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We're getting steady zucchini and cucumbers now, plus purple beans, lettuce, kale. There are tons of tomatoes on the vines, but nothing ripe yet. I suspect they will all ripen up while we are away camping next week. My hot peppers are now all taking off a lot. I've harvested a dozen or so...

That does sound like a good method, but we do it much more simple and never have issues. We turn over the soil in our raised beds a few days before planting, then poke holes a couple cm deep, drop a seed in, and repeat 3-5cm away. We do several rows that way, then cover and water every other...

We have one red currant, and one black currant bush side by side, they are probably 5-6 years old now, and quite large. We've never gotten more then 4-5 currants off either bush. I'm not sure if it's a pollination issue, soil, water, or something else. They look nice and healthy, they just...

We should be picking our first zucchini in a couple days, and starting to get raspberries and strawberries now. Tomatoes and cucumbers have lots of fruit on the vines, will probably still be another week or two though before we start harvesting. We've been eating lots of lettuce.

Looking good. I'd go nuts if we had a HOA here. Glad you have been able to avoid their wrath.

Hops are still going crazy, cabbage is going well too now. Going to harvest all the hundreds of dill plants soon and freeze them, they are in half the beds, just came up from blown seeds from last year (only had them in 1 bed last year). the potatoes we gave up on and cancelled the order, got...

Garden is now coming along pretty well. only issue is the various potatoes we ordered online in late April haven't arrived yet, so still have an empty bed (top right) waiting for those.might just give up and plant whatever generic stuff we can pickup at home depot, and use those special ones as...

I had to replant about half the garden, my covering up worked until the last night, but the last one was -3 and all the tomatoes, zucchini, and squash died, plus most of the peppers. I had spares for a bunch, but had to go buy some more plants too. I'm most annoyed about the super-hot peppers...

It's border line here for Frost too. This morning there actually was a tiny bit on the cars and roof, but plants seem ok. Tonight I think I'll cover the tomatoes and some other plants, they are still small enough for that.

We've got most of the garden planted now, mostly the tomatoes, potatoes, and hot peppers left to go in. We moved a few things around, due to availability and changes in what we wanted.

A cousin donated some polycarbonate panels from their greenhouse, so I built a permanent one. Just cost me $30 in lumber and $30 for the corrugated roof. Tomorrow I will close up those top sections in the roof, with vents that will open automatically. I built it over one of the windows into our...

Built my temporary greenhouse again for this year. Has a heater and some LED lights as well. Temp should stay between 10 and 20 C.

We harvested some of last years overwintered kale today too and had some kale chips with dinner. We also have some new kale seedlings going, will get moved outside in another 2 weeks or so.

I cut pretty much all my peppers in half before drying them. I have them in a dehydrator on a low heat setting so it takes 24 or more hours.

We decided to rip out a row of Riesling grapes that always got diseased every year, never producing enough to use. I tried different sprays, different schedules, but couldn't keep them healthy. All our muscat vines have been fine though. So yesterday I cut down most of those Riesling, and am...

We got off to a bad start. We went to South America at the beginning of March and had someone looking after our seedlings. Well they all died, so started them over when we got back. The garden itself is just about done, got all the soil tilled today and started installing the drip irrigation...

I'm planning on building it mostly from no-name parts. I will use some generic half in distribution tubing that will run from the tap over 2 the edge of each bed. You can see in the picture below how are beds are arranged, we basically have that times two. So there will be 1/2 inch line running...

My wife is taking point this year on designing the layout, but similar plants to last year. Lots of tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, onion, garlic, lettuce, Kale, herbs. I'm going to be installing a drip irrigation system for our 8 raised beds, both for convenience and also to reduce mildew...

The garden is all done for the year, got snow here last week, but I moved my Paraguayan pepper plants into the garage before this, and just harvested a few peppers from them. There are still a couple dozen more on the plants, which I'm hoping will still ripen up. Garage is around 10 degrees C...

My wife went a bit nuts on the weekend, she harvested a bunch of stuff from our and a relatives garden. Made Salsa, tomato jam, pickles, pickled cauliflower, apple pie filling, and muscat jelly from my leftover juice. I also ended up getting over 300lbs of Dornfelder, not 200, so I'm now very...

Picked my muscat grapes today, got 350 lbs. It's all crushed and pressed now, got 90 liters. Have 200 lbs or so of dornfelder coming tomorrow too. I need to quickly bottle some wine from last year or I won't have enough carboys.

Made 15 jars of smokey peach hot sauce, and 10 jars of sweet peach. Much of the garden didn't produce as well this year, but hot peppers keep pumping out at a good clip. I've dehydrated a bunch and made several hot sauce batches.

Mine are only around 12" tall,but there is also just more dirt below the raised beds, also good soil (old owner had his garden there right on the ground.) Never need that Hugelkultur method before, but I'll read up on it.

This year I want to try and overwinter some of my hot pepper plants too. I was hoping they'd survive if I kept them in the shed with a space heater keeping them at 55ish, and a grow light. There is a large west facing window I'd have them against, and I'd build a little room out of styrofoam...

Picked a bunch of peppers today, made hot sauce. I lead our IT Infrastructure team at work, so I have named this one Infernostructure. Have a work BBQ this weekend I'll bring the jars along too. My real hot sauce bottles also come in tomorrow so next ones will be in traditional bottles.