What do you Grow?? The Garden Thread

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It was right after I’d weeded and mulched and they were really looking good.Some might recover, they still have a few small leaves.
They didn’t bother the peppers and other plants but they did yank an okra up by the roots.

It’s always something.
Bugs, hail,or evil geese.

From my garden this year.

/\Very very beautiful!!

thanks

Gorgeous blooms, Noca. Outstanding!

I got a blazing star too but it hasn't bloomed yet, should soon though.

Rented accommodation just doesnt lend itself to a gardening hobby... came back after visiting family to find that the landlord and I had a miscommunication about the wording "a quick tidy up" and they had arranged for a butcher to come by with an electric hedge trimmers and reshape the in flower, flowering shrubs into 'neat' small balls and squares.

3 varieties of hydrangea, Goldmound Spiraea, Yellow potentilla, 2 types of purple berberis and 2 types of Pieris japonica forest flame and numerous variegated shrubs all had this years growth, yes including the flowers hacked off, so that they fitted into some kind of topiary nightmare look. I had a shutdown for a few hours.

Had I not trimmed each branch previously with a secateurs to have a natural and healthy shape, I might of coped better.

Atm I'm really enjoying your gardens, thanks for the pics

/\Now that’s a horror story.I am so sorry.
A friend had that happen to the little vegetable-herb garden she had planted, the landlord came by with a weedeater......all the plants she bought and started from seed were massacred.

Thanks misslizard, it's a difficult one for more indoorsey people to understand. "It is just a plant, that will grow back".

On the plus side, Im using cuttings that the butcher missed in his clean up and have started propagating them for next year.

I dont know how I would react to that weedeater situation... not well. I might invite them in for a re-laxative cuppa.

I declared a beer trap war a few years ago on slugs after they munched through seedlings. Not a bad way to go...

/\I guess Guinness doesn’t give slugs strength.lol But they died happy and that’s what counts.
I don’t know why people prune flowering shrubs into balls and lightbulb shapes.It looks like crap and they don’t bloom well.All the apartments in town have the same horrible prune job.

I'd love to see a photo! We have wild native blazing star here, but the habitat it likes is also coveted by orange groves and developers. I can only find it in unmowed roadsides and narrow stretches of unmowed railway rights of way.

Amity, I feel your pain. When I lived in town, I came home to find the landscaper spraying Round Up on my herb garden. I have no idea why people want shrubs trimmed into artificial shapes. This is very popular in Florida. Drives me nuts. I am so sorry for your loss! All those flowers!! !!

My Angie mango is almost through, Maha Chinook is still going strong, Carrie and Pickering are just barely getting started. I had a delicious Pickering the other day. It has the flavor of coconut overlaying the mango flavor.

Here is another bromeliad, I can't remember the name, but the hummingbirds love it.

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My pineapples are beginning to ripen. Here is the first below. Not all pineapples taste the same. This one was juicy, sweet and low acid. It was heavenly.

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Florida Survivor plants are doing well, but I am keeping them on the window sill, perhaps until September when in theory it gets a bit less hot.

I have a Black Krim doing amazingly well.

There are other things that aren't doing so well, but I try not to focus on them.

That is a perfect pineapple.One year my indoor one actually made a small fruit.I think it was because there was a bushel of apples in
the house and they release some sort of gas that triggered fruiting.It was small, but tastier than any I’d ever purchased.
Dry and hot here, dragging the hose around the yard.
Live trapped a giant rat off the front porch.I think it’s name was Ben.
It was huge and looked angry.He is living down by the river now, hope he likes his new home.
Pooping on porch here is not allowed and will lead to relocation.
He also was snacking and chewing on the houseplants.
The squirrels are back and made a sneak attack on the blackberries.Then a mouse made a nest inside my new rechargeable lawn mower, I had to remove the cover to evict it.Thankfully none of the wiring was chewed.
The snakes are obviously slacking around here.There is a huge black snake, I found the shed and it’s a good six foot.He should be able to pack down several rats easily with room for a few after dinner mice.

Well my yellow cherry tomatoes are finally beginning to come in. I didn't even know if it would be worth planting this year because winter was so, so late. And then when they began to come up we were hit with a drought. But they finally came. I picked 4 pounds of them today. Once they come I should get around 3 pounds a day for a month or more.

Wow that's excellent, I remember you posting pictures of seedlings

Thanks!