Garden 2024

[Rascal]

I just converted a room next to my garage into a plant room. Now everything plant related that doesnt belong in the garage will be stored here. I took advantage of going through all my old seeds and got rid of quite a bit that have been around forever , and likely aren't viable anymore. I have one set of seeds from a tomato that are 20 years old. every few years I plant a few to see if they still work. Last time I did it was about 2 year ago, and I had about 90 % germination.

I use an open area with soffits for rain protection. Right by my back door.
Although I have just had power and a light put in my wifes tool shed . I could take over that lol.

Russ

 

[pepperhead212]

I got all of my plants inside today - the curry tree, makrut lime trees, and the bay laurel. A friend stopped by, to help me get that old chair out, that I gave up trying to fix (it was 17 years old, so it didn't owe me anything! ), and he helped me get those inside, which wasn't difficult, since I had stopped watering them quite a while ago, except the one watering a couple of weeks ago with the MicrobeLift solution, with Bt israelensis, to keep fungus gnats from developing. After I got them in place today, I watered everything, using 4 gallons of a fertilizer, using a dilute mix of the hydroponics MaxiGro, that I use for the hydro, then the last gallon was more of that Bt israelensis, in the upper layer of each pot.
I did very little outside today, except for bringing those plants inside!
Plants indoors for the season, 11-09 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[Badjak]

Sometimes it's nice to live in the (sub)tropics
I got all those trees and permanently outside

 

[larry_stewart]

Nice to see my garlic popping out of the leave mulch
Kale, lettuce and arugula doing well.
Snap and snow peas taking there time, but trickling in
Persimmons still on the tree. A few sites say to wait til first frost before picking them. I only have 2 so If I mess up, I can lose both of them .

 

[pepperhead212]

I turned off the water to the outside this morning, and drained the pipes, since we might be getting out first freeze of the season. And we may be getting the coldest day of the year since March, on Wednesday. It is VERY windy, with gusts to 40 mph, so all I did was bring the trash cans in, drain the pipes, and came back in!

The hydroponics is doing great - not only the cuttings, but the seedlings. The cilantro, while slower than most, is larger now than most of them. The only thing I had a problem with was Thai basil - both the first and the second cutting flowered soon after putting the cuttings in the hydro. So now I'll just have to plant a few seeds, and do it that way; slower, but I'll get the plant eventually.

I can't believe that the basil is still alive outside! Usually, my basil is the first thing to die out there - starts getting black spots, even before the first frost, but I think it's because of the moisture I usually have here, and in the low 40s this would happen, with all the dew.
The hydroponics, with the basils and the epazote growing great, from the cuttings. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[caseydog]

My herb garden looks great since we got that few days of almost constant rain. I move the basil plant in and out of the house. It is three-feet tall. I have a stake in the pot to hold the stalks up. The leaves at the bottom are starting to fade, but the upper half of the plant is deep green and very fragrant.

I'm in Houston right now, so can't take any pictures. I'll try to remember to do that when I get home.

CD

 

[larry_stewart]

I got some sage cuttings, rosemary cuttings , basil cuttings all going in my hydroponics. Parsley also, but that was started by seed .