re: 2025 Spring Garden Thread

Yeah I looked it up later and realized the eggs are squash bugs. SVB shouldn't be a huge deal with the tromboncino, but I still took pleasure in ending it.

Just want to chime in, I've also had great success with the prime ark freedom variety in SE Louisiana. My plant has been in the ground for 4 years and each year has produced more and more berries. I've already picked 3 pints and probably have 2 or 3 pints left just from the one plant. Credit to the Arkansas AG center for developing it. I've watched way to many of their videos on blackberries.

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Mine only produces in the spring in South Louisiana. Further north you can get two harvests. Mine struggles a bit in the summer but come February takes off like crazy.

Looks like I’m digging potatoes tomorrow and pulling some onions. Picking squash by the 5 gallon bucket partially because the 6-8 plants are loaded and Mrs. Sausage doesn’t pick them early enough. Down to about 1.5 pints of strawberries now.

I tried it last year and still had SVB issues. But I’ve heard many success stories. Maybe I did something wrong. I dunno.

flowers

zinnias, pickerel weed, bee balm, rudbeckia, sunflower, hidden ginger, etc

nothing to it, stick the seeds in the dirt and walk away. There’s tons of varieties but to be honest, the black oil seeds sold as birdseed grow the best and make the most flowers. Plant the seeds one at a time and spread them out

if you want eating seeds plant the mammoth varieties but you’ll need to be vigilant if you have squirrels

flowers are a gift. I’m about out of sunny beds but I do have a bunch of dirt left so when it dries out a bit I’ll build a couple more. Plus it gets rid of grass…win win

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however am now finding out at least two of my straight neck squash plants were zucchini

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My plants are pretty, but nothing being made yet.

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cucumbers have baby cucs setting eveywhere.

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My minis do, but burpless not doing anything. I think I have just about proven to myself that I cannot grow anything in that bed due to watering laziness.

I was out pruning my cucumbers this morning and saw I had some jalapeno peppers ready to pick and got a dozen of them off the plants. Then while tying up the bell pepper plants I saw I had a couple ready and right across from them there were a half dozen tomatoes from bright red to orange ready to come off the vines.

This is my first garden since summer of 23 due to my having to have 2 nasty ankle surgeries and I got a later than normal start, but it's starting to pay off.

I've also got lots of hot pepper varieties, pole beans, zucchini and yellow crookneck squash and about 60 okra plants all doing great right now. I bought some Japanese Yard Long pole bean seeds earlier today and will put up a new trellis tomorrow for them to grow on. They are very prolific and fast growing and one of my favorites.