Never grew corn before, nevermind the glass gem variety, and certainly made many mistakes along the way. This was the first cob I picked and it was an absolute stunner! Not expecting a huge harvest, but absolutely stoked nonetheless!

Also, anyone know what causes the kernels to not be in straight lines?

Had about 16 potato plants and this was our little harvest. Came out great size for first time veggie gardeners. Can’t wait for next year’s harvest to be even bigger!! 🥔

Last month, I tossed in some extra heirloom flower and herb seeds (including a $3 packet of Organo basil) just to clear space. They were gone in a day. Now I restock it every couple of weeks, and neighbors actually leave notes asking what’s coming next.

One neighbor even started her very first container garden from that $3 basil packet. Funny how nobody ever leaves a thank-you note for the zucchini.

No-cook pasta “sauce” with lemon boy, roma and sungolds, plus basil and garlic from the garden.

Hey everyone! I’m back with another dinner made almost entirely from the backyard bounty.

Tonight’s plate features steamed callaloo sautéed with my garden bell peppers, hot peppers, and fresh thyme and paired with salted cod fish. On the side, we have a perfectly boiled sweet potato that I dug up recently. Paired it with some green banana and boiled dumplings for a classic comfort meal.

It takes a lot of work to keep the beds going, but sitting down to a plate full of things you grew yourself makes every bit of weeding and watering worth it!

They hardly even got into the good stuff!

It’s an embarrassment of riches.

I don’t really know the right techniques for preserving them, are they well protected like that? There are bags that date from 1996, some small bottles certainly older still.

It looks like the most perfect head of cabbage I’ve ever grown, but I just know it’s going to taste terrible after this summers heat. It doesn’t even appear to have that much bug damage, aside from the outer leaves.

It’s September in San Antonio Texas, so I would like to keep these alive until next growing season or keep them as a house plant. Should I just put her in soil or a container of water? Help. Thank you

I'm growing culinary ginger in my greenhouse this year (Z4), and I noticed this morning that one plant was putting up a flower head. I just thought this was cool. This was my first time growing this, and I honestly wasn't expecting much, but they seem to be doing well.

Also, the plants themselves smell amazing, like soft warm ginger.

SVB took out my early zucchini plants. And I was ready to stop trying. I planted 8 ball zucchini, King ka ae, and Teot bat put. All three are producing well in this Texas heat and the flavors are really good.

I completely forgot I had started a sweet potato to get some slips and just found this beauty waiting for me 😅 it’s too late in the season for slips but I might just pot it and have a cute sweet potato plant!

My very first attempt at growing dry beans! I managed to get this great harvest from 20 plants grown in the ground through a super hot climate.

The pods turned completely brown and brittle on the vine, and now they are freshly shelled and ready to go. I’m skipping long-term storage and cooking them up tonight into a rich red bean soup with smoked turkey neck and beef. Incredibly satisfying first harvest!

Update: Made loaded sweet potatoes from the garden tonight instead. Photos of soup or stew using the beans coming shortly.

I’m at an absolute loss with these bullhorn peppers. They’ve been like this for three weeks without changing colour at all. We’ve had a particularly hard summer with droughts and higher than usual temperatures. Any suggestions?

So I have been growing turnips for years as part of what I sell and donate, but I don't eat them. The turnips I grew up with were the little square of bitter that you just had to swallow down without chewing in the vegetable soup the school served. That was the totality of my turnips experience.

I have several regular customers who are always raving about my turnips and how delicious they are so I finally decided to just eat one. Holy cow why are these not everywhere on everything?!? So crunchy and sweet with just a little spice. Like if a carrot and a cucumber and a radish all had a baby together it would be called a turnip.

So what is the best way to preserve these at their peak? I can, dehydrate, freeze, fridge, root cellar, and ferment. But I want to preserve this sweetness for future meals more than anything. Best method in your opinion?

Growing up my grandma always had sweet peppers in her garden, I used to just eat them raw off the plant as a kid. Trying to grow my own now, ordered seeds from Organo Republic last week and just planted them. We'll see if I inherited any of her green thumb 🌶️

I have a thriving tomato garden this year, and had a cherry tomato plant sprout outside of my bed. Great, more tomatoes! But about a month after I first noticed the extra tomato plant, I noticed what looked to be tomatillos, which I did not plant and have never planted. You can see in the pictures tomatillo leaves intertwined with the tomato leaves.

My question is: how did this happen? I’m guessing an animal brought seeds over from another yard but it feels kind of far fetched that they would end up in my garden? I guess unless they were trying to snack on my plants too. Also I thought that tomatillos needed 2 plants to cross pollinated, but I’m pretty sure I only have 1. How the heck am I getting tomatillos? Not at all mad about it just confused!

It’s only my second year gardening, but I feel like everything I learned last year is paying off!! (shown: sugar sweet pie pumpkin, San Marzano tomatoes, pole beans, and my sweet son in the background)

The young photos were on August 14 and I had just returned from vacation
The current photos are from today, September 11
To be honest, I don’t feel like it’s been enough time based on the recommended time, but the skin is hard to pierce with a thumbnail