2024 gardening thread. What are you growing in your garden this year?

[bbhaag]

Yeah cuz we picked them all. Got like 30 tomatoes on my counter for some damn reason.

Nice, so how many ounces or grams is 30 tomatoes? Never grown those types of tomatoes before so I'm actually kind of curious.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Nice, so how many ounces or grams is 30 tomatoes? Never grown those types of tomatoes before so I'm actually kind of curious.

This is more like pounds. It's enough to fill up a bread basket, and we get another half dozen every few days.

We'll probably throw half in the hedgerow and give the other half away. We only eat like one a day as it is.

 

[akugami]

How old is it? Don't need an exact age but a rough estimate would be helpful. A pic would be even better.

No idea on age, it was already there when we got the property. Doesn't look that old. Trunk is about 8-9" in diameter. We pruned it last fall. It produced only a handfull of apples, same as the last couple of years. And by the time the squirrels get to it, there's none left.

 

[bbhaag]

We dehydrated then smoked some Txorixero peppers today. They are an heirloom variety of sweet pepper. These go way back to the before times.

If you ever use paprika in your cooking this is the type that you would use.

 

[bbhaag]

No idea on age, it was already there when we got the property. Doesn't look that old. Trunk is about 8-9" in diameter. We pruned it last fall. It produced only a handfull of apples, same as the last couple of years. And by the time the squirrels get to it, there's none left.

Hmmm, @akugami that looks like a healthy tree with a lot of nice green growth. Was this photo taken recently?

How often are you fertilizing it and do you also fertilize your lawn?

So I'm gonna pry a little bit but where do you live? I don't need an exact location like a street address or town but a regional location might me helpful.

 

[akugami]

The picture was from about two weeks ago.

No on the lawn fertilization. Lawn was in bad shape when I got the property a few years ago. I haven't had time to try to even begin rehabilitating the lawn. I've just been so busy with life stuff. Work, kids, etc.

The wife did fertilize the apple tree this spring. She's more into gardening and stuff. I'm just the assistant. We pruned the apple tree last fall, to try to stimulate growth, but that hasn't helped.

There's a peach tree next to it blooms like crazy, but the peach tree developed rust spots on the leaves this spring, and all the peaches have spots on them. I think I need to spray the peach tree with some sort of fungicide after the leaves all drop off.

 

[bbhaag]

The picture was from about two weeks ago.

No on the lawn fertilization. Lawn was in bad shape when I got the property a few years ago. I haven't had time to try to even begin rehabilitating the lawn. I've just been so busy with life stuff. Work, kids, etc.

The wife did fertilize the apple tree this spring. She's more into gardening and stuff. I'm just the assistant. We pruned the apple tree last fall, to try to stimulate growth, but that hasn't helped.

There's a peach tree next to it blooms like crazy, but the peach tree developed rust spots on the leaves this spring, and all the peaches have spots on them. I think I need to spray the peach tree with some sort of fungicide after the leaves all drop off.

Hey thanks for answering my questions. So my advice is to stop pruning it and stop fertilizing it.
To me it looks like your apple tree is going into excessive tree vigor which believe it not is a bad thing.

Over vigorous trees expend all their energy in growing wood and do not produce flower buds. Typically, this occurs for two reasons: over-fertilization and over-pruning.

One question you didn't answer was your regional location. The reason I asked was because late season frosts can also hinder bloom formation and fruit production. Temperatures below 29F(-1.6C)will prevent fruit formation.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

What are you growing in your garden this year?​

Not nearly enough. I am going to get serious next year. My neighbors give me mangoes and citrus so I don't need those. I only do herbs, tomatoes, pineapples, and bell peppers. I want to add sweet potatoes (love them) variety of hot peppers, different tomatoes, and key limes.

 

[bbhaag]

Not nearly enough. I am going to get serious next year. My neighbors give me mangoes and citrus so I don't need those. I only do herbs, tomatoes, pineapples, and bell peppers. I want to add sweet potatoes (love them) variety of hot peppers, different tomatoes, and key limes.

I love hot peppers but I top out at jalapenos for fresh eating. I love hot peppers so much. In season I eat around half a pound a week and grow around 3-5 different varieties in my garden.

If you're serious I would recommend starting with a Pot-a-peno. It's an AAS winner with exceptional disease resistance and a more uniform heat which is mild and not to overbearing.
It can be gown in a pot to hence the name.

Jalapeno M is another great variety but they bring a lot more heat and can be inconsistent from pepper to pepper. It's the defacto fresh market pepper though so it's worth trying.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

My son and I like seriously spicy foods so I will go at least Habanero Francisca. My wife grows some varietal of red and green jalapeno, no idea which. We give a bunch to the one neighbor that loves to stuff them and bacon wrap them.

 

[BoomerD]

I like the sweet flavor of jalapeños, Serranos, and Fresno's, but the Fresno peppers are thin walled…so while they bring more heat than jalpeños, you get leas “meat.”
Not a fan of he underlying flavor of the habs or the “c. chinense” species of hot peppers…and they can get “TOO FCKN HOT” for my liking.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I like the sweet flavor of jalapeños, Serranos, and Fresno's, but the Fresno peppers are thin walled…so while they bring more heat than jalpeños, you get leas “meat.”
Not a fan of he underlying flavor of the habs or the “c. chinense” species of hot peppers…and they can get “TOO FCKN HOT” for my liking.

They don't all taste the same. And the heat is great and controllable in something like a fajita bowl. I make the Mexican rice then mix in some of the habs, layer in the fajita makings, queso, guacamole, and sour cream. They can hit you hard in salsa or wing sauce though, no doubt about it.

 

[akugami]

@bbhaag Woops...must have missed the location question. But we're in Delco Pennsylvania, near the Philadelphia airport.

 

[bbhaag]

@bbhaag Woops...must have missed the location question. But we're in Delco Pennsylvania, near the Philadelphia airport.

No worries but just try my suggestions and see if it helps. It is always hard to troubleshoot issues like these over the internet but I try my best.