Open Contest Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

[Chold05]

Entry #2

Basket of veggies from the garden

 

[Chold05]

Entry #3

50lbs of butternut squash, 40lbs of beets, and 89lbs of watermelon plus some tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini

 

[Chold05]

Entry#4

view of the garden

 

[CCsGarden]

Entry#4

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What do you have growing? Lovely!

 

[Debbie292d]

Not an entry but showing how our hens love our Pomegranates
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Wow! We can't grow those up here, but the way they devoured that, next time I see them on sale in the store, I'm going to get a couple! Amazing!

 

[Sylvester017]

Wow! We can't grow those up here, but the way they devoured that, next time I see them on sale in the store, I'm going to get a couple! Amazing!

Pomegranates are $1.50 to $3 each if/when we can find a store that stocks them; however, they are smaller than our home-grown Poms & the store Poms spoil rapidly & get dried out & hard. We leave our Poms on our trees to pick one fresh daily for the hens (& myself).

We planted 3 Pom varieties for their shade value, wild birds, ants, or rats can't penetrate the tough skin of the fruit so no fruit pests, & Poms have high value for kidney/pancreas health so I figure good for hens too. Plus the leaves are non toxic for chickens if they want to chew some. (They don't chew the bitter Lemon or Grapefruit leaves but they like Pom leaves).

My DS lives next to Joshua Tree National Forest over the hill from Palm Springs desert but he gets snow in winter. He says both Joshua cacti & Pomegranate trees are everywhere in his community & says owners tent their Poms in freezing temps.

One of DS's snow days w/Joshua trees & their cars covered in snow.

 

[CabritaChicks]

Entry # 1

Passionfruit (Passiflora foetida) is a tropical vine known for its striking flowers and aromatic, tiny round fruits the size of a marble. The ripe fruit has a distinctive, somewhat pungent scent- almost like a rotten orange — a mix of sweet, musky, and slightly fermented notes — that many describe as “stinky,” yet alluring. However the leaves smell like manure and can be toxic. This intense aroma helps attract pollinators in the wild, ensuring the plant’s reproduction. It is a favorite among the iguanas.

Here you can see a carpenter bee: usually 1.5 inch long (you heard me right- in fact, you can hear them from far away due to their size as they flap their wings, quite scary to most). Unlike social bees, they nest alone, boring perfectly round holes into wood to create tunnels where they lay their eggs. Females can sting, however males, who often hover and guard territories by dive bombing you, can’t sting at all.

Because of the toxicity, and proximity to the new coop, I ripped it all out of the area, and spent the day getting dive bombed by carpenter bees! ... but dont worry, I harvested the fruit, and there is plenty more on the opposite side of the property

 

[mararva]

entry #1
growing tomatoes

 

[mararva]

entry #2
echinacea with green bee

 

[Chold05]

What do you have growing? Lovely!

Thank you! We have alot growing!…

Herbs, broccoli, broccolini, cauliflower, a few types of squash, tomatoes, watermelon, beets, strawberries, asparagus, artichokes, beans, potatoes, cabbage, kale, lettuce, corn, Brussel sprouts, edible flowers. And I think that’s about it!