Your 2025 Garden

[R2elk]

27⁰F - 26°F this morning.

 

[Sally PB]

My frost indicator will be the buckwheat that reseeded. It's about 2-3 inches tall. Thursday morning, I'm betting it'll be flat on the dirt.

 

[R2elk]

Purple Dragon carrot on Big Moose pumpkin

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

How do the Purple Dragons taste? I never seem to have any luck with anything but orange.

 

[R2elk]

How do the Purple Dragons taste? I never seem to have any luck with anything but orange.

They are okay and will turn anything you cook them in purple.

Purple Dragon are sweet. The yellow ones are mild.

 

[R2elk]

Polar Bear pumpkins

 

[fuzzi]

Carrots are up!

Swiss chard

Turnips and greens...I've been eating those this past week or so.

Peas almost ready!

 

[NanaK]

Butterbeans are still producing. I also have a bunch of dried beans for eating and saving for next year's seed.

I dug the volunteer Red Norland potatoes.

Annual Vinca I started from saved seed last winter. They have grown and bloomed in the yard all summer with very little water. They love heat. Bonus: the deer do not eat them!
I collected seed to use next year. They are a hybrid but seem to come back true in color and growth habit which is good enough for me.

 

[R2elk]

I collected seed to use next year. They are a hybrid but seem to come back true in color and growth habit which is good enough for me.

Not all vendors are honest about whether the seeds they sell are hybrid or open pollinated.

The Gold Nugget tomatoes I grow are open pollinated and I do save the seeds. I have seen them listed as an F1 hybrid on quite a few sites and as open pollinated on trustworthy sites.

They do this to try to convince people that they have to buy the seeds to get the right results.

 

[NanaK]

Not all vendors are honest about whether the seeds they sell are hybrid or open pollinated.

The Gold Nugget tomatoes I grow are open pollinated and I do save the seeds. I have seen them listed as an F1 hybrid on quite a few sites and as open pollinated on trustworthy sites.

They do this to try to convince people that they have to buy the seeds to get the right results.

I believe this. Sneaky way to do business.

The vegetable seed I save currently are all OP.
In the past I have saved a few hybrid tomatoes. Most seemed the same exept for one. It appeared to get smaller fruit after a couple years. I eventually found other types we liked better so I scrapped it.

The hybrid flower seeds I've saved don't seem to change much if at all. Mostly vinca, violas and petunias all seem true to type.

This year I saved Big Beef tomato seeds. I haven't decided if I will grow them out. I am mainly curious if they will keep their nematode resistance.
Their flavor alone is a bit sweeter than I like but mixed with the Black Krims when canned makes a great combination to cook with. I made a vegetable soup yesterday with garden vegs and a quart of these tomatoes. It is really tasty.