zero.. grow the plant to desired height and then ditch N and only feed for flower and fruit.. I regularly start to get peppers end of May and June July I get a ton.. I only have a few plants this year no garden to speak of.. health issues..

 

[jerryse]

First pic is a mass of poke seedlings for those who can not grow them. A pest here. Second pic is Dickinson pumpkin. IL. grows most of the pumpkin processed in the USA. This is the one they grow. Last pic is persimmon from roots left after transplanting. Persimmon will grow here but is rare in the wild. Southern IL. they grow wild everywhere.

 

[gtaus]

This BLOWS MY MIND!!!

I have never, ever gotten peppers before August. Purchased plants, started plants, doesn't matter. My pepper plants are 4" tall (habaneros) to 9" tall (King of the North sweet peppers). I think I see a flower bud nestled waaaay down in one or two plants.

I have given them Tomato Tone (organic stuff for tomatoes/peppers) and Alaskan Fish Fertilizer. They've been watered during the drought, and it's been plenty warm. I don't know what their problem is.

Frankly, I was about to give up on trying to grow peppers I bought at the store because so many of them never got taller than maybe one foot and had about one or two peppers at most on each plant at the end of the summer. I was totally disappointed year after year.

However, in the last few years, I started to make new hügelkultur pallet wood raised beds and the top 6-8 inches was filled with a high-quality topsoil/chicken run compost mixed 1:1. Last year I had great pepper plants at the end of the summer in those raised beds. This year, starting my pepper seeds inside the house 8 weeks before our last frost date, I am truly about 2 months ahead of last year.

I don't use any other fertilizer other than the chicken run compost. I'm not opposed to using fertilizers, per se, but my plants are growing so good in the chicken run compost mix that I don't feel any need for more fertilizer. My chicken run compost is mainly leaves and grass clippings, with old paper shreds coop litter and, of course, whatever chicken poo is donated by the flock.

I once read that leaf mold compost has more nutrients, pound for pound, than cow manure. Most of my chicken run compost is leaf mold by percentage. But I'm sure the mix of chciken poo in the compost gives the plants a good boost.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Picked some more of my white mulberries ( they are sweeter than the red ones) and the last of the red currants, the gooseberries are not ripe yet, first of my chillies are blooming, and the dark mulberries are from my neighbors tree, a big branch hanging over the fence, he doesn’t eat them and complains that they dye everything red

Here it is

 

[gtaus]

Mature Pepper plants need less N and more P&K cut back Nitrogen back to zero.. grow the plant to desired height and then ditch N and only feed for flower and fruit.. I regularly start to get peppers end of May and June July I get a ton.. I only have a few plants this year no garden to speak of.. health issues..

I know some people are not going to be impressed that I was harvesting peppers in late June. However, I live in northern Minnesota in Zone 3B and typically I don't have any peppers to pick until late August. Also, I'm not a very good gardener, but I'm learning. I've got to shout out my limited successes when I can. Hope people understand.