These insects are plaguing the hot pepper plants in our greenhouse, and last year they killed the pepper plants that we brought indoors. I haven't noticed them being a problem when it was warmer out, I'm assuming the ladybugs were keeping them down.

How best to deal with them? We have an insecticidal soap that didn't work last year, tobacco plants that I could probably extract nicotine from, or I'm open to buying something if someone has a recommendation.

I live in Alberta, I think we're zone 3, if it helps

I cleaned it with isopropyl alcohol just now, in case it's a fungal infection. Last watering was on the ~18th of last month, before it overwinters with little to no water. It's soil is a mix of extreme grit with a mixed shell of more normal soil around the outside. Terracotta pot. It gets exactly seven hours of bright, direct artificial light under a 200w grow light each day.

The only bugs around are a few fungus gnats that rode in on produce a few months ago. Any advice would be helpful! I'm trying not to carve into it unless absolutely necessary, as it's only about as tall as a pencil.

Planted a carrot top a few months back expecting it to flower and give me some seeds. I had to dig it up the other day because of moving and found this insane mess

We made 11 jars of pickled green tomatoes and 21 jars of salsa. Jars are Pint sized (≈.5 L). Unpictured is the 4 gallons (≈16L) of blanched and frozen red tomatoes that we'll eventually turn into sauce.

This took a while. Every window in the house was fogged.

I turned the grow lights on early this year to grow some potatoes, which I'm sure is a totally a great use of energy. I'm really hoping to grow another round of starts after not having a very good year this year due to keeping our potatos in smaller pots and us not getting a ton of rain. Next year I'll put them in a much larger planter.

I'm also trying to get some cherry pits to seed. I collected the cherries, which were delicious, from a tree in our neighborhood. I'm betting the mother tree isn't a graft given its location and age. If any of you have any tips, I'm all ears. The pits are now a year old and spent the time in dry dirt on this table.

Just recently starting growing microgreens. I had 2 trays that turned out excellent. My last tray and now this current one are doing as shown.

We found a recipe for pickled green tomatoes we're trying out. Let you know how it goes.

Hi All - I'm thinking about getting a drip irrigation system for my garden and was curious if anyone here has tried one. Anything that has worked well, or not so much? Brand recommendations? Rain Bird and Hunter have come up in my searches so far. Other considerations a beginner wouldn't think about? I'm in the US, so I also need it to be able to be shipped here.

Might be watering them inadequately, missed the peak growing season, which is summer (most likely, though some are still growing) impatient or all of the above but I feel like that's the size they grow, apparently I've read somewhere that they're of the "ornamental" variety which means they're that size when they've matured, but the picture shows a bigger size. They're Thai Dragon Chilies. Unless I wait until next year to see if they grow bigger or to move them to a bigger pot.

Got frost this morning and decided to pull this lil bugger

I've an issue.

I have a bunch of plants that need to come in for the winter. I have gotten rid of every plant I own that is toxic to cats. We have two.

I've been growing a lemon tree for 4 years now. It's finally in its final pot, and 3-4 feet tall. Meaning, it cannot go up on my winter shelf, and needs to sit on the floor.

One of our cats is, well, chompy. So I looked up if the lemon tree was toxic to cats. I really didn't think it would be, but yay, it is.

We've two bathrooms, in a very small house. My son's bathroom has a skylight, so for now, not knowing where to put this tree, I stuck it in his tub. I take it out and watch for the cats when he showers, and then put it back in.

My husband made comment about my plant shelf this morning, because I'm down to one functional plant light, anyway, I said this is nothing, and told him what I've been doing with the lemon tree the last few days.

He said, well that doesn't sound sustainable. I said, well what else should I do?

He is so paranoid about our cats getting sick. He suggested I should get rid of the tree, that's what he would do. I said, it feels like I cant have hobbies because of the cats, I've already gotten rid of so many of my plants for them.

He then got mad at me for blaming him, I really should hear myself sometimes. I said I wasn't blaming him. And he left for work.

I see people with plants and cats. Like, what the hell should I do? I've been growing this lemon tree from seed, and I don't want to get rid of it.

I already have a tropical plant, that has grown too large for the house, is toxic to the cats, and its sitting outside right now freezing to death. It makes me depressed.

:(

Post from the spring

Got nearly 20 ounces, 566 grams for the more civilized.

Also some volunteer Jack-o-lantern pumpkins, I've had to pick them earlier than I wanted because a ground hog has devoured 6-7 pumpkins already.

It’s been a good year. It’s probably past time to pull out some of the summer stuff and plant some fall crops but I always have a hard time pulling out healthy plants. The tomatoes in particular look good but have very little fruit.

I just got my hands on a small garden! But I have no idea where to start…

There are quite some plants already planted: an olive tree, some small palm trees (that I don’t like), a Japanese maple (?), a raspberry bush and some others I don’t recognize (mostly decorative). Most of the floor is lawn (that I am letting grow wilder). Unfortunately I am not able to include a photo, it’s not loading.

I am in a 9a/9b zone (I think: mild winters rarely if ever freezing, mild summers, quite wet the whole year, continental Europe).

My questions:

• what can I do to maintain the lawn walkable but let it get more diverse?

• what tools do I need for every-day maintenance of a small garden?

• do you have any advice on plants both perennial and annual for newbies? I’m in particular interested in small plants that produce something edible. Ideally would like to start with a small apple tree? And a pumpkin/zucchini plant next year?

Boy, did this take forever!

Bonus pic of the last few Big Jim green chiles roasting on the grill:

🌳 Des arbres fruitiers "classiques" appréciés#gardening
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Un jardin non loin de chez moi qui a perdu son jardinier de presque 90 ans.Touchant et précieux de voir chaque mètre carré occupé par une production vivrière. Les planches se touchent du début à la fin. Du vert partout, sauf pour le chemin.Les pommiers greffés dans le fond ont quelques dizaines d'années probablement.#jardinvivrier

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Voici l'état à cet instant de celle que j'appelle ma "greffonière" à la #pepiniere
Une variété d'arbre fruitier tous les mètres. Il y en a 160 en tout environ.
C'est aussi appelé un "parc a bois".
Je m'en sers comme réserve de branchettes pour greffer et multiplier les arbres fruitiers.
Sauf un, ces arbres sont trognés tous les ans en hiver entre décembre et janvier.
C'est un super laboratoire à ciel ouvert aussi
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This year's vanilla harvest starting, and with the hot weather, moving fast. This year I'll harvest around 100 pods which I'll process into cured vanilla over the next few months.

It's also the time of year for "tipping", where you go through and break off the growing tips to hopefully induce flowering, which will start as early as October November. I'm going to be rooting and possibly even selling some vine material from the tipping events.