Open Contest Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

[CatInTheHenHouse]

And here I was being proud of the Tuscany melon plants growing from seeds from 2014 I found in a box I'd packed away.

Oh wow, eleven year old seeds? How are the plants doing? Did you have to do anything special to keep them going? I’ve noticed plants from older seeds tend to be less robust.

 

[GracePoultry]

Entry 1.
Spaghetti squash, radishes, and green beans

 

[jxp]

Oh wow, eleven year old seeds? How are the plants doing? Did you have to do anything special to keep them going? I’ve noticed plants from older seeds tend to be less robust.

Shhh Don't tell the Tuscany they're not supposed to be robust. I think they're trying to crawl back to Italy.
As far as anything special to get them going - nope. I treated them the same as the other varieties.
To be fair, not everything from 2011 came up. I think I found 4-5 different packets of seeds in that box-o-forgotted-stuff and 3 (maybe) sprouted. But don't ask me what all else it was. I've slept since then.

 

[jxp]

After having planted this umpteen years ago, there's finally kiwi on the vine.

 

[Debbie292d]

Anyone without locations in your profile, it's easy to add them if you want to. It is helpful though to us in some threads about insulating coops and stuff like that too.

 

[OnlySympathy]

And here I was being proud of the Tuscany melon plants growing from seeds from 2014 I found in a box I'd packed away.

I have a bunch of seeds from 2014 that I found and couldn’t get anything to sprout (not surprising)

 

[OnlySympathy]

*Not an Entry* Swapped out with another (Post 151).

Entry #2 (I think…)

Corn poppy

 

[CrissyV]

Red Columbine

 

[CrissyV]

Entry #2 the sweetest smell of the “Gardenia”

 

[Love Donkeys]

My entry #1

This is a Confederate Rose, it is in the Hibiscus family. It dies off when frost comes. In the spring it will come back and grow to over 10 feet. The flowers start off White, turns to Pink, then to Red before the flower dies. The Confederate Rose bush will have all three colors of flowers at the same time.
There is a folk story behind the color of the flowers. It is said a young Confederate Soldier, who had been critical wounded, was laying beside a White Hibiscus Rose Bush. As he lay dieing and his blood soaked into the ground the White Rose flower turned Pink, then to Red. When the young man died so did the flower.

This is what the Confederate Rose Bush looks like in the early fall.