[greeneyes]

Pinging the list.

[trisham]

June 1, 2015 in Massachusetts:

[gorush]

Mrs. gorush, let's call her Mary, is an enthusiastic gardener and has been for decades. Her annual efforts amaze me. The resulting flowers and vegetables are a joy to behold and delicious to eat. It came to me yesterday that this forum might enjoy a little pictorial, maybe "Mary's Blossom of the Week". I will attempt to post the top two or three blossom photos of that which is at its prime in the garden during the preceding week. (We are in West Central Wisconsin) I'd love to see what's growing elsewhere, please include a general location with your picts. This weeks efforts: a Poppy, a Peony and an Iris.

[CynicalBear]

Things are going really great here! I have most of the green beans put up that I'll need for the next year and all the spinach I'll need. The corn looks like it's going to produce well and should be ready by the end of June. I'm already drying basil, oregano, and thyme. The potato plants look fantastic so hoping for a good crop there and my carrots look better than any year I have grown them. The sugar peas are still producing and the lettuce us still looking really good. We have eaten more salads this year than any other. I doubled the amount of celery but don't know why. I haven't even used up what I froze last year. The garlic looks about ready to harvest.

But my big excitement is my tomatoes. I grow Roma for sauces but have also been growing my heritage Marian for about five years now and have 40 of those which produce fantastic. This year I thought I would try to really baby one plant to see what I could actually get out of it. I planted it the first day of February and grew it in the house by a window until it was about 4 ft tall with only one vine. Then I transplanted it into a 5 gallon bucket of only compost in the green house and allowed it to get two more vines. I keep all other branches trimmed off up to about two feet from the top of each of the three branches. Get this! It now has 38 tomatoes on it (three I will pick tommorow) and over 20 flowers. I'm going to see if I can get 100 tomatoes from it this year.

[Hardens Hollow]

Was it only last week I joined here?

My smart little beans plants have twisted their little tendrils all the way to the top of the post I gave them. (I have one special-needs one that is ignoring the post I gave it) As have the pea plants with the fencing.

It was all an intermediate-step, waiting for hubby to finally relocate HOME - and help me out. I’ve send pics of the garden to him, and he can’t believe I actually got things to grow! It’s wonderful being OUT of the desert :)

I wanted to wait to harvest anything until hubby gets here, so we can have our first salad together. The lettuces and spinach and radishes are getting awfully bug though!