Gardening

I think this is the start of the very first tomato and I'm so unreasonably excited I managed to get from seeds to a tomato growing oh my god! It's so tiny still! But it's there!

Most of what is in the picture has grown over the last three years. And it's mostly on top of large rocks, the border of their bed.

I just planted the swamp milkweeds this spring. They were tiny little seedlings and now just a foot and a half tall and I already have monarchs! I feel like I should be standing guard over them.

Some of the tomatoes are doing....this. the leaves are withered like and crunchy. Not all of the plants, a number are doing just fine. The leaves in the photo are wet because it just rained although it has been extremely hot the last few days here in NJ. What silly thing am I doing wrong? Thanks!

My garden has 3 core functions. Recreation and play, Growing vegetables and fruits, and givin nature more room. The so called Controlled Wildernes. I Love to see all the different species the are coming by. But i always want to make it better, especially the combination of space for family and nature. Ive got inspired by the book The Garden Jungle from Dave Goulson. It just gave me more ideas and motivation to protect the smal animals, and make the garden usefull for more. But what about you? What books, articles, documentary etc, did inspire or would give me some ideas to let nature have more space in af garden?

A flower!!! I am closer to my goal of managing to grow a singular tomato!! Oh I'm so delighted!

One of the insects on the mint. Friend said ladybug babies? So spiky!

I’ve got grubs in my vegetable garden. I looked into spraying nematodes to kill them, but I’m worried about it harming other bugs like butterflies, bees, and fireflies. Anyone have any experience with this? I don’t want to do more harm than good.

edit: lady bugs being released to do murder. alt text doesnt seem to have loaded correctly when posted.

First time growing this variety and they're pretty tasty. Then again my taste buds are bland so the taste of these are extraordinary to me haha. I am really surprised how few of them csn be humongous while others are tiny. Either way, I grew too many that I can eat so I've been giving the excess away to family and friends.

Hatching another batch of peppers and starting cucumbers soon. You can follow me on TikTok under Deku Farms if y'all interested in more daily updates. I'm trying to be more active on lemmy 🙏🏽

Adding a little bit of beach theme on our terrasse. Three pots of Leymus arenarius, sandy garden earth, and a bit of white granite gravel.

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Own picture but not own cultivation

One of the few pepper pods showing, bell peppers. I planted 5 to a box, with 3 of them being conjoined. I also added a vermicompost bin and to my surprise, the peppers have responded really well to that method as well as to my Amaranth + Basil.

I'm a bit behind on my pepper plants this season so im looking to catch up by planting more seeds this month, mainly from the grocery store bell peppers.

Some say they dont fruit or are bad, but honestly its worth a shot. Sounds like what Big Seed wants us to believe lol

I have more content on TikTok, Deku Farms if y'all care to follow 💚

I put about 10 new roses in the ground this year, and I’m so excited to see them bloom! I never really know what they will look like in real life or in my climate. This one is “Golden Mustard” and she’s a BABE.

Here, between the spring and summer flowers we have a few weeks with not a lot of nectar bearing flowers, so for the insects I let the columbines grow where they will in my garden, because while short-lived, their flowering fit exactly in this spot. Also they require little work, they will reseed themselves and grow where they like it.

This time a bunch grew where their last flowers would harmonize quite well with the first peony, making me look like an awesome gardener who planned this all out before 😁

My first time growing chilli plants. The seeds I collected from market chillis have come a long way since being planted in February!

My area's been getting pounded by thunderstorms and heavy rainfall (like 1"/hr) and luckily my plants have survived and it knocked off almost all of the aphids! My tomato plant is fruiting, I've got jalapeños, serranos, and bell peppers on the vine. The basil is going crazy and the rest of my garden is just doing great also :3

I think total the amount of money I've put into this garden for soil and a couple tools (a transfer shovel was like $20) was only about $50. I got the milk crates for "free" (thanks dollar general hehe) and the woven bag for free from a coffee shop, the cardboard boxes for free from Walmart, I bought one bucket and had this metal truck on hand from moving in college, but could've just as easily made the wall supports out of free pallet wood. If I had an actual yard I could've done everything for less than $10 not including water and seeds/starts, but I got all of those on SNAP EBT so basically free. The mulch and compost I got for free from my city.

Green thumb praxis. You don't need a million dollars, herbicides and pesticides to grow your own food. You just need some dirt, water and seeds (and probably some microbial assistance. Maybe also urine.)

This is roughly the harvest every other day. Already have a gallon freezer bag full. No complaints here.

Carrots and peppers were kind of a wash last year so we just let the strawberries run rampant. They're happy as hell and the fruits are have gotten bigger as the plants matured. The left side was clear enough to put beans where the tomato plants used to be. I was planning on skipping tomatoes as well because they got absurdly large and bent their cages, but some of the fallen ones must have seeded because we had 3 little tomato plants shooting up. They're in separate pots now and hopefully that'll be more manageable.

It's in some mix of cannabis soil I had, with 30% added compost.

A tomato plant got the same mix and is doing just fine, this cucumber guy seems to be unhappy.

I checked the pH (mixed soil with some water and used my pH / EC meter) and it was around 6, so I thought it should not be nute lockout, cucumbers are supposed to be between 6-6,5?

I have no clue but I would guess it's iron, guessing from images I've seen, but I'm surprised how it could be lacking iron if a tomato is doing fine in the same soil.

Also whatever it is, how should I fix it?