Currently growing 3 different cucumbers(lemon,marketmore,Persian), jalapeños,Thai chilis,bell pepper, banana pepper, tomatoes, some butter crunch lettuce that hasn’t bolted yet surprisingly,broccoli. All on the same stand and getting great harvests! I keep ph around 6.5 and EC around 2.5. Im debating going full hydro for everything except trees/bush/root veggies since it’s been so rewarding.

Last year I started with BeefSteak tomatoes which were a little too unwieldy on my small balcony garden. This year I switched to a smaller Roma type tomatoes.

It may not be the biggest, but I like it

I see all these beautiful pictures of plants and gardens and wanted to upload a picture of mine too, but it always fails. I tried smaller pictures too. What am I missing? Is there something that just aromatically displays a link and doesn't show that it's a link or something? Sorry for the basic question, I'm new to lemmy and just wanted to contribute.

The plant itself is tiny compared to my other jalapenos but it’s loaded with flowers. I can’t wait to see what the fruits look like!

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/911506

Turns out my passion flower plant is gonna give me fruit this year 🙂🙃🙂🙃

cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/13399

The picture up top is a Sugar Pie pumpkin that I'm going to try and trellis vertically. Look at that flower!

My pet cilantro is flowering as well. It's been hot and dry, so it decided to skip the 'lets make herb' part, understandable. The flowers still can make a nice pesto!

We've got marigolds going around the property!

The nasturtiums are in full bloom, and delicious in our salads.

The tomatoes are doing their thing, yay!

Does anyone use a flower garden planning app or website that they like? Is there anything available that is free? I'm very new to gardening and it would be so helpful. I'm still figuring out when different flowers bloom and how tall they get. I would like to be more deliberate in my planting decisions, rather than my current trial and error approach.

That rose is a climber called Kiss-Me-Kate and it’s so fragrant

Up until a few weeks ago, our spring had been pretty cool so I put off getting my okra seeds started. Then I forgot about it and now I worry that I am too late to plant some okra! I've never grown it before but I know they are sun and heat lovers. I should have enough of that, but I worry that since it can take 3 months for them to fruit I've missed out on peak growing time.

I'm still going to try, but is there anything I should do to help speed it along? I'm soaking the seeds right now. I've seen that some people scrap the outer shell with sandpaper, anyone have experience doing this? I plan to plant these in deep 5 gal buckets so I can ensure they can always be in the sunniest spot. Any other ideas?!

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/790495

This is the first year it flowers, hoping to get fruit this year.

Just some of the ones that happen to be doing anything interesting right now:

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My beds are on the ground, not raised. It’s just grass in between them and when I mow it throws seeds in my beds and it’s so difficult to manage. Thinking about hoeing the grass out, adding a double layer of cardboard and then maybe some bark chips or straw just to hold it in place. What do you think? Do you foresee any issues? What do you have between your beds?

This is my first post. Anyone know how to rotate images? Is it possible to add multiple pictures to a post?^___^