Hey, I got a squash! Did I pick it a couple weeks early? Shut uP!!!
We've been getting corn, plenty of salad greens, green beans out the wazoo, tomatoes galore, and plenty of peppers!
I've been collecting the ground cherries dropping off the bush and made my first jam ever! It didn't make very much... BUT IT'S DELICIOUS. It tastes like....roasted pineapple pie, maybe?
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yeah, what's United Fruit Company, I mean, Chiquita up to? Uh.....uh oh!
Gelatinous ooze escapes lab, eats hikers; researchers baffled. "We only taught it to play Pong", reads an excerpt from the private laboratory's press release.
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I think that's the way to go. A bunch of northern countries have already started working on 2 and 3 - in that more natural, more restricted lighting is available in the city. Especially during the winter, it can suck when daylight lasts only 10 hours or less.
And the dark is just dangerous, even in modern times. For better or worse some primal part of me 'knows' that civilization means keeping the lights on and I think most people would agree. We can just be way more responsible and less impactful to nature with it.
We had a windstorm last week and one of my tomato trellises snapped, ohhh noooo!
The good news is all the vines survived with minor injuries and are on a new trellis.
I've been getting ground cherries by the handful! Time to make jam....
We've been getting green beans galore, the peppers are peppering, and the corn continues to corn!
I'm very happy, as my pumpkin vines decided to grow four new gourds! Hooray! The kabocha I'm growing is also doing great, and has a couple new gourds as well! We won't starve this winter!
The bad garden news is two out of my five cucumber vines have perished, for no real reason I can tell :(
I feel very positive about this, Mongoose seems to have done a good job with their Traveller stewardship so far.
I've started a bunch of mesclun to keep the Baby Greens Train rolling! The garden is providing green beans, and the torrent of tomatoes has just begun. The Shishito peppers are coming in nicely, and the ground cherries have started dropping off the plants!
I imagine Autumnal Damage would be similar to winter arriving in Bone, but with falling leaves.
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When there is a total solar eclipse, the temperature does drop dramatically. But it might not be detectable on the other side right away for sure.
I'm doing Kabocha and Blue Hubbard~ The hubbard squash was supposed to be a trap crop in the less controlled wildlife garden, but gourd fortune smiled on me and no pests showed up; the vine has gone nuts with 6 viable (large!) fruits on it. It's my second year trying to grow squash, so 2 outta 3 ain't bad!
They are testing them now, they claim they'll have reusable rockets in 2025 or 2026. Seems it's in their plan.
Turkeys!!!!!
I feel you on the pumpkins, I think I'm only getting two this year. My other two squash varieties are doing great, but there's just two green pumpkins on the vine.....and a bunch more sad ones :(
Those are some lovely blooms! Bee pics plz.
Our tomatoes are finally blushing!
The peppers are all peppering, including this CHAMP Shishito matching the pepper size of the others! You grow on now! (All the other Shishito plants are normal size)
I've got a decent number of Kabocha squash growing, exciting!
And a number of Hubbard squash hanging around getting big!
For some reason, most of our sunflowers didn't come up this year. Only a few did, and they all seem to be facing away from the sun??
I've been trying to grow marigolds for Día de los Muertos as we always seem to get to the holiday week and have to scramble to find them. It's going well!
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There's always room for more 
Howdy, gardeners! It's been a minute since I posted, but my PNW garden is just getting up to steam!
My first cukes came in, I'm growing 'Spacemaster 80' slicing cucumbers and 'Homemade Pickle' cucumbers, for obvious reasons. !Cukes I've just made my first batch of pickles using a Claussen knock off recipe from the forbidden site, so we'll see how that goes. It just went in the fridge for cooling, so I get to try it in just a couple days!
I've started researching canning, as I want to can peppers, tomatoes, beans, and maybe corn - should the Corn Experiment prove bountiful. Learning how to Not Get Botulism seems pretty important!
My tomatoes are doing well - I'm growing Roma, Gardener's Delight, and Oxheart. I'm endlessly fascinated by how the Roma tomatoes look like they do on the label of the can :) ! Those are in containers. The other two varieties are trellised and are going nuts!
Gardener's Delight: !Tomatoes
Oxheart: !Tomatoes
Gardener's Delight Closeup: !Tomatoes
Oxheart Closeup: !Tomatoes
All the peppers are finally flowering. I'm growing Serrano, Jalapeno, Poblano, Shishito, and Ground Cherries. They are all growing rather well except a couple of the Shishito's in the raised bed seem quite small.
In my Three Sisters Garden, corn is growing fairly well, it seems half of them are 'normal' size and the other half are still half height, so I may have packed it too tight. I'm growing Blue FM1 pole beans, which have just flowered and are doing well, as well as pumpkins, of which two have grown so far, still green.
In the Squash Garden, I've got crazy vines from my Kubota squash, with 4 or so gourds growing. I planted beans here but they never really took off.
I also built a 'Wildlife Garden' this year. It's open to the public (animal visitors) and I don't do any pest control here. It's also gone NUTS! I have Blue Hubbard squash growing a mile a minute with 8 gourds on the vine, scarlet runner beans reaching for the sky, some ridiculous sunflowers pushing their way up, chamomile, clover, feverfew, boy it's wild! It's fun to look at.
For salad greens we've had the 'Tower of Power' going for a few months - it was a strawberry planter that I stuck a bunch of transplanted lettuce/chard/kale/mustard plants into. It produced salad for us every couple days, pretty excellent! My wife asked me to start migrating it back to strawberries, so I've started that process. Due to that, I've replanted a bunch more greens to keep us going!
!THE TOWER PROVIDES !Jumpstarting Strawberries !Jumpstarting Strawberries
And speaking of those strawberries, I'm propagating a bunch of strawberry plants (june-bearing) to have more ground cover for next year in addition to the strawberry tower, and I'm hoping my ever-bearing strawberry will put out runners, but it's still fruiting consistently!
I got a small onion harvest (time to figure out how many onions I'd actually need in a year), and plenty of garlic. This was my first year growing onions, and half the garlic was from last years harvest! !
I also have numerous other things going - my lemongrass is growing really well:
As is my celery in a pot:
I've been growing marigolds and nasturtiums all over the place. The nasturtiums are great in salad! My cabbage started doing pretty well once I defeated an Aphid Menace that was stunting them.
So, that's my big ole report! What’s growing on with you all?
(Apologies to LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org if I stepped on your toes, I felt compelled to make a weekly thread!)
This is a beautiful Lemon Queen sunflower in my backyard. I've planted a whole row, but this one shot up and got an early start, the rest barely have their heads grown.
I'm growing these as part of The Great Sunflower Project, a citizen science effort to track pollinators in the United States. These were chosen for their wide appeal to pollinators, and true to form, there is always at least one sort of insect buddy visiting at any given moment!
David From Space @orbiting.observer I'm David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.
You think you saw me behind some ferns? You just might have!