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It also depends on where your plants are growing. If they're in a small raised bed or a container they'll need much more water. All mine that are in containers get watered at minimum every other day, daily when it gets real hot and dry (for the 3 days that we have real summer up here!). Smaller...

I have abysmal luck with hot peppers and bell peppers up here. Got better last year and had good luck with cubanelles - of course I didn't plant them this year. I did cherry stuffer hybrid, rainbow bell, and a seed from a yellow grocery store pepper (because I was curious). I've never gotten a...

Last year I think the winner was <30 pounds. You could be a contender! I know I'm being overly optimistic, but I did purchase seeds from last years PEI giant pumpkin winners... parentage was >1000 pounds. I'll probably get a 3 pounder out of it, with my luck.

Here's my "fair winning pumpkins" as of 5 minutes ago - might have had a show king squash sprout today or else it just exploded from the moisture in the bag. Here's hoping it's the former. :fl :lau

Oh I don't care if it vines out, in fact I was expecting it to vine out and down the hill, which is why I thought I could get two in there! Guess I should just stick to one or put two of something smaller in there, like peppers.

The name makes a lot more sense if you understand that I'm a pharmacist. I used to joke that when I'd go to work I'd put on my boots and cape and go out and phight pharmacy crime. Someone came up with my superhero name and it stuck. I'm not much of a girl anymore (in my 30s) and it could...

Answers to your burning questions are in the other thread on cold frames. Yes, giant pumpkins are right up my alley (I actually got ducks to I'd have a ready source of poo water for fertilizing), as are getting some darned melons in this climate. I have some "short season" canteloupe this year...

It does have a lot of depth, but the tomatoes grew right up to the top. I had to plant them this weekend, they had outgrown the box. Thankfully the weather was right. You had some questions on the other topic... so... The directions to it were found in Black & Decker Greenhouse and Garden...

Boyfriend built me a self watering container today... I have the top on to heat the soil. Any ideas on what to plant in there? I mostly see tomatoes and peppers in them, but I'm wondering if I could get a good yield of watermelon, pumpkin, squash or cuke. How many plants would you plant in it...

Melons just sprouted and are still in the basement grow box - with artificial lights and heat mats. They'll be in there another 2 weeks maybe, then out to the hoop house. Thanks for the advice.

Boyfriend built me two 4x4 raised beds last year. This year he put a hoop house on one of them. So far it's really doing great, temperature-wise. Today it was up to 129, on a 75-ish and sunny-ish day. I haven't planted anything in it yet, just superheating the soil. I'm thinking of doing my...

I'm late to the topic, but I'm in Maine and using a cold frame for the first time this year. I have to say I'm not using it for what it's SUPPOSED to be used for, but I'll get to that in the fall. I'm using it right now to harden seedlings off and to help them grow. It's a dream. It's still cold...

I got my pumpkins started, earlier this week. It's finally above 40 at night now. I only had 2/4 atlantic giant sprout, and 0/4 of my squash king. I'm kinda devastated over the squash. Oh well, there's always next year. But spring is absolutely in the air here, and I'm finally able to put...

That happened to my peppers last year, I was devastated.

I still haven't started my melons or pumpkins. It's been below 30 at night here. Sigh.

I hear ya there. The dead end road I live off of is pretty similar, the beginning of the road has some very questionable occupants that I do my best to not deal with, the latter half of the road is two pharmacists and an ER doctor. We're the ones growing legal plants and our front yards don't...

I've got about 45 tomato seedlings. I grew some for BFs mom, who only wanted a few seedlings. I need to get rid of some. I'm waiting for CrazyNeighborLady to get back from church before going over there and trying to offload some more seedlings. Then maybe I'll have room in my growbox for my...

Lucky you! We're getting sleet today and tomorrow. I haven't even started my pumpkin seeds (my watermelon ones rotted). I do have pepper and tomato seedlings though. They're looking good but outgrowing the grow box. Had them in a cold frame but it's 47 degrees in there now, not quite pepper...

Mine didn't really have roots. Consequently, it survived the cold nights but got eaten by something (that could get through chicken wire fencing) two days ago. I'm leaving the base in (that was uneaten) in the hopes that it chooses to regrow, yet again.

Perhaps it was the easter bunny?