What did you do in the garden today?

[City farm]

Our non-profit recieved a nice donation of compost. Getting ready to go out and clear an area for the volunteers that grow plants for sharing at the Freeplantngardenstands.org

 

[TJAnonymous]

Yeah, I’ve tried peppers twice now and it didn’t work either time. One Youtube video said they needed to be kept cooler and leaf-free to keep them dormant so I might try that once I get my harvest off of them. (Previous years they were room temperature and under a grow light.)

I want it to work, I just haven’t had good results with it.

Interesting... Mine were kept in a sunroom which never got below 60 in the winter. I also kept a grow light on them. I even pruned them back a lot but did leave some leaves on them. They all slowly yellowed and fell off. There were no leaves by the time spring came but the main stem was still green. I set the buckets outside during the daytime when the temperature was over 60 degrees but the plants died anyway. They never came back to life.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I left my pineapple plant in the pot after I cut its fruit off and I kept it moist for a couple of months. I noticed that it didn't die and grew a new side crown.
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I really thought mine would fruit this year but they still haven't. They've grown enormous though...

 

[JedJackson]

I picked some zucchini and tomatoes, and collected seed from some annuals for next year. It is cold and rainy up here, so really nothing much else to do except weed, weed, weed.

 

[Smokerbill]

I pulled up another zucchini bush and threw it to the chickens. They don't "love" eating the leaves, but over the course of a day the plant's leaves are pretty much gone.

 

[Loving my girls]

I ripped out my finished tomato plants then sat back with a book while two of my hens removed the leatherjackets and turned over the soil for me.

 

[Smokerbill]

Here are pictures of my oddball Black Krim tomato plant with the yellow fruits, next to a Black Krim plant with normally colored fruits.

I don't know if it's a mutation, or it reverted to some previous parent plant, or if it was accidentally cross pollinated at the "seed factory" (Burpee seeds, I believe).

Whatever caused it, I like it and will save seeds and cuttings for next year's garden.

 

[cj2024]

I really thought mine would fruit this year but they still haven't. They've grown enormous though...

Once the leaves get big, they should fruit. Have you tried Calcium Carbine? I drop around six pieces in the hole around the top leaves and drizzle water a little at a time to make a mist or fog. After that it takes a month or two for it to flower. I also, had to apply a fruiting or flowering type fertilizer to support the flowering or fruiting stage. However, on my latest attempt on 4 plants only 2 flowered, probably because I put too much water and washed it out. I tried again on the 2 that didn't flower and one of them just started to flower. I'll give the last one a week or two before trying again.
I bought this can from Amazon, it really works.

 

[cj2024]

I found that leaving the baby crowns on the mother pineapple plant after picking the fruit will make it grow faster. I separated these small crowns and planted them after picking the fruit, but they are not as big as the one that just sprouted on the mother plant. The small crowns probably had a couple of months head start.

 

[Smokerbill]

Here are pictures of my oddball Black Krim tomato plant with the yellow fruits, next to a Black Krim plant with normally colored fruits.

I don't know if it's a mutation, or it reverted to some previous parent plant, or if it was accidentally cross pollinated at the "seed factory" (Burpee seeds, I believe).

Whatever caused it, I like it and will save seeds and cuttings for next year's garden.

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I just sent an email to the Ed Hume seed company, with pics, asking if this yellow tomato is anything special. Hume seeds is local, located in WA state about 75 miles north of me.