A3M0N Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 (edited) I thought there was enough time for these tomatoes before the first frost, but I was wrong! I transplanted these two from the raised bed and brought them inside. I have two clamp on work lights with 1500 lumen, 5000k LED bulbs shining on them for 10 hours per day. They were used previously for photo/video lights. If you can see it, there is blue painter's tape to mark the plant height when I brought them in nine days ago! Now that I have proven to myself that the lights will grow tomatoes, I'll be using at least one on my 10 gallon aquarium. Maybe two if the light from one doesn't reach the entire floor. Edited October 26, 2022 by A3M0N 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanked Posted November 14, 2022 Share Posted November 14, 2022 On Friday night it was 65 degrees while I brought in what I thought was the last of 47 vegetables, annuals and tropical Bonsai plants. I'm going to have a lot of green tomato sauce this year. The vines are full, but I'm out of space. Early Saturday morning Winter arrived in SW Ohio and brought with him a 30+ degree temperature drop and between 1- 3" of "snow flurries". I think Winter is a Redtail hawk. The "flurries" have just begun 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 My gardening has moved indoors for winter. I can never have enough windows for all the plants and fish tanks I would like to keep, so when I was shopping for a house I tried hard to provide myself with as many large windows as I could. This one is on the morning sun side of the house ❤️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmaty Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) So many wonderful pictures on this thread! @Minanora sent me via my journal. My wife and I have wanted to have a garden for years. 2 years ago we moved into a nice little corner and thus began the garden adventure. How it started Spring Summer Year 2 Looking forward to our third season! Two harvest pictures I experimented with flowers this year too. Never thought I would love them so much. But I think my favorite part of the garden is all the critters I see. I live next to a river and get all sorts of wildlife. I will spare you the deer photos, they annoy me more than anything. I swear they think this garden is their buffet. The bees are plentiful, though only the carpenter bees ever sit still long enough for me to snap photos of them. They love to sleep on these flowers They are so well behaved! And then there are my spider friends. They get fed all the pests, like hornworms! My wife is a huge spider fan! Then there are my more coldblooded crew.Box turtle! BABY!!! Mud turtle! By the end of the year I had even managed to get my first resident hummer. I love nature. It's really fun being it's host and allowing(minus the deer and racoons) to roam the property. Working to restore the wetlands behind my house as well. Fortunately it is not "protected" so I can actually do stuff, but I am working to restore natives and remove invasives. Thanks for letting me share with you guys! Keep the green thumbs coming! *Edit: Cant believe I forgot these guys! Edited December 31, 2022 by Shmaty 4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 Great pics of a beautiful garden @Shmaty! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 @Shmaty, incredible photos and what a great show of the progression of your garden! I can hear the enjoyment you have for all those critters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanked Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 On 12/31/2022 at 2:05 PM, Shmaty said: So many wonderful pictures on this thread! @Minanora sent me via my journal. My wife and I have wanted to have a garden for years. 2 years ago we moved into a nice little corner and thus began the garden adventure. How it started Spring Summer Year 2 Looking forward to our third season! Two harvest pictures I experimented with flowers this year too. Never thought I would love them so much. But I think my favorite part of the garden is all the critters I see. I live next to a river and get all sorts of wildlife. I will spare you the deer photos, they annoy me more than anything. I swear they think this garden is their buffet. The bees are plentiful, though only the carpenter bees ever sit still long enough for me to snap photos of them. They love to sleep on these flowers They are so well behaved! And then there are my spider friends. They get fed all the pests, like hornworms! My wife is a huge spider fan! Then there are my more coldblooded crew.Box turtle! BABY!!! Mud turtle! By the end of the year I had even managed to get my first resident hummer. I love nature. It's really fun being it's host and allowing(minus the deer and racoons) to roam the property. Working to restore the wetlands behind my house as well. Fortunately it is not "protected" so I can actually do stuff, but I am working to restore natives and remove invasives. Thanks for letting me share with you guys! Keep the green thumbs coming! *Edit: Cant believe I forgot these guys! My neighbor would say "You sure have a lot going on there!" I love the Fuschia, and the patience required to get those photos. I live in the city, so my yard resembles a busy airport all year long, but even in season I don't get that variety of critters. I hope you are cautious around the Black Widows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmaty Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 On 1/2/2023 at 3:15 PM, Tanked said: My neighbor would say "You sure have a lot going on there!" I love the Fuschia, and the patience required to get those photos. I live in the city, so my yard resembles a busy airport all year long, but even in season I don't get that variety of critters. I hope you are cautious around the Black Widows! My neighbor and I, have an unspoken garden rivalry. Haha Fushias are probably my favorite flower. Sadly they don't do well in my summer heat. Before this, we lived in the city. My "garden" was a crowded apartment balcony large enough for 2 lawn chairs. North facing even. The cars in the parking lot reflected an absurd amount of light onto the balcony. I wanted to see if it was enough for plants in spite of no direct sunlight. Sure enough, we still managed to grow herbs and a few tomatoes. Was mostly a proof of concept type thing. I wanted to see if it was possible and it was! The black widows here are pretty uncommon and i find they are usually hunted on. It's ironic that I managed to find one devouring a preying mantis, one of their top predators. The widows are pretty shy. They tend to be run away...but the brown recluse are a whole different story. I kill on sight. Not something I want to piss off. Wolf spiders, fishing spiders and grass spiders=cool | brown recluse=not cool 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 These brave flowers survived an entire day of high powered winds and tornado conditions. Hundreds of large trees down and my chimney cap blew off, but all my daffodils are just perfect! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank223 Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 (edited) @ShmatyOur garden still hasn't recovered from the winter, there's nothing to even show for it. Plus, it gets increasingly difficult to maintain it all every year. Sometimes I feel that it is easier to order flowers through specialized services like https://myglobalflowers.com/ Thank you so much for sharing. You have so many animals there and it's so beautiful, and incredibly cool! Edited April 3, 2023 by Frank223 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 16, 2023 Share Posted May 16, 2023 Garden season is up and running here in US zone 6. Baptisia, peonies, and lily of the valley. And... of course, some fish! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanked Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 The single COLD blast we had in December did a lot of damage. As I was getting ready to cut down the Mimosa, I noticed a few leaflets sprouting from farther down the trunk, Another speciman shrub is coming back from the roots so all is not lost. One of my favorites, a perennial which oogle identifies as Indigo, came back unharmed. I can never remember the name because the color is nothing close to indigo. Unfortunately it is a spring (MAY) bloomer and the flowers are very short lived. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 On 6/1/2023 at 10:00 AM, Tanked said: The single COLD blast we had in December did a lot of damage. As I was getting ready to cut down the Mimosa, I noticed a few leaflets sprouting from farther down the trunk, Another speciman shrub is coming back from the roots so all is not lost. One of my favorites, a perennial which oogle identifies as Indigo, came back unharmed. I can never remember the name because the color is nothing close to indigo. Unfortunately it is a spring (MAY) bloomer and the flowers are very short lived. Your plant looks like a yellow variety of baptisia, AKA false indigo, and it looks super healthy and happy there. Where I live (zone 6) the flowers are gone in a couple of weeks but the foliage looks good all summer, so it’s well worth having even so. I was so glad mine survived that cold snap! My Stoke’s aster (top) and hummelo mixing in with baptisia foliage. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanked Posted June 20, 2023 Share Posted June 20, 2023 On 6/19/2023 at 7:31 PM, PineSong said: Your plant looks like a yellow variety of baptisia, AKA false indigo, and it looks super healthy and happy there. Where I live (zone 6) the flowers are gone in a couple of weeks but the foliage looks good all summer, so it’s well worth having even so. I was so glad mine survived that cold snap! My Stoke’s aster (top) and hummelo mixing in with baptisia foliage. Your Baptista is what I think of when someone says Indigo. I like the green contrast with both. The USDA street map puts me officially in zone 6a. Somehow it was cold enough, long enough, to guarantee that my success rate for killing outdoor Bonsai trees remains intact.💀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 On 6/20/2023 at 8:35 AM, Tanked said: Your Baptista is what I think of when someone says Indigo. I like the green contrast with both. The USDA street map puts me officially in zone 6a. Somehow it was cold enough, long enough, to guarantee that my success rate for killing outdoor Bonsai trees remains intact.💀 I killed one of my two this winter. Unprecedented cold snap brings the grim reaper to potted plants! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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