Last week we had tacos, 
and salad, 
with greens from our aquaponics system! 
(The helpful hint on the right side of the screen says that this topic is similar to: We can now convert every film and TV show from the last 80 years into HDR which seems pretty random)
Congrats! Hopefully it was all tasty and healthy and yum!
Thanks! Iâm pretty excited about it, and hope to expand/improve the system.
Itâs been a good year so far in the allotment. Weâve had a good mix of rain and sun for a change (usually we just get the rain). Weâve had good crops of strawberries, blackcurrents, blackberries, french beans, broad beans, runner beans patty pan squashes, brocolli, lettuce and potatoes. The cabbages are looking the best weâve had (we usually struggle with brassicas).
However, the marrows & courgettes arenât doing much at the moment (although they went in late), and weâre struggling with root vegetables this year and our garlic did nothing.
Looking good! I gave up on the re-potting business years ago. Instead, I start 4-5 seeds in a beer cup (those red 16 oz cups the kidz use for beer pong). Poke a hole in the bottom of the cup before putting the dirt in, though. When theyâre big enough to go in the ground, either plant the whole cup in one spot, or separate them (normally theyâre still small enough to so this if youâre careful).
Iâd be interested in knowing if the nasturtiums work, we suffer form whitefly on our sprouts and as we already grow them it would be an easy solution.
I could send you some if you want? PM me if youâre interested and Iâll harvest some at the weekend.
So, this looks like a dormant thread. I would like to revive it, unless thete is a more appropriate thread i am missing?
Anyway, i put in 2 experiments today. A cold hardy pomegranate theoretically good to Zone 7, which is me. We shall see. The other one is wintergreen, since i need a groundcover for the shady side of our springhouse, and ran across this guy reputed to need shady, damp places. Check and check, which is why i havenât gotten anything else to grow there. Again, we shall see. Nothing ventured, nothong gained!
way to go, doc! loves me some pomegranate!
i reckon we can keep this thread alive, along with @Axolotl , @IronEdithKidd and many others who frequently post about our gardening and harvests!
still picking starfruit off the tree out front and this bunch of bananas on the tree right now is bigger than any before it!
new pepper plants are all in for our warm winter - jalapenos, habaneros, cayenne and tabasco plants are looking good.
Planted the Fuyu persimmon today. Biotone in the backfill. Boomerang berm on the downslope edge. B-complex dissolved in water as root drench to minimize transplant shock. Fistful of seed (clover, vetch, peas) across the top of the wet soil. Deer cage goes on tomorrow⊠not so rushed because the persimmon had already dropped its leaves.
A few weeks ago: Arkansas Black apple, Hosui Asian pear trees in the ground. Easier digging because soil was still not fully dry.
Before that: raspberries, two kinds; blueberries, two kinds. Hollytone + Biotone and a lot of rotted wood mulch.
Next up: thornless blackberries, two kinds; tea (Camellia sinensis); Juneberry (Virginia native); and a Virginia native (?!?!) hazelnut. Still need to calculate solar exposure hours, amendments.
Hoping for some rain. Our cistern is rapidly emptying, in part because I have keep watering to sprout some grass and clover seeds to take care of some bare spots out here. Yikes. But we had to get the excavator company to drop in better drainage system, and do grading away from foundation. They did tear the heck out of our turf, which at the time was very lush. Soil compaction = bad. House flooding = really bad. Helene didnât flood us out in a major way, but some weeks ago, here, we had water come into our house.
Astonishing what can grow when one has access to rainfall/water and soil, two things I did not have much of in Texas.
Growing season is done with here. I picked my habaneros a few weeks ago. I had more than I knew what to do with so I sliced and vacuum sealed them for later use. Iâll probably end up making a hot sauce and brewing with them.
Watch the hazelnuts. We have eastern filbert blight here. There are resistant strains, Jefferson and Theta that i have have done great here. If you get tea to work, i will be very jealous! I have tried a few times, but it canât take the winter. Currently growing Yaupon holly for my caffeine fix.
habaneros, carrots, sugar and gelatine make a wicked good jelly!
That looks good. I think Iâll try that. Thanks.
I havenât seen anything like that on my container citrus so far 
My key lime will get the âtaco shellâ curl when itâs crazy hot and/or Iâm not watering enough, but your photo looks very different.
Search on citrus leaf miners. If itâs a new tree from a nursery, it might have come with stowaways.
Those are miners,they shouldnât be a huge problem, unless you have loads. Theyâll also only make marks on new leaves, wonât touch older leaves.
we do get leaf miners a lot.
i use a horticultural oil to drench the soil before i plant. supposed to keep instances of miners, but more especially, whiteflies, down. i could try a dilute solution on new growth before the miners show up, i just donât want to suffocate the new leaves.
i need this tree to thrive! i am spending way too much keeping the bar stocked with fresh limes!
My problems are far different than yours 
This guy seems to think theyâre not long term problems:
thanks for the article. that was helpful.
i need to get more nematodes from Arbico Organics. they sell spore-like powder that you mix with water and spray on the soil. the little buggers come to life and dine on larvae of different nasties, without harming the already dwindling pollenators.
should have already done that. the nematodes i sprayed last season kept the whiteflies to a minimum until late in the season.
