You could also Do sweet corn and watch your plot get destroyed by deer and coons.
What's growing? The garden thread.
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We really like the Mrs Wages spaghetti mix for simplicity and taste. They sell it at menards among a bunch of other places. We do a lot of that and the chili base. With the chili base we just add beans and meat and the chili is done.
Does anyone know if there is such a thing as volunteer cilantro? We usually just have a few pots of it on the front porch so it’s easy to run out and cut when making dinner. Haven’t bought any yet but in the flower garden below the porch, we have a few bunches that look like it. Haven’t gone down to smell it to be sure as we have a fence that has to be pretty high to keep the dog from eating the toxic flowers, he’s young and dumb.
They’re an annual but can drop seeds and come up the next spring.
@JM4CY
This is a good variety if you see it locally:
Plant now. Avoid watering over the top of plant and late in evening to suppress powdery mildew development.
Appreciate that. I’m super anal about watering and avoid at all costs watering on plants. I only alow a small group of people to come water my garden if I’m gone for a week or something in the summer because I go to all the work of babying the thing and I don’t want it to come back to a diseased messed I at that point can’t do anything about because it’s spread to much (which has happened).
Planted that kind and golden snap peas (new and fun) this year. Really like that variety. We actually tore out in late July and planted again for two crops.
Cilantro is a weed. It is definitely a volunteer. The seeds are very capable of growing the next year too if you let it go to seed.
Very cool to see this thread still going. My garden about doubled in size again and I'm going to try harder to succession plant with probably green beans this year to keep it in production all season. I'm trying to avoid buying any plants and started all my plants from seed in my basement. I might even try to do some Fall broccoli to see how that works in my zone. Always experimenting. Always learning.
Currently harvesting: Asparagus, Radishes, Lettuce
Perennials: Blackberries, strawberries, one lonely tiny rasberry that managed to survive transplant from mother-in-law's garden last year, planted a granny smith and honeycrisp apple tree earlier this spring.
In the ground: about 15 garlic plants, about 20 carrots came up, about 40 onions mix of red and sweet yellow, 25 sauce tomatoes mix of Roma and San Marzano, 14 slicing tomato plants, 4 cherry tomatoes, 20 bell peppers, 4 jalapenos, 4 eggplants, 1 zucchini, 1 yellow squash, 1 patty-pan squash, 5 acorn squash, 3 varieties of potatoes in a 3 ft. diameter potato tower, 28 broccoli, 5 cauliflower, 6 brussel sprouts, 3 cabbages, beets, white turnips. about 200 sweetcorn planted and they just started germinating
Plant starts not yet in the ground: 5 kambocha squash, 5 butternut squash, 10 sweet potato slips, 3 cucumbers
Herbs: ( thyme, mint, sage) (perennials) , basil, cilantro, rosemary
Not yet seeded but will direct sow: 6 watermelon hills, various green beans of both pole and bush variety.
Undecided: Pink-eyed peas, Italian dry bean
Flowers: Marigolds, Mammoth Sunflowers
Failures: English peas. I struggle to get them finished before the heat zaps them each year. I'm successful about 1 out of 3 years and really just grow them for the kids to snack on in the garden. This year they didn't germinate well because it was still too cold, and so I ate some shoots and pulled them. I need to start them early under a mini-tunnel to get enough heat for germination and not too much moisture and then take the tunnel off.
Lots of stuff is new this year so I expect more failures but that's part of the fun. I also likely lost the zucchini today as it went from like 55 to 90 degrees in about 2 days. Those summer squashes need to get good and established before the heat hits them. The good new is you can start a zucchini about anytime between now and August.
Currently harvesting: Asparagus, Radishes, Lettuce
Perennials: Blackberries, strawberries, one lonely tiny rasberry that managed to survive transplant from mother-in-law's garden last year, planted a granny smith and honeycrisp apple tree earlier this spring.
In the ground: about 15 garlic plants, about 20 carrots came up, about 40 onions mix of red and sweet yellow, 25 sauce tomatoes mix of Roma and San Marzano, 14 slicing tomato plants, 4 cherry tomatoes, 20 bell peppers, 4 jalapenos, 4 eggplants, 1 zucchini, 1 yellow squash, 1 patty-pan squash, 5 acorn squash, 3 varieties of potatoes in a 3 ft. diameter potato tower, 28 broccoli, 5 cauliflower, 6 brussel sprouts, 3 cabbages, beets, white turnips. about 200 sweetcorn planted and they just started germinating
Plant starts not yet in the ground: 5 kambocha squash, 5 butternut squash, 10 sweet potato slips, 3 cucumbers
Herbs: ( thyme, mint, sage) (perennials) , basil, cilantro, rosemary
Not yet seeded but will direct sow: 6 watermelon hills, various green beans of both pole and bush variety.
Undecided: Pink-eyed peas, Italian dry bean
Flowers: Marigolds, Mammoth Sunflowers
Failures: English peas. I struggle to get them finished before the heat zaps them each year. I'm successful about 1 out of 3 years and really just grow them for the kids to snack on in the garden. This year they didn't germinate well because it was still too cold, and so I ate some shoots and pulled them. I need to start them early under a mini-tunnel to get enough heat for germination and not too much moisture and then take the tunnel off.
Lots of stuff is new this year so I expect more failures but that's part of the fun. I also likely lost the zucchini today as it went from like 55 to 90 degrees in about 2 days. Those summer squashes need to get good and established before the heat hits them. The good new is you can start a zucchini about anytime between now and August.
Lol, sweet corn is a maybe!
The fence is a good 8ft high, and no raccoons or rabbits around here- we have foxes down the hollow, neighbors have seen the kits playing on edge of the woods. We've heard them and had one up by our house once.
We do have deer tho, and a big fat tom turkey and his 3 lady friends...
Coons are sneaky bast*rds. You may not have issues with that high barrier. However, if you posted later this summer saying you walked out to your plot one morning and saw a trash panda sitting on the inside of your fence with a full belly, no corn left in there and smoking a cigarette while winking at you, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Let's talk rabbits for a minute. Besides fencing what does everybody use to repel these garden destroyers. They tunnel under my fence all the time, and it's hard to keep them out.
Not really a garden question but hey, my hummingbird feeder is in my flower garden so thought I would ask. Has anyone seen any yet? We just put our feeder out about a week ago a couple of weeks later than normal in southern Iowa due to the weather. I thought I saw one in neighbor’s flowers so thought they should be visiting our feeder soon, but doesn’t look like it.
Have not seen any hummers in SW WI yet. Orioles and grossbeaks just came back three days ago. Sandhill crane chick hatched Sunday.
We didn't have any bluebirds last year so we hope that changes.
Thanks! Pretty sure I saw a pair of bluebirds at our feeder but also didn’t see them last year, and we have a lot of orioles and goldfinches this year. Have two feeders and some suet, but the suet is by feeder in the back and have a feeder in the front too. So we get the prettier song birds in the front as the bigger aggressive birds hang around the suet.
Having to refill twice a day, I think some people aren’t feeding due to bird flu, but I saw something from a natural resources department in another state saying go ahead and fill your feeders, the chance of transmission at a feeder being low supposedly. So when I let the dog out in the morning, I see a flight of birds hauling it towards our yard.
I think our dog has scared off our rabbit population but he is on high alert for squirrels trying to get to bird feeders. He now hates them more than the neighborhood pack of stray cats.
Saw a hummingbird Saturday actually here just NE of Madison! Need to refill my feeders, love showing the 3 yr old the birds and he loves watching for them.
