[DebbieS]

This is our first year garden at our new home. I have what were supposed to be Black Beauty eggplants from Burpee Seed Co. What I did get was a cross of Tai eggplant with Black Beauty. One plant has yellow fruit that look like Tai eggplant when green and the dark ones are round and have a ton of seeds in them. They are edible though!

[OldBear]

They’re so cute 😍

[Mud]

I would like to remind everyone that we have a wonderful opportunity coming in the next few decades.

A grand solar minimum allows extra cosmic radiation to hit the earths surface. I suspect this will mutate plants, some for the better or worse. If something odd happens to your veggie plants and you like what you see or taste……please keep the seeds.

I recently had purple Russian fingerlings grow white eyes. The only potato I could find online that looked similar were the “Masquerade Potato”……Which does not have purple meat.

So…..Um……What should we name it?

[Bullit]

Same for us. We don’t grow a lot right now for reasons but we lost nearly everything we put in the dirt this year. It was a hard year.

[Suburbansteading]

We had to get rid of our grape vine this year due to multi year black rot. They need a lot of care with anti fugal treatments.

[jeannie34]

The insects have been terrible

Especially something that looks like a stink bug. Also all the critters

[Justtom]

The critters have been really bad here in Michigan as well. Ground hogs galore and rabbits jumping into our two foot high raised beds!

[Kjc3]

omg! the groundhogs!!! don’t get me started!!! Asheville, NC

[Justtom]

Urine kept them away. We had tried numerous other things to keep them out, but nothing worked but the urine. Just pour it around your garden and they stay away

[Kjc3]

great info! Thanks!!!

[Alabammer]

This year as usual we had peppers, tomatoes, corn, straightneck squash, and a few cabbages. I had one of my best gardens ever with less bugs while all others around me were complaining of having the worst. (Exception, my Marconi peppers. I saved the seed and I think the rascals messed around and crossed with my bell pepper.) I have been growing on this 60×80 patch for the last 40 years or so. My soil left to its own devices is a heavy clay type. I figger I’m so old that I have just about run out of gardening mistakes Glad to share how I did it if you’re interested.

[Mud]

huge mutant Chinese mustard green, i thought about using it as a sushi wrap since its basically wasabi flavor.

And purple Russian fingerlings that decided they needed white eyes.

I think these are gift from god in a new golden age.

I say taste test and keep what you like, or what has good qualities to keep for the next generation of humans.

[GardenGirl1956]

I had bumper crops of apricots, cherries, peaches and apples this year. My plum tree didn’t do well. The pear tree had a bumper crop last year, but this year, I have just a few pears. My tomatoes did well. Later I had some freebie tomatoes that came up and they are doing great, too. I had only one zucchini squash that made to my kitchen. Vine borers and squash bugs killed the rest. Herbs and peppers did well. Strawberry plants did not produce well. Raspberries produced, black berries did not. Potatoes did well, too. Leafy greens in the Green Stalks are doing great. Japanese beetles were on the trees mostly with a few on my okra. I would carry a small bucket of water around to my plants and tap the plant and they would fall into the water so I could kill them. I will be trying the bucket trap for the Japanese beetles next year. Thanks to everyone for their posts. Helpful information!

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[Vee_Lo]

My first year gardening. I spent a small fortune (for me) in bagged dirt, moss and manure. I’m glad I did or I would have quit after this first year. The plants I planted in the yard all struggled and dropped. The local power company put up new poles yesterday. They used a machine and all the “dirt” that they brought up was SAND!!! My entire yard is a few inches of brown sand and then it goes to straight sand. All SAND. Pure yellow sand. Did I mention SAND??? Regular people don’t get why I am appalled. Lol Yet another reason to move.

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[Justtom]

We had ground hogs eating our sweet potato greens as well, the only thing that kept them away was urine. I peed in a bottle and poured it around the garden fence and they stayed away. Don’t know if that will work for rabbits.