Current Events > Do you have a garden in your back yard?

(+) Yeah! (+)

i.e. with lots of vegetables etc....?

It's funny you ask, because some of the older ladies here at the apartment complex just created a garden a few weeks ago.

So...yes! But I haven't planted anything yet.

no

when I was a kid we had a small farm though

No but I have 3 apple trees. Though nothing seems to be blooming this year

I live in an apartment, so no back yard.

Don't have my own place.

Bold of you to assume that I have a yard at all.

I stopped a few years back. I started having a lot of trouble with the health, yield, and then the animals were the last straw.

I maintain my own and my parents.

mine (multiple of each)
-broccoli
-cauliflower
-cabbage
-eggplant
-thai chilies
-cherry tomatoes
-sun gold tomatoes
-kale
-romaine
-arugula
-2 other types of lettuce I forget the names to
-basil
-thyme
-oregano
-chives
-tarragon

parents
-3 kinda of potatoes(Kerragold, idaho, red)
-Japanese (shishito) peppers
-Thai chiles
-cucumber
-sport peppers

AloneIBreak posted...

Bold of you to assume that I have a yard at all.

yeah that's true all kinds of herbivores will always want to eat your vegetables. What kinds of animals were these?

had one last year. Attempted to grow all sorts of vegetables, but in the end the only ones that survived bugs and random cold spots were tomatoes, potatoes and sugar snap peas. I'm actually sad about that, as I had carrots, cabbage, lettuce, peppers, garlic, onions in the big planter boxes. I grew herbs the previous year but messed that up royally as they spread ridiculously fast and started intertwining. I really didn't think think they would grow as well as they did, but my god they were everywhere.

Yeah, it currently in disarray because my dog decided to eat half of all my flowers out of nowhere today after being great for the last month though. ;_;

itachi15243 posted...

Yeah, it currently in disarray because my dog decided to eat half of all my flowers out of nowhere today after being great for the last month though. ;_;

your dog likes flowers? is that unusual?

No, I don't feel like tilling up my yard for something that'll likely be neglected/yield poorly

CedarPointcp posted...

your dog likes flowers? is that unusual?

It's not that weird

More weird that she has been great about them for the past month or two, then just ate and dug them up all today.

Like, it was just a bit unexpected. Now I basically have to start over. ;_:

I have a flower garden for pollinators.

...Lets settle with "technically." And that it involves throwing butterfly friendly seeds about but not actually doing much past that. And that any mention of yard must also include that its basically 6m^2, and that I don't bother doing any mowing.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/4/6/AAfbtgAAEjkG.jpg Yah but my doorside rosebush is easily the coolest thing blooming right now

oh you just ran outside to take that picture for this topic?

We had a few tomato plants last year, but we recently had the yard leveled and a French drain put in so we're concentrating on just getting grass back in now. Parts of yhe yard would flood often so we wanted to fix it. Next year I want to grow some cucumbers or something though.

Yes and i just put up a green house and I cemented the area so the rabbits stopped digging their way in there.

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How big are the pots? Assuming they're not dying from over or under watering, I would assume nutrient deficiency. Zucchini plants are heavy feeders, so any deficiencies in manganese, sulfur, iron can cause yellowing.

This will typically start in the younger leaves and move to the older ones over time iirc.

No. There are too many animals near my house. They would eat everything immediately.

I have two big raised beds but all I grow is chilis, that's about all that can tolerate the heat and sun out here.

I have 20 plants this year:

4 Tabasco
2 Orange Butch T Scorpion
1 Scotch Bonnet
1 Red Habanero
1 Carolina Reaper
3 Jalapeno
2 Serrano
1 Time Bomb
1 Thai Scorpion

I can't remember what the rest of them are off the top of my head...Got a lot of fruits already because I planted almost a month earlier than normal and we've had a lot of rain and cloudy weather. Now that full summer is on I expect to get less from the exotics until the fall.

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Honestly it's pretty hard tell. If they're in 5 gallon pots each and have nutrient rich soil and have plant food it could be root damage, or disease perhaps? If you can I would get soil test kit and test the soil to see. And yeah, you can get all sorts of nutrients for your plants at any garden center in somewhere like home depot, Lowes, or even just Walmart/
Target.

You'd probably have a lot better luck taking pictures and asking on reddit tbh, I don't know much about zucchini. It's typically pretty easy and resilient, but like any other plant a lot can go wrong.

Is there anything else besides just yellow leaves? Wilting, dead leaves, flimsy stems, etc? Again, it would probably be better to ask reddit or see if someone in something like a garden center will look at it.

I live in a nature preserve so wildlife would eat anything unless I build a greenhouse.

Instead I grow bamboo and Mexican Sunflowers. I like growing tall, fast-growing woody plants that can also be used as privacy hedges. I started with a few and now have a whole field of them.

In the house I'm also raising some carnivorous plants (Venus flytraps and Pitcher Plants).

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If its new and fresh soil, Id guess that its a fungal issue, overwatering, or pest issue. Neem Oil can help with 2 of those. Id probably buy the neem oil and a soil test kit to start to rule stuff out. They are much less expensive than manure or other fertilizers. Id also probably have some fertilizer/compost or manure(if you are comfortable with that) on hand because its likely you will eventually need to re-feed the plant.

Jalapenos
Serrano's
Tomatoes
Habanero
Cayenne

Yes

I have four plants going right now. Various tomatoes and peppers. They all have veggies sprouted too. I bought them when they were around six inches tall.

A few years ago I had a house though. I put on an actual garden there one here with like alot of plants.

Pics ahoy

https://i.imgur.com/jddEnkU.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/7ybi1Xr.jpeg

Here are some past grows at the last house where I had more space.

https://imgur.com/a/brUKxzO.jpeg

https://imgur.com/a/kqUEcw4.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/TRmO5GO.jpeg

billcom6 posted...

No. There are too many animals near my house. They would eat everything immediately.

line the garden with pepper plants, specifically habaneros. Bunnies and squirrels cant resist it but they also wont make it past them.

Thud posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/4/6/AAfbtgAAEjkG.jpg Yah but my doorside rosebush is easily the coolest thing blooming right now

I like it.

Here there is like a 100 year old brick house in town that has a whole wall of Ivy and some type of flower growing up the side.

CedarPointcp posted...

your dog likes flowers? is that unusual?

My dog likes flowers too.

TimeForAction posted...

line the garden with pepper plants, specifically habaneros. Bunnies and squirrels cant resist it but they also wont make it past them.

This is exactly what I do. Helps a ton in an urban Chicago where theres bunnies and rats around. Cant speak for deer tho

I have lettuce in a planter in the back.
My backyard is kinda wild...lots of ferns.

I do have a legit flower garden up front though.
That and tomatoes and a few other things, including Cat Nip that my Cat planted himself.

My backyard is an alley with gravel and weeds.

My first Tomato and Strawberries of The Season!!|

https://imgur.com/ncZLkD0