Your 2025 Garden

[R2elk]

33°F this morning. Frost on the grass on the north side of the garden but not in the garden.

 

[jxp]

Going to try an experiment today along the lines of "Waste Not, Want Not". We have been harvesting a butter stem broccoli and the leaves and their stems seems to be very tender. Going to cook some leaves like greens today with stems in the mix. Nothing to lose and everything to gain for the freezer.

Well?

 

[Nomadicus]

Well?

Acceptable. Would be better if half and half mustard and broccoli in the pot with a ham hock.

 

[NanaK]

Dug some garlic yesterday.

 

[jxp]

Acceptable. Would be better if half and half mustard and broccoli in the pot with a ham hock.

I'll be right over. Pass the vinegar and pepper.

 

[jxp]

Dug some garlic yesterday.
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They look tasty. Color me jelly. The garlic I planted last fall - along with everything else in the greenhouse - got destroyed while I was in NY. When the gales took so many panels off, the hens decided to free range anything that was still green. That is everything that hadn't already succumbed when the heater in there gave out in January the day before it got a bit nippy down in the single digits.

 

[NanaK]

They look tasty. Color me jelly. The garlic I planted last fall - along with everything else in the greenhouse - got destroyed while I was in NY. When the gales took so many panels off, the hens decided to free range anything that was still green. That is everything that hadn't already succumbed when the heater in there gave out in January the day before it got a bit nippy down in the single digits.

Thanks! Sorry about your garlic.

I'm happy mine did not rot with all the rain.
I can't say the same for the green beans. I might have to replant. They did not like all the water.
Gardeners are always at the mercy of the weather.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm not sure we will even get green beans planted this year. Cutworms got a lot of our tomato plants. Glad I planted twice as many as needed.

 

[fuzzi]

Beans (I'm freezing most so far)

Baby squash!

Plum tomatoes

Last of the turnips need to be pulled.

Second sowing of peas is spent, will be pulling the vines and shelling the pods, probably tonight.

Happy day!

That's a Monarch butterfly caterpillar!

 

[NanaK]

I found a tomato starting to show color while working in the garden yesterday.

The rest of the peas are shelled in the refrigerator. Plants have been pulled. When I get this bed cleaned up I will plant pickling cucumbers.

@fuzzi I estimated the length of my pea trellis wrong. It is only 12 ft not the 16-18 ft I mentioned. I have ended up with a total of 3 gallons of shelled peas.
I think the trellis seems longer when I am picking!