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My cabbages and radishes are kicking off now. Woo
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I need to weed though 😂3
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One rogue sunflower found its' way into my yard and has grown ever so beautifully. I texted my mother-in-law this picture and she said that if I kept the middle after summer ends, I could plant a pot of them in the spring. Anyone ever plant seeds that came directly from a flower with success? There is a construction site down the road with thousands and thousands of tall, beautiful sunflowers. My yard would look like the field if hubby agreed to it.
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I have grown sunflowers, marigolds, and zinnias from the prior year’s seeds multiple times. (PSA - label the seeds! I joked with a friend at how much my baggies of zinnia seeds look like loose leaf tea. Fast forward a couple weeks when my daughter surprised me with breakfast in bed, complete with zinnia teaOne rogue sunflower found its' way into my yard and has grown ever so beautifully. I texted my mother-in-law this picture and she said that if I kept the middle after summer ends, I could plant a pot of them in the spring. Anyone ever plant seeds that came directly from a flower with success? There is a construction site down the road with thousands and thousands of tall, beautiful sunflowers. My yard would look like the field if hubby agreed to it.
thankfully they are edible, and honestly, it was herbaly enough I didn’t think much of it while I drank it! Didn’t realize the mix up until a conversation later in the day about said seeds and her eyes got wide and she said “wait, that’s not tea?”).
The biggest risk with the sunflower is critters getting to them before you do
I leave my scraggly, dead flowers up through winter so that the birds can forage (after harvesting some for myself).
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moonangel12 wrote: »
I have grown sunflowers, marigolds, and zinnias from the prior year’s seeds multiple times. (PSA - label the seeds! I joked with a friend at how much my baggies of zinnia seeds look like loose leaf tea. Fast forward a couple weeks when my daughter surprised me with breakfast in bed, complete with zinnia teaOne rogue sunflower found its' way into my yard and has grown ever so beautifully. I texted my mother-in-law this picture and she said that if I kept the middle after summer ends, I could plant a pot of them in the spring. Anyone ever plant seeds that came directly from a flower with success? There is a construction site down the road with thousands and thousands of tall, beautiful sunflowers. My yard would look like the field if hubby agreed to it. thankfully they are edible, and honestly, it was herbaly enough I didn’t think much of it while I drank it! Didn’t realize the mix up until a conversation later in the day about said seeds and her eyes got wide and she said “wait, that’s not tea?”).
The biggest risk with the sunflower is critters getting to them before you do I leave my scraggly, dead flowers up through winter so that the birds can forage (after harvesting some for myself).
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moonangel12 wrote: »
I have grown sunflowers, marigolds, and zinnias from the prior year’s seeds multiple times. (PSA - label the seeds! I joked with a friend at how much my baggies of zinnia seeds look like loose leaf tea. Fast forward a couple weeks when my daughter surprised me with breakfast in bed, complete with zinnia teaOne rogue sunflower found its' way into my yard and has grown ever so beautifully. I texted my mother-in-law this picture and she said that if I kept the middle after summer ends, I could plant a pot of them in the spring. Anyone ever plant seeds that came directly from a flower with success? There is a construction site down the road with thousands and thousands of tall, beautiful sunflowers. My yard would look like the field if hubby agreed to it. thankfully they are edible, and honestly, it was herbaly enough I didn’t think much of it while I drank it! Didn’t realize the mix up until a conversation later in the day about said seeds and her eyes got wide and she said “wait, that’s not tea?”).
The biggest risk with the sunflower is critters getting to them before you do I leave my scraggly, dead flowers up through winter so that the birds can forage (after harvesting some for myself).
I have had problems with certain hybrids but I have grown sunflowers from bird seed (both intentional and unintentional) and I grew marigolds from saving seeds for about 10 years with no loss in quality.1 -
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My sister has husk cherries growing, never tried them before and cannot say I'm a huge fan.
My strawberries were amazing this year. First couple pickings were huge and now at the tail end they're small but still so good.
Slugs were kinda pesky though.
Now I'm picking green peas(think mine were a bit slow) and they're yummy eating right out of the pod.4 -
Made another cutting of lettuce and spinach and picked my first tomatoes. Time for 2 of my absolute favorite summer foods: BLT's and salad with hot bacon dressing. Usually I make the salad with just spinach but I got so much more lettuce so it will be mixed greens.
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let some of the cilantro bolt for seeds next year
elderberry still blooming
found this guy in the bush too
got some blackberries ripening. my raspberries are too tiny to pick
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Morning gardeners! Just wanted to say how lovely the photos are and how this thread uplifts me! All the nature is such a beauty to behold!
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A few more perennials are blooming. On the left is the Royal Catchfly (Silene Regia) and on the right is the Beardtongue (penstemon). The Silene is a midwestern native plant and is like crack for hummingbirds. It is becoming more rare as prairies are being plowed over for agriculture and McMansions. I wanted a pop of pure red in the middle of the perennials (most are purplish-red like the bee balm or pinkish-red like the Beardtongue)
Here is an overview with the bee balm it the back left and the mouse ear hosta in the front right.
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My newest garden is filling in well. Spring to mid-summer...
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The flying fuzzy striped pandas love my Catmint.
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What a difference 12 hours makes. My balloon flower had its first bud about to pop. The next morning, POP!
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Five days later (and the first bloom is still beautiful. They last a long time).
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Beautiful. Next year my goal is to focus more on flowers.3
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My garden this year is a pallet garden. First try and so far so good.
I have harvested bunch of kale, swiss chard and first zuchinni! I see tomatoes getting ready and cucumbers getting there. The herbs are also thriving. I LOVE it!!!
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weatherking2019 wrote: »My garden this year is a pallet garden. First try and so far so good.
I have harvested bunch of kale, swiss chard and first zuchinni! I see tomatoes getting ready and cucumbers getting there. The herbs are also thriving. I LOVE it!!!
Interesting! Your plants look beautiful and healthy. I wonder if the pallets would help deter rabbits. We seem to have a bumper crop of the cute little garden munchers this year.0 -
Too lazy to veggie garden much anymore (instead, I support my local farmers at the markets, at higher cost but more variety). Around the yard, I have mostly ornamentals, some perennial herbs. Usually, I buy ornamental anuals and put some pots around garage and main door, but I was mostly staying out of the garden centers (and everywhere else). I decided to plant up some pots of annual herbs from seed, instead . . . but I got a super late start, right around the end of June/beginning of July.
However, it's been hot enough to encourage germination/growth here, so my dill, cilantro, and basil are coming along nicely for their age. They'll be needing some thinning soon.
I also planted some nasturtiums for looks, and salad, not shown, but also around 6" or so tall already.
(They're sitting on a bed of super-thuggy tiny sedum, next to my garage.) Little lower germination of the cilantro, vs. others, but should be enough to eat for a while, for one.
On the ornamental front, it's been a good cactus year. The largest prickly pear (Opuntia sp.) I have, that lives outdoors year round here in Michigan in a homemade hypertufa trough, bloomed for the very first time ever - blooms are palm-of-hand sized beauties. Also, a quirky houseplant orchid cactus, Epiphyllum guatamalense "Monstrose", decided to bloom shortly after I moved it out to the deck for the summer. It has interesting twisted foliage, and is a night bloomer.
I have some lettuce and mesclun seeds I'm planning to plant in aluminum foil roaster pans I have kicking around here, for cut-and-come-again greens, but it's too hot right now. Saving that for later, when they won't be so quick to bolt.2 -
Too lazy to veggie garden much anymore (instead, I support my local farmers at the markets, at higher cost but more variety). Around the yard, I have mostly ornamentals, some perennial herbs. Usually, I buy ornamental anuals and put some pots around garage and main door, but I was mostly staying out of the garden centers (and everywhere else). I decided to plant up some pots of annual herbs from seed, instead . . . but I got a super late start, right around the end of June/beginning of July.
However, it's been hot enough to encourage germination/growth here, so my dill, cilantro, and basil are coming along nicely for their age. They'll be needing some thinning soon. I also planted some nasturtiums for looks, and salad, not shown, but also around 6" or so tall already.
(They're sitting on a bed of super-thuggy tiny sedum, next to my garage.) Little lower germination of the cilantro, vs. others, but should be enough to eat for a while, for one.
On the ornamental front, it's been a good cactus year. The largest prickly pear (Opuntia sp.) I have, that lives outdoors year round here in Michigan in a homemade hypertufa trough, bloomed for the very first time ever - blooms are palm-of-hand sized beauties. Also, a quirky houseplant orchid cactus, Epiphyllum guatamalense "Monstrose", decided to bloom shortly after I moved it out to the deck for the summer. It has interesting twisted foliage, and is a night bloomer.
I have some lettuce and mesclun seeds I'm planning to plant in aluminum foil roaster pans I have kicking around here, for cut-and-come-again greens, but it's too hot right now. Saving that for later, when they won't be so quick to bolt.
Prickly Pear = jelly in my brain! My dad has made it many times, but I don’t think he’s done it for a few years now (before they moved out west they spent the summers RVing out there so didn’t have the time).2 -
Zinnias are in full bloom - such happy flowers!
My 7 year old son is my farmer, he loves growing pumpkins (HUGE ones when we had the room in N.C., smaller varieties now)... the tomato was an impulse buy. The tiny yellow pear plant we brought home has exploded! Had to anchor it to the picnic table because it just won’t stay upright... 6’ wooden stakes on order but open for any other ideas! Unfortunately the pumpkin variety we tried this year (blanking on name, saved seeds from a local farm purchase) isn’t doing well, and the tomato plant appears to have taken out one of his two surviving plants in the last “fall” (lean?).
ETA: learned a neat tomato tip from a local farmer, where I bought the plant. She asked how it was doing and if any had started to turn. I told her it was loaded, but all still very green. She said o go through and pick a handful of the green tomatoes from around the plant and then they would start. Days later he harvested his first 3, and a week later he’s getting several a day!2 -
I've only got an urban balcony, but happy about my second harvest of pea shoots for tonight's stir fry.
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At the moment, I have a green bean forest in my garden. Good grief, what am I going to do with them all???? They don't freeze that well, do they?2
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Thank you! For some reason I thought they turned gross when you tried to cook/eat them after frozen. But will definitely try that! Dh doesn't eat many veggies, he had gr. beans for dinner 1x and called it good.
Last night, my dinner consisted of 1/4 cantaloupe and 3 c. of green beans. Even I'm getting a bit green beaned out. 
Ok, so another garden question. My strawberries are all done. But now they're sprouting extra growth on them, with tiny flowers.(Going to seed maybe? And what does that mean?) I'm just wondering if there is anything I should be doing with them now? When can you divide them? Last year was when I planted them for the 1st time, only got a few berries. But this year they were like bushes, got tons of berries.
I've planted stuff for years but am still such a novice at this.
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Thank you! For some reason I thought they turned gross when you tried to cook/eat them after frozen. But will definitely try that! Dh doesn't eat many veggies, he had gr. beans for dinner 1x and called it good. Last night, my dinner consisted of 1/4 cantaloupe and 3 c. of green beans. Even I'm getting a bit green beaned out.
Ok, so another garden question. My strawberries are all done. But now they're sprouting extra growth on them, with tiny flowers.(Going to seed maybe? And what does that mean?) I'm just wondering if there is anything I should be doing with them now? When can you divide them? Last year was when I planted them for the 1st time, only got a few berries. But this year they were like bushes, got tons of berries.
I've planted stuff for years but am still such a novice at this.
Thank you for all your help!!!
Many strawberries are what is called “everbearing ”. They have a major crop early in the summer but continue to produce some fruit until the frost/end of growing season. Let them do their thing and enjoy the extra treat. They don't divide well but you get new plants on the runners (called "pups"). If the pups root in the soil near the mother plant, you can just cut the runner and transplant the pup. Pups on runners can be planted in a small pot while still attached to the mother and separated and planted as soon as the roots are established.
Frozen beans aren’t as crisp as fresh but they do not turn into mush like canned. I need to clarify my instructions. After the ice water, by drying them I mean pat dry to remove extra moisture. I drain mine in a colander then lay them out on a kitchen towel, pat a minute with the towel and bag them for the freezer3 -
I am just a beginning gardener, and I'm moving to a place soon where the only gardening I'll be able to do, at least for a year, is in some elevated beds. I'd really like to grow some veggies. Anyone have some easy/foolproof veggies or fruits that will grow okay in elevated beds? (I'm in US gardening zone 6a.)
Editing to add: The large bed is 8x2', and then there are two 1x2' planters.0 -
saltysparkle wrote: »I am just a beginning gardener, and I'm moving to a place soon where the only gardening I'll be able to do, at least for a year, is in some elevated beds. I'd really like to grow some veggies. Anyone have some easy/foolproof veggies or fruits that will grow okay in elevated beds? (I'm in US gardening zone 6a.)
Editing to add: The large bed is 8x2', and then there are two 1x2' planters.
How deep are they? As long as the beds are at least 10" deep, you can grow anything. You can also consider grow bags. A 5 gallon grow bag would be perfect for one tomato plant. My elevated bed is 4' x 2' x 12" and I have lettuce, spinach. bunching onions, snap peas, and carrots. My neighbor is growing tomatoes and peppers in his and using pots for greens and beans.
Two great gardening tip YouTube channels for growing in containers/elevated beds are Epic Gardening and MIGardener. Epic is in San Diego so some tips might not apply to cooler climates but MIGargener is in Michigan (Port Huron to be exact which is probably either zone 5 or 6)2 -
My sister has husk cherries growing, never tried them before and cannot say I'm a huge fan.
My strawberries were amazing this year. First couple pickings were huge and now at the tail end they're small but still so good. Slugs were kinda pesky though.
Now I'm picking green peas(think mine were a bit slow) and they're yummy eating right out of the pod.
Yeah, I have to plant a LOT of green peas in order to get enough for them to make it into the house
Here in Massachusetts I have planted them as early as St. Patrick's Day (per "The Victory Garden") but more often I wait until April 1 to start. I stagger planting to extend the season.
Re strawberries and slugs - I like straw for mulching strawberries. Slugs seem to prefer leaves. I also use Sluggo Plus. And I try to not have the plants too close together, which is difficult, as they keep having babies, lol.3
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