My first harvest this year of this new variety I'm growing. It's really tasty and amazing for making soup.

I was given a bine (yes, that's not a typo) by my father in law.

Unsure of the variety, and unsure of what I want to do with them, brewing my own beer is a lot of work and cleaning I dont have time for.

May see if a local brewery wants them.

Poblano, Shisito, Marconi/Shepard, Banana

(edit: unblurry poblano picture)

Aphids of some sort? They're all over my patty pan squash and pumpkins. It's too late to save them this year (the plants are dead / yucky now) but I do want to know if I should get rid of them, somehow, and how to keep them from coming back next year.

EDIT: OK, so it seems either these are annoying Squash bugs and I should just cleanup this year, then watch better next tear. OR, they're BM Stink bugs, the spawn of Satan, and I'm doomed to sleep with the unkilkable beasts forever now. Neat. Does it help to know they're ignoring my tomatoes and peppers?

Thanks!

2 California Wonder Bell Peppers

10 Giuseppe Mild Green Chiles

7 Big Jim Green Chiles

There's many more Bell peppers still on the plants, but I'm hoping they start turning red before the weather forces me to pick them.

Edit: Apparently the tape measure is weird? I dunno, it looks like a normal tape measure to me? I think it might seem weird because it's upside down? Here's the same pic rotated:

I had a guest over and thought it'd be fine..

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/34286006

Did my first apple harvest for a tree that was in the backyard of my house. Around a year after we moved in after removing some trees that were growing into our fence and garage and working on building soil health our neighbors pointed out that we had an apple tree. They said that for the entire 10 years they lived here they didn't see an apple but were seeing a few two years ago. After missing my window last year I finally got around to harvest.

For around 1 hr or 2 of work I collected around 27 lbs of apples. I sorted around one third to be aesthitically pleasing enough to be eaten raw with the rest too ugly. I gave half away to the same neighbor and had to find something to do with the rest.

I made half into apple butter which I cooked in a crockpot for hours after dousing them in sugars. I ended up making around 7x 8 oz jars worth.

The rest I soaked and gently simmered in a pot with spices. The next day I mashed all the apples and got the remainig juice from the mashed sauce. I added raw honey to the juice and then dilted with alcohol (half in cognac and half in grain alcohol) to get it around 20% ABV. These cordials will last me all year.

What else should I do with apples next year or when I got back to harvest again?

I'm gonna have more than I know what to do with, and that's even after losing a dozen or so to end rot.

What I mean is, do you get better crop yield in one year and a year later you don't get much depending on how bad or good the season was?

I'm at zone 7 UK if that helps. We've just started to try gardening this year and the summer season has been scorching most of the time and with autumn rolling in it's still fairly warm but not sunny.

I tried planting edible landscaping this year, but it's been working pretty poorly. I think I need figure out a better way to communicate the expectations with pedestrians.

So far 2 Cantaloupes have been taken well before ripening, an unripe green pumpkin was taken, an unripe bell pepper was taken, and they aren't touching the ripe tomatos or strawberries. So I'm very confused.

Maybe I'm expecting them to have too high of a base knowledge of garden plants? I may just move the garden inside the fence and build a small pantry instead.

My mom has this plant in her coastal Southern California yard. She cuts it back to just about nothing every year and it grows back super healthy looking.

Here's a picture of its leaves and flower.

The fruits have started to pale and the leaves to curl. I'm pretty new to citrus.

Edit: Thanks to everyone! I'm going to try to make a couple of changes based on your suggestions.

What's wrong with my sudachi (citrus)?

Can't believe how good it tasted!

This randomly popped up under my persimmon tree. My plant identifier thinks of might be a crocus. Anyone know? I think it's beautiful and I'd love to encourage more to grow if possible!

It started growing the normal pineapple a couple months ago, and I just noticed this parasitic twin popping out out the side

What is happening? Is it a pup? @TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world

The birds need a bird bath, and not me wanting a bird bath to look at birds! Yes yes.

First time trying to plant onions. I'm in a long day zone, 8b. Bought 2 packs of seeds from the local home center, walla walla and red Burgundy. Walla seems to be a long day, and at least from my internet search red is short.

Was planning on doing fall planting and over winter. Question would be if I'm wasting my time on the reds or if a short day onion will bulb in a long day zone if planted in fall?

I was also planning on doing some spring planting as well, and comparing the 2. I'm guessing walla walla would be ok for that but not red.

So I've been reading the history of leeks today.

This last year or so, I bought and cooked some for the first time in my life. I never had them as a child, even growing up on a farm, and I don't understand why. They are absolutely phenomenal and I cannot stop cooking with them.

I live in zone 6a, in North America. I've read leeks prefer cold weather. While our summers here do get hot, peaking in July (with tons of rain), our winters have become so mild. It does not snow much here at all any longer. The only month it is truly cold is February, and the coldest weather is usually the driest. Whenever precipitation happens here during winter, it's never on the cold days, winter precipitation brings darling 45°F rain. Least for the last 7 years or so.

Anyway, I've read they grow wild in places like the UK, Wales, and Ireland. I think I could take advantage of our mild winters.

Are leeks something I could plant in the fall? Anyone here familiar with growing them?

Peak tomato season right now - 3 baskets 10kg (22lbs) each every other day. Canning full steam.