Gardening

[Eric]

It’s growing season in the northern hemisphere! We’ve got tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, peppers, beans, squash, chard, and raspberries.

Oh, and blueberries. All the blueberries.

That’s almost six pounds from one picking. We’re going to turn blue at this rate.

 

What’s everyone else growing?

[Caystodd]

Very nice! So yummy.

[Vladim]

I only have a little garden, so nothing as impressive as that, but... a pair of pigeons thought it's pretty enough to decide to sort of grow themselves. I wasn't a great fan of that but it seemed too cruel to throw away the egg. So now we have to fledglings (or whatever baby pigeons are called, I forget).

 

 

I must admit that they are kinda cute. But messy at times. Though not as much as I had feared. Yet. Freakin' pigeons.

[Butchern]

All baby things are cute, even when they are hideous. 😄

  

On 6/23/2023 at 8:39 AM, Eric said:

What’s everyone else growing?

Just flowers. Too swampy for much of anything else. We have talked about doing some vegetable gardening in raised beds, but so far nothing has magically materialized.

Edited June 27, 2023 by Butchern (see edit history)

[Inash]

Pumpkins, acorn squash, butternut squash, summer squash, zucchini, spinach, kale, some form of leaf lettuce, sunflowers, tomatoes, rhubarb, peas, asparagus.... I'm not sure what else. My wife decided that this year we would garden, so...

[Eric]

Ooh, rhubarb. I’m the only one in my family that likes it, but I could really go for some strawberry-rhubarb pie…

[Inash]

Me too on both counts. I just need to harvest some and get some strawberries.

[Eric]

I’ll be on my way! Just need to harvest a few berries to trade…

[Inash]

Sounds good... unless I need to use one of my wife's gluten free pie crusts, then its a no.

[Eric]

I'll free all the glutens into my belly!

[Butchern]

Dwarf Teddy Bear Sunflowers. Germinated after only 4 days. I've never had them germ that quickly. Not sure what that means.

We put in all store-bought nursery annuals in the spring (alongside some swamp-friendly perennials that grow back every year), but in late June/early July I gather every empty pot from around the place (usually 20 or so), and plant all the seeds from last year that will survive the heat (dwarf sunflowers, zinnia, black-eyed susans, cosmos, poppies, etc.). Usually about half the pots germinate, and about half of those survive August, but we still get a half-dozen pots full of colorful flowers to display beside the nursery mums in September.

[Eric]

Behold… cucumbers!

[ray32]

ohh so nice and yummy😋

[farothel]

I have a small garden, mostly grass, but I've recently added two Lilac bushes to it to attract butterflies, bees and other polinating insects (and then probably the birds that feed on them). If those are successful, I might add some more.