Lettuce Pray! How is Your Garden Planning Going This Year? 🌵🪴🌱☘️🌸🌻💐

[NightTwister]

My wife got a plant from a student's family for an end-of-year gift. To water it, you put 6 ice cubes on the dirt once-per-week. Sounds like the perfect plant for those with a "brown thumb."

 

[tourist]

My wife got a plant from a student's family for an end-of-year gift. To water it, you put 6 ice cubes on the dirt once-per-week. Sounds like the perfect plant for those with a "brown thumb."

I have a 'brown thumb' too. I might just try that ice cube hack in my garden. Got plenty of ice too.

 

[tyler87432f]

Potatoes, beetroots, zucchini, podded pole beans; purple ones this year (definitely not the rose beans! Horrible! Learned from the last year.. let them grow too much and pods become wooden!),
carrots, onions, cucumbers.. Cherry tomatoes, only if I can find them already potted to a ampel.
I have tried to grow cherry tomatoes (from the seeds), they will grow, like crazy, and then produce tomatoes, but those are never sweet as they are promised to, so I don't know what went wrong..

Chives, parsley, dill, spinach, lettuce..

As for flowers, I should not be let to a summer yard section at the stores! 🫣 And even worse if there is a sale going on...

So far I only got Diascias, Calibrachoas (I always try to apt the ones I do not need to remove the flowers from). Piones, Rhodos (which I want more, I want a rhodo garden!), Hostas, Osteospermum... And a whole lot of other flowers here and there, perennials..
why on earth does english have these hard names for their plants, or do they have nicknames in english? If so they are hard to find.
We call these:
Osteospermum = Starry eyed (or just star eye as literal trans.)
Calibrachoa = Millionbell or Japanese bell


Also in the garden there are, red currant and black currant bushes, maybe there are a few goose berrybushes too. Apple trees grow by themselves, so does sea buckthorn bushes, but I am aimin' to kill few of those ones!


Today, since it wasn't so windy, onions went to the ground.
After that it was time to give time to my most plenty of plant, common chickweed! I gave it and all of its offspring a nice and warm welcome to my garden for it this year with a flame thrower

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there are thousands of common chickweeds getting ready to grow.. Probably not visible in this photo.


I guess I have alway been in the garden, even if I didn't want (as a kid), but getting older, so it is nice to grow and store your own food. And flowers are beautiful pixmig’s photo albums around the garden!

I remember one time when I was a kid (maybe 10 years old) and I had my friend over, my brother and I had to go plant potatoes with our parents.. I was soo jealous that my friend didn't have to , she just walked around the field and played by herself.




Oh, that purple Tradescantia is a one I would buy if I would see it in a store, not that I need anymore indoor pants either.. but there is always room for one more!

Yes i see that

 

[Billyd]

Yes i see that

I noticed that one of the comments in that post was "My tomatoes are never as sweet as they are promised to be"

I had this problem for several years. The landscaper at my favorite garden center gave me a solution for the problem. It was a small bag of trace minerals to use on each individual plant. I sprinkle a couple of tablespoons around each plant when I transplant my plants.

I also put a 1/4 cup over my raised beds (4'x8'x8") before I transplant into them.

 

[Mem]

My gardens all ready to grow. I have dill in a pot with basil, and mint in its own pot, as well as a strawberry in a tub, and four peppers, two kinds of yellow, one hot, one sweet, and a red and an orange sweet pepper in a window box.

The rest are all flowers. In a pot:

pansies
lobelia
(giant) phlox
geranium and ivy geranium
common and variegated periwinkle
petunia
lantana
begonia
impatiens
String of hearts
There is a stub left of some catnap since Pearl (my only remaining of three feral residents) noticed it and over-loved it (don't tell her I have another one on the front porch).

lavender that came up sprouted from last year
Bee Balm
Coreopsis
vinca
a mini-morning glory
verbena.

I can't seem to get a grip on keeping them alive but that has stopped me from trying again this year with three, not doing so well, zinnias.

Catharanthus hybrid "white peppermint"
Arizona apricot blanket flower
blue salvia
gerbera daisy
catmint (Squishy favor this one especially and claimed it for himself).
hardy banana tree
dahlia
blue delphinium (larkspur)
lemon balm
garden sage
marigold
browallia (bush violet)

I have a small apartment. Otherwise, there would be much, much more.

 

[Elizabeth35]

Okay, mid July. We're in the middle of gardening season for pretty much every zone. How are the gardens looking? Did things germinate? Are they thriving or barely surviving?

It's been a rough year for mine, but I'm persevering. My flowers are doing better than my food but at least some things are growing!

 

[seoulsearch]

Okay, mid July. We're in the middle of gardening season for pretty much every zone. How are the gardens looking? Did things germinate? Are they thriving or barely surviving?
It's been a rough year for mine, but I'm persevering. My flowers are doing better than my food but at least some things are growing!

Thanks very much for this, @Elizabeth35!

Don't feel bad, I think I've made my own (flower) bed, and am now trying to make my way through it!

Here are some updates:

1. I've discovered I really like fresh sauteed tarragon leaves. Unfortunately, both of my tries wound up as casualties. I think I got too small of plants and was a little too enthusiastic about the harvest (cutting off a bit too much at a time.) I also think they weren't very happy indoors, but I liked having any edible plants inside to help avoid pests.

2. Last year was the first time I was ever able to grow something (pansies) from seed to full flowers. This year, the pansies flopped but I've had some success with cosmos flowers. Almost every day, I'm able to pick a flower to put in a bowl of water in my kitchen, and it makes me happy!

However, the other day I noticed a conga line of aphids on one stem . I promptly love-bombed everything with neem oil and hopefully that will take care of it.

3. My current pride and joy is a rose plant that produces small but bright pink roses, marked down because had blooms but they were in their late stages. This is the first round of roses they've had from bud to bloom while in my care, and I am thrilled that it has so far survived my black thumb!

Speaking of which, I have probably 4 other plants that aren't going to make it, but I can't give up on them -- not just yet!

I would love to hear how everyone else's growing adventures are going!

 

[Mem]

The banana peppers that are ripening. Everything is doing good except for one of the blanket flowers (I moved it, and it did not like the new spot) and the delphinium seems to be struggling in its pot. Even the zinnias are doing okay and offering a few new blooms. And the giant inpatients and hearts of string patio planter I rescued from the clearance rack went from sickly drying yellow to deep green and revealed their blooms to be pink, and a bonus! A stowaway Heart of Jesus emerged out of the middle of the bunch and has stolen the show as the main attraction!

 

[Mem]

A stowaway Heart of Jesus emerged out of the middle of the bunch and has stolen the show as the main attraction!

I didn't know what this was when I saw it, but I couldn't miss it. I learned that the Google homepage on my phone has a feature, Google Lens, underneath the search bar that uses your camera to identify plants and result was that this is an Angel Wings/Heart of Jesus.

 

[enril]

mine

Hey Everyone!

I've spoken about my Toxic Thumb before, but for some reason (and to nature's dismay,) I keep trying!!

The fact that I have pretty much no luck or skill is pretty embarrassing, considering I have family members who were professional farmers! But for some reason, even with everything I've killed, I still can't give up! Last year I was able to grow pansies from seeds (my first successful growth from seed to mature plant ever,) and this year I'm going for a world record (for me, at least) of trying to grow flowers from seeds 2 whole years in a row!

I also have a small group of people I keep in touch with on CC, and we are almost on the verge of starting a "Plant War" -- or maybe it's just all in my imagination. I just know that every time I see someone post a picture of their latest awesome garden pics, it seems to give me "Plant Envy."

In the meantime, I have a small assortment of indoor plants, with these two being my crowning jewels (these are stock internet photos -- my plants look good but not quite THIS good!)

I couldn't resist the bright purple glow this one gives off!

And I am particularly fascinated by this Rex Begonia. It has red stems, red leaves, and black spots -- not a single part of the plant is green, and is unique to any other plant I've tried (in my very limited experience.)

I can only have container plants and have limited space, but I also want to pick up some basil and possibly a strawberry planter, if I'm feeling brave. I know the entire plant section shudders every time I walk by, but I just can't resist!


How about YOU?

* What things are you planting in your garden this year?

* What are your favorites, and biggest successes?

* What are your biggest gardening failures, and what did you learn from them?

* Who or what got you into gardening, and are you teaching anyone else?

* If you're not a gardener, do you know someone who is?

Lettuce all be thankful... For everything we have growing around us! I'm looking forward to hearing all about what YOU'VE got growing.

mine did nothing but grow over with weeds.… but the seeds were almost as old as me………