What Did You Do In The Garden?

Today I planted out 4 Malabar Spinach plants and 3 baby bush
Watermelon plants ( yeah, right, they'll probably trail all over the yard without a lot of pruning back, but, I digress) Then did some weeding of the raised beds and deadheading. It got hot and muggy very fast this morning so I put my stuff away and quit for the day.

My potatoes have all just gone over so, soon I'll be digging those out but I'm going to wait a few weeks to let those potatoes get a bit bigger first.

Maybe I should finally go over to that seasonal nursery...I've been avoiding going for 2 weeks now. Weather is so blah. Garden needs it's final tilling and I've tons of work to do there just relocating stuff. Plus there's a turkey family in there. It's fully fenced...

Anniekay said:

4 Malabar Spinach plants and 3 baby bush
Watermelon plants ( yeah, right, they'll probably trail all over the yard without a lot of pruning back

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Oh, that Malabar Spinach must be a perennial where you are, Anniekay.

By the way that plant grows here in the Summertime — I can imagine that some pruning back would be needed for those 4. And then, if those little black berries become scattered about ... !

Steve

mentioning little black berries, as a kid we had fields out back that often contained little black raspberries, they didn't grow very tall but they did get spread all over the place. there's some red raspberries growing along the edges of the ditches here and also in a few other spots, but i refuse to let them travel inwards or get going in any of the other garden patches because i do not need yet another mess to contend with.

digitS' said:

Oh, that Malabar Spinach must be a perennial where you are, Anniekay.

By the way that plant grows here in the Summertime — I can imagine that some pruning back would be needed for those 4. And then, if those little black berries become scattered about ... !

Steve

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We do get frost so the Malabar Spinach does die back in winter but, you are exactly right, they do come back the following year. I rotate them to a new bed if the cutworms don't get them, but usually they do get them: there one day, gone the next !!

I haven't found a "bush" variety of anything that doesn't need staking, trellising, or ends up running all over the place. These are my "baby bush" winter squash plants. I either trellis them or I can't cut the grass.

Oh wait.
I hate cutting grass... maybe I'm doing this wrong !!

flowerbug said:

mentioning little black berries, as a kid we had fields out back that often contained little black raspberries, they didn't grow very tall but they did get spread all over the place. there's some red raspberries growing along the edges of the ditches here and also in a few other spots, but i refuse to let them travel inwards or get going in any of the other garden patches because i do not need yet

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I am transplanting my blackberries into containers, 1 each, and the same for my raspberries and uppotting the blueberry bushes. They are going to live in my 20x45 foot beeyard with the bees. There are grapes on either side. I hope the containers contain them yet let them overwinter with out freezing out...