Garden 2024

[gravitylover]

Hey Shera. This year I have 2 Great Mulleins in the yard, you need to send me a mailing address so I can send seeds when it's time.

This heat is tough, I've been watering the hanging baskets a few times each day and wetting the beds down a few times too to keep the soil temps down in the sun.

[shera]

Hey thanks for remembering! I did find a couple of patches last summer after tuning my eye to it. Even had a single small one start randomly in the backyard, but no sign of anything anywhere this year, maybe in a month or so?

[gravitylover]

I've been reading that it's not always a perennial. Some years it comes back and some it doesn't. When you see patches they're different every year as some plants come back and others don't.

OMG my raspberry patch is out of hand and keeps expanding. I'm gonna have to cut paths through it The blackberry cane is about 15 feet long and loaded with berries. Hopefully the birds leave me a few haha. Tomatoes started slow but are popping now, peppers are staying really short and squat but are starting to produce.

[gravitylover]

I'm glad that the birds appreciate the time and effort I put into growing berries but I think they're missing an important point. They're supposed to be for ME.

[BCMtnHound]

Between the cat early in the spring using the bed as a litterbox, and the robins after the fruit, I got creative. Seems to work. I’m willing to share, but when the birds only peck half the strawberry then move to the next, I get annoyed.

[Thaleia]

gl curious what kind of birds are targetting your raspberries? We have a decent patch and I'm lucky to report birds around here have never been an issue. (but yeah, strawberries on the other hand..)

[BCMtnHound]

Dunno about GL, but the squirrel braves the cats for the raspberries. Speaking of which, haven’t seen that rodent in a couple months…

[XXX-er]

the gardener ( LTR tennant) has some nice flowers so does the new neighbor, nice to look at and no maintenace

I do have a row of rhubarb in full bloom, pretty amazing, maybe people want to see a pic of that...

There is always too much so a great way to preserve Rhubarb is cut into 1" chunks and dehydrate it, lots of flavor so its great when you been paddling or back packing and the wrapper for whatever you are eating tastes > the food

[gravitylover]

^^ I dunno for sure it's birds but in the morning I'll see them flitting around in there. I'm starting to get snackworthy pulls most days now so I guess I hit that balance of enough for me and the critters. I need WAY more strawberries to hit that balance point. Working on it

Tomatoes are going great, herbs are herbing and I've got a pepper experiment going pretty well. I had some doing really poorly so I transferred a bunch of clover to within a few inches of them. They're only like 10" tall but they're dark green and producing now! I guess they needed the nitrogen. Blackberries are looking great but now I need them to slow down or they'll be ready when we're out of town from the 8-12th. I'll be so bummed to lose the hundreds of berries on those canes.

[gravitylover]

I've been putting this together as I harvest more rocks from around the property. Everything here other than some of the gravel came out of my ground. I found two more stashes of good sized rocks a little while ago so I should be able to finish this soon. All of the plants are Northeast natives and a few are edible. The prickly pear seems to be good rabbit food. Who knew.
Some of those big rocks at the bottom are 300 pounds easy. Fukn hassle to move and set but I'm on a mission.

[MarsB]

You have cacti in SE NY?

[gravitylover]

Yes. Prickly Pear cactus is native to the Northeast and Northern Midwest.

[MarsB]

Wild! Never knew that.

[shera]

Hey Shera. This year I have 2 Great Mulleins in the yard, you need to send me a mailing address so I can send seeds when it's time.

This heat is tough, I've been watering the hanging baskets a few times each day and wetting the beds down a few times too to keep the soil temps down in the sun.

Last week when it rained I went to my favorite mushroom patch and lookie what else I found!

[skaredshtles]

Last week when it rained I went to my favorite mushroom patch and lookie what else I found!
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Please keep in mind that mullein is an invasive.