What Did You Do In The Garden?

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I picked the first red tomato and was delicious, shared with DH and DS. I dug a few potatoes and they look great. I pulled the cabbage. There were a lot not forming heads. I made coleslaw and chopped and blanched the rest and froze it. I pulled weeds and it is a lost cause, but the garden is growing. I picked some more squash and for supper we had kale, fried squash, new potatoes and coleslaw and chicken.

 

[Nyboy]

Rabbits your dinner

 

[bobm]

Rabbits your dinner

 

[ducks4you]

I can't get it to grow here for anything and when I lived in Kansas I just loved Morning Glory.

Count yourself lucky.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/controlling-bindweed.htm
You are talking about bindweed, which even in a propagated form usually spreads uncontrolled underground. Whenever I dig it up and collect all of the little pieces and burn them bc they will regrow even from a 1/4 inch piece.
Also, I have heard of using boiling water on poison ivy, which I intend to try first and then apply D-2 to it, letting it dry out and then carefully pulling up and throwing in the garbage. More...
Bindweed
Plant
Convolvulus is a genus of about 200 to 250 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include bindweed and morning glory; both names shared with other closely related genera. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Convolvulus
Higher classification: Convolvulaceae
Rank: Genus
https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CONVO
https://wiki.bugwood.org/Convolvulus_arvensis
https://owlcation.com/stem/The-Hedge-Bindweed-or-Morning-Glory-An-Invasive-Plant
http://www.gardensalive.com/product/morning-glories-are-fine-bindweed-is-not/you_bet_your_garden
Plant morning glories with caution. Even an annual can drop a lot of seeds.
Here is aNOTHER plant that is sold and it is VERY INVASIVE!!! We see these growing and taking over fences voluntarily in our county.
http://www.trumpetflowers.com/
To be a devil's advocate I like both the volunteer (probably planted by a bird) purple columbine gradually working it's way around the front of my house, but I have a friend who hates having to pull hers up.
I killed my bee balm...and the other bee balm, both invasive.
I also love purple malva and have another friend who won't have it. I killed mine, too, but I think I'll try again with those as a filler plant.

 

[ducks4you]

On Monday I got 12 more tomatoes transplanted. Yesterday evening after I got home they looked a bit wilted so I soaked them. Dog got me up at 4:30AM and lo and behold a really nice soaking rain!!!
It rained for at least 3 hours straight. The only victim was my mulching mower that I had left out, but I usually keep it housed and I think it will be ok.
My filler sweet/Indian corn is sprouting and I will mulch the seeds I put in: brussels sprouts, cucumber, zucchini, large grey pumpkin, mini pumpkin, and watermelon.
I should explain for those who haven't followed WHY I have planted so late:
1) Brussels Sprouts planted as a Spring crop taste sour. You can harvest them even if there is snow;
2) Cucumbers, Zucchinis and any other squash get killed every year by squash vine borers and squash bugs, both of which are eating and breeding in July, gone in August, which is when MINE will be flowering.
3) The corn bed is where I just cleared out blackberry vines and I wanted a realiable filler. Don't care if they set seed, but I suspect I will get a few ears to dry out for next year/decorating.
The weather service took the Extreme Heat Advisory out and now we just have a Heat Advisory from noon today though 8PM Friday. I will be home again today and get done what I get done.

 

[ninnymary]

My eternal war is Morning glory I hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Same here. My neighbor has it and it keeps growing on my bamboo. I'm constantly pulling it out!

Mary

 

[ninnymary]

I looked at 2 green tomatos that the rats had bitten.

Mary

 

[ducks4you]

OH, I WILL get cucumbers and zucchini. I've done this before.
Sorry about the rats!!

 

[PennyJo]

Bin weed huh still hate it I guess whatever will try the cardboard

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I killed my bee balm...and the other bee balm, both invasive.

You KILLED your bee balm and here I was going to make a post about the smell of bee balm. I tell you it is like magic at night in my yard. I told DS last night I should plant nothing but bee balm. It is the only smell I have ever got him to comment on and he said I should figure out how to bottle it for perfume. The whole yard has this smell after you water at night. Are you talking about white bindweed, the blue morning glory or the purple Grandpa Ott growing all over, or all of these? I guess if the blue would do what the white bindweed does then I would hate it too, but I would sure like to have some growing on a fence. I guess some childhood memories I have of morning glories and also lilacs I love the smell of.

I do have a lot and it is all from one plant I bought years ago divided it and then I guess it is spreading and also through the compost. I do have bindweed with the white flowers. I grow it well. It is over my whole garden and yard. Are you talking the white flowers or the blue flowers? I have even started the blue from seed and I read that probably where I live it would not come back from seed, but Grandpa Ott would which I did start some and they came back for awhile, but not as pretty as the blue. Grandpa is kind of purple, but I could not get anything like the picture I am posting here. I would barely get a single vine to go up a fence and think I did something wonderful.