re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

Finally got mine looking decent enough to photograph.

Butternut, cucuzza, candy roaster, and tromboncino squash are starting to climb and flower. I have Chinese long beans and some kajari melons on the trellis to the left. Random poblano that needed a home as well.



I let volunteers take over this bed. I have what I'm assuming are desi and scallop squash, okra, peppers, and cherry tomatoes in it. I'm going to be pissed if all the peppers are Tabasco.




Container eggplants and peppers are looking healthy. I replaced the peppers that I lost with some volunteers.



Black Krims are growing way faster than the rest of the tomatoes. They didn't do worth a shite last year.



Pretty curious about this one. Dwarf Tamarillo from Baker Creek. The leaves smell pretty funky. Took about a month for the seeds to sprout but it really took off once it warmed up. Supposed to make a small tree. Will have to take it inside during frosts.



My Rio Grande peach tree is about to collapse. 3 years old. I culled about 200 off of it and couldn't stand to remove more. Hopefully they get bigger and I can keep the deer off. They're starting to smell like peaches.




Prickly Pear cactus and an Aji Charipita pepper. I got drunk last Cinco de Mayo and stole a paddle from the Mexican restaurant's landscaping. It's growing pretty quick. My wife left the pot empty for a year so I claimed it and planted the pepper. The day after planting it I got the whole "I was gonna use that" spill. Too late.

I'm glad the cactus is spineless. I'd be up at night wondering how sharp the spines are if it had them.



Hope I get a few squash before the vine borers get after them. There are eggs all over them.


The shite thing about a bermuda lawn is that you can't keep it out of the beds. I gave up on pulling it. It grows up from under the borders.