Garden 2024

[my-thyme]

Picked the first asparagus of the season -YEAH!

 

[Kinnakeet]

Will be installing plants this weekend Tomatoes,Cucumbers,Squash,Jalapenos and cantelope

 

[Kyle]

I miss having a garden.

 

[Sneakers]

I don't have the space or ambition for a large garden, and a small one is good for a lot of work and tending and caring and feeding just to get one small harvest which is gone in one or two meals. I have some tomatoes ready for planting, but going to try hydroponic this year, just because.

Otherwise, flowers are much more long lasting, varied, and come back every year. My miniature yellow iris are already blooming.

 

[wharf rat]

Started picking romaine along with red leaf lettuce and kale this week. Onions, carrots, beets, strawberries just around the corner. Summer seedlings have started to sprout including tomatoes, squash, pole beans, cucumbers and others.
This year's "try something new" crop is potatoes. Got those in the ground last weekend.

 

[my-thyme]

And I'm now in a deer war.

Went to make my second asparagus picking, all nibbled to the ground. I didn't even realize they liked asparagus. So my day yesterday was spent putting up posts and rope.

Counted 25 of those large rodents last night. They gotta go.

 

[my-thyme]

I don't have the space or ambition for a large garden, and a small one is good for a lot of work and tending and caring and feeding just to get one small harvest which is gone in one or two meals. I have some tomatoes ready for planting, but going to try hydroponic this year, just because.

Otherwise, flowers are much more long lasting, varied, and come back every year. My miniature yellow iris are already blooming.

Deer, that's all a small garden is good for.

I agree, flowers are the way to go. The Amish grow plenty of veggies for me.

 

[RoseRed]

And I'm now in a deer war.

Went to make my second asparagus picking, all nibbled to the ground. I didn't even realize they liked asparagus. So my day yesterday was spent putting up posts and rope.

Counted 25 of those large rodents last night. They gotta go.

Track them by their stinkle. Then BOOM!

 

[Kinnakeet]

And I'm now in a deer war.

Went to make my second asparagus picking, all nibbled to the ground. I didn't even realize they liked asparagus. So my day yesterday was spent putting up posts and rope.

Counted 25 of those large rodents last night. They gotta go.

I can help you

 

[my-thyme]

 

[Sneakers]

So far this year, applications of deer repellent have kept the deer away. They really love the daylilly flowers, so crossing fingers.

Hydroponic test is going ....ok... The tomatoes aren't as strong as the ones in the ground. And I didn't expect any of the iris in the back garden to bloom this year after digging them out, thinning and replanting. Surprise....

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

And I'm now in a deer war.

Went to make my second asparagus picking, all nibbled to the ground. I didn't even realize they liked asparagus. So my day yesterday was spent putting up posts and rope.

Counted 25 of those large rodents last night. They gotta go.

Does their pee stink after eating asparagus like it does ours? Inquiring minds .....

 

[Merlin99]

So far this year, applications of deer repellent have kept the deer away. They really love the daylilly flowers, so crossing fingers.

Hydroponic test is going ....ok... The tomatoes aren't as strong as the ones in the ground. And I didn't expect any of the iris in the back garden to bloom this year after digging them out, thinning and replanting. Surprise....

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The second picture looked like a mortar rack.

 

[my-thyme]

Sometimes, you have to just sit and appreciate all the hard work.

 

[frequentflier]

Sometimes, you have to just sit and appreciate all the hard work.
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The flutterbys and hummingbirds must love your gardens!

 

[my-thyme]

They do. Hummingbirds on the clematis the last few days.

 

[my-thyme]

Eating good in this hood.

 

[PJay]

14 and 17 belong in BHG.

 

[my-thyme]

14 and 17 belong in BHG.

Thanks. I love gardening, and enjoy the work and the benefit.

 

[Gilligan]

My personal gardening is limited to an herb garden. Has parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (had to start with that, of course...ear worm) and basil, mint, dill and oregano. And chives...lots of chives.

Grew various hot peppers and several varieties of tomatoes last years but decided the effort was not worth the result...too many friends raise far more and just give us the produce.