What Did You Do In The Garden?

[Anniekay]

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.

 

[Vanalpaca]

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...

 

[digitS']

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

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

 

[flowerbug]

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.

 

[Anniekay]

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

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 !!

 

[Vanalpaca]

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

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...

 

[Anniekay]

I harvested my potatoes this morning.

I had two Red Norlands and three Yukon Golds in the ground.
I got 19lbs out of it.

I had two big whoppers from the one Yukon Gold that was planted with my Fava beans. From the size of those, I think they made good companions !!

I didn't put them in the sun to cure since I am not storing them. It's too hot here. I plan on making fries and mashed potatoes from YG's and will cut up the RN's, par-boil those for homefries and all will get frozen.

 

[Dahlia]

I harvested my potatoes this morning.

I had two Red Norlands and three Yukon Golds in the ground.
I got 19lbs out of it.

I had two big whoppers from the one Yukon Gold that was planted with my Fava beans. From the size of those, I think they made good companions !!

I didn't put them in the sun to cure since I am not storing them. It's too hot here. I plan on making fries and mashed potatoes from YG's and will cut up the RN's, par-boil those for homefries and all will get frozen.

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We once moved into a house that someone apparently had a garden in the backyard previously and when I started turning the soil to prep it for my own garden, I found lots of Yukon gold potatoes! There was also a small rosemary bush and a few chives! I ended up making rosemary potatoes that evening after my discovery.!!

 

[digitS']

blackberries

Blackberries struggle through Winters here and yet are so abundant on the warmer side of the Pacific NW. Perhaps the seeds are carried by birds but the only locations where they are successfully are on some locations very near the river – the very lowest elevations and benefiting from the temperature moderating of open water.

I once had a gardening neighbor who planted thornless blackberries and raspberries in the same row very near my garden. Over several years, I watched how the oldest blackberry vines weakened and died. At the same time, branches and roots established new blackberry plants in the raspberries.

The blackberries pushed the raspberries out but, to an extent, the raspberries also traveled. They traveled right into my garden. I tolerated them but pushed the blackberries back. They claimed the entire row over time but steadily died, showing very little production during their final years. I had that garden for nearly 20 years.and those invasive raspberries for about 5 years. They were doing fine but the blackberries were long gone.

 

[SPedigrees]

I harvested my potatoes this morning.

I had two Red Norlands and three Yukon Golds in the ground.
I got 19lbs out of it.

I had two big whoppers from the one Yukon Gold that was planted with my Fava beans. From the size of those, I think they made good companions !!

I didn't put them in the sun to cure since I am not storing them. It's too hot here. I plan on making fries and mashed potatoes from YG's and will cut up the RN's, par-boil those for homefries and all will get frozen.

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Wow, that's quite the harvest!