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Tomatoes did fairly well, corn did not do well (no harvest so far, only one surviving plant), I got one very delicious cucumber after having to germinate 2 entire packets of seeds to get one fucking plant, beets did alright, the one onion I had left did fairly well, the romaine lettuce did so well I planted some more for fall, was way too hot for broccoli and the heads were all sparse and tasteless, zucchini did OK not great.
I feel like I could have stepped each plant up one tier at least if I actually had full sun, unfortunately full sun only exists between late june and early september, so while the temperatures stay warm, the plants really just don't have enough sunlight to do their best unfortunately (leafy greens are an exception, they do better in part shade usually).
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[–] 14147682? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Tomatoes did shit. Peppers...running out of shit to do with them. I have prepared about 5 quarts of tobasco based hot sauce. Dried jalapenos. Salsas. Pickkled. Dried this purple peppers I don't even know what the hell they are because they were mislabeled. Pickled them too. These nice orange bell peppers have been killing it. I could probably survive a month just on the peppers that grew this year.
Still working on watermelons. Only had 2 but still lots of little ones left but with the weather cooling not sure how far that will go. Starting to rotate in fall/winter vegetables now. Guess we will see how that goes.
[–] theshopper ago
Umm, did you ever think about selling some of your pepper sauce? I know you'd at least have 1 customer.
[–] 14156326? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
First time I've made this particular sauce because it's the first time I grew these peppers. If it turns out good I would probably be willing to bottle and just send some out. Not sure it would be worth selling at this quantity but if you pay for shipping then it's yours. I've been making sauces for a few years now with peppers I've grown. Have had some great ones. Had some bad ones. My garden ends up being largely peppers most years. I've gone to hot sauce/hot foods festivals a few years now and get some ideas then talk to vendor people probing for advice. It's a hobby but if I could make money from it that's cool too. I'm actually working on a from scratch hydroponic mist system and intended to test it out with some seeds I kept from the reapers I grew and a few other things. Could have a year round production cycle some day.
[–] 14147369? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I planted 15 mammoth sunflowers, watermelon, habaneros, jalapenos, yellow ghost chilis, sugar snap peas and 3 types of tomatoes. Faggot squirrels, rabbits and coons destroyed everything but the peppers and tomatoes.
[–] 14147733? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Faggot squirrels destroyed almost everything I grew besides peppers and things that I have potted on my upstairs deck. Have an artichoke growing. Not sure I'm going to get something edible out of it but it still grew well.
[–] 14148583? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I caught one of the raccoons. My buddy's 5 year old son put a .22 in its head for me.
[–] 14148695? [S] ago
Buy a nice air rifle on amazon. Got a RGB dot sight on mine, I can blow a squirrel's head off from across the yard. I also used it to shoot up a wasp nest once after I sprayed it with poison.
[–] GassyMcGasface 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
A few tomatoes and a fuck load of cayenne peppers. My pepper plant is less than 8 or 9 months and I have like 30 I'll have to pick off it tomorrow. Not sure what to do with the peppers other then to blend them into hot sauce. My Squash didn't make it and no limes yet but one that was dying made a recovery.
[–] Hand_of_Node 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Hot sauce now, freeze them for hot sauce or something else later, or dry them. After drying, run them through your blender to flake or (longer) powder them. If you need more seeds for next year, here is an excellent source with good prices. Selection can be seasonal.
https://pepperlover.com/
[–] SirDigbyChikenCaesar 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I've never been able to get corn to grow. Guy down the road can, but I can't for some reason. Tomatoes and pepper did great, peanuts did well. Squash too.
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[–] SirDigbyChikenCaesar 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I had squirrels eat my honey dew blossoms last year and I'm still angry.
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[–] SirDigbyChikenCaesar ago
Mine get about a foot tall, dry up and die.
[–] 14148708? [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
How many plants do you have next to each other? Corn isn't good at pollinating itself so you need like a 5x5 patch of it at the least to get good pollination unless you're going to carefully do it by hand.
[–] SirDigbyChikenCaesar ago
Nah, mine grow a food high, dry up and die. I've never found anything about it on the internet.
[–] SerialChiller 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Zone 9B. All organic, no pesticides. Occasional spray of H2O2 for mildew. Mostly growing in a 50 ft long x 2 ft wide raised bed, intensive/square-foot method, with a fence/trellis along one edge. Plus pumpkins grown under a small cluster of fruit trees that are heavily mulched in pine wood-chips.
All this sounds like a shit ton of stuff, but it's fucking amazing how little it takes to plant this stuff. Most of it is waiting and keeping them watered.
For fall, I started Kales (lacinato, scotch, portugeuse, russian), broccoli, kohlrabi, cauliflower, lettuces, spinach, amaranth, beets, radishes, and red cabbage. Everything started well but some faggot critter is eating my seedlings so I have lost a bunch of them already and have to start new seeds (or go buy some plant starts).
[–] 14158292? [S] ago
Out of curiosity, what do you believe is too hot for tomatoes? Mine do much better with daytime temperatures in the 90s than they do with daytime temperatures in the 70s to low 80s.
[–] SerialChiller ago (edited ago)
We had daytime temps in the 95-102 range in july and august, with no rain and hot nights. I am not an expert, but I have been told that tomato tend to not produce flowers when nighttime temps stay above 70. No flowers means no pollination and no fruit. And my observation seems to support that theory. When I lived for some time in the tropics, tomatoes used to do better in winters there, maybe for the same reason.
Temps started getting lower in late August and the flowers came back, and I now have a decent set of fruit happening - although it is a race to harvest them before squirrels/mice/birds take a bite out of them.
[–] vivalad 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Despite the rat infestation that wiped out everything in July, I consider it a moderate success since I was able to grow stuff I never tried before early on(green beans, onions, cucumbers & corn, beautiful 7 foot stalks...sigh).
[–] slevin_kelevra 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I never started mine. I feel ashamed.
[–] middle_path 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Tomatoes were a bust. Our summer was basically a series of drought and floods, so it was tough.
Only other real bad one was sweet corn, it just totally flopped on me.
One nice surprise was the zuchinno rampicante. What a cool freaking plant. And the garden I planned out, mostly worked out well.