Our peas and beans are really starting to stretch and climb after some recent rains and warm days, which is always very exciting. However, our purple flowering raspberries have started showing off and they took my breath away.
What’s growing on with you all?
The heat has been kicking my little plot into overdrive. I had to raise up the pest net to allow the little ones to grow safely… But they’re also crowding the heck out of each other at the moment. I think the greenbeans might kill out the less leafy carrots, but we’ll see how they get along.
Best of luck! My beans tend to run roughshod over their companions.
Alt text: an image of various peppers (and one tomato) on a small wooden plate. There are small green peppers, small red peppers, a large curved cayenne, a small bell pepper, and two medium sized green peppers, either anaheim or poblano I don’t know I’d have to check. The red peppers are starting to dry.
I done grew me a garden on my balcony ma! This isn’t all I’ve harvested this season either, wife has turned my cayennes into a hot sauce already, and the red peppers you see here were turned into a hot-paste-base… thing! And my tomato plant keeps giving me fat and juicy bois every week or so. Nothing crazy, just a big red one on my balcony for wife to cut up and enjoy. I personally hate them, but c’est la vest and an alligator chest, as they say.
There’s catnip and pumpkins and sunflowers I’ve grown from seed, and mint and basil and, man, I love having this little garden out there so much :)
You’re crushing it! Hearing how happy this garden is making you just fills my heart, and these photos make my mouth water
This year is my first time gardening. I planted some herbs in a raised bed in the balcony (lavender, mugwort, catmint and some pink parasol) and they are slowly growing.
I also got “Moonlight” roses and the first one opened some days ago (after constantly checking on them lol). I didn’t expect them to be so beautiful and smell so good. I will be collecting the petals to make rose tea.
Hey great job! I know some folks who struggle to get roses half as beautiful as what you’ve grown! I’m sure those others will catch up in their own time
I forgot an onion in a cotton bag and it started sprouting with the heat. Thinking of planting it; should I just bury it with the shoots exposed? Want to get some paprika to deter deers too.
You might only get green onions off of it at this point, but burying it like you asked will certainly get you more, and more nutritious ones. I vote yes!
I plant garlic during the fall for this reason! Fresh garlic chives on my ramen with an egg, yes yes :D
Delish! I pulled about two pounds of scapes yesterday for making pesto
it’s been really hot here, but I’ve gotten into watering all of the outside plants every day (I water my aloe and haworthia once a week) and they seem to be doing pretty well! even the tropical hibiscus, somehow.
I’m especially happy about my lavender and the roses, I’ve mentioned previously I think that roses are special to me because of my grandmother (my grandfather would grow them in the backyard in these huge rose bushes for her and bring them in) and these are the first ones to ever grow and thrive. they’re not purely red roses, but I do really like the pattern on them.
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ooh, that’s a lovely rose.
That’s a really beautiful rose! I bet your grandparents would love the colors it’s putting out.
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The heatwaves been taking its toll. Just trying to keep everything alive
I hope you’re hydrating yourself as devotedly as you are your plants!
Oh yeah iced tea by the gallon
Sweet or unsweet? Lemon or no? Choose wisely, traveler.
Unsweet, sometimes lemons if I’m not being lazy
I’ll jump on the raspberry bandwagon - here’s the handful I got today off of the black raspberry bush by my shed - quite a few still ripening there as well!
! Yummy pawful you’ve got there
Nice Pic!! We’re already eating some yellow thornless raspberries. Yay, Summer!!
Yum! I had my very first yellow raspberries last year and I was so in love with their flavor and color.
Thornless was also a ‘selling point’. Mine were a gift from another gardener. And being raspberries they try to spread beyond their allotted space. So I dig them and put them up on freecycle. It’s super popular, and they can spread their DNA in someone else’s garden. :-D
Always a good trait in my book as well! The one in the post picture has a fuzzy stem, no thorns.
the yard is very crunchy. we haven’t had rain in a few weeks (2-3?), but it looks like it could rain this weekend. i did water my few potted plants that live on the porch since they were looking especially thirsty.
Here’s hoping you get the right amount and timing of rain so your plants can be happy!
I’m happy to trade you some rain, just send some of your sun our way.
