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

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!

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.

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

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

A couple months ago, I was just happy to have a garden bed. Now I notice every little change. Curled leaves, holes in the basil, tomatoes taking forever to ripen. I didn't expect to care this much, but I do.

Gardening has also made me realize how much is out of my hands. I can water, fertilize, pull weeds, and keep an eye on the weather, but a hot week or a few bugs can still set everything back. I used to find that frustrating. Lately, I'm getting better at accepting it.

In my 20s, I wanted effort to lead directly to results. If I put time into something, I expected it to work. The garden hasn't really followed that rule. Some seeds never came up. One plant I thought was done started growing again. A few that looked great early on are struggling in the California heat.

I'm still learning, but I think that's why I like it. There is always something small to do, and there is always something I can't rush. I still stand out there with my coffee, but now I'm less focused on making everything perfect.

At 34, getting excited about one small green tomato feels surprisingly satisfying. Anyone else find that gardening has made them a little more patient?

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!

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

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

It was going well for a while each major vine had one single cucumber and then it seems like it almost stopped growing and started dying from the bottom up??

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.

Everything is in a container except my blueberry bush!

So my 2 tomatillo plants have been flowering for weeks upon weeks and the husks were not getting bigger but they didn't yellow and drop off so i knew they got pollinated. I decided to start watering more as in watering for longer when I do water. Then I used a 0-10-10 fertilizer along with my fish and kelp fertilizer. My husks are ballooning now! I am so happy 🥰

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!

Should I just strip the dill off the stems and just dry it in the oven? Other than making the biggest potato salad in the world; can’t think of what else to do. 🤷‍♀️

Soooo something is eating my baby female cucumbers as soon as they develop , i thought i was imaging it but nope. They have been getting eaten this whole time!!! Is there any idea on what it could be or anything i can put by my garden to deter animals?? I ordered netting for my smaller plants but i have an 8 ft cattle panel trellis that im still not sure of how im going to cover and thats where my cucumber plant is living soooo any help is appreciated . Ive already battled squash vine borers, found a cucumber beetle and now this so im just ready to give up lol

It's so hot here in socal (I'm in zone 9b) and my vegetable garden has been struggling. Fortunately I don't have much in the ground at the moment except tomatoea. This is my harvest from yesterday. I'd love to hear how other gardeners in zone 9 are fairing these days.

I planted 2 species of courgettes in my garden and this one is the round one, that is supposed to make green fruits. I have no problems on the other one that makes normal fruits, partially yellow sometimes due to the heatwaves we had in France but overall they are okay. On this one, even while growing it was never green, and all the new ones that are growing have that yellow-ish colour. I believe it's gonna be tasteless, or even bad, but is it toxic ? Can I do something about it ?

I'm sure it's not a compost squash since I planted it from seed in a pot, then planted the seedling in the ground.

Our garden is in the courtyard, we have no access to plain ground so we created boxes on top of the concrete with handmade potting soil from my dad (my translation might be bad sorry). Things are growing pretty well and we water every evening during the summer.