Haha, I was wondering about that . I always read that they were first bred in Canada in the early 1970’sMy mistake different flower story.
2026 gardening thread, whatcha got going on in the yard this year? Even house plants are ok.
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Saltwater60
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I finally got all my stuff planted. My son helped me get my garden structure done and it worked out great. Still a bit of tidying up to do, but I’m happy with the results.
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My spinach is bolting and my radishes are getting woody already!!
Saltwater60
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That sucks. I just harvested spinach today and shows no signs of bolting. It’s in the hot sun too. This is my best spinach year yet.
Spring crops can be tough. This weather was cold and wet so they didn’t really grow and now it’s hot and sunny. I read somewhere recently that the bolting has more to do with the length of day over the temperature. I don’t know. I have tomatoes and peppers on plants already and this will be the first year I’ll get grapes.
My raspberries and black berries took a beating but are coming back fairly well, but will have lower production this year.
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Back in the corner of the property amongst the weeds mama's roses still pop up every year.
Saltwater60
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Beautiful
1 outta 6 broccoli transplants died
The seeded broccoli is growing like weeds.
I bought onion sets at tractor supply, about a 50% failure rate on those. Never again from there. It will be onion plants next year
Wife's dent corn for milling is up to 2nd leaf and her dried beans and herbs are ahead of last year.
Pepper transplants are finally getting growing after the shock of being transferred from the greenhouse to the beds
The seeded broccoli is growing like weeds.
I bought onion sets at tractor supply, about a 50% failure rate on those. Never again from there. It will be onion plants next year
Wife's dent corn for milling is up to 2nd leaf and her dried beans and herbs are ahead of last year.
Pepper transplants are finally getting growing after the shock of being transferred from the greenhouse to the beds
Saltwater60
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Broccoli is easy to seed, so easy to just do that. I can’t get heads, but leaves galore.
Onions take forever to grow and are cheap so I just buy them. It’s fun to grow them if you have the space though.
Saltwater60
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The berries at the grocery store have been the worst I have ever seen it lately. Rotten and moldy on the store shelves. I’m setting up a strawberry grow operation in my basement. I lm doing 25 seabreeze everbearing day neutral strawberries. Should be enough for me and my family to have a constant supply once they get going.
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I bought some (30) dormant seabreeze everbearing strawberries to try. Planted 25 outdoors- 24 died. Put 5 in hydroponic setup and 1 died, so far.
My sugar snap peas have lots of pods already. Like usual I picked some and they didn’t make it in the house
My sugar snap peas have lots of pods already. Like usual I picked some and they didn’t make it in the house
Saltwater60
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That sucks. Bare root is a gamble. I know that and we will see what happens. Where did you get them from? I’m buying them from a place on Amazon, probably more of a risk, but they have good reviews.
Amazon is great about getting your money back.
If mine do well and I get runners you’re welcome to them.
Did you plant them too deep? Lots of people plant them too deep and you should only plant them at the depth of where the roots start. Some of the crown should be showing above soil. Just a thought? Cold crappy spring too so maybe they rotted. I have heard many people trying hydroponics and them rotting. I’m going to plant mine in peat moss, worm castings, and sand mix. I’ll let you know.
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We’ve been picking strawberries out of the garden like crazy for the last week now! My Granddaughter came up from NC to spend the summer here and she’s been picking and eating them every morning.
Saltwater60
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Mine in my garden died off over this winter and last winter so I got none. Mine were not in a great spot so it’s my fault. I had them there for years and then added things around it. The bushes there are crowding them and it’s not really possible to trim the bushes there. I thought the bushes were full grown, but I guess not. I installed a patio around them and I think the pH is too high for them now. I used to get tons, but they were all June bearing and the slugs ravaged them anyway because the bushes holding moisture. I’d rather just add some in house that are ever bearing at this point so I can have them all year long. It should only be one LED light running so shouldn’t be too much of nothing to keep it going cost wise.
The berries in the store have been brown, rotten, moldy, tasteless, and even fermented when they look great. I’m sick of paying $8.00 to throw half of them out or more every week. The raspberries have been worse. Mush even on the store shelves.
It will cost me about $100 to get going and I just figured it out, the light is $6-7/month to runs for 10 hours a day. I’ll probably have a fan kick on for 15 minutes out of every hour as well. So we will say $10/month. I have waste water from my aquarium so that’s free and I have worm compost so that’s free as well. I’ll add some balance organic fertilizer once a month at about 1 teaspoon a plant so that’s next to nothing.
Saltwater60
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Here are the strawberries. They look good so far, but I just them today so.. some good green on the tops of the crowns for most of them. I expect 4-5 of them to die.
6/20. All of them except two look good. Some are opening up already. Of course the two that don’t look good are in the same planting hole. Just my luck right?
6/20. All of them except two look good. Some are opening up already. Of course the two that don’t look good are in the same planting hole. Just my luck right?
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Saltwater60
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Strawberries are coming in strong. 2 died but the rest look amazing. By weeks end I should have some flowers popping. I might trim them but the roots looked huge so I think I’m going to risk it and leave them.
It looks like I’ll have to water them about every 8-9 days at what I did last week. I may allow them to dry out sooner by watering slightly less but I waited about three days to turn the fans on. So I think what I did for the first go around will dry out in about 6-7 days with the fans on like they are now. That should be the sweet spot, wait, I really don’t know what the sweet spot is I’m kind of flying by the seat of my plants here. Oh well, it’s a fun experiment either way.
I added a picture of one of them. It has about 5-6 flowers on it. There must be 6-7 of them with 4-6 flowers on them.
It looks like I’ll have to water them about every 8-9 days at what I did last week. I may allow them to dry out sooner by watering slightly less but I waited about three days to turn the fans on. So I think what I did for the first go around will dry out in about 6-7 days with the fans on like they are now. That should be the sweet spot, wait, I really don’t know what the sweet spot is I’m kind of flying by the seat of my plants here. Oh well, it’s a fun experiment either way.
I added a picture of one of them. It has about 5-6 flowers on it. There must be 6-7 of them with 4-6 flowers on them.
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Saltwater60
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My stuff is growing like gang busters too. A bit too wet for some of my veggies and had some bacteria spot already. I don’t like it. I do have some tomatoes ripe that I’ll be picking tomorrow. I sprayed with copper as a result of the spots and removed the impacted leaves. I just don’t like the issues.
Saltwater60
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I’m harvesting tomatoes and raspberries this week and a bit last week. Not a ton, but enough.
A few more strawberry plants might die. I don’t think I watered them enough this last week. I needed up having to add water three times a this week. I just soaked them good hoping the two boarder line ones make a come back. If not I still have 21-22 of them. I have about 10 flowers out I’m pollinating now.
A few more strawberry plants might die. I don’t think I watered them enough this last week. I needed up having to add water three times a this week. I just soaked them good hoping the two boarder line ones make a come back. If not I still have 21-22 of them. I have about 10 flowers out I’m pollinating now.
Saltwater60
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Indoor strawberry update and analysis.
I think I would add more soil next time to retain water better. I did mostly peat moss with about 1/3 sand and a few quarts of worm castings.
The larger ones I would plant up higher than I think I need to next time. The larger ones at the base seem to be rotting and not doing as good as the medium sized ones are. The very small ones seemed to have dried out in the packaging and never took off. Some put out green tops, but died quickly.
I planted them 6/18 and I have 15-20 flowers already. I started with 26 of them and 22 of them are still alive and 2 of them will likely be causalities as well with a third possibly dying as well. So I will end up with 19-20 out of 26 of them. A few I ended up planting a bit deep and that’s the cause so I’ll take responsibility for half of them. I raised them up so we will see what happens.
Some photos attached and for two weeks I’m pleased.
Edit for 7/8. I think the 3-4 I mentioned above will die. The other ones are doing well with about 15/20 thriving. A few of the biggest ones are taking their time taking off for whatever reason. I’m up to 30 blooms and a few starting to be strawberries. I think I will add another 6” pvc pipe like this because the lights are on anyway. I think I will do a mix of strawberries, spinach, and Paris market carrots in those. I’ll also mix up what’s in these current tubes because some of the dead.
I think I would add more soil next time to retain water better. I did mostly peat moss with about 1/3 sand and a few quarts of worm castings.
The larger ones I would plant up higher than I think I need to next time. The larger ones at the base seem to be rotting and not doing as good as the medium sized ones are. The very small ones seemed to have dried out in the packaging and never took off. Some put out green tops, but died quickly.
I planted them 6/18 and I have 15-20 flowers already. I started with 26 of them and 22 of them are still alive and 2 of them will likely be causalities as well with a third possibly dying as well. So I will end up with 19-20 out of 26 of them. A few I ended up planting a bit deep and that’s the cause so I’ll take responsibility for half of them. I raised them up so we will see what happens.
Some photos attached and for two weeks I’m pleased.
Edit for 7/8. I think the 3-4 I mentioned above will die. The other ones are doing well with about 15/20 thriving. A few of the biggest ones are taking their time taking off for whatever reason. I’m up to 30 blooms and a few starting to be strawberries. I think I will add another 6” pvc pipe like this because the lights are on anyway. I think I will do a mix of strawberries, spinach, and Paris market carrots in those. I’ll also mix up what’s in these current tubes because some of the dead.
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Saltwater60
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Now that I got rid of the infected plants and sprayed the good health ones with a protective spray to prevent the fungus from infecting the other plants it seems to have stabilized. The remaining plants are healthy, but now I can’t eat my fruit for two weeks. I’ll likely wait three weeks, but hey it is what it is. I try to do all organic, but if they are dead they do me no good.
Been harvesting raspberries, tomatoes, peppers, squash and the like for a week or two now. Things look great. Blueberries and blackberries will be next on the harvest. I’ll get a few goji berries, and some shallots/garlic this year. Hint don’t grow garlic in raised grow bags because it doesn’t work well.
Lettuce and spinach have bolted.
Been harvesting raspberries, tomatoes, peppers, squash and the like for a week or two now. Things look great. Blueberries and blackberries will be next on the harvest. I’ll get a few goji berries, and some shallots/garlic this year. Hint don’t grow garlic in raised grow bags because it doesn’t work well.
Lettuce and spinach have bolted.
Robin
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Awesome blueberry crop this year. First new potatoes for dinner tonight!!!
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Yup, agree on the blueberries. Excellent crop so far. We’ve been eating lettuce, spinach and Swiss chard like rabbits! It’s all starting to bolt now though. ( won’t hurt my feelings) our zucchini is growing gang busters as well. Strawberries petered out quite quickly this year but the crop was pretty good. I’ll need to do some serious thinning out this fall though.
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Already? Did you wait for the greenery to die off?
Saltwater60
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My taters are coming on now. I got a late start because the rain or they would be ready now as well. My spring was very wet. Another 2 weeks and I’ll be cooking them. I expect a light crop because I cut mine and it rained so much I had to wait like 2 weeks. A lot of mine dried out.
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No, still green, brushed the dirt aside and took the one toward the surface. My wife harvested them, she's experimenting to see if she can get two crops in one year.
They were awesome by the way!!!!!
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Mine are still a huge lush green forest