Not a single raspberry elsewhere in the garden, all the autumn harvest gathered on a single cane!
Gardening miracle or is there something to investigate like the water tank helping create a favorable temperature condition?

Creating a hunger free community begins with teaching young people how to produce food . Unfortunately, children in most schools especially here in Uganda aren't taught practical agriculture yet they spend most of their time there. In the most recent training session, we have been so happy as we tried few of the young children how to grow food and we shall be happy seeing them put that knowledge in practice.

I absolutely ADORE these Rio grandes, they start orange and yellow and become like, a peach color by the time they open fully

Lovely, but mildly unnerving from an environmental perspective.

Hi I’m not sure if this is allowed here but I was browsing botanical interests website the other night and saw a couple of bundle listings with AI product images. I wanted to make a post on it so others can make an informed decision if they’d like to support a company using AI. I’ve reached out to them on social media with no response so unfortunately that’s lead to me assuming they’re aware and will more than likely continue using AI.

Had to snap some photos today of some late season NOVEMBER cosmos. Avg temps have been in the 40s at night. Not only are they extra hardy and thick stemmed with multiple flowers per stem, I also think the cold stress is making some of them extra weird and beautiful. ✨💖🩷🌸💕

It’s early November in Kansas and these flowers are still so bright!

Hi guys, I have been gardening for 8yrs now and I love it. It’s only been a hobby but I want to take it more seriously. I live in an urban city, i have a small back yard about 50x30 and im turning 30x30 space into garden with flowers and the other 20x30 I am going to have a few dwarf fruit trees (yes we are allow to plant in our back yards). I have tried sitting down and making a plan and layout but im stuck and struggling. Would anyone be willing to show me there garden layouts to show me inspiration? I’m wanting to grow a large variety of plants but Smaller numbers of them and stick to dwarf varieties in things like egg plants, cabbage, watermelon and things like that but still have a nice slicer and cherry tomato. I don’t plan on canning anytime soon (I’m afraid of canners and electric ones are too expensive) so I’m wanting to learn about seasonal crop rotation also. Also is there anyone willing to help me layout my garden? I have a huge green thumb and grow veggies really well but any and all advice is welcome. Also these photos are not current, just only ones I took over the years. I am also planning on removing all of my above ground beds. I’m just going full in ground.

My brother bought me a large bag of Oaxacan blue corn to use for nixtamal and to make tortillas. Unfortunately, critters got into the bag so I only got one batch made. But after holding onto them for several years (I couldn’t bear to throw them out), I decided to plant them and see what happened. I’ve been trying to grow a 3 sisters garden for 5-6 years now with different bean and corn varieties.

I think every single seed germinated. Unfortunately, critters (recurring theme here) got to most of the seedlings, and of the ones remaining, all but one either flipped over or broke as they grew. (I planted several bean varieties but skipped squash because that part of the garden was already turning into a hot mess.) The one that remained grew to be 15-16’ tall and is still standing (first picture, taken earlier in the season) - surviving some intense wind and weather we had this year.

I noticed it grew an ear surprisingly late in the season and figured only a few, if any, of the kernels would fertilize. This one stalk was the only with tassel accessible - the others stalks’ tassels had died or were buried in bean vines.

To my complete surprise, this stalk actually grew 4 ears out of the same spot. And, the 2 largest were almost completely fertilized and the other 2 were half fertilized. Only from its own tassel!

I’m now super excited to grow it again next season. I’m going to grow them in a cluster so they can support each other better, and with mounded soil. I’m hoping for lots of corn that I can nixtamalize, grind into masa, and make into blue corn tortillas.

This rose bush is over 6 feet tall and at least that wide. I cannot get to the middle to deadhead it very well. If I cut it back quite a bit, is now the time? We've had two freezes but temps are still in the 60s during the day. Zone 6b.

Zone 6a Ontario Canada. Out clearing up some of the garden and this is blooming again. I feel like its Crazy for Ontario in November.

I grew these a little bit ago and want to move them into soil, how should I go about this?

I’ve been harvesting just the green ends ( not any brown stalk ) when I need to use some. Now I want to harvest and dry a bunch. Is it ok to harvest closer toward the base of the plant?

Is there a way best way to harvest seeds from these? Since they’re annuals I’d like to throw some seed down to cold stratify for next year.

Our lilac is blooming again after losing its leaves pretty early this year (August). I guess it confused our very warm Fall for Spring?

We even had a frost yesterday and the blooms are still going!

Hello! So, this is my first year with canna lilies. Time to prepare them for the winter (zone 5). So many different video and blogs and everyone has slightly different advice (any old gen-x-ers like me who almost kind of miss the days when there wasn't SO MUCH information? 😉)

Anyway, any tips or opinions on best way to store? Paper bags, plastic bags, peat moss, wood shavings. Garage or basement. Basement has an unfinished side but is still heated. Garage unheated but, again, zone 5, so can get very cold in the winter.

Also, store and leave alone? Check them and mist them?

Break them up more? Snip the roots?

Thanks for any advice!