Your 2025 Garden

[LaurenRitz]

I have no idea where she got them

Good reason to save seeds!

 

[R2elk]

Picked cucumbers

Made cucumber, tomato salad.

 

[Sally PB]

I think I have a cucumber waiting for me. Tomatoes are just starting. I have 3 on the counter, and I think they'll be ready tomorrow. I've been getting a cucamelon or 3 a day now. Soon it'll be dozens.

I pulled up the snap peas, cleaned up the bed, and planted buckwheat there as a cover crop. I'll leave it and let the frost take it down in a few months. Same with the garlic and multiplier onion beds.

 

[NanaK]

Picked another watermelon, 4 canteloupe, cucumbers, a few tomatoes and lots more yellow squash and zucchini yesterday. It would be ok if the squash slowed down now.

We are in another bad spell with heat. It is like an oven outside. Yesterday was in the mid-90s and the heat index reached 109. Hopeful for a brake in this by mid week. I've been watching my chickens closely. Yesterday they got some chilled watermelon rind. DH is a softy. He left some of the red attached. They love it! They only leave the skin.

 

[NanaK]

Made cucumber, tomato salad.

I made this last night along with chilled steam shrimp and home grown potatoes. Made a nice meal on a hot summer night.

 

[Sally PB]

A friend planted hundreds of pine tree to sell as Christmas trees in a few years. Many/most of them died in our hot spell a couple weeks ago. We're going to get another hot spell this coming week.

 

[fuzzi]

Picked another watermelon, 4 canteloupe, cucumbers, a few tomatoes and lots more yellow squash and zucchini yesterday. It would be ok if the squash slowed down now.

We are in another bad spell with heat. It is like an oven outside. Yesterday was in the mid-90s and the heat index reached 109. Hopeful for a brake in this by mid week. I've been watching my chickens closely. Yesterday they got some chilled watermelon rind. DH is a softy. He left some of the red attached. They love it! They only leave the skin.

All my Summer squash succumbed to SVB, but the Zapalitto del Tronco is still going. I've been cutting up some of the bigger fruits and feeding them to the chickens. Within a day all that remains is the hard rind.

 

[NanaK]

All my Summer squash succumbed to SVB, but the Zapalitto del Tronco is still going.

I have not tried Zapalitto del Tronco. Good to know!

SVB usually get my summer squash by now. So far they are going strong. Would not surprise me if any day now I find the plants looking deflated. I have killed several SVB and destroyed eggs.

I have found they don't seem to bother the winter squash I've grown so far. I grew butternut last year with no problems. Planted it again this year. It is has lots of fruit and many are almost ripe. Last year I roasted a couple in the oven and used them to make a faux pumpkin pie. It was tasty. The chickens loved them raw or cooked.
As long as they are fully ripe they keep a long time. I'll probably keep trying to grow a few of these each year.

 

[tripletfeb]

Good reason to save seeds!

Not every seed can be saved. Hybrid plants won't come up and be the same as the parent plant. I realize that the black cherry tomato is an heirloom

 

[OnlySympathy]

somehow this is the first time I’ve grown jalapeños