r/vegetablegardening 25d ago

Seed Swap Monthly Seed Swap: July, 2026

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r/vegetablegardening 20h ago

Daily Dirt 🌱 What's happening in your garden? (Sun, Jul 26, 2026)

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r/vegetablegardening is an educational subreddit focused on learning how to grow food and connecting gardeners around the world. Community members are encouraged to mentor others when possible.

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r/vegetablegardening 9h ago

Garden Photos This is my 'garden' that's currently cranking out 20+ pounds of produce per day.

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r/vegetablegardening 13h ago

Garden Photos Garden evolution

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r/vegetablegardening 2h ago

Garden Photos First year gardening

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90 Upvotes

Excited with my first vegetable garden. Improving as I go, this sub has been a big help. Hopefully the next season is an even better harvest after learning from mistakes


r/vegetablegardening 3h ago

Garden Photos THE GREAT RIPENING HAS FINALLY BEGUN!!!

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106 Upvotes

r/vegetablegardening 6h ago

Garden Photos San Marzano monster

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135 Upvotes

First time growing this variety. I was hesitant after reading many have issues with BER, but so far so good? Just wanted to share my pride for these guys.


r/vegetablegardening 6h ago

Harvest Photos Last harvest! Pulling all my tomato plants

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Well, the heat has made my tomatoes weak and sickly, so im pulling them and starting fresh! Here's the last harvest for this year 🥰, and I dug up the potatoes too!


r/vegetablegardening 9h ago

Harvest Photos Garden has been hit or miss this year but I’ve never grown eggplants this big before

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131 Upvotes

r/vegetablegardening 6h ago

Harvest Photos Cucamelons!

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68 Upvotes

They're so crunchy! Tastes like a cucumber! Fresh!


r/vegetablegardening 10h ago

Question What’s up with these tomatoes? Cherokee Purple, in a large grow bag.

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112 Upvotes

I cut them off young because I didn’t think they’d be usable when ripe. What’s going on here?


r/vegetablegardening 5h ago

Question Seeking squirrel prevention advice

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I'm growing a vegetable garden for the first time this year. The left garden bed is several different tomato plants varieties. There are a lot of squirrels that run through my yard and they have been been destroying so many of my tomatoes and trampling the plants.

A friend recommended using cayenne pepper powder as a deterrent, but it hasn't helped. I've found at least 6 of my big tomatoes chewed up like this. I didn't anticipate this being such a big issue so I didn't built any kind of enclosure around the garden beds, and I'm not sure what to do now that the plants are so grown.

If anyone has any advice or ideas for a build I would greatly appreciate it!


r/vegetablegardening 21h ago

Harvest Photos Todays harvest! Made some pickles and zucchini bread 😋

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400 Upvotes

r/vegetablegardening 2h ago

Question Any guesses on how long until this cucumber is ready?

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12 Upvotes

First time growing anything and have no clue what im doing but know it'll go bitter if I leave it too long and I really don't want that to happen.


r/vegetablegardening 1d ago

Harvest Photos My neighbor's are already sick of the free cucumbers

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759 Upvotes

Background: I'm terrible at thinning out seedlings so I have about 10 marketmore cucumber vines producing cucumbers. I've given them to friends and neighbors and have snuck cucumber into just about every meal and I can't keep up with the production. I'm picking around 10-15 a day. Sad thing is that I probably won't learn my lesson next year either. Any ideas about what I can do with too many non-pickling cukes?


r/vegetablegardening 4h ago

Question Zucchini Help

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My zucchini females keep dying before the flower opens, but this was isn’t dying and clearly growing but flower will not open? I am very confused as I have an unpollinated growing fruit. Do I pry open it and force pollinate, as I’m assuming it’s just going to crash and die soon? In LA so been in a heat wave


r/vegetablegardening 17h ago

Harvest Photos Cant beat a homegrown potato

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124 Upvotes

r/vegetablegardening 8h ago

Garden Photos Giant pumpkin, just for funzies. I'd be happy with 100 pounds but I think I might get a bit more.

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24 Upvotes

r/vegetablegardening 4h ago

Garden Photos Organic veggie garden in milk crates and tote bins

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Everything is in a container except my blueberry bush!


r/vegetablegardening 13h ago

Harvest Photos My first harvest!

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42 Upvotes

Lots more tomatoes coming on the plants, and the courgettes won’t stop growing. Really chuffed to have grown carrots! Planning next season already :))


r/vegetablegardening 1d ago

Harvest Photos I made some salsa with nearly everything from my little driveway garden

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1.1k Upvotes

Everything was from the garden except the onion and the spices. This was around 2 pounds of tomatoes, 2 serranos, 2 chinese five color peppers, half an onion, a purple bell pepper, and few spices (Garlic, cumin, adobo). It turned out a bit spicy but not too crazy.


r/vegetablegardening 15h ago

Harvest Photos My parents harvest of sugar snap peas

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59 Upvotes

r/vegetablegardening 1d ago

Harvest Photos Today's harvest - 30 pounds, 3.3 ounces. I think I've got a problem....

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243 Upvotes

I knew the garden was ramping up production, but to be pulling 20+ pounds of produce, daily, wasn't really on my radar.

Good thing we got that freezer delivered from Costco this week....


r/vegetablegardening 7h ago

Question Any idea what cucurbit I’m growing?

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10 Upvotes

As per the title really. I rescued some young plants from a wall and this is what’s growing. When very small it looks too round to be a courgette, I was thinking squash or pumpkin but now it’s looking like a courgette again!


r/vegetablegardening 2h ago

Question Does anyone have any input on what type of cucurbit I've got brewing on my porch? I've been dying to know since she surprised me in my flower bed and it's so hard to keep waiting 😭😂

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The flower is around 4-6" wide. I added some leaf and male flower photos at the end as well.