How's your garden growing?

[prolesunited]

Came back from vacation and the garden (and weeds) have gone wild. We now have broccoli, a yellow banana pepper and two baby zucchinis in addition to lots of herbs. And the tomato plants have tons of blooms.

Yum yum. Can't wait for more.

So, how's your patch doing?

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Taking a vacation early in the gardening season is a real morale booster.

Usually when you come back everything's looking so much bigger and better.

We're eating our own early tomatoes, cukes, summer squash, basil,chives, mints, and other perennial herbs. Hot peppers will be ready soon followed by the bell type. It looks like the plums are right on schedule -- should be harvesting them by next week. Everything else is on a slow pace because of our mostly cool weather this year.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Lots and lots and lots of tomatoes

Peppers are flowering.

All the broccoli main heads are harvested, and there's another one coming up. Cauliflower is still coming out.

Zucchini is flowering.

[prolesunited]

8. An animal stole our cauliflower

Seriously, we had four in big baskets. Just climbed in an grabbed three, hardly disturbing the dirt because they hadn't had time to root. Came back and snatched the fourth the next night. Nothing else has been eaten since.

Weird, huh? And I know it wasn't my husband because he likes cauliflower.

[EstimatedProphet]

21. Neighbors, maybe?

[Courtesy Flush]

3. You must live up north

Down here we planted in late February (admittedly a little early, even in the South). Out tomatoes produced by the dozens, and seemed to be kaput. The second crop of tomatoes has been planted.

We're picking green beans daily. Same with peas.

Planted late corn, just starting to form ears

Tons of basil

Still have carrots inground

Okra doing well

Peppers and eggplant are under-producing, but making enough for the two of us.

Greens and lettuce did well, but they finished up long ago. Too hot for them now.

Leeks are small. They take a long time.

Blueberries did well -- for small, new plants.

Same for blackberries.

This is our first year of gardening in two decades. We got the bug after a trip to Italy last year. Everyone had gardens instead of lawns. As a bonus, food prices skyrocketed, making our timing really good.

[prolesunited]

9. Sounds wonderful!

We live just outside of Chicago so the season is considerably shorter and we had a really cool May and June.

[Connonym]

19. Heck I just planted a few weeks ago because we had such a weird weather pattern

all I've got is some emerging lettuce and edamame and when I say emerging I mean really, really baby

[stuntcat]

4. the squash are taking over

The squash have doubled in size like every day :o a few squash and zucchinis are taking up half the bed.
My okra plants look good, I'm excited about them.
I have too many tomato plants because a lot came back from seeds but none are old enough to eat.
I'm growing one broccoli and one cauliflower and they're looking good. I've never grown them before.

So far I've only had one cucumber and a few herbs that I could use but soon I think I'll be giving things away, especially tomatoes. And jalapenos :headbang:
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[XemaSab]

5. Growing really well

We've gotten a squash, one very odd cucumber, a sad little unripe eggplant, and a LOT of tomatoes.

In addition, all the flowers are doing well, except for the clematis, which has died way back. Anyone know if that's normal?

Oh, and on edit: there's a LOT of stuff that just isn't ripe yet, including squash, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes, and uh... some other stuff that I forget. :P

[BarenakedLady]

6. Lettuce is bountiful,

Tomatoes have little ones growing, two pepper plants have yet to flower, pea pods growing, zucchini plants ready to take over garden by brute force, brussel sprouts are slowly growing, carrots almost ready to dig out (some), and the cucumbers and watermelon sprouting tendrils. My lone sunflower (compliments of a bird) is catching up to my height.

[Arugula Latte]

7. With silver bells, and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row.

:)

[tigereye]

10. wild - can't mow and prune and clip it fast enough...

it keeps raining and raining


:hi: proles


My annuals are very happy though, haven't had to water them in about 2 weeks!

[Nickster]

11. I had my first salad from my victory garden this past weekend. This is my first attempt at growing

any vegetables, so I'm not sure how it will go overall. I have some onions, red leaf lettuce, cukes that just started sprouting, some cilantro, two types of chives and a little strawberry planter that is just starting to sprout. Almost forgot, two bell pepper plants started to sprout too.

[jpak]

12. It's a slug-infested swamp - too much rain in Maine

:(

[otherlander]

13. Children destroyed it.

:grr:

[femmocrat]

14. Really well, thanks to the daily rain shower.

The first tomato plants I put in drowned, so I re-planted. These are doing well. I have a lot of blossoms on them. I also have two yellow peppers and a small green pepper, and lots of herbs.

I didn't get my garden in until Memorial Day weekend.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Until about a week ago it was sulking.

We had a cool, rainy spring, and the plants just sat there for about a month and refused to do anything. Finally the tomatoes are starting to grow, and the lettuce and pea pods are flourishing, but the beans and peppers still aren't doing much. I think the zucchinis will do well (they are almost indestructible), but I don't hold out a lot of hope for the watermelons.

But let's talk about hostas. Those are doing extremely well. In fact, they are starting to frighten me.

[grannylib]

16. We have six tomatoes on the deck, and four cukes and

three different varieties of peppers (jalapeno, ancho, and hot red chiles); they're all doing well.
My flower garden is really starting to pop too, especially my William Baffin rose - it's going absolutely crazy.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. The deer ate all my tomato plants -

:cry:

[kineneb]

18. squash have started, large green tomatoes on

looks like everything else is doing well. I have become a firm believer in raised beds and drip lines. (Especially because making a dent in the ground requires a digging bar or jackhammer.)

[carlyhippy]

20. 2 tomatos that need to ripen up

some zuccini blossums coming on, a few strawberries, but the robins are sampling those. We had a strong wind come up and it blew away all my pepper tags, I cannot remember what in the world I have on that side of the garden, I guess it will be surprise!

[Left Is Write]

22. Like crazy. The green onions are almost ready. I picked and ate several...

sugar snap peas last night, just standing there in front of the garden. It doesn't get fresher than that! The zucchini and pumpkin are going great guns. The corn is as high as an elephant's eye. I have tons and tons of chives.