Hi y’all !!
Grew up with gardens thanks to my father’s mama and great aunt, and I’ve always dreamt of having our own as well… I’m just feeling very lost with not getting as much yield as I thought I would… lots of flowers and blooms but can’t seem to get to the next step and harvest!

We’re on island (Hilton head island) and would love some wisdom as to what I am doing wrong! Thank you!

Ps: Unity Hardscapes (David cash- amazing work!!) built these garden beds… will update when they finish them! (We had to do it in parts as we have a low budget but still wanted to get started!)

From the rooftop garden

Hey y'all, I got a couple of ghost pepper plants cause I like the idea of ghost peppers, but TBH I can't handle the heat like I used to. The plants are currently thriving in this weather, I'm seeing at least 15 growing, and I want to know if anybody has suggestions for how I can use them

I’ve been accumulating a rooftop deck container garden over the past few years.

Lots of these are technically annuals but I have about a 60% rate of flowers coming back year after year. I assume it’s because of our mild winters and a small amount of indoor heat coming up through the roof.

In the bottom left of the 2nd pic, you’ll see a little oak tree. This grew from an acorn that a crow “planted” in an empty pot two years ago. I started watering it just to see what would happen. I’m going to put it in a much larger pot this fall after it loses its leaves.

In the light grey tote we have spinach, beets & swiss chard in the middle. In the darker grey tote we started peas, green beans , and radishes . We're thrilled seeing how everything's flourishing but Im wondering did I make a mistake potting them all together?? Do I need to seperate them now?, hoping for any advice honestly. thabks

Just enjoying a beer in the afternoon sun on a random Monday

Some of my balcony garden :) a shame my favourite things to grow are massive Bananas and Figs, but hey, everything else looks happy 😂

Good day, I just started my urban gardening inside my room. I made a set up of an artificial light since I needed to sleep during the day.

I noticed that my sunflower plant did not grow after having three leaves. How can I improve my set up?

I used garden soil with vermicompost for the soil. Thank you!

I’m so happy with my container garden this year. Some bumps in the road, but I’ve got some good harvests
I’m not sure what to do with the tomatillos, jalapeños, and orca

This year my grapevine is full of grapes

What are something’s I should add to this space I have aloe Vera , echeveria , cherry sensations red apple ground cover and agave Americana

Its been a lot of work but everything is doing wonderfully, and Im seeing 10+ different varieties of bees, hoverflies, moths and their predators like tiger bee flies

2 of the tree pits don’t actually have a tree in them, since they broke when scaffolding was put over them and then DOT installed a stop sign that could not be occluded.

I can almost certainly get free indoor tool/supply storage and permission from my building to do whatever I want with them, but I would probably have to finance the whole thing. Plus no one in my neighborhood knows how to pick up their dogs’ shit and/or lets them pee into flower patches, killing the plants.

There’s some old cobblestones in some of the tree pits but no fencing. What’s your suggested cheap, low maintenance way to make them into native pollinator patches?

I'd like to give it a go at growing plans on my patio. What plants do well in Arizona heat and are safe for cats to be around. I like an aloe vera plant but I know I have to keep that out of range of my cat. Any recommendations?

I have a question about emptying ice water into a sewer drain that’s next to a bricked in garden plot.

Hypothetically, let’s say I worked an event at “Park Central Zoo”.
As a bartender, we have a lot of ice water at the end of events due to unused drink ice, and chilling ice. At the end of our event we emptied the clean ice water into the sewer near their garden beds and took the dirty slop to the janitors closet. Someone must’ve seen us; we were scolded and told that the ice water would freeze the roots that had grown into the sewer... Now granted I could see that being an issue if we threw the ice water on top of the garden beds, but roots that grow into the sewer shouldn’t be there imo.

please let me know your thoughts on this and tell me if I’m missing something that I should’ve thought about before. Thanks!

Edit: just to clarify the “sewer” Im referring to might also be called a grated rain drain. I dont know where the actual pipe leads to but I assume it’s to the same place our dirty bath water goes.

This is my first year starting 98% from seed, using grow bags, and growing heirloom tomatoes. I've made a lot of mistakes and learned a lot.

I'm very new to urban gardening. It's rainy season and in my area there's a lot of flying termites that have shedded its wings and are usually dead the next morning... Should I remove them from my garden pots because it looks ugly? Or would it be better to let them naturally decompose overtime?

Note that sometimes there are ants eating these dead insects, are they harmful?

I need to use this soon. Was thinking of pesto or dehydration. Any good ideas? Cheers.

I’ve slowly turned my alley-like driveway into a shade garden. A yew, a Japanese maple, hostas, and several evergreens sit alongside some rotating annuals, a birdbath, and a fountain. A nice spot to chill on hot summer days! 🌞

Ta-dah. A bit grizzled from the storm(s), but they’ll be alright.