#garden2024

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Omie in the bean patch

[wytchwyse]

My Fox Gloves grew from seed!, and my lavender survived the winter. Now just to get out in the yard to do some real cleaning up, so I can actually have a nice garden for the season.

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Seed startinggggg

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Ants doing their thing on the field peas

[blindmanwalking]

Everything else is coming along two weeks early, and therefore, the deer are in my garden two weeks early.

Joke's on them, though, they got one little grazing party a couple nights ago, but everything that was tall enough to catch their interest doesn't give a fuck. It was a little trim to them, nothing more. Got my tarp out and put it over the fence poles my dad gifted me for Mother's Day.

So far so good. Some twine ties it down for the night to keep any wind from blowing it off. Or the deer just walking under it.

Beans are actually recovering. I have three different plantings of corn that are going well, and the watermelons are vining out. Sunflowers are getting more leaves and are ready to start shooting upwards.

The heatwave sucks for me, but a lot of these are specifically hot weather crops. So it's been refreshing to see them take well to it at least.

[blindmanwalking]

Have 90 F days coming up the next couple days, so I tried to see what could be done in the garden today. I'm going to do a bunch of weeding closer to sundown, but we had some plants ready!

Peas have been coming in slow but sure, and we had radishes ready to pull. I'm not much of a fan of radishes, but they are quick to grow. We also had a couple sweet peppers that we sat down and ate raw.

I accidentally pulled a pea plant while trying to get some climbing milkweed out of the garden. However, the leaves are still really good to eat, so we had those with everything else.

Not a lot of my peas germinated, but we're grateful for what we have.

Lots and lots of corn is coming up, alongside a fair number of sunflowers. Potatoes kind of hit a standstill in terms of leaf growth, but I hope that means the potatoes themselves are getting big!

[blindmanwalking]

Okay, ants, I give. No beans this year- APPARENTLY- but you all aren't a fan of peas, corn, or squash.

So that's where we're taking the garden.

(Yes, is a little late for planting from seed, but the fall hasn't been as cold. Which means a longer growing season overall.)

And I'm buying seeds for the special beans next spring. I won't give up on trying again!

[blindmanwalking]

No more planting (until late summer, for fall crops). However, I did put out my pineapple plant and fig tree to get some time in the sun.

I'm really scared that the fig tree leaves might get eaten by insects, but the plant has run its course being indoors and potted. We want to get it into the ground either this weekend or next.

It's a Chicago hardy fig, so it's supposed to be able to go dormant in winter and start sprouting leaves again in the spring. I actually saw quite a few of them during my visit to Chicago! They were quite plentiful in North Chicago neighborhoods.

That said, hibiscus was also rather common for me to find in Chicago, and our two hibiscus plants didn't live through the winter. So here's hoping that was fluke.