I'm so over this gardening crap Never again will I mess with it.. Farmer Market or HEB from now on.

Looks great C-Man. Looks like its only you and me. I gave half my garden to my neighbor. He gave it up.

I found a few slicers on his side. Few more days of BLTs for me.

Me too....my tomatos looked awesome and I couldn't keep the worms and bugs off of them. This was year 2 and I'm done trying to make them work

Peppers are doing awesome....I'll have peppers running out of my ears by next week.

Next year I am going to do peppers but in planters on the back porch and do away with tilling and all the weeding work. Simple and effective, plus I still get my peppers.

I could never give it up. It's a way of life for me. My grandpa Evanoff had a vegetable cart. I grew a half acre of tomatoes to help me through my freshman year of college. Got written up in the paper for grafting a tomato onto a potato. My momma sold watermelons. I always imagined myself leaning over a garden hoe when I got old. Maybe even dying there even before reading a book called The Godfather. This is my favorite sub-forum.

Gardening is good for the soul. Those fresh tomato's are so much better than what you get at the store.

When do we plant the Fall tomato's?

It seems I couldn't grow a mesquite tree.

Now for North Texas

I quit growing in the ground, can't stay bent over anymore. I use several of those 200-250 lb feed tubs, an old rear tractor tire, couple wooden containers built out of left over lumber, all raised off the ground 4-8 in. to keep tree roots out.. I also have a double cast iron kitchen sink on a stand and an old charcoal grill that I put the lid up side down in the bottom. You will be surprised how much easier that is compared to planting and harvesting in the ground. If you have a fence or a trellis you can grow cucumbers.

All I can grow anymore are onions.

I'm not a chart keeper, but this was the best tomato year I remember. Had plenty to share with only six plants. No rot and only one horn worm. No stink bugs.

On the other hand , I just picked my first cucumber.

Giving up on my squash and zucchini next year.

we missed planting in the spring ... when is the right time to plant for a fall garden??? ... mainly tomatoes

The local nursery had a billboard touting the time is now. Of course they are in the business of selling tomato plants.

I throw my tomato scraps in a bed on the south side of my house. A couple of volunteers are coming up there.

Put mine in the ground July 16.

My fall tomato plants are looking very good but today I noticed a problem. Many of the leaves on the bottom of the plants are starting to wrinkle. What say you master gardeners as to what the problem may be? Thanks!

Neighbor wanted me to pick his Okra and water them, leaves a little Yellow am I over watering them?
Putting out a lot of Okra.

Two days picking.

Stub that is not much okra for as large as those plants are

I would water less cause okra really likes the heat

IF I ever get situated somewhere I'm going to buy these for raised beds. I like the looks and different configurations.

https://www.metalgardenbeds.com/

Alright I've been wanting to start gardening ever since I was a little kid and did it with my grandma. So now that I'm older and live on my own, I would like to start next spring. I planned on building a couple raised garden beds, but I'm wondering what to plant first. What would y'all recommend? I don't want to do anything too difficult, but I would like to try to do green beans, potatoes, and jalepeno peppers. I would appreciate y'alls input on this!

All of those are easy to grow. Jalapeno peppers will grow well. I found not to plant Jalapeno plants too early in the spring while it is still cool or it can stunt the plants. Then be sure and water them often. If not watered often enough the peppers can get really hot. I don't grow potatoes because they are so cheap to buy at the store. Same with Onions. It's just not cost effective and the store bought taste just as good on those as the home grown ones IMHO. I like to plant vegetables and varieties of vegetables that are either expensive at the store or just don't taste as well from the store. Cucumbers grow like weeds, cost way too much for what they are, and taste so much better home grown than store bought. Tomatoes fall into this as well. No garden should be without tomatoes. Cherry and yellow pear tomatoes are a family favorite snack at my house when I grow them.

If I grew just one crop it would be slicer tomatoes.

we started off with a small raised bed, 4' x '8 using Home Depot landscape timber (~$3 each) by 4 high, gave us about 12" depth. I was lazy and just had HD cut in half while there and bought a box of 4" deck screws. Overlap corners and this goes together in no time. Lay down a layer or two of garden cloth, fill with garden soil and you are ready. We usually plant 4-5 slicer size and 2-4 cherry/grape tomato plants. We dug around each plant there to water, then made trenches between all the plants so laying a water hose in one trench would water all the plants. Pretty easy to keep as long as you water and keep an eye out for cut worms. We have tried straight neck & crooked neck yellow squash & zucchini but usually don't make or we overlook and they rot on the bottom. We have also put in jalapeno & hot banana peppers (but I'm the only one that eats them). Pretty simple set up and easy to maintain for the most part. Each spring I clean out the old plants, and use a spade to break up the soil, usually add a little more fresh garden soil to blend in.

another idea we have had success with is to find a supply of the empty cattle molasses tubs (~2' diameter x 18"-24" tall)..., put empty aluminum cans, water bottles with lids on, larger rocks (for better drainage) and drill about 4-6 1/4 inch holes on the sides close to the bottom, fill with garden soil and plant away. you can actually move there to different locations depending on sun/shade once you get stuff planted. We used to have 6-8 of these lined up with tomatoes in most, peppers in another 1-2. just lined up along the sidewalk. Once they started to bear, we would cover in netting to keep the birds and squirrels from taking their portion but you have to keep removing the netting to find cut worms usually.

this is the first year in about 8 years we didn't plant tomatoes mainly due to lack of time and way too wet in the spring to get the beds prepared and planted when the timing was right. It's fun to watch how well they produce and they are much better than store bought.

How hard/what type of green beans should I grow and when should I plant? It's a little cooler here in Arkansas than in the Great State.

I just tilled up my garden. I don't plan to plant a fall garden but I'll have volunteer cilantro coming up all fall and winter.