Your 2026 Garden

[Debbie292d]

As a side note, does anyone know how much I should worry about potato/tomato plants after the growing season? I understand removing the plants before letting the tiny raptors loose but if they find a loose leaf, is that a huge issue?

In all my years, I've never heard of a chicken getting sick on tomato leaves. They are from the nightshade family, so they could make them sick, but our chickens don't eat them, or if they do and I miss it, they don't get sick from them.

 

[Noodler]

Anyone have any thoughts on these weird eggs I found on the side of one of my garden beds?
I'm tempted to say crush them and clean it off but my brother thinks we should hold off in case they're something beneficial.

 

[fuzzi]

Anyone have any thoughts on these weird eggs I found on the side of one of my garden beds?
I'm tempted to say crush them and clean it off but my brother thinks we should hold off in case they're something beneficial.

I uploaded that photo to iNaturalist. Every ID suggestion was a pest.

Personal experience: large clusters of eggs tend to be parasites, pests. Beneficial insects generally don't lay huge quantities of eggs. Just my experience.

 

[Sally PB]

My thoughts on the egg masses. I would guess they would be bad bugs, something I wouldn't want in the garden, especially in that amount. If I found them, I'd scrape them off into some kind of burnable container and probably throw it in the burn barrel.

Maybe as an experiment, put a small clump into a jar and see what hatches out.

@Noodler, where are you located? You can add that information to your profile. Just the state, if you're in the US, or country if you're not, would be sufficient.

 

[Noodler]

I uploaded that photo to iNaturalist. Every ID suggestion was a pest.

Personal experience: large clusters of eggs tend to be parasites, pests. Beneficial insects generally don't lay huge quantities of eggs. Just my experience.

My thoughts on the egg masses. I would guess they would be bad bugs, something I wouldn't want in the garden, especially in that amount. If I found them, I'd scrape them off into some kind of burnable container and probably throw it in the burn barrel.

Maybe as an experiment, put a small clump into a jar and see what hatches out.

@Noodler, where are you located? You can add that information to your profile. Just the state, if you're in the US, or country if you're not, would be sufficient.

Got it. Marked for destruction.
Also I'm in Washington state

 

[Echelontheory101]

I was flipping through these last night, (the veggie one is way better)

and after reading the page about black currants I remembered how tasty they are and how long it's been since I've had some so I went to Burpee website to look for crowns to grow this year and just discovered that black currants are illegal in my state and apparently in a bunch of other states you have to get a special permit from the Department of Agriculture and none of the nurseries will ship crowns seeds or plants to my state

I looked online and it said it was banned in alot of states to protect the timber industry because currants carry a disease that isnt good for pine trees. Was so bummed!

 

[DemeterAD9]

I was flipping through these last night, (the veggie one is way better)
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and after reading the page about black currants I remembered how tasty they are and how long it's been since I've had some so I went to Burpee website to look for crowns to grow this year and just discovered that black currants are illegal in my state and apparently in a bunch of other states you have to get a special permit from the Department of Agriculture and none of the nurseries will ship crowns seeds or plants to my state

I looked online and it said it was banned in alot of states to protect the timber industry because currants carry a disease that isnt good for pine trees. Was so bummed!

I've found black currants growing wild near a creek, right by the road off a bridge actually. They ripen in summer which is right around the time I go bridge hopping while fishing. They make a nice quick snack but I'd like to pick enough to make something with them.

 

[Echelontheory101]

I've found black currants growing wild near a creek, right by the road off a bridge actually. They ripen in summer which is right around the time I go bridge hopping while fishing. They make a nice quick snack but I'd like to pick enough to make something with them.

I love drying them and theyre soooo good in sauces for game meat like venison and duck! I'm in New Hampshire and it looks like New Hampshire Maine and Massachusetts are all banned but Vermont isn't and I only live 10 minutes from the Vermont border maybe I'll ask one of my coworkers if I can use her address to have some crowns shipped and be a criminal gardener

 

[akroberts1085]

I love drying them and theyre soooo good in sauces for game meat like venison and duck! I'm in New Hampshire and it looks like New Hampshire Maine and Massachusetts are all banned but Vermont isn't and I only live 10 minutes from the Vermont border maybe I'll ask one of my coworkers if I can use her address to have some crowns shipped and be a criminal gardener

Gotta find a work around when the government is involved. LOL. I love the way you think too

 

[Sally PB]

I heard nothing! I read nothing! I know nothing!