Need Gardening HELP Please

[cefe13]

I just love this thread and I learn a lot too! I usually don't prune tomatoes but this year I definitely need to do so as I have too many plants. My garden is really small - about 30 square metres (ca 320 square feet) so will follow your advice above and remove some of the lower stems.

Tomatoes are still tiny (I don't know the name of this one but it's a midsize red tomato. The original seed came from the botanical garden and my son got it at a sowing workshop several years ago. Every year we collect seeds for next spring.


Here's the garden and most of the tomatoes are in the top raised bed, to the right. If you look closely, you can perhaps see my assistant, sleeping after having worked in the garden all afternoon.


and here is a close-up of him

 

[cefe13]

Ok so here’s my garden. I have ring beets, coloured carrots, leeks, onions, red romaine lettuce, turnips, 2 kinds of zucchini’s, bell n banana peppers. Not sure if my peppers will grow as June was absolutely cold. Peppers n tomatoes thrive on heat. And flowers. These sunflowers, last year when I cross Canada with Nyala n Duke, I saw on the highway in Saskatchewan sunflowers all long for miles growing wild. I figured when I drive back I will stop n pick a couple. Now they were ONLY about one-two feet high. Why in my garden they are like 5’ I have NO clue. I find them cute cause the were miniature sunflowers. Pffft. Next year they will be gone for sure.

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This is indeed a nice garden and hello to Nyala and Jack Thanks for posting pics!

 

[helsonwheels]

This is indeed a nice garden and hello to Nyala and Jack Thanks for posting pics!

Thank you! Nyala & Jake says hello too

Your garden reminds me when I was in England visiting family. Their backyards are like yours. Very European n cozy. Love them!

 

[sisters3]

[MENTION=9875]cefe13[/MENTION] Oh my goodness! What a beautiful garden! Your garden and [MENTION=15310]helsonwheels[/MENTION] Helene’s gardens are my those of my dreams! I live in a neighborhood that has an HOA and rules, I hope to be moving next year, and I will have a garden like yours and Helene!

I’m so excited for the first red tomato!
[MENTION=15310]helsonwheels[/MENTION] Thanks for the kind words and encouragement! This thread makes gardening extra special! Thanks for clarifying the pruning!

 

[helsonwheels]

We’re having a odd summer. June was cold +10ish, July rain rain rain n maybe 4days @30 and August so far 20ish. That sure doesn’t help the tomatoes n peppers . The fennel are doing great, onions, leeks, carrots, turnips, zucchini... I think I have like 3 peppers coming out. And idk why my photos are sideways. I haven’t changed anything. Sorry about that.

 

[sisters3]

[MENTION=15310]helsonwheels[/MENTION] FENNEL YUMMO!!! I wish I was a neighbor...I'd be coming for some!! Since I'm so very new at this I'm not sure when things should be ripe and ready, I still am envious of your garden!!! I only have ripe Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes, and they are fantastic. The steakhouse (hybrid of beef steak and heirloom) are PLENTY and HUGE but still green. Those are the ones that I am really looking forward to.

Here in PA we've had REALLY HOT weather and I did read that hot and humid will slow the ripening process....did not know that. My friend is growing cucumbers, among other things, and she says that hers are behind a few weeks.....

 

[thett]

Wow!!! That is one awesome garden! Your fennel looks amazing! I planted 2 and neither came up. The rest of my stuff is doing well though with the limited space I have.
What are your green thumb tricks? You most surely have one! [emoji119][emoji3590]


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[helsonwheels]

[MENTION=14995]sisters3[/MENTION] tomatoes are just starting to ripe. Slow.
[MENTION=18707]thett[/MENTION] I always had a green thumb but... last year I did but fennel about 4” long n planted them. Non worked. They died at 6” long . This year I decided to go with seeds. They were planted straight into the garden. Seems they grow better that way. I love fennel so I did some reading up on them. Seems when they are ready to pick, there will be seeds falling off of them. Them falling seeds are supposed to grow back the following year. Will see if it’s true. Doubt I’ll be putting tomatoes next year or peppers. Our summers in Alberta is not long. Maybe one month of on n off heat. Green thumbs is always keeping an eye on your plants n understand the plant’s need. I also buy only non gmo seeds. I start them in little pots with a seeding soil. Light tubes needs to be 2” above the plant as they grow inside. Never too high or it will stretch as it wants to follow the light. If you seed them in soil, they need to be covered or in darkness. But make sure you do not plant a seed deep. Follow the package instructions.

 

[cefe13]

Great garden pics! Lots of tomatoes (and grapes!) here but still very green - a month to go or so I think. We've had good weather here but seems to get cold and rainy now, unfortunately. We had hail yesterday that destroyed some flowers.

 

[sisters3]

[MENTION=9875]cefe13[/MENTION] Uggg sorry about your flowers! Post some pics of your garden now too, LOVE THEM!!

Here are a few from yesterday



I am totally sold on the GROW BAGS love, love, love

 

[cefe13]

Those tomatoes look great! How big are your growbags? Do plants grow better in those bags or are there other advantages? Perhaps we should try such bags next year.

I'll take some pics of my tomatoes tomorrow. For now, here are some grapes (far from ripe - they will get blue)!

 

[helsonwheels]

Great looking produce...

 

[sisters3]

Those tomatoes look great! How big are your growbags? Do plants grow better in those bags or are there other advantages? Perhaps we should try such bags next year.

I'll take some pics of my tomatoes tomorrow. For now, here are some grapes (far from ripe - they will get blue)!
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Yummy grapes! I used 20 gallon bags, the root pruning through the fabric is what promotes growth, apparently.

Amazon has great price! I will simply pull toots etc at end of season and add soil next year and reuse.

 

[cefe13]

Over the last week or so, my tomatoes have grown so much that not only the plants but also the tomatoes themselves need support. This bunch almost broke the branch so I put an empty pot underneath. Now I can only hope we get a month or so more of warm weather so that the tomatoes actually ripe (some years I pick them and let them ripe indoors).

 

[sisters3]

Over the last week or so, my tomatoes have grown so much that not only the plants but also the tomatoes themselves need support. This bunch almost broke the branch so I put an empty pot underneath. Now I can only hope we get a month or so more of warm weather so that the tomatoes actually ripe (some years I pick them and let them ripe indoors).

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NICE!!!! Yay!!!! Mine are all STILL GREEN.....How do you know when you should pick and ripen inside?