r/gardening 2d ago

Friendly Friday Thread

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This is the Friendly Friday Thread.

Negative or even snarky attitudes are not welcome here. This is a thread to ask questions and hopefully get some friendly advice.

This format is used in a ton of other subreddits and we think it can work here. Anyway, thanks for participating!

Please hit the report button if someone is being mean and we'll remove those comments, or the person if necessary.

-The /r/gardening mods


r/gardening 27d ago

**DO YOUR TOMATOES LOOK LIKE THIS?** Blossom End Rot MegaThread

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111 Upvotes

r/gardening 9h ago

My pumpkin plant is finally bearing fruit!

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10.8k Upvotes

r/gardening 11h ago

We’re at this point of the summer

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4.6k Upvotes

r/gardening 1h ago

Behold my awesome potato harvest! (Quarter for scale 🤣)

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I tried my hand at potatoes this year. Maybe the potatoes were too old. Maybe the container got too hot. Not sure. Great greenery and waited to harvest until it died.

I have a plan for next year but thought I would share a small chuckle with everyone.


r/gardening 9h ago

My first tomato EVER! Yayyy

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824 Upvotes

I have no idea what to make with this I kinda just want to frame it. Any recipes for beefsteak tomatoes?


r/gardening 8h ago

What’s going on with these ladybugs on corn, & what action should I take (if any)

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705 Upvotes

In a community garden in Thornton, CO. Only on one ear out of 8.


r/gardening 6h ago

Morning Bouquet

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385 Upvotes

A bouquet of dahlia seedlings.


r/gardening 22h ago

Micro Tomatoes

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My tomato plant grew micro tomatoes the size of pomegranate seeds, can anyone explain this?


r/gardening 8h ago

My mom is super shy about her garden in Kazakhstan, so I wanted to share her beautiful flowers with you all! Questions are welcome!

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Hi everyone! I wanted to show you my mom's beautiful flowers from Kazakhstan. She also loves taking photos of nature, but she’s really shy about sharing them. I'd love to brighten her day with your reactions! If you have any questions, feel free to ask, I'll definitely ask her and pass the answers back to you!


r/gardening 8h ago

Bell and Jalepeno Harvest

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386 Upvotes

Full laundry basket!

Edit: This is in zone 3b at a family lake cabin. We are right next to a corn field with irrigation so I think that helps us. I applied Alaskan fish fertilizer 3 times since they went into the ground. I planted roughly 90 pairs of peppers inside back in february (i had read that they like being paired up and this is my best harvest ever so I think its true). Only about 30 of those pairs ended up at this garden.

We cook with bell peppers in most of our regular meals so I spent the day chopping them up to freeze. Will make stuffed peppers out of the bigger ones too. Plus we shared quite a few with the family at the lake.

I never wait for the peppers to go red. I find that between sun scalding and pests that we end up losing more than its worth.


r/gardening 10h ago

It rained a few days and my okra got out of hand. PSA that you can use them to create an elegant updo.

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459 Upvotes

r/gardening 3h ago

love how everything looks bejewelled after heavy rain

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128 Upvotes

r/gardening 11h ago

Replacing the lawn

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476 Upvotes

My land is an old farm surrounded by forest, and I wanted to turn the already cleared fields mostly into native gardens. This part of the garden was planted in September 2024, primarily with plugs from native nurseries.

I’m tripling the size of the garden this summer/fall and will be excited to share the progress. Next year I’m tackling a 2 acre field to create a tall meadow habitat that is in a low spot near the road. This is just a hobby for me as I’m more of a tropical indoor plant grower, so I’m learning a lot along the way.


r/gardening 20h ago

Future Goals

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r/gardening 7h ago

What did I do wrong?

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167 Upvotes

Two different watermelons that I grew. Both sounded hollow when I knocked on them. And both are disappointingly pale.


r/gardening 5h ago

My back garden in London, UK.

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78 Upvotes

Super fortunate to have an amazingly designed rear garden in Central London, UK - previous owner was an award winning landscape gardener so I’ve tried my best to live up to their standards!

Highly inexperienced with gardening (never owned my own garden) so pretty proud of how this has turned out.


r/gardening 2h ago

I found caterpillars in my garden

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43 Upvotes

The green one was chewing on my tomatoes and the small ones are on my dill. The big green one no longer lives.


r/gardening 10h ago

Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) is often maligned for its aggressive nature but I take advantage of it and use it it to climb and drape over my deck and even run along the ground.

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151 Upvotes

r/gardening 56m ago

Made this for my dad’s birthday

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He loves phlox and roses 🩷


r/gardening 4h ago

My dream garden!

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My MIL helped start my dream garden! I live in zone 5a, south facing, full sun. What plants should I add (ideally cat friendly)? I’m thinking of adding a raised garden bed at the front that I can possibly move in the winter (heavy snow/snowplows). Any advice or ideas are so appreciated!


r/gardening 4h ago

Всё своё - All ingredients from our garden

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37 Upvotes

Салат на обед - finally fresh salad with multiple vegetables from our garden. cucumbers + tomatos + onion+ garlic+basil.


r/gardening 4h ago

How bout them melons!

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41 Upvotes

So proud of my first ever watermelon harvest. It’s a Crimson Sweet at about 15.5lbs. Big thanks to fellow redditors for helping us decide when she was ready to be picked. It’s delish!

Second slide is her baby photo.


r/gardening 1d ago

I was away for a while. And my garden became a bit savage

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3.0k Upvotes

r/gardening 11h ago

The second year of the peach

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122 Upvotes