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.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Strange yr, starting to wrap it up.

 

[R2elk]

Super Sauce
1 lb. 9 oz.

 

[NanaK]

I went to the garden this morning it was starting to drizzle light rain. Working quickly I picked 5 more pumpkins, 6 butternut squash, cucumbers and 2 watermelons. The rain stopped so I dead headed the zinnias and some of the marigolds.
I was about to cut some zinnias to take to the house and pick some butterbeans. Big drops started coming down.
Uh oh, better hurry! Too late! It was coming down in buckets! Jumped on the golf cart and went speeding to the house.

I was soaked. Couldn't help but laugh.

For the record they said showers after noon. It was only 10am. I think they missed it.