Richard Rollinson

@richrollgardener@toot.wales
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retired photo lab supervisor, forester, gardener, amateur botanist. I give away vegetables. (except sweetcorn, I never share sweetcorn)
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using iNaturalist as richroll
located in Connecticut, NE US
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone borderline 6b - 7a
All photos are my own unless otherwise stated.
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#horticulture
#botany

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#introduction

Interplanting at its craziest and best—here’s my garden this year! Tomatoes and peppers are flowering, peas are producing and onions are growing fast. #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #VegetableGarden

#Area51 is doing well. Still a lot of weeding to tackle, but the perennial sages, iris and roses are doing well! Happy bees.

#gardening #allotment

@richrollgardener thanks, good tip. I wasn't sure if sweetcorn was OK to plant/heap deeper up rhe stems.
Adding the recipe now that I know it’s good. 🤣
I did brown sugar for the topping because that made more sense to me, and added nutmeg for good measure.
#food
@richrollgardener first time I've tried your multisown method, but my plants aren't looking as good as yours. Been too long in their pots really. I also have babycorn to go out, also in clumps. And I'm considering a second last-minute sweetcorn sowing.

Not a bad day all in all, as ever not quite as much done as hoped... but stuff got done. First beans in toilet-roll-tube "root trainers" at home, some planting in the small home courtyard, and Kat got Swan River Daisies pricked out.

Down at the #allotment I finished securing the greenhouse roof, finished the polytunnel-side greenhouse wall (two walls and a door left!), and got the pallets cleared out of the way on the inside. Burnt some crappy pallet. Strimmed. Cut the crappy old IBC in half (still not sure what to do with this). Cleared the back of the new plot a bit, stacked the IBCs. Kat, meanwhile, did a lot of weeding and cleared woodchip off the back "three sisters bed", we got a layer of municipal compost over it, and have planted sweetcorn and tomatillos into the bed already. 🎉 (Poor corn isn't the happiest.)

Now home, charcoal getting good to go in the BBQ... Barnsley Chops in the fridge. 🤤

I think we're going to be okay for raspberries and strawberries this year.

#garden #gardening

A day of #gardening today. Making a simple willow trellis fence, planting and weeding vegetables and honeysuckle, helping the small person plant her beds, and bringing some seedlings on.
A query for those in the horticulture fam: has rust attacked my oxalis triangularis or is this some other infection? Too much water? Pests? #flowers #plants #bloomscrolling #nature #gardening #garden
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My bell peppers are starting to develop this weird yellowing on the leaves. I'm going to call my Extension Master Gardener tomorrow and see what's going on. They should go into the ground next week.

#gardening

@chgowiz
Might be too much water / not enough soil. Is there a reason not to put them in the ground sooner? They seem plenty large to me and might be after more nitrogen than they're getting.

@TheGreatLlama The soil temp up here is still in the 50s. If I'm reading the seed packet right, they recommend planting at a soil temp of 70.

I've given them a water-based nitrogen feed.

@chgowiz
Yeah, that's a little cool yet, though I'm not afraid to plant once it's in the 60s.

I'm just guessing at it, but over-watering is the most common explanation for yellow pepper leaves.

@chgowiz I'd say more likely over watering first then potentially low on iron.
@EvilJeff Hm. It's a weird yellowing pattern for overwatering from what I'm used to, but it's possible for sure.
@chgowiz Have you over watered peppers before? I know that hot peppers will show a similar sort of yellowing from too much water. Not quite the same but feels reasonable.
@EvilJeff These are my first bell peppers. I've overwatered plenty of other plants! 😭🤣😭 I'm used to the whole leaf going yellow, or several leaves, but this just looked very different.