Just growing grass (lawn) this year. Roma tomatoes will be in for canning soon enough though.
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S4Cruiser
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Garlic ended up being a bit of a dud this year but onions are doing great and I plan to harvest one day this coming week.
Tomatoes are going nuts as well as okra and eggplants. Peppers starting to fruit.
My squash and zucchini were pitiful this year…I think I started them too early and there were no pollinators around so no real fruit. Ended up pulling them all cause the plants were huge and taking over the garden.
Cukes starting to come in and the bush beans have been doing good.
Part of me wonders why I don’t just go to the local farmers market, lol.
Tomatoes are going nuts as well as okra and eggplants. Peppers starting to fruit.
My squash and zucchini were pitiful this year…I think I started them too early and there were no pollinators around so no real fruit. Ended up pulling them all cause the plants were huge and taking over the garden.
Cukes starting to come in and the bush beans have been doing good.
Part of me wonders why I don’t just go to the local farmers market, lol.
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I need to find some time to plant some crops this year
S4Cruiser
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Harvested onions today. My 2 year old had a blast pulling them up!
This year I decided to try potatoes in 5 gallon buckets. I dumped one bucket today to see how they were coming along…decent but will let the other buckets keep growing for a couple weeks.
This year I decided to try potatoes in 5 gallon buckets. I dumped one bucket today to see how they were coming along…decent but will let the other buckets keep growing for a couple weeks.
Tell me something, is this normal for bananas to actually produce bananas in North Carolina
My backyard today.
My backyard today.
jfz80
Cruisin’
Yup. Normal. Probably won’t make it to ripe stage. You can toss a wire cage over it in fall and fill with straw to vertical mulch it and get a head start in the spring to give them a head start in the season. Still probably won’t make it but maybe. Red musa minis usually do best.
S4Cruiser
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@jfz80 or anyone else know of nurseries in the RTP to check for Japanese White Pines, either the ibo-can or glauca varieties? I checked Keefer and they had some glauca but were stupid expensive ($250 for very small trees). Durham Garden Center had a gorgeous tree but it was bonsai style and almost $500.
Was hoping to find something in 3 gallon size for ~$100 or so and would prefer local vs ordering online.
Was hoping to find something in 3 gallon size for ~$100 or so and would prefer local vs ordering online.
jfz80
Cruisin’
I don’t see any on posted availability sheets here. You could try calling Greensboro shrub nursery as they do not list their west coast ornamentals online.
They do have a dwarf Eastern white pine ‘blue shag’ but it’s not a Pinus parviflora. Pinus strobes rather
Panther creek would have been my go to by Keefer but none listed. This is what they show in the pinus family
Not sure when I can make it but I’ll try and get by GSO shrub, Spiveys, and call Gossett’s up here. Spiveys may have something similar in a scotch pine. The place I worked has changed ownership and has winter hours still but will try and s wing by to inquire but they aren’t the cheapest
mudgudgeon
Resident galah
To late for that bunch ^^^
Once the rows of flower buds drop away from the stalk, cut the flower stalk off a few inches below the last row of set flowers.
If you don't cut the flower off, the tree will put all it's energy into the flower, and your fruit won't develop.
Bananas grown in a cooler climate can be delicious.
They grow slower and smaller, and tend to have more flavour and sweetness.
jfz80
Cruisin’
Such a late start…. hopefully will mature before frost
Spring treats right out the window.
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jfz80
Cruisin’
Are those your loquats?
Seems wrong time of season but then again, mine never have fruited.
Seems wrong time of season but then again, mine never have fruited.
jfz80
Cruisin’
After midnight in the other garden
Yes sir. They flower in fall for the spring fruit.
This is only the second time in about 15 years. Usually to cold of winter and it kills the blooms.
First shishitos of the year.
Edit: 1lb, 6oz pictured here. Local grocer sells these for about $6/lb so great value here, lol.
Edit: 1lb, 6oz pictured here. Local grocer sells these for about $6/lb so great value here, lol.
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Miso glazed eggplant, roasted shishitos, grilled zuchini, over rice. Veggies are from our garden, except the green onion.
Maybe another upside to global warming!
What's going on here!? : ) You got a nighttime grow light going? Peppers?
jfz80
Cruisin’
It’s happening 
Several coming in now and good tomato year so far as well. One reaper, Lots of Hungarian wax, some shashito and cowhorn, cebanelle and Serrano.
But I’m waiting on my habaneros
Several coming in now and good tomato year so far as well. One reaper, Lots of Hungarian wax, some shashito and cowhorn, cebanelle and Serrano.
But I’m waiting on my habaneros
