Your 2025 Garden

[Nomadicus]

Ready to mow everything down for 2025. Outside of a few peppers and tomatoes and our chickens I think 2026 will look a lot more like a real retirement.

 

[fuzzi]

Out of town for 5 days, gardens were dying due to heat so I didn't expect much when I returned. However, the tomatoes are still hanging on. I also noticed a couple tiny watermelons, but the sweet potato vines are taking over!

And the weeds...one week's worth.

Before (iris)

Ten minutes later

Most pulled up by hand, we had lots of rain yesterday.

Why I grow parsley:

It is a host plant for Black swallowtail butterflies!

Volunteer morning glories:

 

[R2elk]

King Arthur

 

[jxp]

Why I grow parsley:
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It is a host plant for Black swallowtail butterflies!

Wheni grow dill, I plant extra for the exact same reason.

 

[fuzzi]

Wheni grow dill, I plant extra for the exact same reason.

My dill did not thrive, died. I'm glad the parsley did well.

 

[R2elk]

My dill did not thrive, died. I'm glad the parsley did well.

I don't even plant dill. There is a reason it is named Dill Weed. It comes up as a weed in my garden.

 

[fuzzi]

Not too warm today, with a cool breeze, so I cleaned out the dead plants from some of my raised bed gardens.

Uh oh.

The ends of the bottom two cedar boards were rotted off.

Quick fix

Much better!

Ready to plant.