***What's growing? The official garden thread***

rgambs

I haven't been trying too hard to harden.  I sunburnt them a bit 2 weeks ago and I've been letting them recover.  I don't get too eager to plant, it's just too much trouble to try too early.

lastexitlondon

I lost lots to frost 2 days ago

rgambs

lastexitlondon said:

I lost lots to frost 2 days ago

Sorry to hear that, I've been there.  Just have to buy new starts and start again!  
I quit trying to plant early after 2 bad springs.  In my experience, it doesn't give you much of a head start anyways.  Some years you might get fruit a week or maybe 2 weeks earlier, but for me, that doesn't outweigh the risk of replanting.

lastexitlondon

Truth right  there

deadendp

Despite being kept in the car (the other plants were fine) the basil didn't take too kindly to the cold weather. It'll pull through. They are out now and hardening off okay. 

Sorry to hear about the frost damage, Rob. That sucks. Been there. Lost a 4 year old  tulip tree one year due to a late May hard frost.  

deadendp

Plant delivery day tomorrow. I have 14 stops, including one with 54 plants going to the I PROMISE School pantry garden.

https://www.akroncantonfoodbank.org/news/foodbank/press-releases/foodbank-partners-i-promise-school-offer-food-pantry-school-families

PJPOWER

deadendp said:

Plant delivery day tomorrow. I have 14 stops, including one with 54 plants going to the I PROMISE School pantry garden.

https://www.akroncantonfoodbank.org/news/foodbank/press-releases/foodbank-partners-i-promise-school-offer-food-pantry-school-families

Very nice!

lastexitlondon

Bee  incoming

lastexitlondon

lastexitlondon

Photos wrong way round. But you get the picture. I caught it incoming  onto my alium 

lastexitlondon

lastexitlondon

This poppy is amazing . I will show you in a week or so but it only lasts a few  days but has so many  heads. 

deadendp

Awesome stuff! Fun that you got the incoming bee. 

I have never grown garlic. 

The allium are beautiful! So is the poppy. I have seeded them but they never came up. 

I am planting the rest of what needs to go in this weekend. Squash, peppers and ground cherries. A friend gave me some extra marigolds she had. Of course, there is still weeding and a bit more transplanting.  

lastexitlondon

Im going to be planting out in the next 2 weeks. My stuff from seed is still a bit small. Garlic is so easy. And smells so good drying in the shed.

deadendp

My husband was trying to record the spider on the hammock. (He's a park naturalist. It's a work thing.)

Bless him, he was trying to scoot it along. 

And for @lastexitlondon , a Mountain Cornflower with an incoming critter.

Since it was 92 F, I didn't quite get the amount of gardening done today that I wanted, but I put a good dent into it. Weeded a bit. Moved a couple of cup flowers (they grow 6'+ tall) to the fence line and planted 9 Ground Cherry plants, a small row of corn, 3 yellow squash and a bunch of green beans. The back bed is done. 

Tomorrow will be 6 pepper plants (3 different varieties), lots of butternut squash, more corn and more beans. And...more weeding. 

lastexitlondon

Cornflowers are one of the  greatest colours.

lastexitlondon

This is rosie . She "helped" me plant out some toms and lettuce.

deadendp

Hi, Rosie! My daughter "me help" a lot when she was Rosie's age. What is she holding? 

What's growing in that garden? 

lastexitlondon

She has the rose off of the  watering  can on a  cane . She is like a hurricane going through every single thing  and back again

dankind

I don’t know what’s growing (I killed a cactus), but word is we might eat some of it tonight. 

lastexitlondon

Peyote?

deadendp

It was snowing a few weeks ago. Been gardening all day. Hotter than hell. 

dankind

lastexitlondon said:

Peyote?

I never lived in the right area at the right time. I grew up in shroom country. 

But peyote is one of the last things I want to try before I die. 

dankind

The one we’re having tonight is Swiss chard. 

tempo_n_groove

lastexitlondon said:

Does nobody see the bee?

Awesome pics Rob!!!

rgambs

Carpenter bees are my primary blueberry pollinators.

tempo_n_groove

rgambs said:

Carpenter bees are my primary blueberry pollinators.

They tear shit up though.  .38 caliber holes everywhere lol!

rgambs

It was a hot weekend, but I got a good bit done.  Tomatoes and some late cabbage transplanted, bush beans and summer squash planted.  Peas, onions, potatoes and spinach fully weeded, and chopped straw mulch laid on tomatoes, kohlrabi, cabbage, and peas.
Just need to get the peppers transplanted when the heat breaks.  Then its time to get support up for the maters and bird netting up around the blueberries, plant winter squash and then yard-long pole beans.  After that its just trying to keep a handle on mowing and weeds...and harvesting of course. 

tempo_n_groove

rgambs said:

It was a hot weekend, but I got a good bit done.  Tomatoes and some late cabbage transplanted, bush beans and summer squash planted.  Peas, onions, potatoes and spinach fully weeded, and chopped straw mulch laid on tomatoes, kohlrabi, cabbage, and peas.
Just need to get the peppers transplanted when the heat breaks.  Then its time to get support up for the maters and bird netting up around the blueberries, plant winter squash and then yard-long pole beans.  After that its just trying to keep a handle on mowing and weeds...and harvesting of course. 

I just planted my blueberries.  Should I cover them up?  Is there that much loss to birds?

Also do you make the cover holes big enough for bees to get through?

deadendp

tempo_n_groove said:

rgambs said:

It was a hot weekend, but I got a good bit done.  Tomatoes and some late cabbage transplanted, bush beans and summer squash planted.  Peas, onions, potatoes and spinach fully weeded, and chopped straw mulch laid on tomatoes, kohlrabi, cabbage, and peas.
Just need to get the peppers transplanted when the heat breaks.  Then its time to get support up for the maters and bird netting up around the blueberries, plant winter squash and then yard-long pole beans.  After that its just trying to keep a handle on mowing and weeds...and harvesting of course. 

I just planted my blueberries.  Should I cover them up?  Is there that much loss to birds?

Also do you make the cover holes big enough for bees to get through?

Bird-X netting is what we have used in the past. Worked fine.