Your 2025 Garden

[fuzzi]

It's looking better for us to get some rain!

We had 3" of rain on August 12, not another drop until September 16, when we had just over 1/2". It's dry!

 

[R2elk]

 

[R2elk]

Groundswell

 

[jxp]

Groundswell
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That is too red. Must be in the warm glow of sunset.

 

[R2elk]

That is too red. Must be in the warm glow of sunset.

Lighting is everything.

 

[jxp]

Lighting is everything.

As many a wife has known throughout the ages.

 

[NanaK]

I had to water the garden every other day this week. The weather has been very warm.

I was able to get the rest of the sweet potatoes dug. I weighed all the trays. I ended up with
49 lbs of nice size SP and about 3-4 lbs of smaller but usable ones from 5 slips. There were lots of tiny ones I did not harvest. Very satisfied with my first efforts. Now I've got to find somewhere to store a lot of taters. No basements here.

Once planted the SP needed little care and I had no real problems with insects. They do need lots of space. All the vines were added to the compost since I did not see evidence of disease.

Still picking butterbeans. Blanched and froze 4 more quarts this week.
The mustards I seeded are sprouting. That mustard seed was from 2018! The brassicas are showing signs of growth.

Collards
The empty trellis on the right is where the sweet potatoes were growing.

Cabbage Early Jersy Wakefield

Broccoli Gypsy

 

[tripletfeb]

My mom and I picked butternut squash out of my neighbor's garden yesterday. Neighbor had a heart attack and can't use any of her garden anymore so she invited us to pick it. Got a lot of squash, close to 20. Neighbor doesn't want any of it, I even offered to cook it for her and her husband. They plan on moving to North Carolina to be with one of their daughters so they don't want extra food around

 

[LaurenRitz]

The first set of cucumbers is dying, but the second set is in full swing. Same with the melons. A few stubborn melons are holding to the dead vines, but the new batch is working hard.

I'm picking green beans nearly every day. It's enough for fresh eating but not enough to put up, even in the freezer. Next year this will be a major fall crop, assuming I get any seeds from the seed beans I planted in the spring. If I can't keep my own seeds, it won't be part of my staples. I lnow I can keep dry beans, and many of them can double as snap beans.

A few tomatoes are starting to blush. The orange salad (q12) type seems to be finished. Semi-determinate? They all ripened in a period of a few weeks.

Popcorn planted August 1st is filling out but not ready yet. Assuming we don't get an early freeze, I plan to leave these to ripen on the plant. I think I'll do popcorn early and sweet corn late next year, make the plants stay flexible.

 

[R2elk]

I must have dropped a cucumber seed in the Mango tree pot.