My first garden plot!!!

[Moth1992]

Well the peppers are getting the same fungal desease that kills tomatoes here. I dont know what it is, it hits tomatoes mid season and the branches start to die off from the tips. By the end of the season the branches are dead and covered in a mildewy substance that spreads spores everywhere the second you disturb it.

So i might just pull them out.

My bok choi is sprouting and something was nibbling at it. Rude.

Planted a few garlic cloves.

One of my endives rotted and the weirdest thing, it was infested with ants!!!

[bower]

Welcome to season's end, Moth.

[MissS]

You sure had a long run! It's time to start over.

[GoDawgs]

You've had a good run for your first time out. Onward and upward with all the new things you've learned!

Merry Christmas, Moth!

[Moth1992]

If there is one thing ive learned is despite how big the plot felt when I got it, NOW I WANT MORE LAND

[GoDawgs]

It looks like the garden bug has bitten hard. No hope for you now!

[Moth1992]

Winter gardening is weird.

Its been rainy non stop for weeks so ive barely bothered going to the plot. When i go there is inevitably a rotted letuce but the others are happy. Every 3 weeks or so i harvest a big salad or two so not bad.

I harvested my first brocolini. Really nice. But so small.

My arugula decided to bolt.
Even worse, my bok choi seedlings, SEEDLINGS! decided to bolt.
And my garlic are sprouting.
Thats what I get for having a mild climate I guess.

Im not doing bok choi again next winter, what a waste. Guess ill do more brocolini to get at least more than a few florets.

My snap peas keep growing but I only get one pod to snack every few weeks. They also refuse to be contained and told what to do and they are ignoring the trellis and trying to sprawl all over.

I cant wait for tomato season.

[bower]

Winter gardening has its challenges, but I have no doubt you'll figure out what works for you over time.
- Some varieties of lettuce are more tolerant of winter conditions and more resistant to rot. try a different one next time.
- arugula and bok choy are always relatively early bolters, so you have to keep an eye and get them in their prime.
re: bok choy seedlings bolting - this again may be variety specific. Cooler and rainier is not the condition that would normally cause either bok choy or arugula to bolt. But some varieties of bok choy are meant for summer, so they might be triggered by cold.
the usual causes of bolting: too dry; too crowded.

[Julianna]

The bolting was my experience with a winter garden too. Really strange.

[Moth1992]

The bolting was my experience with a winter garden too. Really strange.

Must be our climate. As soon as the sun came out last week everything bolted.

[Julianna]

The bolting was my experience with a winter garden too. Really strange.

Must be our climate. As soon as the sun came out last week everything bolted.
[/qurote]

Yep. I decided to just take a winter break. I think it is that we hover and the plants are triggered into "thinking" they have gone through a few seasons.

[Whwoz]

A lot of the Asian greens are best sown mid to late summer for autumn/fall harvest and will bolt in winter, may well be to do with day length increasing as much as a rise in temperature

[bower]

Well I just had the same thing happen to the bok choy that I put out in the greenhouse!
Temperatures have been close to freezing most of the time, but a few sunny days have actually got up to 60F, at least for a few hours. I was astounded to find that they had shot up their stem and started opening flowers in those paltry few hours of growing temperatures. Not that they weren't also crowded and other reasons to do it, but I thought the cold would keep em still. We are something over 9 hours of daylight still at this point, with the ten hour mark coming around the 10th of february.