Glad to see so many quality gardeners here. I’m not very good but I love seeing awesome stuff being grown.

Just saw a squirrel run up, grab a tomato, and eat it right in my yard.

FUCK YOU SQUIRRELS!

air rifle or a .22

Been having issues with blossom rot on some of the tomatoes (and one of the bell peppers :'( ). Apparently not enough calcium in the soil (or enough absorption of calcium). Gonna have to go pick up some spray to apply to the plants directly, and get the soil tested after the growing season.

#1 reason i moved to entirely raised bed for these crops. so much easier to amend the soil that way. dig it out into a wheel barrow, add in w/e, dump back in.

i only grow pumpkins, cukes, beans, and peas in ground, and next year im going to install 2 more beds for them as well and fill the rest of my garden with stalls to compost more effectively.

getting this every few days atm, raspberries came so hot and heavy and then dried up fast. still got a few gallons in a week and made lots of jam. first carrot i pulled was a bit small so im giving the rest a month to plump up.



How to tell your garden has plenty of water, frog in there and the creek is 200 yards away



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Growing hot peppers.



Thai variety, not sure which exact one



Bhut Jolo Kia Chocolate.



Carolina Reaper.




Pray for my asshole, dear sirs.

May blessings be upon your asshole.

If I understand correctly, it's a whole industry based on making stuff squirrel-proof. Squirrels are winning.









Thank you.

Wife made and canned six jars of salsa yesterday (mostly quart jars, with a couple pint ones in there), with one not run through canning process, which we're just eating right away. Yum nom.

Getting a second round of tomatoes. Gonna get a motion sensor owl or hawk to scare the squirrels when they come around.

Had ~100 on the vines before the squirrels took them all down in like 3 days. So I don't want to lose my haul. I HAVE PLANS FOR THESE TOMATOES DAMN IT!