Your 2025 Garden

The potatoes are laying down.
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The Naked Bear pumpkins.
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I think I am finished canning tomatoes. Still getting some nice ones. The rest will be for eating and sharing.
Lots of bees in the cucumber plants. Hoping for enough cukes to make a few batches of Bread and Butter pickles.
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Sweet Potato Plants
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Butter beans are setting pods.
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My Agapanthus is blooming and some phlox.
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I'm afraid I'll have to live vicariously this year. My largest tomato is a skinny stick less than 2 feet tall, peppers are stunted. Beans are producing but the largest is maybe 8 inches tall. Corn tasseled at 2-3 feet.

I think most of it has been caused by saturated clay soil, and the rest by high winds.
If it’s any consolation my peppers aren’t doing great either - shedding leaves and blossoms and generally looking sickly. I think it’s too cold. I’m seriously considering moving their planter inside under a grow light.
 
I think I am finished canning tomatoes.
How many quarts did you can?

We're still waiting for the first ripe tomato! I have to confess, one yellow cherry tom was fairly yellow. Ok, it was a yellow blush over green. I picked it, ate it. Not sweet yet, still a bit crunchy, but it sure did make me smile!
 
Harvested peaches 🍑 yesterday. I gathered 13. 6 more were on the ground from a torrential downpour we'd had (1.08" in under an hour - thank goodness nothing like what those poor souls in Texas suffered) and I left 2 small ones to see if they'd grow any bigger without competition. Of the ones I brought in some were ripe and some were about to be ripe. Since the birds had pecked at 3 of them, I figured I'd better gather in as many as I did. All in all not bad for a second year tree.

I went out to gather plums today. One would think from as loaded as the flowers were this spring, I'd have a pretty good harvest. When I checked their growth a month ago before my trip to Colorado, I was surprised to find only about a dozen fruit ripening. Today, there was but one small plum in the tree. None were on the ground, not even a trace so I suspect squirrels. The one I did get was firm yet soft so even though it had been pecked at, I rinsed it and cut that part away so I could taste it (another second year tree). I'm giving 👍👍 to my AuRosa plum.

Bonus cuteness, some small bird is building a nest in the very center of the plum where I top- pruned it last winter.
 
I've read good things about shade cloth so today I shaded the raised beds. Between moving the coop to the west of where the chickens usually hang out and the fruit trees are getting big enough that they won't miss the cloth. Anyone else do this? How'd it work for you?

Also, this is my first year growing potatoes in grow bags. If any of y'all have done this, when do you stop adding soil? Some of the bags are 50 lb feed sacks. I'm pretty sure that'd be too deep if I unrolled and added all the way up in those.
 
How many quarts did you can?

We're still waiting for the first ripe tomato! I have to confess, one yellow cherry tom was fairly yellow. Ok, it was a yellow blush over green. I picked it, ate it. Not sweet yet, still a bit crunchy, but it sure did make me smile!
I think I have at least 60+ quarts and pints. Glad those are done.
Yesterday I picked quite a few more. Some of these I will add to my egg packages I sent to my FIL and an aunt. They will probably get some yellow squash and zucchini too. Both are in their 80's and do not garden anymore. They have already asked "when will you plant the collards and mustard?" 🤣

Those first tomatoes are always a treat! Wishing you many, many more!
 

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