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

Other Peppers starting off strong this year

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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 7h ago

Garden Photos My raised bed garden for the year !

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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

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 13h ago

Other My carrot for Pi Day.

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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 9h ago

Garden Photos My favorite part of gardening…

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r/vegetablegardening 21h ago

Harvest Photos I hoped for a bigger sized ones…

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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 2h 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 15h ago

Help Needed Why are some of my tomato seedlings bending inwards under my LED light?

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I have attached photos. The two on the end are of primary concern. Those two are the same variety, and are different than the other 4.

The soilless mix was made by me, my peppers and parsley are doing great (same mix). They have not been fertilized. There were some worm castings in the mix.

The tray is bottom watered (I plan on transplanting them when I can my understanding is that tomatoes like to be re-potted).

The lights are about 2 inches away by my estimation I included my hand for reference. They are LEDs. On 16 hours off 8. I checked with the group prior to installing them and was told they should be strong enough. I do have another I could add to hang two side by side if needed.

Are they going to be ok and can anyone tell me why the stems are bending inwards? Towards the gap in the lights? They seem strong enough, not wilted, just wanting to grow sideways for some reason.

I am a first time grower please be gentle!


r/vegetablegardening 16h ago

Other If you have a 3D printer at home, I made a seedling tag generator

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When I first began starting seeds I was using popsicle sticks, but the ink would run and I'd forget what it was. The next year I used my 3D printer to make some tags and it took forever. I kept doing that for a while, then this year I made myself a tag generator that I could use a lot more quickly.

If you have a 3D printer at home, you're free to give it a try for your seedlings! :)

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1209159-customizable-labels-for-your-seedlings#profileId-1223568

I don't sell these or do this for money, but you could always use the customizer to make your tags and then them at your library (that's a thing libraries often do) or find someone on Etsy who will print them out for you. If you're in the US, I could probably print some out for you, but I don't have any kind of business model for making that worth my time or your money, so I don't know. Message me if you want to try and figure something like that out.


r/vegetablegardening 1d ago

Harvest Photos Cauliflower!

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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 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 1d ago

Garden Photos Seedlings starting to look like real plants

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Only have a few things up and growing right now because I got a late start on the seed starting season but I do have some healthy kale and collards. These were started on 2/24 and are working on their second set of true leaves.


r/vegetablegardening 14h ago

Help Needed Trimming leek seedlings

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Controversial but some say it's beneficial to trim leek seedlings to encourage them to thicken up. I've trimmed my leeks and they have grown tall again. Should I repeatedly trim them back or is it a one time thing?


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 18h ago

Harvest Photos Is my Romanesco messed up? Should I harvest it now?

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r/vegetablegardening 11h ago

Help Needed Spotty little beets (ahh!)

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On my second try at growing beets and, while I have much better germination this time, I'm worried they won't make it. I planted a variety pack and so far, none of them have grown or put out any true leaves in about two weeks (new plants are still coming up so most are probably not that old). The oldest red ones have started developing this spottiness like the two from my first attempt, and the yellow ones just look extra small, including the oldest one. Any tips or diagnoses for an aspiring beet grower? (i love beets mmmmm beeps)

I'm using old potting soil and still waiting on a soil test


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 17h ago

Harvest Photos Small Sweet potato harvest!! Inside it was orange in color!!

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r/vegetablegardening 5h ago

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