Your 2025 Garden

[Sally PB]

I am giving up on growing collards in my garden. They haven't done well, and by the time they get any size at all, something comes along and eats them down to the rib. I might try some in the greenhouse this fall or next spring.

 

[LaurenRitz]

I am giving up on growing collards in my garden. They haven't done well, and by the time they get any size at all, something comes along and eats them down to the rib. I might try some in the greenhouse this fall or next spring.

See if you can get some to overwinter. The root in the spring should be more than strong enough to throw off the pests and come back.

 

[Sally PB]

See if you can get some to overwinter. The root in the spring should be more than strong enough to throw off the pests and come back.

Do you mean the gnawed on plants, or to plant some seeds now? My first frost can be anywhere from mid-September to mid-October.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Do you mean the gnawed on plants, or to plant some seeds now? My first frost can be anywhere from mid-September to mid-October.

Your choice. I tend to keep plants that have been attacked and recovered, but starting new is helpful in other ways.

I had one plant that survived five winters in northern Utah, and its descendants were running 1-4 years when I left.

 

[jxp]

There is way too much advice about what to add to your soil that will supposedly help.

Before you add anything, have your soil checked at least for pH.

It doesn't help to add what your soil already has in sufficient amounts and may make things worse.

https://www.birdsandblooms.com/gardening/gardening-basics/epsom-salt-garden

https://www.almanac.com/plant/cantaloupes

https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/downloads/z316q1857?locale=en

 

[R2elk]

Picked tomatoes

 

[R2elk]

Super Sauce
1lb. 4 oz.

1 lb. 6 oz.

 

[NanaK]

This morning I pulled 2 zucchini and pruned the yellow squash. This gives the sweet potato vines more room.
Picked some butterbeans.

A few of the pie pumpkins were ready.

Butternut squash

 

[NanaK]

This is a volunteer watermelon. I had not checked on it lately. I looked at it today and it is a Sugar Baby. Must have been a seed from last year. There are 4 melons on this vine.
Accidental produce. I'll take it!

 

[R2elk]

Two Early Pride and one Armenian cucumbers.