WRUG (Growing) today?

I would bet there is a gardener or two among us, lets see what is in your field, container, or greenhouse! Please keep this to plants and garden type things, not your hair and waist line lol.

I grow veggies for work and container plants for fun, beauty, and relaxation. Because of my coastal area we do a lot of drought-tolerant succulents at home.
In the field today: Lettuce!

At home: Mixed succulent container


Show what you grow! 😎

Don’t get me started. Just after we bought our house I stared a biodiversity “project” and have planted a bunch of different stuff. Going quite well

Excellent! Please support those pollinators!

Not sure where you are located, but if it's in North America, and you are on the path of the Monarch migration, I would suggest adding some milkweed to your garden at some point.

Here's ours with some Monarch eggs on it:



That eventually turned into these hungry caterpillars:



And some Tiger Moth caterpillars appreciated it too:

I would really love to grow more vegetables, but the lot where I live is almost carved out of the woods, so there aren't a ton of locations that get enough direct sunlight. So I am limited mostly to potted veggies and herbs. This year we grew lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and several varieties of peppers. Herbs were sage, a ton of basil, parsley, thyme, oregano, and chives. We also have a bay laurel bush (try to keep it from becoming a tree!) that we take outside each spring, and then bring back in each fall, so we have fresh bay leaves all year round, and we give away a ton of dried leaves to people all around us.

I managed to find the home that I grew up in on Google earth (I think that's what I used)...



The red boundaries are the entire lot we lived on from when I was 3 years old, until I was 18 or 19. From birth to 3 I lived across the street in the house that has 2 cars in the driveway. You can see we were on a corner lot and there is a "horse shoe" driveway, and the in the upper part of the image another driveway to the back door, which has a red line through it. The lot above that red line was big enough to put another house on, but growing up it was our vegetable garden (also the weeping bed for the septic system).

My father was a huge gardener, and when I was old enough to help it was what our summers revolved around. Planting the garden on the Victoria Day long weekend here (May 24th weekend), but the prep work started much earlier. My father and I both spent hours and hours out there with a rotor tiller to prepare for planting.

We planted corn, beets, peas, cucumbers, radishes, beans, cantaloupe, and many other seasonal crops. We also had 3 rows of raspberries along one side of the garden, and later on my father planted asparagus that although it took a few years to get going, once it did it was the first thing we ate each year. My sister and I spent countless hours on the back porch shelling peas and shucking corn, taking it inside where my mother had large pots for blanching, and then she would freeze it. We ate our own home grown vegetables all year around, as we had 3 of those large cheat style freezers.

Of course I wasn't a fan of doing any of this when I was young, but I would love to do it all now...

Cheers, Al

Beautiful! I’m from Copenhagen, Denmark and we do have the occasional Monarch here but they are rare. Who knows, perhaps increasing temperatures will direct its migration route further north. I think they are mainly seen in southern Europe. We have several other species of butterflies though and also a huge number of moth caterpillers in our White mustard.

Quite a lot going on in Denmark to get people to plant more pollinator friendly plants. Also a lot of our municipalities have committed to plant flowers in road sides and other places where ypu usually just see grass. Not nearly enough being done but it’s a start.

Here some more photos 😀

I know what you mean. My father passed away a couple of years ago but my mother still live in their house and still has a large, wild garden, just as when I was a kid, with loads of different butterflies, bees and flies. She tried to get me interested, when I was a kid, but I would rather play computer, play with my friend and later chase girls. Now I wish I had spent just a little more time in the garden with her as I could certainly use some of her knowledge now, when I have my own garden. She must think I was paying attention back then, because now she asks me all sorts of gardening related question but I almost always can’t answer a single one 😁

We grow peas, kale, garlic, raspberry, black currant, red currant and some wild strawberries. Herb wise we have also planted sage, oregano, tyme, parsley and chives. The main issue, I think, is to remember to actually use it. I use sage almost every day but the others I often forget 🙄

Some fruits of our gardening labour...

Anybody growing chili (stronger variants) and can recommend a variety? I tried last year but something infected the plants and they died. But I am giving it a go again.

I’ve always had good luck with red Savina habanero

Hey look like many of you have quite a green thumb. Now last week I began clearing this area prior to a tornado coming through there was a purple plumb here. I got a lot to do finish clearing this area but I am finding sprouts of the purple plumb. Do you think this might be able to become a tree. I am going to cut away this old ground cloth. Dig up all the weird stuff growing but I’d like to see this make a come back.

Sea of Kale, it’s What’s for Dinner tonight

… and like many of you, I have plenty of beneficials around also

Not from my garden, but some friends dropped by on the weekend and brought me these beautiful Habaneros...



We just made a huge batch of Chilli not long ago, so didn't have an immediate use for this many, so drying most of them...



The house smells wonderful...Habaneros are my favourites, just love the flavours.

He had also grown some Armageddon chilis, so he brought me some Armageddon salt. Dried chilis crushed up and mixed with some table salt to add a bit of punch to anything you like. Also some Habanero and mango chili sauce.

A pretty cool looking lettuce variety in the yard