Your 2025 Garden

[Nomadicus]

Had some rain and some more coming in a few hours.

 

[jxp]

I cheated. It was already on the plant when I bought the plant. It wasn't ripe at that time. I'm amazed that the birds haven't gotten it yet.

Anyone else paint strawberry-sized stones red and scatter them in your strawberry bed as a foil? It's supposed to teach the birds not to peck at things in that area just because they're red. I don't know if it actually works or not.

 

[jxp]

Blackberries are gangbusters right now.

 

[R2elk]

Blackberries are gangbusters right now.

Mine aren't quite that far along.

 

[R2elk]

Planted the cucumbers, Early Pride, Marketmore 97 and Armenian. Also planted an unknown Bell pepper and a King Arthur Bell pepper.

 

[R2elk]

Moved a Lemon Boy tomato and a Northern Exposure tomato into the garden.

Moved 2 Nadia Eggplants into the garden.

Moved the Whopper and Cinderella's Ride pumpkin plants into the garden.

 

[NanaK]

Picked a few more tomatoes. Black Krims this time. Wrapped some beans runners up the trellis. I have some small yellow squash and zucchini forming. Peppers are showing lots of flowers and a few small fruit. So far the sweet potato plants look good.

Something always comes up in the compost bin. This year we have a purple coneflower. After it blooms I will transplant it. They always attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I’ve seen some raspberry plants in my neighborhood but they’re just starting to bloom.

Anyone else paint strawberry-sized stones red and scatter them in your strawberry bed as a foil? It's supposed to teach the birds not to peck at things in that area just because they're red. I don't know if it actually works or not.

I’ve heard of this trick but the strawberry plants never produced, and this year they died over the winter.

I’m trying to grow wild strawberries from seed to replace them, hoping those are hardier!

 

[R2elk]

Weeded the radishes.

 

[jxp]

Something always comes up in the compost bin. This year we have a purple coneflower. After it blooms I will transplant it. They always attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
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And they are a really good medicinal as well.

Is that a potato growing at the base of it?