Your 2025 Garden

[NanaK]

No watering lately. We finally recieved some rain.
Temperatures are cooling. Tonight may be near 40f.

Plants are really filling out now.

Collards

Cabbage

Mustard

Broccoli starting to form.

 

[fuzzi]

I planted late, so my cabbage, turnips, beets, and carrots are still in the early stages of growth. I'm going to put trellises and plastic over them until they get bigger. My collards are getting big, not quite as big as yours.

Did more weeding, gave the results to very happy chickens.

 

[R2elk]

King Arthur bell pepper

Northern Exposure tomato

 

[fuzzi]

Cabbage in the near bed

Found my plastic in the shed!

I'll be placing a cattle panel trellis over the bed and add plastic once we get close to a frost. I did that one year with collards and lettuce, and they grew really well. I only lost the lettuce when it got especially cold outside, below 20F.

 

[R2elk]

 

[NanaK]

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Beautiful!

In your yard...I'm not ready for that!

 

[R2elk]

Beautiful!

In your yard...I'm not ready for that!

Mother Nature has her own agenda and doesn't care whether you are ready or not.

I still need to pull my beets.

 

[NanaK]

Mother Nature has her own agenda and doesn't care whether you are ready or not.

I still need to pull my beets.

Sometimes Mother Nature is sneaky!
We got down to 39f Thursday night. I had to move several potted plants into the house or greenhouse. My plumeria are now in the living room blooming and smelling good.

It's warmer now but have to keep up with the weather. In the garden I have cabbage and broccoli heads forming. A freeze would burn them. I'm hoping I won't have to cover.
Collards will taste best after a frost.

Also trying to integrate some pullets with some older hens. It's been an interesting week!

 

[jxp]

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I'll be seeing that soon enough and I can't wait. We hardly get any here in Brown Flat and when we do it's not the fluffy kind. The brother in beautiful upstate NY is finally getting his back surgery in a few weeks and I'll be there for most of November.

In the meantime, Yogi was in Brother's yard again. Looks like he had a bountiful summer. Ignore the date stamp on the picture, I didn't reset the trailcam when I put it up last spring after the door was ripped off the trash shed. This was captured about a week ago.

To bring this post back to gardening, I didn't have a chance to do much here in the home state. What I did plant the chickens were finally allowed to free range down to sticks since I was gone so much and couldn't tend. My only harvest of note was the melons. OTOH, I got in a lot of planting, weeding, harvesting, and canning in CO and started seeds in NY.