Your 2025 Garden

[R2elk]

Looks like a Leopard frog. We have the southern variety here.
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I have 2 different colors here.

 

[fuzzi]

I have 2 different colors here.
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I believe bright green is male.

I feel sad when they get caught by snakes or cats or some other predator.

 

[R2elk]

I believe bright green is male.

I feel sad when they get caught by snakes or cats or some other predator.

The green one showed up here this spring about one third of its current size.

The others have been here for years and reproducing with no problems.

 

[fuzzi]

Well, I stand corrected. They can be green or brown.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/northern-leopard-frog.htm

 

[Sally PB]

I was hoping to dehydrate some cherry tomatoes. I picked all that were on one plant in the tomato garden. They are yellow, sweeeeeet! and the skin isn't too thick.

The 6 plants in the other garden? Watery, not very sweet, and the skin feels thicker when you bite it. Both places got Tomato-Tone and gypsum, and of the two, I would have thought the soil where the 6 plants are was better. But what do I know?

So I'm not going to bother dehydrating the small bowlful I got. It's too bad, because 3 of the 6 plants are LOADED!!!

 

[tripletfeb]

I was hoping to dehydrate some cherry tomatoes. I picked all that were on one plant in the tomato garden. They are yellow, sweeeeeet! and the skin isn't too thick.

The 6 plants in the other garden? Watery, not very sweet, and the skin feels thicker when you bite it. Both places got Tomato-Tone and gypsum, and of the two, I would have thought the soil where the 6 plants are was better. But what do I know?

So I'm not going to bother dehydrating the small bowlful I got. It's too bad, because 3 of the 6 plants are LOADED!!!

Try fermenting them with basil and garlic. A few cloves of garlic, and a few basil leaves can turn those tomatoes in a delicious treat

 

[jxp]

I need to figure out how to get rhubarb through the summer. It makes it through the winter, then dies.

I've an idea. Make friends with someone in a cooler climate. Problem solved.