Garden 2025 Has Started.

[BilletHead]

8 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

400.00 later we have our first bean. 🙄 

 

I'll never understand "gardening".    

          Just think how good that bean is going to taste. It can feed everyone in your household. All will get a nibble. 

[rps]

In order

Bush early girls, summer girl, bush early girl, bush early girls, bush spacemaster with sweet 100 behind,early girl, krim front mortgage lifter rear, brandywine

Lots of green ones, one strong blush, one or two more will blush in the next couple of days.

[ness]

2 hours ago, rps said:

In order

Bush early girls, summer girl, bush early girl, bush early girls, bush spacemaster with sweet 100 behind,early girl, krim front mortgage lifter rear, brandywine

Lots of green ones, one strong blush, one or two more will blush in the next couple of days.

You’ve got a lot going on there!

[rps]

Squirrels just took my blush. Time to put the netting and bells up.

[ness]

I haven’t squirrel problems yet but I do get mice. There’s one less this morning. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

49 minutes ago, ness said:

 I do get mice. There’s one less this morning. 

I use Ramik bars in tunnel tube traps.  Safe around pets.  

[fishinwrench]

Here's the only type of "gardening" that I'm any good at. 😊 

 

[jdmidwest]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Here's the only type of "gardening" that I'm any good at. 😊 

 

Were they pollinated by ticks and guarded by copperheads?  My blackberry's always were in the fields.

[ness]

On 7/6/2025 at 10:45 AM, ness said:

I haven’t squirrel problems yet but I do get mice. There’s one less this morning. 

I'm up to 11 mice dispatched this morning. I probably could have a few more but I'm not super diligent at resetting traps out there. But, I'm making progress. 

Lost two decent maters to something in the last week. 

That really hot blast last week turned off tomato production, kinda like it does every year it seems. But this cool spell has things perking back up. 

[ness]

Well, I broke my ankle on 9/11 so I've had to stay off it as much as possible. The garden got away from me pretty badly - didn't keep the tomatoes pruned or treated and it was a tangled mess with a lot of disease. There were a few small, hard tomatoes and probably 100 or more cherries. 

We did get a freeze Sunday morning. Thermometer, which is about 10 feet above ground near the garden,  read 27 degrees at 6 AM. Fall lettuce did fine, Swiss chard, peppers and tender herbs didn't like it. But the fruit wasn't damaged and we brought in a bunch of small poblanos, and full-sized banana, Anaheim and Jimmy Nardellos. Also brought in some herbs to dry. Took out all the tomatoes. Disconnected the drip system.

Yesterday planted 2026 garlic.

Temps on the 60s+ most of this week, so we'll get some more lettuce and maybe spinach.