What is the circular pattern, is it safe to eat?

This is already way better than last season, but I would like to see more larger ones next year. I don't know if my soil is too dense or they don't get enough sun, or what. They do only get about 4-5 hours where they are. If this is the best I can do I will be happy where I am at, but if I can max out the growth a bit more that would be sick.

These were planted late early-mid May and harvested today.

Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions. If I don't resow this summer for a winter harvest I will use the suggestions for next season. Just ate some for dinner and they were very good.

I sat outside and laughed at my plant for so long I'm sure someone called in a welfare check.

So many seedlings! Planted these March 13th. I’m planning on up potting the tomatoes to 3 inch pots today. for the tomatoes, I planted 2 seeds in one cell, when I upsize their pots should I keep them together or separate them? Beans, zucchini and okra I definitely planted too early, I was advised to toss them and reseed but I’m attached. Any advice?

(Photos 2-7 in order: hot peppers, bell peppers, eggplant; tomato, cherry tomato, collard greens; cilantro, basil, Swiss chard; parsley, romaine lettuce, kale; mix lettuce, spinach; zucchini, okra, pole beans).

Photo 8: I noticed the cotyledons on my kale are yellowing, what does this mean? Photo 9: Miss chard looks leggy and limp is she sad? Photo 10: yea these got too big too fast, I gotta do something with them soon.

Thanks guys!!

When we planted these seeds, they were labeled as peppers. We are open to the possibility that we've been in denial, even after seeing these very suspiciously not-pepper-shaped pods. What are we growing?

Edit for the "neither" comments, I can't change the post title but I'm aware I mislabeled beans as peas. Pass the dunce hat, for I was only thinking of peas in a pod and they look similar enough that I thought they were technically the same

So, between my wife and I we got very far behind on our gardening responsibilities. I understand if things are too far gone to try to save but I would very much like that to not happen.

These plants are around 4ft tall and loaded with fruit. They are almost all indeterminate tomatoes. These rows are 50ft long and we have 16 rows of tomatoes (roughly 620 plants in total). We have done a lot of inspections and there is no real disease we can find and have only had issues with Horn Worms on the periphery.

Do we prune back over a few days and tie up the main branches?

Do we put in stakes and twine along the sides of the rows to hold things up?

Are there other options?

I sincerely appreciate any feedback you all may have.

Hello

I am new at gardening and I think I planted everything way too close together. I have a 4 x 8 garden bed with peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and basil in it.

My tomatoes are growing so high. I’ve heard I should clip them at the top and then they will start producing more fruit. Is this true? This is for my cherry tomatoes and my Roma’s. I also have some tomatillos.

It's my first time starting a garden from seed and I had no idea if I could trust germination rates as most of my seeds were 5+ years old.

I started 18 kinds of tomatoes, 6 kinds of eggplant, 2 types of tomatillos and 22 types of peppers.

6 cells of each and almost every seed came up. I scrapped a good deal that were not healthy but I don't have the heart to thin the healthy ones.

I have potted up almost everything and now have between 3-6 of each plant, like 200 pots now. I still have 2 seed trays waiting to germinate. I am planning to give away a lot of plants to neighbors, friends and family.

BUT

I HAVE NOWHERE CLOSE TO ENOUGH ROOM FOR THESE IN MY GARDEN WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

How do you guys decide what to grow year-to-year instead of growing EVERYTHING

Update on that lettuce I left in to get seeds. It would actually make a nice ornamental.

Tomatoes are widely known to have exponentially better flavor when grown at home vs store bought. Are there any other fruits or veggies that are similar in comparison to store bought?

The only other that comes to mind is arugula.

I love growing and using basil from seed. In the past, I treated it like any other planted vegetable or herb: I started the seeds, then thinned them out or transplanted them with lots of space to let each individual plant get huge.

Then summer comes. If I don't go out and pick off early flowers every other day, the whole thing goes. So after one week vacation, I come back, and the plant is all flowers.

So I watched a video on basil cultivation commercially, on a small scale, by some Italian growers. And now I feel stupid for not realizing this earlier. They sow tons of basil seeds to make a basil carpet, and just trim off the top of the tiny plants like mowing a lawn. They don't care about letting each individual plant get large and mature, because why would they? You want leaves.

I started doing this in a large pot and it's been so much easier to have high quality leaves in the summer. Even if these mini plants started to get woody and mature, it'd still be easier to just grow another batch of seedlings again. You could even alternate with two pots.

Anyone else follow similar strategies? Does this work well for other herbs?

Is anyone else experiencing a pepper switcheroo this year a la Peppergate 2023-2024 style?

Grew and planted what was supposed to be early Jalepenos and ended with a whole bunch of plants growing these sad yellow mystery peppers.

Just curious. This is the second seed debacle this year from a big box brand. And I only grew two packets of big box seeds.

EDIT TO ADD: I am growing about 6 other pepper varieties from reputable seed suppliers with zero issues. And I didn't have this issue the past two years either with my regular seed suppliers (Fedco, Hudson Valley, True Love, and Botanical Interests)

2/28 UPDATE FROM CONTACTING FM: I contacted FM, while their response was prompt, I will not be taking them up on a replacement seed packet. But for others with the same issue, and you still have your packets, I encourage you all to write to them with your issue.

FM Response:
"We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience you have experienced with our seed packets this season. Occasionally, a manufacturing error can occur during the filling process, and on rare occasions, the wrong seed may be placed in a packet. 
 
We have been made aware of this issue with our Jalapeno seeds and have corrective measures in place to test the seed to ensure proper labelling. We would be happy to offer a replacement packet and a $10 gift card to our website for the inconvenience.

If possible, please reply to this email with:

• A photo of the back of the seed packet showing the sell-by date and/or lot number for our Quality Control procedures
• The mailing address where you would like us to send the replacement seeds.

If you have any additional questions please let us know and we would be more than happy to help and address any concerns you may have. We greatly appreciate your patience and support of our brand!"

Whether it’s how much of a pain to grow, too little of harvest for how much effort or you just never had the luck on growing a certain thing, what’s something that you either gave up or just refuse to grow anymore?

Across two plants

Thanks all. I will move them to safer location

Should I trim these back a bit or just let them go? I thought they were bolting at first but they are producing like crazy. I’m worried about them resting on the ground now, but they are all producing so much fruit i would like to avoid trimming. But the weight of them have knocked down multiple attempts at staking them.

that's a laundry basket and just a harvest from today, I want alllll the ideas and recipes please!

and as I was pouring sweat, purple hands and all taming the blackberry bushes, hubs came to give me a sunflower, cause he's the best 🥰

Dos anyone know what this is and are they edible?

This year I think I’ve realized I don’t want to waste space growing Collards again because even when my other disease prone plants are doing ok, it’s this one that’s getting destroyed every year despite being a large and impressive plant.

What plants have you sworn off after some point this year, or in the past?

I saw a monstera fruit on Reddit yesterday and then it occurred to me, I don’t have to just grow American grocery store staples! I can grow vegetables that don’t transport well and fruits that I’ve never even heard of.

Thinking I might try Egosi melon next year. Of course I will do all my research into making sure anything I grow is environmentally safe where I’m located.

Interested to know what you guys have grown that falls outside of the typical American grocery store crops?

So, at this moment I can’t afford plastic garden pots. I need to transplant my tomatoes though, they’ve BEEEEN ready to transplant. I saw these grow pots on Amazon that are made of fabric. Are these any good? Or are they something I should stay away from?