2025 Gardening Thread

LMT66 said:
This years bean supports made with conduit, netting and duck tape!.
She is 5’ and can pick from the deck. I’m 6’ and will pick from the grass.
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In past I've planted scarlet runners and have used them for shade, privacy, as well as food .. plus the hummers love the blossoms too and that's a great reason in itself.

What climbers have you planted here?
 
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taldesta said:
In past I've planted scarlet runners and have used them for shade, privacy, as well as food .. plus the hummers love the blossoms too and that's a great reason in itself.

What climbers have you planted here?
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The last few years have been several kinds. Bush, yardlongs (seeds from China), kentucky blue and one other.
This year all Burpee Kentucky Blue. These seem to do the best in our yard so we only planted these.
 
This spring I have been trying to re-tame a weedpatch that grows over my head. (Still trying to get the riding mower started ... new battery and sparkplugs, fresh fuel ... so far a fail ... so it is on to the fuel issues I guess.) Time to ask a friend for help... 💡

I had left the property in 2021. The maple succumbed to sun scald injury. Just back to help out a bit before camp trip north.

On the very spot where this beautiful shade maple had been thriving ... Well this most natural of berry gardens took shape. A couple of birdbaths stacked ... fed with a hose for now. Strawberry & raspberry wild garden ! No human planting required ... 😁

Canada Day planter added ... for July 1st celebration. Note watering solution . Yes, I will be using a kiddie pool for tomatoes.


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So I thank the birds. A little weeding, watering and mowing around its boundary to stop the grass from seeding into it ... and the chipmunks and birds will reap a berry delicious harvest 🌱

... just for fun ... a short short 🎵🎶🎵

 
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I loved this planter so I put 2 seeds of bush beans in the top and 6 plants of 2 diff types of cherry tomatoes in the other pockets.
Then I realized the pot can not hold enough soil for this many plants. Sooo I put it on top of a another pot filled with soil, in hopes the roots in the top pot find their way through the drainage hole and into the bottom pot .
I put it under this frangipani tree to use as a trellis.
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acaptainnn said:
I loved this planter so I put 2 seeds of bush beans in the top and 6 plants of 2 diff types of cherry tomatoes in the other pockets.
Then I realized the pot can not hold enough soil for this many plants. Sooo I put it on top of a another pot filled with soil, in hopes the roots in the top pot find their way through the drainage hole and into the bottom pot .
I put it under this frangipani tree to use as a trellis.
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I like this planter too .... and agree with your thinking that space for roots will be tight .. wow ... especially for such an ambitious grouping as beans plus tomatoes.

You may find that setting the planter in water so these big plants can feed from their roots ... then you will still have the challenge of tall beans vs tall tomatoes duking it out for the sunshine.

Here's to your creative experiment. I'll follow along.
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Cherries are in, as well as the first wave of Blueberries. Peaches and Figs (my favorite) just around the corner 😋

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