Your 2025 Garden

[NanaK]

I love daylilies too! They come in so many colors and take such little care. The deer do love them. I moved several clumps around the back deck hoping they would be safe. Worked well for a couple years but this year not so much.

Yesterday in the garden I found a couple japanese beetles. I'll be keeping a check on the bean foliage and my hibiscus. The beetles can really wreck the leaves.

 

[R2elk]

Yesterday in the garden I found a couple Japanese beetles. I'll be keeping a check on the bean foliage and my hibiscus. The beetles can really wreck the leaves.

One thing I love about here, there are no Japanese beetles.

 

[NanaK]

One thing I love about here, there are no Japanese beetles.

You are fortunate. Some years here they are not so bad and some there are so many. I've seen greenbean and hibiscus foliage look like lace they eat them so bad.

I would think you would have less fungal disease in the garden as well. It is hot and humid here. I've already had to prune the tomatoes because of leaf spots. I have one plant I may pull early. I don't like the way it is looking. Nothing seems to stop it. I just try to slow it down.

 

[tripletfeb]

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.

We have them all over here, too. And those beautiful purple and white flowers. Have no idea what they are but they are so pretty

 

[R2elk]

Picked the ripe tomatoes from it and moved a Northern Exposure to the garden.

 

[R2elk]

Found this in the garden.

Oak tree seedling

 

[Sally PB]

Oak tree seedling

I find those and walnut seedlings too. I think a squirrel planted them.

They get pulled up. We have plenty of both in our woods. They can stay there.

 

[R2elk]

I find those and walnut seedlings too. I think a squirrel planted them.

They get pulled up. We have plenty of both in our woods. They can stay there.

I will let it grow for this year and probably transplant it after it goes dormant.

I have tried to grow walnuts here but never got any to live more than 3 or 4 years. They do have some growing in town where it is more protected.

You definitely don't want walnut trees in the garden. The juglone they produce is toxic to your garden plants.

 

[Sally PB]

You definitely don't want walnut trees in the garden. The juglone they produce is toxic to your garden plants.

I can't convince hubby to cut down the one that is about 30-40 feet from the edge of the garden.

 

[R2elk]

I can't convince hubby to cut down the one that is about 30-40 feet from the edge of the garden.

I wouldn't cut it down either but I would not put the leaves in the garden.