What’s going on in your garden (2026)?

Barriehie said:
When I plant squash they're usually poking through in about 5 days. This might help you moving forward if you've a thermometer. Measure about 3" down. This came from the University of Michigan. I've lost the original link.View attachment 144476
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I’ve started them indoors - we’re still getting the occasional frost here so it’s another few weeks before anything tender can go out.

I have them in a self-watering seed starting contraption under some grow lights (which my husband refers to as my “marijuana growing system”, despite the fact that I’ve never used it to grow marijuana!)
 
Herbaceous said:
I’ve started them indoors - we’re still getting the occasional frost here so it’s another few weeks before anything tender can go out.

I have them in a self-watering seed starting contraption under some grow lights (which my husband refers to as my “marijuana growing system”, despite the fact that I’ve never used it to grow marijuana!)
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Not familiar with the self watering things, or grow lights. I start my seeds in paper cups next to a South facing window but I get your grow season. Just looked up germination times for zucchini and it can be as long as 10 days. I've never grown pumpkins but those are said to sprout in 5 to 10 days. What's the temperature of the soil they're in???
 
badjak said:
I do :)
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I have to grow everything up on my deck since I live in a wildlife management area (critters from tiny voles to 500 lb bears eat everything), but I bought a couple of blueberry plants to attempt to grow in pots this year, along with the ubiquitous Jersey garden of tomatoes, peppers, cujkes, eggplants, herbs, and flowers.
I have to look into getting some kind of netting to keep the birds off the blueberries once they start to ripen.
 
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buckytom said:
I have to grow everything up on my deck since I live in a wildlife management area (critters from tiny voles to 500 lb bears eat everything), but I bought a couple of blueberry plants to attempt to grow in pots this year, along with the ubiquitous Jersey garden of tomatoes, peppers, cujkes, eggplants, herbs, and flowers.
I have to look into getting soke kind of netting to keep the birds off the blueberries once they start to ripen.
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I'm going with tomatoes, two varieties, cucumbers, squash, and 5 varieties of chili's. I missed getting the blueberry bushes this year a money thing happened.
 
In 2024, I ripped out four 4'x10' raised beds that I had built on terraced levels ten years prior to make way for our outdoor living space addition. (The wood was seriously rotting anyway.) That summer, we did not have a garden at all. (Pic of the old raised beds where there is now a deck and covered porch... and our old hound dog, may he RIP):
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Last year, we tried planting herbs and veggies in pots on our new lower patio and down the stairs into the yard, but that proved to be woefully inadequate.
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I don't necessarily want a homestead-style / total sustenance garden, so much as wanting one that is simply for convenience that doesn't require a ton of work. Ideally, I'd love to build a raised garden (or garden beds) with landscaping block, but I have neither the desire to outlay that kind of money at the moment, nor the desire to tackle such a project. So, we decided that this year, we would simply roto-till the sunniest side of our backyard to turn into a garden. I turned over an area that is 40'+ long x 5' wide, which is more area than we had in our raised beds. As if the roto-tilling wasn't enough work, today we began edging clean lines and digging out all of the sod. We probably filled 8 wheelbarrow loads of sod, which filled my wife's Honda Ridgeline that we hauled away to dump at a local landscaper's stockpile. We still have more sod to dig out, but rain moved in this afternoon, so we still have more ground to prep before we plant anything. It's a simple-looking process, but it is proving unbelievably slow.
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Gone Hiking said:
In 2024, I ripped out four 4'x10' raised beds that I had built on terraced levels ten years prior to make way for our outdoor living space addition. (The wood was seriously rotting anyway.) That summer, we did not have a garden at all. (Pic of the old raised beds):
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Last year, we tried planting herbs and veggies in pots on our new lower patio and down the stairs into the yard, but that proved to be woefully inadequate.
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I don't necessarily want a homestead-style / total sustenance garden, so much as wanting one that is simply for convenience that doesn't require a ton of work. Ideally, I'd love to build a raised garden (or garden beds) with landscaping block, but I have neither the desire to outlay that kind of money at the moment, nor the desire to tackle such a project. So, we decided that this year, we would simply roto-till the sunniest side of our backyard to turn into a garden. I turned over an area that is 40'+ long x 5' wide, which is more area than we had in our raised beds. As if the roto-tilling wasn't enough work, today we began edging clean lines and digging out all of the sod. We probably filled 8 wheelbarrow loads of sod, which filled my wife's Honda Ridgeline that we hauled away to dump at a local landscaper's stockpile. We still have more sod to dig out, but rain moved in this afternoon, so we still have more ground to prep before we plant anything. It's a simple-looking process, but it is proving unbelievably slow.
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It is slow! I manage to add about 100 ft.^2 a year and that's starting with a field and getting to where you can plant. Totally worth it.
 
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