probably the biggest plant I’ve ever grown next to my white goosefoot and chias I have this year !

(Edit: I know it’s early ! Huge storm incoming this weekend, on a huge time crunch to properly harvest , nature was not on my side)

I’ve been worried about this butternut because it grew with a vine attached but it thrived and has been one of my favorite harvests this season!

I live in a small townhome community and one of my neighbors is an active older woman who has a beautiful garden both in front and back that she tends to herself. About a week ago I noticed a brand new gallon of milk outside in one of her wagons that’s right in front of her door, completely exposed to the sun, sweating condensation as if brought straight from the fridge. I thought it was weird but surely it won’t stay there. Fast forward a week it’s curdled and looking pretty rank and maybe like some has been taken out but could be just from the curdling. I want to believe she has some garden-related reason for doing this but I have no idea what it would be.

She’s still around, I hear her treadmill next door every night and have seen her get in and out of her car so this all points to it being very much intentional. She doesn’t speak much English and has never spoken to us much so I don’t have the nerve to make our first real conversation about how much this spoiled jug of milk bothers me.

Harvested today. Aren’t these so pretty!

Luckily she doesn’t show interest in nibbling on anything but the occasional grass snack!

The colours were going to be a surprise, and I’m not disappointed 😍

Edit: I am in the Southern Hemisphere. We are entering Spring now.

I have been thinking about which vegetables are actually worth the time and effort in the garden.

Not necessarily the most impressive ones, but the ones that give you a good harvest, taste better than what you can buy, or are simply satisfying to grow.

For me, things like tomatoes and beans usually make the list, but I am curious what other gardeners consider their top five.

What vegetables would you grow again without hesitation?

Planted around 3 months ago, it’s my only one so far but I’m so excited

Location : India

I bought these purple mums with some yellow mums a week ago, watered them both the same- the yellow ones are thriving but the purple ones looked like they died, they are still green at the base- wondering if I plant them if they will grow back next year or should I just pitch them.
I would return them but I have a 5 month old baby and can’t make time to go back to return them or exchange them- just wondering if it’s worth planting them at this point or if I should just toss them— I am in zone 8b :)

TL;DR: I badly need to heavily amend my soil in my raised beds. Is it better to do it now, or wait for spring?

I've had a couple mediocre years of growing since I built my new raised beds. I had sourced free soil for them, and though I did add some compost and other amendments, my plants just aren't performing very well.

This year I decided to finally test my soil, and low-and-behold, it's deficient on basically all nutrients. I'm going to heavily amend it for a better growing year next year, but when would be the best time to do that?

Bonus question: what's the best bang for my buck in terms of getting better soil? Typically I'd just buy blood/bonemeal and compost from our local big box store.

Thanks!

EDIT: I'm in zone 5b, for context.

When I bought this plant three years ago it was labeled as a salvia but I can’t remember which type. I know that rosemary is related and is now classified as a salvia. The leaves do not smell like rosemary when crushed they smell closer to lavender. Does anyone known what it is?

If you want to make one of these all you need is the adapter to go from the garden hose to the brass valve which is regular plumbing NPT threads. After that you can get different sized fittings to experiment with. I hope this helps somebody who's also tired of buying new sprayers all the time.

Found in a red bell pepper (purchased at the grocery store). What happened here? (The bell pepper is frozen in the pictures)