What’s going on in your garden (2025)?

Well I did it. I emptied my compost bin. I also removed Violette de Bordeaux fig. I planted my Kilo Guava. I cleaned up the 2 peony beds near the California room. I’m now officially tired, lol.
But what is really sad is one my tree peony has died, it’s one of my favorite tree peonies. Maybe we don't have the chill here. But this is it, I’m not going to buy anymore tree peony. I still have some herbaceous peonies that have bloomed several years now.
 
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Incredibly sweet strawberries

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Barriehie said:
Ordered my first round of seeds for '26. View attachment 137641

I've found fava bean seeds, Broad Windsor variety, so I can get around that $8/lb. thing at the market. These are in another catalog I still have to go through.
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Nice! I already have a huge box of seeds. Last year I bought a fava bean plant for $5, but I hate shelling, so no more this year.
 
SoCalZone10 said:
Nice! I already have a huge box of seeds. Last year I bought a fava bean plant for $5, but I hate shelling, so no more this year.
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I've got a bunch of seeds as well. One day I'll actually harvest the cucumbers and squash after they mature so I can get the seeds.

On the fava beans, I found some locally that were very pricy but I used them to make ful-mudammas. My recipe used peeled ones and then Morning Glory has one where they're not peeled, like they make in Egypt. Recipe - Ful Medames
 
In the past few years ago, not recently, I use fava bean as cover crop.

Anyway my husband and I went to Home Depot and get large bag of garden soil, they are used as mulch, and a 50lbs bag of regular sand, I use sand to root my fig cuttings.

Finally I did harvest some satsumas, I’ve been waiting for a week after the last rain so the flavor of the satsumas can be improved. However, I’m wrestling with garden pests and harvesting at max peak for best flavor. It really is a struggle.
 
SoCalZone10 said:
In the past few years ago, not recently, I use fava bean as cover crop.

Anyway my husband and I went to Home Depot and get large bag of garden soil, they are used as mulch, and a 50lbs bag of regular sand, I use sand to root my fig cuttings.

Finally I did harvest some satsumas, I’ve been waiting for a week after the last rain so the flavor of the satsumas can be improved. However, I’m wrestling with garden pests and harvesting at max peak for best flavor. It really is a struggle.
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What are the pests?
 
I’m waiting for the front to be less sunny before I go out and plant my Evelyn rose, a David Austin rose that I paid an arm and leg for à discontinued variety, and they remove a fake Victorian Bride, aka a florist rose. At least I do something today in the garden.
 
Well I did it, but I chickened out, I just left Victorian Bride alone. But I planted Evelyn and Stephen Rulo in my front yard. Fertilized those two roses and mulch them with my garden soil from Home depot.
I thought I would save my energy to trim down the climbing roses in the back, so that’s exactly what I did.
 
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