A gardening thread

My greenhouse is soon finished! I can't wait! I bought a new composter today too. Getting busy in the garden

Dont be rude dude, just offer them a beer, be friends with each other! Plus the snails will drown themselves to beer.

Funny, all I catch is snails. Sugary traps work for ants and wasps but I didnt know they go for beer as well.

I would think that the wasps would fly away, a bit tipsy but happy For me the wasps are problem only late in the summer when the nests have broken down and workers have nothing to do anymore but wait for the winter to kill them.

...and now to the latest in anti-slug warfare  courtesy of reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/6g1hoc/as_per_request_making_the_9volt_electric/

The wind picked up a plastic board and smashed it upon one of my most holy chili plants, resulting in a broken branch. Then an idea popped into my head, what if I braced it somehow to prevent the branch from certain death? Took a drinking straw, cut it in pieces and sliced the pieces vertically. Put them over the bent part of the limb.
Worked pretty good, like bracing a broken arm with a  cast.  I hope the little branch survives, it carries a lot of blossoms and thus potential fruits. Time will tell.

My Chili plantage is also going nicely, the weather is great.

Jalapenòs



The pride of my plantage, one of the hottest but also tastiest in the world, the Trinidad Scoprion: 



Caribbean sunset chili: 



Jumbo Paprika:



My pumpkin patch:

Great looking pepper harvest GABeetle.

My raspberries are starting to ripen enough to eat. I better get picking them. Pears are growing, tomatoes are forming nicely. Potato plants growing like crazy. I am having to water more than normal though as it has been very dry and hit here since early spring.

A storm of epic proportions destroyed basically all my plants in my garden, I could only save the chili. First the power went out, I had no idea what was going on, 5 minutes later in an instant all hell broke lose, and I mean hell. Several trees snapped, all plants got shot to death by hail, rain so thick you could not see anything but a gray wall limbs and torn off leafs everywhere. I've experienced some storms in my life but this was several magnitudes worse than anything I've ever seen. I have to check the roof for damage.

I hope so, I'll see if I can patch up some plants and save them from death. The weird thing is, we have an excellent weather forecast and they said the weather would be calm and nice. Now this. And they haven't mentioned it in the news / forecast at all now. 

But the weather is getting more extreme every year, just a couple of days ago we had a tornado and they're getting more frequent every year. Also bad droughts. Crazy. 

Thank you. The funny thing is, it was just a single cloud no wider than 300 meters that carved a path of destruction and chaos through the landscape.
My place happened to be in its path. Just 150 meters from where I live flora and fauna remained unscathed but inside this 300 meters wide lane of death trees snapped and hail ruined a ton of plants. A lot like a hurricane. 

Fortunately a lot of plants survived, I gave first aid to my potato plants which were all bent to hell, I straightened up every single plant with earth and 90% recovered, despite substantial damage to the leaves. My neighbors didn't do that and their potato plants all died. 
Same with my giant zucchini, despite severe damage it is still alive and already producing new leaves.   Guess life finds a way, LOL.