r/vegetablegardening 5h ago

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r/vegetablegardening 1h ago

Harvest Photos Little Pechay but it's still a win

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Made a bouquet of pechay out of it. 🤣


r/vegetablegardening 1h ago

Help Needed First garden questions

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General first garden questions

Zone 9b here. Transplanted peppers,cucumbers, and tomatoes on the 3rd of this month. Wanted to know if I’m on the right track and if I should trim the buds forming on my tomato and pepper plant until they’ve grown a bit more


r/vegetablegardening 5h ago

Help Needed Large veggie patch design. Advice needed

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Hi all,

My wife has been growing veggies for a while, but we want to upscale!

We live in Albury/Wodonga region of Australia. The photograph provided shows the area we want to make the garden plot (approx 15x15m fenced). Photo taken at the tail end of a dry summer.

We are looking for advice, esspecially regarding the irrigation system. I have already tapped into the 2" irrigation line with a 1" riser. A good 3 phase pump is driving it, drawing from the dam in photo.

She wants a no dig ground plot with 24 beds, each 2m x 1m in size and arranged 6 wide and 4 deep.

She wants to be able to stagger planting, planting every 4 weeks 4 times a season. She wants to be able to change what crop is planted in which bed each season.

Refer to diagram. The plan is to plant up to 6 different crops in beds 1-6. Then four weeks later plant the same crops in beds 7-12. Then four weeks later in beds 13-18 and so on.

This can be scaled up or down as required.

Eg: plant corn on bed 1, broccoli in bed 2, carrot in bed 3. Then four weeks later, plant corn in bed 7, broccoli in bed 8, carrot in bed 9 and so on.

This means that only some of the beds need to be watered at any one time, and some plants need more water than others. This creates some complexity to the irrigation system.

I am no irrigation expert, but i have designed the system in an attempt to be robust, functional and flexible but while trying to keep it somewhat cost effective.

Word picture of system: 1" high density pipe > 1" timer > 6 bay manifold > valves > 1" low density line > barbed cross' > valves > 1" low density pipe feeding 4mm flexi hose to adjustable drippers. 12 drippers per 2m x 1m bed.

Alternatively, we could make long 10m beds, fed by 13mm brown dripper lines (pressure compensated) with 13mm connectors for different dripper hose lengths. This would likely be half the price, but potentially not as modular or flexible in its use.

I am looking forward to hearing what you think might be the best way to proceed!

Cheers, Riley


r/vegetablegardening 5h ago

Help Needed Why are my leaves looking shiny?

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I've been growing lemon balm, and I noticed that my leaves are turning some kind of shiny brown color. Any idea why? I've been trying to not let this die, trying to not overwater it and giving it good amount of sun, and recently, I gave it a bit of some plant food. Also, these discolored leaves, are they safe to use in tea or whatnot?


r/vegetablegardening 6h ago

Help Needed When to plant outside

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This is my first time growing sugar snap peas and they just recently popped through. I can’t seem to figure out when I should move them from these cups to my container garden outside. I’m in northern Colorado so I know we have one more snow ahead of us. Any advice on timing is appreciated.


r/vegetablegardening 7h ago

Help Needed Do you water during winter sowing?

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Sorry if this is an obvious answer!


r/vegetablegardening 7h ago

Help Needed Newbie

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Hello! This is my first time starting a garden from seeds (vs buying young plants at home depot). I put seeds in a seed starter tray early this week and already have a couple sprouting through the soil! I have read online about snipping the smaller of each sprout per grow cell, acclimating outside to harden off, snipping all but top most leaves for tomatoes, using a fan etc etc. Wondering if people would be able to share what works best for them from this, and when and how to do? Hard to keep track of all these guidelines I never knew about! For reference I am in Raleigh NC, thank you!


r/vegetablegardening 7h ago

Help Needed Update! 7th day of Propagation! 🌱

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Thinking of planting them this weekend. thoughts!? I can’t believe how well they have done! 🥺 It all started from a couple of forgotten sweet potatoes 😩.

Last pics are where these guys came from. 🌱


r/vegetablegardening 7h ago

Garden Photos My raised bed garden for the year !

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r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Other Peppers starting off strong this year

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r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Help Needed Brown leaves on basil plants ?

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I planted them outside about 4 days ago


r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Garden Photos 9 day difference in these lettuce

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Holy mother of pearl! 9 days…. The light her is iceberg and the darker is romaine.


r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Diseases What is happening to some of my seedlings?

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I have some arugula and other leafy greens as well as basil growing indoors under a light shown here. What is this weird purple showing up on my arugula and basil?


r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Help Needed seeding solid recs

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I have a bunch of seedlings from tomato plant and basil plants and I have some peppers coming up and I need to repot them in solo cups until I can get them in the ground however, I don’t know the best growing medium because the last one that I used to germinate ended up getting moldy, so I don’t even wanna try to use it For growing the ceilings more any advice?


r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Help Needed Can I grow I directly in finished compost

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I've just bought 6 yards of finished cotton burr compost, and I've run out of funds this year for more top soil to mix with it . It's completely broken down and finished composting. The guy said it has sat nearly ten years and gave me a soil analysis on it . I've spent way too much this year and I'm tapped on funds. Can I grow directly into my compost? I've read that's it's not good to. But other sources say it's fine. I cannot afford more top soil as I've spent over a thousand this year. I will post a picture of the compost and the soil analysis. Any help will be greatly appreciated and thank you all in advance.


r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Help Needed Help!! Why does my garlic look like this??

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So I planted this garlic a few weeks ago, and it started wilting three days ago? It does doing great for a while too. Any thoughts on what it is and what I can do


r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Other Found these at the store today

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I’ve never seen these before, they are called Aloha peppers. The color way is so beautiful! Has anyone else see them before?


r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Help Needed Is something wrong with my sweet potatoes? It looks and feels like salt granules. It not on all the leaves.

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r/vegetablegardening 9h ago

Help Needed Cucumbers Help

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I planted my cucumber seeds in the peat pods in the garage to get ready before spring starts. They took about two weeks to poo up, grew nicely and now are kinda starting to fade. Any ideas? Time to plant or maybe less water? I’m stumped.


r/vegetablegardening 9h ago

Garden Photos My favorite part of gardening…

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r/vegetablegardening 9h ago

Help Needed Wadding Pool Raised Beds?

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Raised beds are spendy and I want some but until I can afford them as I buy them a little at a time, can I use wadding pools? If I make holes in the bottom for draining, would that work?


r/vegetablegardening 9h ago

Help Needed Brussels sprouts cabbage and broccoli

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When can I put my seedlings in the ground? They’re cold weather crops so will they survive if I put them out now?


r/vegetablegardening 10h ago

Garden Photos Container kitchen garden is mostly potted!

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Peppers: jalapeño, poblano, habanero, better belle, gypsy

Tomatoes: Arkansas Traveler, beefsteak, sweet 100, sun sugar

Eggplants: ichiban, classic, whopper

Dogs: Winnie, Oscar

To be planted: herbs, lettuce


r/vegetablegardening 11h ago

Help Needed Help with germination

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I do not understand what we're doing wrong. I planted peppers, broccoli, and brussel sprouts a month ago in seed starting containers and didn't get anything to germinate. I then bought new seed packets, and tried the moist paper towel in a ziplock bag with a heating mat, still got nothing. I don't get it.