June Gardening!

[catladymeow]

Thanks everyone! We cut it close to the ground and fertilized and are hoping for the best!

[trtlcrzy]

I harvested my first strawberry this weekend! One was ready before that but I was out of town and DH didn’t pick it. It was tasty!

My clematis is finally blooming! It’s rainy/cool today so the flower isn’t fully open but here it is!

[mb3]

This thread is so quiet it makes me sad. I forget to check in too though.
This year I added three new Gardens, one of which is quite large. Its coming along beautifully and I think my new hydrangea plant might actually bloom this year! One of my new irises bloomed and I was pleasantly surprised to find out its yellow, unlike what the bulb packaging indicated. I think I’ll add some that are actually purple next year though😂

The other two gardens are in my front yard, where the walkway from the house meets the village sidewalk. I had planted verbena and violas there but something keeps eating the flowers as soon as they appear. I’m trying to come up with something to put in its place instead. It’s part shade and I’m leaning towards annuals since I’m not sure how a perennial would do with salt in the soil over the winters. Any suggestions are welcome.

[clucky]

My potatoes were doing so well and then we got SO MUCH RAIN and the pot they were in couldn’t drain fast enough. By the time I thought to check it, they drowned. I’m so sad, but will try again. My neighbor said her potted tomatoes drowned too. Meanwhile, my onion that was doing amazing inside, did not appreciate the outdoors and is withering away.

Everything else is chugging right along: Roma, purple peppers, jalapeños, sweet and hot banana peppers, and a green pepper. I need to get my trellis up for the tomatoes and figure out something for the cucumbers. I have no clue what I’m doing growing cucumbers and cantaloupe.

[melohdy]

Our snow peas died when I harvested the pods. I tried putting some hot weather plants in their spot like peppers and melon. Those died the weekend I put them in...I'm not sure what I did wrong. We have a hanging tomato plant that is trying really hard. We've got about 2-3 flowering zucchini plants but so far no vegetables. Our onions have done AMAZING and I'm sad to have gone through almost all of them at this point.

[trtlcrzy]

I got an icebox watermelon plant earlier this week and it’s already got 3 flowers on it! I’m hoping for big results. I’m considering buying a tomato plant but haven’t decided yet.

[cam]

The first of my cherry tomatoes is up to the size of a large blueberry.

I was so excited about the first strawberry starting to plump up, but then something took a huge bite out of it before it could even start to turn red. Not sure how though considering I have it completely caged in, just big enough holes for bees and such, so the chipmunk must have snuck in from below. I now have the cage more secure so it can't be pushed up, so hopefully I get to enjoy the next ones.

Something is pulling the tops of my carrots down into the ground, sometimes even uprooting them as a result. I also have an ant hill in the corner of that raised bed.

I have been enjoying my green onions almost daily.

I am also finally making a dent in the weeds that have gone wild in the flower beds while I was busy getting the fruits and veggies going.

[clucky]

I’m thinking that one of my cucumber plant isn’t actually a cucumber plant. These purple fruits have appeared and I have questions. The label from the farm/greenhouse is “cucumber”. Only time will tell.


RIP potatoes, they were doing SO good too.

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clucky those are eggplants! Yum!

[Dramaphile]

clucky looks like graffiti eggplant to be precise! Definitely not a cucumber lol

www.melissas.com/Graffiti-Eggplant-p/367.htm

[clucky]

@rocknroll & Dramaphile thank you, I had a suspicion it was eggplant. I have yet to like an eggplant I’ve tried and DS1 is going to be SO sad since we got cucumbers to turn into pickles. So far those are the only “cucumber” plant to bear fruit and it isn’t even right. Off to a smashing start this season. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Dramaphile]

Jul 2, 2018 11:37:48 GMT -6 clucky said:

@rocknroll & Dramaphile thank you, I had a suspicion it was eggplant. I have yet to like an eggplant I’ve tried and DS1 is going to be SO sad since we got cucumbers to turn into pickles. So far those are the only “cucumber” plant to bear fruit and it isn’t even right. Off to a smashing start this season. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Do the others look the same? cucumber plants have stems/vines with tiny hairs/spikes on them and have leaves that are more heart-shaped and not shiny and they shoot out little tendrils.  If you have the same smooth leaves, then the rest of your plants are eggplant or a relative (pepper plants look similar, too).  

This is what a cucumber plant looks like, more or less.  bush varieties are more compact, non-bush are climbers like a vine.  


Depending on your zone, you could probably try and plant some more cucumbers and have some by the end of the summer.  

[clucky]

Jul 2, 2018 11:49:37 GMT -6 Dramaphile said:

Jul 2, 2018 11:37:48 GMT -6 clucky said:

@rocknroll & Dramaphile thank you, I had a suspicion it was eggplant. I have yet to like an eggplant I’ve tried and DS1 is going to be SO sad since we got cucumbers to turn into pickles. So far those are the only “cucumber” plant to bear fruit and it isn’t even right. Off to a smashing start this season. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Do the others look the same? cucumber plants have stems/vines with tiny hairs/spikes on them and have leaves that are more heart-shaped and not shiny and they shoot out little tendrils.  If you have the same smooth leaves, then the rest of your plants are eggplant or a relative (pepper plants look similar, too).  

This is what a cucumber plant looks like, more or less.  bush varieties are more compact, non-bush are climbers like a vine.  


Depending on your zone, you could probably try and plant some more cucumbers and have some by the end of the summer.  

The other 2 are climbing up the fencing to keep the bunnies out, so I’m certain they are cucumbers. Once I saw the purple fruits, I noticed the slight variations in the leaves, but to start off, they were similar in shape and size. Plus the care stick thing said “cucumber” and was in that section. This is a family run greenhouse and market adjacent to our neighborhood and mistakes happen. But if we don’t end up with any, they have a farmers market that I can pick some up at to attempt pickling.

I think I’m zone 5.

[Dramaphile]

Jul 2, 2018 15:15:27 GMT -6 clucky said:

Jul 2, 2018 11:49:37 GMT -6 Dramaphile said:

Do the others look the same? cucumber plants have stems/vines with tiny hairs/spikes on them and have leaves that are more heart-shaped and not shiny and they shoot out little tendrils.  If you have the same smooth leaves, then the rest of your plants are eggplant or a relative (pepper plants look similar, too).  

This is what a cucumber plant looks like, more or less.  bush varieties are more compact, non-bush are climbers like a vine.  


Depending on your zone, you could probably try and plant some more cucumbers and have some by the end of the summer.  

The other 2 are climbing up the fencing to keep the bunnies out, so I’m certain they are cucumbers. Once I saw the purple fruits, I noticed the slight variations in the leaves, but to start off, they were similar in shape and size. Plus the care stick thing said “cucumber” and was in that section. This is a family run greenhouse and market adjacent to our neighborhood and mistakes happen. But if we don’t end up with any, they have a farmers market that I can pick some up at to attempt pickling.

I think I’m zone 5.

If they're climbing, they're probably cukes, so hopefully you'll get some!  I just got a few more seedlings to plant because either an animal or my dog ripped my cucumber plants out and I might as well try to get some late summer ones.  I'm zone 5 as well.