Lullabelle
Midlands, England
Our azalea is looking lovely
What’s going on in your garden (2025)?
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Lullabelle
Midlands, England
The bees are loving the lavender in our front garden 
Barriehie
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I haven't seen many bees yet. Usually when the clover blooms and then it's mostly bumblebees.The bees are loving the lavender in our front garden
Lullabelle
Midlands, England
The bee population has been a bit low so we are doing what we can to encourage them.
Barriehie
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I've got a bunch, about 4500, wildflower seeds I need to strew about I just haven't figured where yet.
Barriehie
Guru
One of my two squash plants is really going to town! This from seed I saved from my nutso plant last year.
My first ever cucumber plant!
My first ever cucumber plant!
Herbaceous
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I had a few green onions that overwintered in my garden, they were just the perfect amount I needed for my salad at lunch!
badjak
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If you would have cut them a bit higher, they keep coming back.
I use them as chives
Herbaceous
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I know, but these particular ones have been coming back for several years now, and I’m planning to solarize the soil there this year (I’ve got a fungal disease in the soil that I’m hoping this will get rid of). I figured I might as well use em while I can!
Barriehie
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Solarizing is good! I checked that out where I planted my garlic to kill a particular grass/weed. In the peak of the day it was 70 °C under there! Only thing that came back was the green onions and I'm okay with that.
Herbaceous
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I solarized a portion of the soil last year, and I’m doing another section this year. The bit that I solarized last year has hardly any weeds coming up now compared to the other parts of the garden, so I’m hoping it did the trick.
The fungal disease showed up in 2020 and it’s super annoying - I’ve lost several tomato plants to it each year. They grow normally for a bit, then the stem starts to shrivel at the base, and the whole plant wilts and dies. Plants just a few feet away will be unaffected.
Barriehie
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I'm making my garden plots out of field. In the sping when I bring the mower out I'll cut 100 ft.^2 and cover with cardboard until end of July, solarize August thru October, then mulch and till over the winter. Not the best picture but at the top you can see the added section covered with cardboard and the wood weights.
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badjak
Legendary Member
Could be phytophtera, maybe pythium
Barriehie
Guru
Alright! The weather cooperated and I got everything tilled under that wasn't something I planted. Put some cardboard down and brought my 6 month old mulch pile down from up the hill to distribute when I get the cardboard finished. It's supposed to rain for a few days so that'll stick the cardboard down on the ground so it's most effective at weed prevention.
rascal
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3 weeks til winter and still growing and picking lettuce spring onions and radishes . These are in stand alone boxes.
Russ
Russ