Gardens anyone?

[Raquettedacker]

Got a bunch of sun flowers ...   

[boondox]

Nice people always love color with having to much green yellows a stick out color none the less..

[rgfixit]

Love sunflowers Dom. The volunteers under the bird feeders are quite healthy. I also have 2 plots on either side of the garage and the new plot in the yard with 5 different varieties. They're really good for attracting solitary bees who do 90% of garden pollination.

Got a vegetable garden.......plant flowers!

Rg

[Raquettedacker]

Eat your cucumbers .....
https://www.livescience.com/51000-cucumber-nutrition.html 

[rgfixit]

"Commonly planted varieties of pickling cucumber include Royal, Calypso, Pioneer, Bounty, Regal, Duke and Blitz."
Never heard of or seen any of those varieties.

Hey ....wait......did you hear that?  I think I heard a fish jump!

I'm outta here👍

Rg

[tomturkey]

You can have your cukes give me an old fashioned pickle, right off of the vine. They have way more flavor.


I have no interest in them once they are pickled you can have them. I am sour enough as I am. I do love the sweet pickle relish the wife makes.

[rgfixit]

Anti-Pickleite!

I've been searching around for some cheap buckets to put the rest of my pickle starts in. No luck so far.

Rg

[Raquettedacker]

If your looking for 5gal buckets look at the bakery department in big stores.  They get there frosting in them and throw them out..  I got a bunch to put sap in for syrup...

[rgfixit]

I'll try that Dom,
Thanks.

[ActiveTrapChecker]

The beds are coming along nicely. Pickles and cukes are still struggling but making progress.

Pepper bed:



Tomato bed:



Melting pot bed (zucchini, summer squash, tomatoes and some peppers crowded together, with beans and sugar snap peas outside the bed)



As always, a Work in progress...

[boondox]

Also try menards they been running 5 gallon buckets on sale same with lowes.com..

[rgfixit]

Free or really dirt cheap is what I'm looking for Boon. I really don't need to plant anything else. I just have a dozen good starts that I hate to toss.

ATC, the beds look great. You should gett a nice harvest.

My Yukon Gold potatoes have blossomed, not the Norland Reds though. I'm hoping to be able to harvest them in July so I can replant with a fall crop. Maybe snow peas or something like that.

The tomatoes are blasting out of the ground and I have to spend time today tying up my pickles and cukes. They're starting to trail along the ground and grow tendrils looking for something to climb.

A new red squirrel has moved into the area that needs to go for a ride. Little bugger is digging holes everywhere.

Time to set the havahart.

Rg

[Mac Attack]

Time to set the havahart.

Rg

I have a pellet gun you can borrow Bob.

 

[rgfixit]

I have one too, but I never see him in one spot. Besides, my Bride would hemmorage worse than Trapper.

Rg

[Raquettedacker]

Garden beds look awesom Bob.
Love the way they look with a new layer of compost on to it...