Your 2025 Garden

[fuzzi]

The wild ones I had growing here were tiny tart ones. About the only value they had was as an ornamental for their blossoms.

We have wild strawberries here, but they're small. I feed them to my flock, who go crazy over the treat!

 

[jxp]

We have wild strawberries here, but they're small. I feed them to my flock, who go crazy over the treat!

Most wild strawberries are tiny. Like I mentioned, if you find one the size of a marble you've found a large one . Have you tasted your local variety? You're within the native habitat for Fragaria Virginiana - you might find a sweet surprise.

 

[fuzzi]

Most wild strawberries are tiny. Like I mentioned, if you find one the size of a marble you've found a large one . Have you tasted your local variety? You're within the native habitat for Fragaria Virginiana - you might find a sweet surprise.

Apparently they're not real strawberries, their flowers are yellow.

https://strawberryplants.org/strawberry-plants-with-yellow-flowers/

 

[NanaK]

Most wild strawberries are tiny. Like I mentioned, if you find one the size of a marble you've found a large one . Have you tasted your local variety? You're within the native habitat for Fragaria Virginiana - you might find a sweet surprise.

We have these. I often see the deer and rabbits in the area that they grow. I think the berries are what they are after.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Apparently they're not real strawberries, their flowers are yellow.

https://strawberryplants.org/strawberry-plants-with-yellow-flowers/

My area has both these and wild strawberries, they keep invading the lawn. It’s why I experimented with seed harvesting; with the plants getting mowed I never get any.

 

[R2elk]

If you prune out "suckers" from the elbow of tomato plants you can put them in water and in a couple days they will have roots and you will free new plants!

Took about a week before any roots developed.

 

[Sally PB]

Do you use rooting hormone? Will that help?

 

[R2elk]

Do you use rooting hormone? Will that help?

I don't use it on tomatoes, willows or cottonwoods.

It may or may not help on other things. I do use a gel rooting compound on zygocactus and it works wonderfully.

 

[R2elk]

Gold Nugget tomatoes

 

[NanaK]

It's been a busy week. Cabbage is planted. Potatoes are sprouting.

Something is jumping in and digging in the potato row. It looks like chicken dust bathing holes. I sat crates in the row and it dug beside the crates. May set a live trap. I'm thinking maybe a cat or squirrel??? My chickens are in a covered run.
Oops I got my finger.

My sweet peas are blooming.

Bees were all over the collards blooms.

Black Krim and Big Beef tomatoes are ready for planting out. We have a possible frost coming mid week after having 90 degree temps for several days. Hoping it will be the last frost.