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.

 

[Sally PB]

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.

Or, maybe the trees are more in tune with their environment than we know.

We moved into this house in the spring after a record-setting cold winter. The next fall, the oak trees had more acorns than I thought trees could produce! Walking on the slope in our front yard was dangerous because it was like walking on marbles.

We have never had that many acorns in the front yard again. We've had a lot, but not that many.

 

[tripletfeb]

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.

Good to know, thanks. Funny enough, my dog ate a whole package of dark chocolate and was fine

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.

Maples heavily drop their helicopters every other year. This year was a bumper crop of helicopters here, too