Your 2025 Garden

[R2elk]

Melons are blooming, unfortunately all are male blossoms.

 

[Sally PB]

I think I have a pollinated butternut squash blossom! I don't think I've ever had one this early. Last time I grew b-nut, I don't think we got female blossoms until the middle of August, and got zero squash.

I pruned the tomatoes today and cut the last of the garlic scapes. I also picked a small bowl of snap peas, which I gave to the neighbor.

 

[jxp]

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.

'Round here these are called "ditch lilies".

 

[jxp]

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

When one of mine gets into something verboten, they get a "treat" of equal parts peanut butter and peroxide. They gobble it down because of the peanut butter - which most dogs do love eating. A few minutes later the stomach evacuates its contents from the peroxide (so be sure the pup is outside). Then you just keep an eye on them for a while.
I first learned this from my vet during an after hours phone call while on a road trip a few states away when Elijah was 3 or 4 months old and decided to eat some dark chocolate when we stopped for a break.
Just sharing something that might help somebody someday.

 

[jxp]

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.

It's pecans that are planted and forgotten by the furry-tailed rats in my garden.

The neighbor's maple that overhangs the fence and was half-again taller than my house 25 years ago may be coming to the end of its life. It has dropped more helicopters this year than I can ever remember.