My tomatoes are bursting!
It was really dry for most of the summer, but we’ve gotten a couple decent rains lately.
Also- a pumpkin.
It was a tag along with the tomatos when I planted, and just figured we’ll see what comes up.
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They have been busting out like crazy now. Its all I can do to pick them & give them away.
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After being shamed into submission( 
) by CL, I started from scratch this year.
San Marzano Tomatoes:
Broccoli, some other tomatoes & green beans…
So far, its just the broccoli. The other stuff may be a day or so behind.
I also have seeds for yellow squatch, zucchini, cucumbers, and little tiny pumpkins.
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Wevare still having a frost warming for the night.
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I’m in south west Pennsylvania and we’re still getting radical swings in weather and had a massive storm swing through that took down trees and blew off roofs.
Traditional planting day in this region is Mothers Day.
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same, here. We had a sumb tropical day and then a massive thunder storm and then frost over night. I am near Montreal, Qc.
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Very nice! Will be excited to see your harvest.
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Thank you.
I was poking around and found a volunteer from last year too. Some kind of pumpkin or something in that family.
Those gourds seem to do crazy good in my front yard.
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9 days later:
The tiny tomaters are going good.
Green beans have taken the lead, broccoli is making a strong showing in second, heirloom tomaters are in third.
Going to have to make some places to plant them soon, aside from the little bed from last year. Thinking some hanging baskets for tomatoes and thats as far as I’ve gotten.
Gotta do the flat of gourds next.
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I want to grow one. But the only place I have to do it is my big third floor balcony and the builder didn’t have the foresight to put a spigot out there because god forbid anyone would want to hose it down. And I’m not going to haul a watering can out there every day.
Yeah that’s awesome. Growing your own stuff just hits different. I’ve done a bit here and there too — mostly herbs like mint, parsley, and basil. Did some cherry tomatoes last year, they went wild, way more than I expected. This year I’m trying lettuce and maybe carrots, just keeping it simple.
Totally agree with you — having control over what you eat, knowing where it came from, no weird stuff sprayed on it… feels good. Plus it’s kind of relaxing to just check on the plants, water them, see them grow.
Thinking about doing some peppers next, maybe jalapeños. “Three sisters” sounds cool too, never tried that but I’ve read it works really well together.
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Welcome to Gardening!
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So, out of 72 cells in my original planter, I got 4 or 5 plants per cell, close to 100% germination rate.
I really wasn’t expecting that. 
So I’ve given a couple baskets away, and have 13 more with 3 clusters in each. Tomorrow I’m going to post on the neighborhood facebook page that people can have all of the extras.
And thats just the one flat. I opened up the new area there for bedding too, becauseI still have the other flat of green beans, tomatoes and broccolis.
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Recent development- Basil bed.
I extended the area in front of the oregano to accomodate the basil. Thats about as far as I’ll go this year. I have some mushroom manure to top off the beds, then it will just be maintenance and plucking stuff off to cook with for a while.
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Very nice! I like the arch for the beans! The whole layout is really good.
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Thanks! My wife is very into gardening.
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Anybody know what causes this? Insect? Fungus?
Some plants have them and have become sort of weak looking. Others are resistant I guess and are nice & bushy.
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remove sick parts or better sick plants. Also treat with a fungicides (coper base or Bacillus subtilis)
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