re: 2025 Spring Garden Thread

Keep us posted, Pillage

Those little bastards are clipping my peas as fast as they come up. Wiped out my rosemary too. Got a damn fine onion crop, been waiting for the rain to stop up here before pulling. Still not seeing many bees and squash production sucks. Cucumbers doing okay, but off as well and I planted the type that doesn’t need pollinators. Not sure how many hail storms we had in the last few weeks, but it took a toll on the plants for sure.

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too late to repland squash from seed?

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Not at all. Plant away.

“First you make a roux”

Got my garden cleaned up today and fertilized plants that are still going. Pulled more than half my tomato plants and all but 2 cucumbers and cantaloupe. I just left the cherries and the plants that still had green tomatoes on them.

Cantaloupes are still putting on fruits. Peppers have bounced back nicely after the deer massacre. Picking jimmy nardellos and will pick shishitos this week probably. The 5 okra plants I planted are starting to take off.

By the end of next weekend, our garden will have okra, black eyed peas, some zinnias, and one pineapple top. I’m nuking this thing and covering with black plastic.

Well, my week away wrecked my garden. I guess my sprinkler system wasnt turned on, so I came back to scorched beans and cucs....so they are getting pulled out. Bird netting mustve had an opening, while I picked over 35 ripe tomatoes, I lost about a dozen to birds. Peppers still going crazy. Also pulling out zuchinni as they just arent producing. Did pick cherry and grpe tomatoes until I was tired and started throwing them in yard. FIlled up four quart bags and gave them to neighbors, still have a couple quarts. They will have that many again in a couple days. I am going to try to saute em with some garlic and onion then use the immersion blender to make some kind of sauce to freeze.

My okra is going nuts and so far I've put up a dozen quarts of pickled okra, 3 large vacuum seal bags of it in the freezer already cut up to cook down later, given away at least 20 lbs. of it to neighbors and family and have a large pot of it cooking down on the stove to make shrimp and okra for tonight's dinner.

I'm picking between 50-60 pods a day off my plants.

Cucumbers are still going good, my hot peppers (habanero, jalapeno and ghost) are doing great but the bells have slowed way down as it's gotten hotter.

Zucchini suffered their normal demise from SVB's after a nice initial harvest, tomatoes are playing out and the plants will be pulled later this week. My two types of eggplant are still producing, but they too have slowed down.

I got tired of watching my pole beans produce beautiful, lush foliage, tons of flowers and NO beans, so they came down yesterday and I will replant with Japanese Yard Long seeds to get an early fall crop in September/October.

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That’s awesome.

How many plants do you have?

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If referring to my okra plants, I have 50 or them in my garden in 3 rows that take up about 1/3 of my total garden space.

Historically, and I've had a vegetable garden in my back yards for over 30 years, tomato plants don't live much past mid July and I plant them usually by early to mid March.

As for cucumbers, they tend to last a bit longer, but mine are already showing signs of stress due to heat and the eventual mold/mildew issues associated with our high humidity and this years plentiful rainfall. I've probably picked 75+ cucumbers so far this season and have quite a few more developing on the plants now.

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When you pull the tomatoes mid July, what do you put in?

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Nothing, since it's so damn hot and humid a lot of new seedlings would struggle to survive.

At most, I have a dozen tomato plants, so I just let that area rest until I start my fall/winter garden in late September.