The tomatoes are finally growing. I am also getting a good amount of strawberries every day


I LOVE these Relleno pepper blossoms


I hope I love the peppers as much


This is strawberries on the left, Armenian garlic top right, and my beloved horseradish bottom center.


These are volunteer Sweet Williams growing in a neglected part of the property


Here are my Mako onions I started from seed sent to me from a fellow gardener in New Jersey. He said these are by far his longest storing onion.


I'm getting a nice big bowl of raspberries every day now. And these are my first ever french breakfast radishes!


My breakfast after tending the garden this morning. (Waffles from scratch )

Wow, Toni -- Everything looks wonderful !

I just planted some raspberry plants (given to me by a friend) this spring -- I hope they do half as well as yours

@Weedwacker
Sandy-
That is how I got my raspberry vines! And they just spread like crazy if I let them.
Thank you for your compliment




I was so excited to see some zucchini today!



Here are some baby Roma tomatoes

Do you have some photos of your gardens to share?

Toni said:Do you have some photos of your gardens to share?

It's been so dang rainy here I haven't taken any!!

I will soon -- although my garden is still in the pretty early stages at this point.

I think that is what is so fun about this site - seeing climate, plant timing, and growth stages. So it is still interesting to see gardens in the early stages
And BOY don't I know what you mean by rain! We went from torrential downpour pours to 100 degree drought over night! Crazy weather

Had the day off from the day job so I harvested the garlic before the Gophers could eat it all!
This is Armenian garlic from Get garlic.com. They are a wonderful family business with beautiful delicious garlic.

Really nice-looking garlic, Toni -- you should add that photo to the plant database (I see you already have one there of the plant itself).

I didn't even think of that!

My Grandparents had a raspberry bed in the middle of their lawn. They controlled the spreading habit by just mowing. I'm thinking of trying the same...

Yardenman said:My Grandparents had a raspberry bed in the middle of their lawn. They controlled the spreading habit by just mowing. I'm thinking of trying the same...

That's pretty much what we're doing... it's not in the "middle middle" of the lawn, but it does have lawn surrounding it on all sides. Still a work in progress, but it will have a border of landscape timbers to define where the bed ends and the lawn starts, and (hopefully) make it easier to mow and trim around. I know the plants will be able to spread to the lawn underneath that border, but hopefully mowing will keep them from getting out of hand. Or else we'll have a raspberry farm

Weedwhacker said:

That's pretty much what we're doing... it's not in the "middle middle" of the lawn, but it does have lawn surrounding it on all sides. Still a work in progress, but it will have a border of landscape timbers to define where the bed ends and the lawn starts, and (hopefully) make it easier to mow and trim around. I know the plants will be able to spread to the lawn underneath that border, but hopefully mowing will keep them from getting out of hand. Or else we'll have a raspberry farm

That is wonderful. But may I offer a suggestion about framed beds to make them easier to mow around?

Get a roll of 10" wide sheet aluminum and attach it to the bottom of the frames so it sticks out at ground level. You will never have to trim around the frames again! Standard mowing will work just fine.

Yardenman, wouldn't the sheet aluminum get awfully messed up by the lawn tractor running over it?

Anyway, I like trimming -- just call me Weedwhacker!

Well the @#$!& Gophers found my red onions I am hoping they don't get ALL of the onions.
I thought they got ALL of the potatoes but it looks like they left a couple.... At least until they grow to harvest. We will see who gets there first

Toni said:

All I can say is that it's a good thing you live so far away from me or I would be raiding your garden and stealing some of those raspberries. Wow!! They are beautiful.

@greene

I would love to share with you
I should be getting a second flush here before too long.

On a sadder note - I just noticed the Gopher has eaten my biggest Mako onion


I've set traps and just can't get them!

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On a sadder note - I just noticed the Gopher has eaten my biggest Mako onion


I've set traps and just can't get them!

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OMG! WHY do they always seem to pick the thing we really have our eye on to harvest??

That's what I want to know! There are hundreds of acres all around me and the have to devour my garden

Its because you do such a good job on growing it, they know it will taste great! No sense going down the block where they do not take care of their gardens.

This is the earliest I have ever had tomatoes!