2025 Garden!

[np307]

Peas and carrots for supper. Not a great haul of carrots, too much nitrogen I think. Beautiful leaves but dinky carrots. 4 year old only messed up once, but it cost me a basil plant. My fault for interplanting carrots and herbs lol.

 

[Sixmile]

First harvest of my asparagus patch. Went well with a new York and baked potato.

 

[Sask hunter]

Forgot pictures but planted 75 hills of potatoes this morning

 

[JShane]

kale and brussel sprouts are almost done. Getting a decent harvest of cucumbers. Spaghetti squash starting to ripen. Missed a zucchini and it got a little big.

 

[np307]

May has been cooler than April with more rain so far. Everything's still coming along great. Peas ran out of trellis and they've started collapsing but I need to get okra in those beds anyway so I'll let them go for another harvest or so then cut em down. Lettuce is starting to bolt. Tomato plants are looking healthy. Squash is growing well too.

 

[Caseknife]

Insulation that I put around the garlic and strawberries last fall because I lost the outer 6-8" of each bed the winter before. Worked fine, full beds this spring. Onion harvest from last summer and lower garlic production from freezing over the winter. Garden shed I built last year. Pretty much just finished planting everything today, just have the tomatoes in the greenhouse still. Hopefully we are past our last freeze, fingers crossed. We had a hard freeze last June 16th! Planted tomatoes three times last year.

 

[Caseknife]

One of the things that we have started doing the last couple years with tomatoes, garlic, onions and basil is to chop it all up and mix in a big bowl and then freeze in quart zip-lock bags. Easy to thaw and instant Italian mix for adding to anything.

 

[np307]

Walked by this afternoon and spotted some San marzanos already growing.

 

[brymoore]

Picked our first two artichokes from the plants were overwintered. Fourth year for the plants.

Peas, fava beans, brassicas and few other plants are up. I need warmer weather for the last push of warm weather plants.

 

[Dave N]

Still cutting some asparagus. Have to water the flowers daily waiting for rain and the wind just won't stop! @Nick87 get that dust storm yesterday? Missed me but got blasted hard in the afternoon trying to mow. Almost couldn't stand up!

 

[Sask hunter]

Froze last night here. I think today or tomorrow we will finish planting most of the garden

 

[Nick87]

Still cutting some asparagus. Have to water the flowers daily waiting for rain and the wind just won't stop! @Nick87 get that dust storm yesterday? Missed me but got blasted hard in the afternoon trying to mow. Almost couldn't stand up!

Wind and dust were brutal. What a difference from yesterday to today.

 

[Dave N]

Wind and dust were brutal. What a difference from yesterday to today.

Yep! Saw some pictures of the dust cloud rolling through. Looked like a desert sandstorm. Zero visibility!

 

[Gellar]

Yep! Saw some pictures of the dust cloud rolling through. Looked like a desert sandstorm. Zero visibility!

Been terrible here to. Dry, windy, bare fields and HOT!

 

[Keep on]

Strawberries are getting going here. Got 3 yesterday, hand full today.
Buttercrunch lettuce Caesar salad with dinner tonight, and a bowl of strawberries for dessert.
Some days it seems worth the hundreds I spend on a garden to save on produce.

 

[Sixmile]

Soon to be rhubarb syrup.

 

[Sask hunter]

Peas, carrots and beets planted yesterday. Some more stuff to plant in a week or so when the soil warms a bit more

 

[Caseknife]

Soon to be rhubarb syrup.

What is your method?

 

[Caseknife]

Strawberries are getting going here. Got 3 yesterday, hand full today.
Buttercrunch lettuce Caesar salad with dinner tonight, and a bowl of strawberries for dessert.
Some days it seems worth the hundreds I spend on a garden to save on produce.


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Just makes us kind of proud when we can look at dinner on our plates and see that we have either harvested or grown the food. Garden vegetables taste so much better than any store bought veggies.

 

[Sixmile]

What is your method?

Rhubarb Syrup Recipe - How to Make Rhubarb Syrup

How to make rhubarb syrup, which is fantastic on pancakes, in soft drinks or cocktails, or as a glaze for chicken or other poultry.

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Just the hank shaw recipe.