richrollgardener, 7 days ago to gardening

You know your gardening season is well underway when the problems start to crop up! The beets are under attack from leaf miners and the flea beetles have found the eggplant. Also the hot days lately (85⁰F/29⁰C) have caused the Black-Seeded Simpson lettuce to bolt. I usually just ignore the leaf miners and the flea beetles and the plants eventually recover and get on with growing. I've got more lettuce but it's not quite ready yet. 😀
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
@gardening

Close overhead view of a beet leaf showing extensive damage caused by leaf miners. Green bet leaf with red veins and brown leaf miner trails.
Close overhead view of some eggplant leaves showing numerous holes caused by flea beetles. Some of the flea beetles appear as small black dots on the center leaf. Pale green leaves and brown garden soil.
A lush green lettuce plant (Black Seeded Simpson) that has bolted to about 4 feet (1,2 meters) due to the hot weather. Blue-green heads of cabbage in background.

richrollgardener, 15 days ago to gardening

It was a spectacularly beautiful day here today and we got all the Cucurbits planted out and covered with my white plastic totes (cloches). We've got:
Zucchini (Dunja)
Squash (Sunburst)
Butternut Squash (Butter Baby)
Cucumber (Marketmore)
Our planting out is almost done now with only 2 more plantings of corn and the Okra still to go in.😀
#gardening
#allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#spring
@gardening

A garden plot with freshly turned soil. There are 8 hills of squash shown in the picture. The row on the left has already been covered (for protection) by white plastic totes. The row on the left shows the newly planted squashes freshly "hilled up" but not yet covered.

richrollgardener, 15 days ago to gardening

Could not resist sharing these beautiful Violas in the pots by my front door!
#gardening
#allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#spring
#BloomScrolling
@gardening

richrollgardener, 16 days ago to gardening

It has now been two weeks since we planted the first of our corn seeds into their pots. Today was the day that we set them out in to the garden. We will now start another planting of 32 pots for the next row to be set out 2 weeks from today.
#gardening
#allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#spring
#BeetBear
@gardening

A ten inch tall, light brown teddy bear in green overalls sits looking to the left of the camera. He is holding a beet in his right paw. There is a bunch of beets embroidered on the bib of his overalls. There is a pot of corn seedlings as tall as he is set into the hole in front of him.
In the extreme lower right of picture a small brown teddy bear can just be seen. There is a long row of freshly dug holes stretching in to the distance in the brown garden soil. A string line marks the row. A strip of green grass borders the garden in the distance.
A 40 foot row of freshly planted corn seedlings set out in a garden plot. All the empty pots that were used to start the corn seeds lays strewn along the ground.

philcolbourn, 16 days ago to gardening

Waiting for seeds to germinate is like …
Come on! Come on! I’m waiting!

The seeds say:
We’ll come when we’re good and ready and not a moment sooner

#seeds #germination #gardening #Allotment
#patience

richrollgardener, 17 days ago to Bloomscrolling

There is something about Peony flowers (Sara Bernhardt) that attracts heavy rain. This is one of my heirloom Peonies getting ready to open in the pouring rain this morning.
#BloomScrolling
#gardening
#allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#spring
#BloomScrolling
@gardening

richrollgardener, 17 days ago to gardening

BeetBear spent the day enjoying the warm sunshine and he went to inspect his second favorite crop, our blueberries. He pronounced them to be excellent, with the promise of many pies in July. Peace, everyone!
#BeetBear
#gardening
#allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#spring
@gardening

A small cluster of green blueberries being held in the left paw of a small brown teddy bear. Lots of blueberry leaves.
A ten inch tall, light brown teddy bear in green overalls sits looking at a branch of a blueberry bush bearing numerous clusters of unripe blueberries.. He is holding a beet in his right paw. There is a bunch of beets embroidered on the bib of his overalls.

purplepadma, 19 days ago to random

Up and in the bath. Didn’t sleep brilliantly and I still feel a bit emotionally bleugh. Hopefully the day ahead will perk me up. Any weekend plans at your end?

CLMilne, 19 days ago to gardening

Got peppers transplanted
And Tomatoes situated
Broke down old wooden bed
Mulched!
Transplanted dahlia
Marigolds too
Sowed more lettuce
Calendula also

Good day to be #Gardening
#BackYardGarden
#GrowYourOwn
#SeedStarting
#allotment
#Zone7
#Connecticut
@gardening

richrollgardener, 19 days ago to gardening

The gardener casts a long shadow upon his garden plot! I was out preparing the section of the garden where the Cucurbits will be going and I could not resist taking this whimsical self portrait!😀
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
@gardening

richrollgardener, 21 days ago to gardening

We have a "volunteer" Clematis vine with pretty blue flowers climbing up out of an old Azalea bush in back of the garage. They looked particularly nice after this morning's rain.
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
#BloomScrolling
@gardening

Close view of a pale blue Clematis flower with a yellow center. A scattering of water droplets sits on everything. Surrounded by green foliage.
A Clematis vine with a few dozen pale blue flowers climbing up out of a barely-seen Azalea bush. There are Lilly plants in the foreground. The Clematis is trying to use an old metal railing and an aluminum ladder for support. Bright raking sunshine.

richrollgardener, 21 days ago to gardening

The eggplant has now joined the peppers out in the garden row. In the greenhouse, the cukes, zukes, and squash have started to show. Next to them, the first planting of sweetcorn has now shown vigorous sprouting. Won't be long now! 😀
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
@gardening

A greenhouse bench showing more than 2 dozen 4 inch pots with corn seedlings that have just come up. Black trays, white pots and grass showing through window of greenhouse in background. There are 5 seedlings in each pot.
A 40 foot wide section of vegetable garden showing a row of 3 dozen green bell pepper plants and 3 dozen standard eggplants. Brown soil tilled. Green grass and a house in background. Bright sunshine.

JimmyB, 22 days ago to gardening

Don’t know why I bother buying or collecting seed from previous years. I should just put my home compost in pots and water it: I’d get a nice crop of tomatoes and squashes with a lot less effort… this is from potting on 2 weeks ago

#Gardening

Frieda_M, 23 days ago to gardening

Snail shenanigans. Literally climbing over each other.

#gardening #allotment

richrollgardener, 23 days ago to gardening

Ok, here's an update on the Verbena bonariensis situation from my post yesterday. Less than 12 hours later and the two plants have been almost totally skeletonized by something I cannot see. There is a healthy Verbena less than 6 inches to the left of the picture that is totally untouched. Any thoughts?
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
#insects
#entomology
@gardening

A close overhead view of a Verbena bonariensis plant, about 3 inches across. It is newly planted in a flower bed at the edge of a black sidewalk. The plants have been ringed with diatomaceous earth and are lightly dusted, as well. Many of the leaves have be chewed and skeletonized.
Two small Verbena bonariensis plants, each about 3 inches across. They are newly planted in a flower bed at the edge of a black sidewalk. The plants have been ringed with diatomaceous earth and are lightly dusted, as well. Half of the leaves have been skeletonized.

richrollgardener, 23 days ago to gardening

I have planted about 24 Verbena bonariensis plants in this flower bed & there are numerous self-seeded ones too. In just this one spot at the corner of the bed I have had to replace these two plants 3X. Each time, the plants were reduced to a few shriveled leaf stalks in about 2 days. Everything else is untouched & doing fine. This time I'm trying a defense of diatomaceous earth since I am assuming slug damage. I'll update results. 😀
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
@gardening

richrollgardener, 24 days ago to gardening

#today #BeetBear helped me plant a row of 3 dozen green bell pepper plants (King Arthur). That garden kneeler sure helps my knees on jobs like this. Finally have a bright, sunny day! 😀
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
@gardening

In the foreground is a green garden kneeler and 10 green bell pepper plants in 4 inch plastic pots lined up along a garden string line. They are getting ready to be planted out in to a row in the garden. Behind can be seen a row of beets, beans, lettuce cabbage, onions, and tomatoes.
A ten inch tall, light brown teddy bear in green overalls stands looking directly at the camera. He is holding a beet in his right paw. There is a bunch of beets embroidered on the bib of his overalls. He is on an area of grass surrounded by 3 dozen green bell pepper plants in 4 inch pots.

richrollgardener, 24 days ago to gardening

A neighbor very kindly offered me the contents of his compost pile which I gladly accepted and used to finish off mulching around the tomato plants. I gave him a head of lettuce in return for two carts of compost. What a deal! 😀
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
@gardening
#compost

richrollgardener, 24 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Well, as I said a few days ago, as an experiment I stopped cutting off the flower stalks of the very mature rhubarb I have and this is the result. It's teeming with hover flies and other small flying insects that I could not identify. #BloomScrolling of a sort!
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
@gardening

MikeFromLFE, 25 days ago to random

That's the #allotment trip done - as expected the grass was up to here. I've strimmed until the batteries were dead, so it's another visit during the week to get the rest done.
Unexpected - the sweetcorn & pea plants I put in before our holiday have gone - no sign they were ever there! No sign of the carrots or beetroot coming up either.

Still - it was an enjoyable few hours in the sun

Frieda_M, 25 days ago to gardening

Jerusalem artichokes are pretty bombproof, but this year even they are no match for … THE SNAILS!

They’ve demolished the growing tip. Along with most of my salad, carrots, radishes, parsnips…
#allotment #gardening #growyourown

purplepadma, 25 days ago to random

Morning! Another very sunny day. Not sure yet what I’m going to do with it. Tom’s going to try out his new lawnmower, woooo! Might go for a walk somewhere. Any plans your end?

richrollgardener, 26 days ago to gardening

#today I got my garden cart back from the neighbors so I was able to move all of my mature compost and use it to mulch around my tomato plants. This used up all the compost that I currently have, so the remaining area will be mulched with a mixture of leaf mold and grass clippings over the course of the season as they become available. While I was doing that, #BeetBear spent some time with his beet crop, cultivating and weeding. 😀
#gardening
#allotment
#zone6b
#NewEngland
@gardening

A ten inch tall, light brown teddy bear in green overalls stands looking to the right of the camera. He is holding a beet in his right paw. There is a bunch of beets embroidered on the bib of his overalls. In his left paw is a garden rake which he is using to cultivate around his healthy beet crop. Garden soil with a good tilth, a row of lettuce and cabbage in background.

DavidPB, 27 days ago to gardening

This year we’ve grown just six beds of field or fava beans 🫘 Five beds of Vespa field beans and one bed of Sutton Dwarf broad beans (Fava) The Sutton have already flowered and set beans so we’ll have a crop soon 😛 The Vespa are getting taller and starting to show flowers. These produce tiny beans, many more per plant🪴 and they are so tasty 😋 #Allotment #Today #GrowYourOwn #Gardening

Sutton Dwarf broad beans
Baby beans appearing on the Sutton Dwarf plants