Your 2025 Garden

[NanaK]

What's the idea behind trellising the sweet potato?

Just an attempt to maintain some control of the vines. Short trellis so it would not shade other plants.

Sweet potatoes are not harvested here until Sept-Oct. If they grow well they will be a mass of vines. I don't want to have to walk through them all summer when I am picking beans, peppers, etc.

 

[R2elk]

French Breakfast radishes

 

[fuzzi]

From today:

All that harvest went into plastic bags and then in the refrigerator. I blanched and froze 8 bags of beans, and six full quart bags of Summer squash, which was what I had picked Monday and Tuesday. I'll try to get today's picking frozen tomorrow.

I pulled up the first sowing of beans, they'd stopped producing and were becoming a haven for stink bugs.

First canna lily bloom.

 

[R2elk]

The stalk on this one is a full inch in diameter.

 

[Sally PB]

I soaked 12 zucchini seeds (4 each of 3 varieties) in damp paper towels. I check this morning, and they had sprouted, so I planted them today. They got a nice bed of compost to grow in. I watered it well, since mother nature didn't get my memo that I wanted her to do that for me.

 

[fuzzi]

First tomato today, but the stink bugs had already chewed on it. I gave it to the Sussex gals, who greatly appreciated the treat.

Day lily variety #2 is now blooming.

 

[Sally PB]

I love daylilies! I've bought a few fancy colors, but mostly I have the ordinary orange ones. Lots of them!

 

[fuzzi]

I love daylilies! I've bought a few fancy colors, but mostly I have the ordinary orange ones. Lots of them!

That's one color I do not have. My mom had a long border full of orange lilies.

 

[tripletfeb]

I had beautiful day lilies. Until my stupid dog chewed on them and I had to rush him to the emergency vet. Then we covered the lily bed with a tarp to kill them. I was bummed

 

[Sally PB]

The orange daylilies grow "wild" here. You see them all over; beside the road in ditches, in fields, by houses, just clumps and clumps. Sometimes you see yellow ones in with them, but mostly the orange. They turn into a ground cover, of sorts. Unfortunately, deer like to munch on them. We have one area that hubby enclosed with a makeshift fence to protect them.