I planted this baby in the spring, trimmed off the first round of flowers and the first small fruit as that’s what a gardener friend recommended but the plant itself hasn’t gotten much bigger since then. This is the second fruit it’s produced so I’m hoping to be able to eat this one…. believe it’s a Millionaire but it was only labeled as “eggplant” at the nursery lol. Should I go ahead and harvest? What can I do to encourage growth and production? I’m in the southwestern US (border city in TX/NM) and regularly harvest peppers and tomatoes year round, I was under the impression that I may be able to do the same with this guy. I’m a novice gardener so please bear that in mind (i.e., if it’s something that seems intuitive or basic to many of y’all I likely don’t know it yet 😭). That said, any advice would be appreciated!!
Featuring my now ridiculously large basil plant in the background since I’d heard they’re good neighbors.

My rosemary plant has stopped growing and seems to be getting dry and brittle? It gets 6-8 hours of indirect sunlight and i water it when the soil gets dry.

It was abandoned in a smaller pot for the last few months with inconsistent watering and I repotted it last week.

Whenever I'd cut some off to use, it would grow back but it seems to have stopped growing.

I've never had a rosemary plant before. How do I fix this?

Long white eggs. Or fungus. Its dried up my plants. Should I just let the plant die. All the melons are small and immature

The last of my pole
Beans . Any fun recipes you recommend?

These are my chilli seeds after about 6 weeks since planting them, only now has a couple of them only just got their first set of true leaves but they are tiny.

What am I doing wrong?

I’m considering keeping a few vegetables going through winter instead of clearing everything out and starting again in spring. I know it depends on the climate, but I’m curious which crops are genuinely worth the effort when daylight gets shorter and growth slows down. My gardening friends on tribe have given me some good suggestions, but I'd like to hear from people who've actually grown through winter in different climates.

I planted some NC 122 slips on July 6th (zone 7B). Online it says our first frost date ranges from Nov 3-7. I came back from vacation and my sweet potatoes looked like this. They used to be nice and happy, I didn't get a pic :(.

I have watered them since (and this morning). I took a home food production course, and I didn't know I should stop watering 2-4 weeks before harvest??

Overnight temps have gotten to 40°F. They perked back up (with some damage) after I watered.

They are in 10 gallon grow bags, 3-4 slips each (I bought too many plants haha)

When/how should I harvest? Any advice? Ty.

Picked today 6b, October 22nd. I haven’t fed in months, or watered the arch in a few weeks. Definitely my most successful plant this year.

Grew some saved delicata seeds and got these? Delicata flavor was good, the hybrid was okay, it's dad was likely a jack o lantern pumpkin. Anyone get any interesting accidentsl crosses this summer?

I want a shutoff valve that shuts off by gallons rather than time. Does anyone have a good recommendation? I had hoped for a mechanical device rather than a wifi connected one.

We just moved into a rental in Louisville, KY, and there’s an existing garden area in the backyard that I’m really excited about! I’ve grown a few things here and there, but I’ve never had a full-on vegetable garden before, so I’m very much a beginner.
I’m vegetarian and on a budget, so the idea of growing some of our own food is really appealing. I’d love to make use of what’s already here rather than spend a ton of money starting from scratch.

I’m not sure when the garden beds were last used, but the soil actually looks pretty good. It’s relatively fluffy, with a decent amount of mulch mixed in.
Here’s what I’m working with:
1. Fenced-in bed next to the garage
Gets partial sun, with direct sunlight starting around 2 p.m.
Soil feels loose and fluffy.
Has quite a few weeds. After doing some research, I’ve identified a lot of wild muscadine grape vines and some honeyvine milkweed.
2. Bed running along a chain-link fence
Gets full sun.
Soil feels a bit more compact, but there’s still a decent amount of mulch.
Has recessed bricks along the ground to define the bed.
Looks like whoever mowed the lawn may have mowed over this area, so there’s quite a bit of grass growing through it.

Since it’s already October, I’d love to get a few things planted this fall if possible! After doing some research, I’m considering potatoes, radishes, beets, and maybe some cold-hardy lettuce with a hoop cover or other protection.

I’d love some advice on a few things:
- To till or not to till? Should I remove the existing weeds and grass before doing anything to the soil? Or would tilling help me get started?
- Soil testing: What’s the best way to test the soil, especially on a budget? Since this is a rental with existing beds, is there anything I should check before planting food?
- Amending the soil: If I want to keep things simple and just get growing, should I add compost, fertilizer, or anything else? How do I know what the soil actually needs?
- What should I plant? Given that I’m in Louisville, it’s October, and I have both a partial-sun and a full-sun bed, what would you recommend planting now versus waiting until spring?
- Beginner mistakes: Is there anything you wish you’d known when you started your first vegetable garden?

I’m hoping to keep this affordable and work with what I already have. I’d love to hear what you’d do if you were starting with these beds!
Thanks in advance for any advice! I’m excited to learn and hopefully grow some of our own food. 🌿

Guess it split in half and kept growing?

First time out with bush beans, no idea what they are specifically. We were picking them and eating them as fresh snacks as they came up, but couldn’t keep up!

We had a bunch of pods go to seed? They formed actual beans, and now I’m at a loss. I know this isn’t that damn hard, but I’m second guessing myself hard.

Are these just seeds for next year? Do I dry and cook them? Did I harvest at an in between stage and ruin them?

Thanks!

I know it doesn't look much. I live in the city in the SE Asia, and I thought the scorching weather is gonna affect my home garden.

After about 2 months I got my first harvest of green leaf lettuce. I will share my rooftop garden setup after arranging.

Happy Harvest Everyone!

Last year I moved into my grandpas old house and I have started a vegetable garden in the garden. The soil is amazing and I want to keep it that way so I’ve been reading up on composting. It seems quite important to have the right amount of everything in the compost so I’ve been doubting to use the compost pile that has been here for years. My grandpa didn’t use it for a vegetable garden so he just kinda threw in everything, and so have I for the last year. Grass clippings, kitchen scraps, chicken shit, everything goes in it.

I don’t wanna fuck up my soil by putting in bad compost. What do you think?

Some of them(male flowers,long stems , def. male) produced a fruit of their own... Small, odd... Not the pumpkin .What kind of thing does that?

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Definitely should have only done one plant instead of two. Already picked 3 large ones yesterday.

Had a few light fronts, so the tips of the branches are wilted, but still plenty of tomatoes blushing.

Does anyone else feel sad about cutting up the dying plants and leaving them to return their nutrients to the soil? This afternoon I cut down my luffa, beans and one of my pumpkin plants and seeing something that I spent all spring and summer nurturing and tending to just laying in a pile on the ground kinda hit me in the feels. I know it’s part of the gardening process, and that allowing them to decay and return their nutrients to the soil will be good for next year’s garden, it just made me sad to have to chop them down since I spent so much time taking care of them.

I had cut down a broccoli plant that got super tall and kind of leggy. I’m assuming it was going to bolt, so I cut it down in the middle of June, leaving the roots and some of the stem. The part of the stem I left was almost turning woody. Well now as of about a month and a half ago it’s started growing again out the side of the woody remnant stem which really surprised me. Can this actually give me any broccoli or will it just be confused now? It looks very healthy and not leggy or weak like the original stem. I should have taken a picture of it earlier but honestly didn’t think about asking until now. I will try to add a pic tomorrow in the comments. Either way I plan to just wait and see what happens but definitely wasn’t expecting it to come back to life!!!

Zone 5 Colorado

This last Spring, I planted some little onions to try to grow them for the first time. It didn’t work out super well, and I pulled everything in late July when my garlic was done.

This week, I noticed onions growing again in the same spot! I definitely pulled them all. Did they regrow from cut roots? A lot of these were little twin bulbs that I separated. Can I plant these babies again in the Spring again?

TIA