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  • Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,437
    It's also fun in salads or salsa style things, to freshen the flavors a bit.
    I got tomatoes in the ground, the herbs are coming, all fruit trees bloomed. Some squash, some melon, some corn (not showing yet) and baby okras that will go in the ground after Pittsburgh. Nasturtium and wildflowers are seeded and sprouted too. And I planted two paw paw saplings last fall, and at least one of them is alive! I am rooting (no pun intended) for the other one as well.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    Great variety going there as always. Paw paw tree. Do you plan to eat the fruit? I'm pretty sure certain butterflies use it as a host plant.

    I finally got my potatoes in. Purple and yukon gold. Put them in bags and covered with dirt. Might have crowded them too much but at least they are in. 
    All plants look happy!
  • Purple Fairy TreePurple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,054
    Last year’s strawberry plant has come back, so far there are two green strawberries growing.  The small parsley plant has come back too. 
  • Leezestarr313Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,437
    Loujoe said:
    Great variety going there as always. Paw paw tree. Do you plan to eat the fruit? I'm pretty sure certain butterflies use it as a host plant.

    I finally got my potatoes in. Purple and yukon gold. Put them in bags and covered with dirt. Might have crowded them too much but at least they are in. 
    All plants look happy!

    I would love to eat the fruit but I am aware that it may take a couple of years. Butterfly host is even better! Yay on the potatoes, we still have to get ours in too. All after Pitt.
  • soph189soph189 Posts: 568

    Baby artichoke. There was a bigger one (as you can see from cut stem), but forgot to take photo before eating it 
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    soph189 said:

    Baby artichoke. There was a bigger one (as you can see from cut stem), but forgot to take photo before eating it 

  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    edited June 5
    Never tried to grow them. 1 per plant? Assuming it will grow another. Maybe try next season.

    Just harvested a bunch of lettuce. Onions are not doing well in my community plot. At home look pretty good. Plan to plant stringbeans in their place.  
    Cucumbers at home got munched by slugs. Put out a beer 'trap'.
    Put cucumber seeds in com garden. Those germinated.
    Should be eating peas kinda soon. Beets and turnips in about a month. 
    Then garlic should be ready to harvest too.
    Basil seeds are slow to start.
    Potatoes look good.

    Will see. Every year is a little different.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    those long things are garlic scapes. The stalk before it becomes a flower and uses the energy that is better spent growing better garlic bulbs. Have more scapes to harvest soon.
    I grilled them up a bit. Chopped and added to butter to use later. Really delicious mellow garlic flavor.
    Had a few onions that weren't doing well. Consolidated the good ones then planted stringbean seeds. 
    A handful of turnips ready.
    Peas are producing.
    Good season so far!

  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 14,746
    kept these snacking cucumbers indoors for now.  I guess it's time to put them out asap
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    Wow. That is nice Rob!
  • Purple Fairy TreePurple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,054
    This is not my garden but the dog and I enjoy walking past the beautiful plants regularly…



  • Purple Fairy TreePurple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,054
    This is my garden…



  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    Pretty. 
    I never grew strawberries. Do you use the same plant every year? Stringbean plants? Looks great. 

  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 14,746
    edited June 16
    I grow strawberry they produce runners and you pot up the runners they then produce more next year. Although the original plant still comes again next year. The runners are meant to produce better . Much like raspberries they spread
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    Yum and beautiful. 
  • Purple Fairy TreePurple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,054
    Nice pickings Rob :)  
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  • soph189soph189 Posts: 568
    Loujoe said:

    Wow, very nice 💚
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    Funny. My dogs love to eat peas! Me too. We've been getting lots of rain so garden is growing well. Hooked on these garlic scapes too. Keeps the vampires away. Great time of year.
  • soph189soph189 Posts: 568
    Aww that’s cute. My dog loves green beans and cucumbers. He hasn’t tried peas yet, but beefy Bob is an equal opportunity eater for sure. Are those snap peas or regular? 
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    Snap. I hav regular shelling too. They didn't produce much yet. I find with shelling, you could pick tons, she'll them, and end up with a small amount. The snap are good this year and just eat the whole thing. You know.
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    garlic scapes and a couple onion blossoms? (Not sure what to call them) read to remove them for a better onion too. 
    That butter adds something extra special to everything. Very mild flavor (to me) 
    Excited about this gardening discovery. At my community garden someone snapped their scapes off and hung them on the fence. Thinking freebies? Or maybe they are doing something else with them.
  • AuratonalAuratonal Washington, USA Posts: 566
    It looks like my housemate Justin is doing really well with some pumpkin seeds I brought home for us a few weeks ago. I think I must've gotten the seeds from either Safeway or Home Depot, & he kew what to to with them from there. He said to me that they should be ready some time in September, so I took a pic of his grow spot in the back yard
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    Heck yeah^^ very nice
  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 11,444
    Heck of a lot of arugula aka rocket. Had to be a little relentless pulling some out. Crowding out my peppers, tomatoes and everything else. Bud wants some seeds so I'm passing it on. 
    Went to a local farmstand and this stuff sells for like $5 for a small amount. Easy to grow if you like it.
    Washed/bagged/put away
    My secret to cleaning greens. Put in a large pot of water, lift the greens out, dump water, repeat.
     will likely turn some of this into a pesto. Never tried that. Maybe freeze it. 

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