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I think I’ve posted this before, but I didn’t even plant pumpkins. My spouse had an ornamental pumpkin last year that I threw in a corner of the garden to compost. It came up in the spring and before I could decide to pull it, it was already running away so I left it.
What was supposed to be there was carrots which you can see in some of the pictures. Not sure how they’re doing.
Gonna have the neighbourhood kids come.over and pick them once we are closer to Halloween.
Ghost pumpkins!
What sort of herbs and veggies are you planting this spring?
I’m pretty sure I will do basil and jalapeños again, as they thrive here with minimal attention. The chives did fine over the winter so i have that already. I lost my rosemary due to a rare very cold snap. That also thrives here so I’ll do that again.
Might do thyme and/or oregano this year too.
In my raised bed gardens, peas, beans, carrots.
In the raised bed garden i rent, beets. I pickle a ton every year.
Im going to try and rent a chunk of unused floodplain from a farmer. If that goes through, ill have as big a garden as i want. Planning to plant pumpkins since that went well this year, some sweet corn, cucumbers so i dont have to buy cuces for the dill pckles i make every year, and some taters.
I seem to be quite the homesteader.
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We have a small herb garden. Chives, rosemary, thyme, basil, lavender. Last year we did a jalapeño plant and I may do it again.
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Cross posting here
Tomorrow I’m doing some planting. It’s possible I might get something else, but the herb garden may be it this year.
No garden for us, but man oh man, the landscape plants we put in in 2020 performed great this spring.
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Planted my beans and carrots in my raised bed gardens yesterday. This week hope to plant beets in the raised bed garden that I rent.
I’ve now got access to some unused farmland beside a river, not sure what the soil will be like. Going to rent a rototiller this weekend and till up a huge patch for pumpkins, pickling cuces and potatoes.
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I have strawberries, carrots, lettuce and spinach that are doing really good so far. Been eating the lettuce for a few weeks now
Starting some peppers, watermellon, hot pepers in small pots
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I love spinach. Used to grow it til one year I’m chowing down and I notice grubs in the bowl. Turns out I had leaf borers that you can’t see inside the leaf. Then when cooked, out they come. Have not done spinach since.
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Looking for ideas: On the north side of my garage is about a 12’ long flower bed. Currently there is some lily of the valley on one end, and some day lilies (that wrap around the side as well) on the other end. There is now an empty stretch between them, and I’m trying to figure out what to put in. Any ideas? It’s in the shade for much of the day, with the lily of the valley taking up much of the part that gets mid-afternoon sun.
If you’re looking to get rid of some of the lily of the valley you can check for local gardening groups on FB. There are people who’d be happy to come dig up what you don’t want.
Had been thinking about ripping this out a couple of months ago b/c I thought it was dead. Did some weeding, pruned off a bunch of it, got rewarded by actual flowers.
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My vegetable gardens are doing great this year, with all the rain and sun. It seems to like downpour every 3rd day, then sun for the next two.
Unfortunately I think that if I eat all the ripe beans every time I check the patch, there’s never going to be a harvest.
Relevant. Local farmer let me til up a bunch of floodplain beside the river. It’s 8 foot high grass every year.
Son and I spent an afternoon tilling a patch. I planted pumpkins, cuces, and potatoes.
Unfortunately, the tilling was useless. The grass came back immediately. No amount of weeding was going to fix anything.
So now, once a week, I go over and weedeat lol. Best I can do is keep the grass short. Looks like I’m growing a garden in the middle of a lawn.
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On the weekend got my first batch of green beens. 12 meals worth, blanched and in the freezer.
Yesterday I pulled a few beets, cooked and froze them. The beet patch is for pickled beets so I need a half to a full bushel and they’re not ready yet but I pulled a few that were getting pretty large.
I’ve also got a couple meals worth of new potatoes. Nothing to write home about, but they taste great.
Carrots are coming along, they’re not ready for harvest yet but I picked a couple, they’re large enough to eat.
Cucumbers and pumpkins still growing and just starting to flower a wee bit. We’re getting a lot of hot weather + consistent rain so I’m hoping to have a good crop in a month or so (longer for the pumpkins).
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We’re waiting for the new potatos to come out at the farm stands!!!
I’ve been eating a ton of potatoes coming from garden. Had some kind of bug that made the peels a little messy, but peeling them off was easy.
Yellow squash is doing great
Tomatoes are about to ripen and be picked
Carrots and Onions have already come in and were eaten
Watermelon going slow (3 fist size and 1 almost ripe)
Hops are flowering
Strawberry is meh
Nothing on the Corn (popcorn) stalks yet
Huge difference in zones I’m guessing. No vine vegetables yet, most haven’t flowered. Tomatoes, they’re just starting to get berry sized fruit on them. Carrots and onions have a long way to go.
Strawberries are over, they’re a june thing here, once per year.
Funny how a bit of N-S distance makes a huge difference in harvest.
When I was young, near ottawa, farmers used to get one crop of clover, and on a good year, two. Where I am now they get three always, and sometimes four. Just the difference in heat from Ottawa to SW ontario.