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

[karadekoolaid]

Yesterday, it was seed-planting time.
Scotch bonnet
Red habanero
Carolina Reaper
Fenugreek
Nigella
Cardamom (never tried that before, but worth giving it a try)
Some unknown tomatoes .
I also repotted the two curry leaf plants and potted some cuttings of the "Lady of the night" (Cestrum nocturnum) . The "old"plant is just fine, but it was looking a bit scraggy, so I trimmed it back in the hope that it will look a bit less haphazard in the future.

 

[badjak]

I'm harvesting pawpaws and masau....
My curry tree is growing wild.
One of my double leaf* lime trees keeps fruiting, the other one just gives me leaves. I'm not too sure what to do with the fruit. Sofar, I just take off the skin and dry it.

*I've decided on a new name for the tree

 

[MypinchofItaly]

I'm harvesting pawpaws and masau....
My curry tree is growing wild.
One of my double leaf* lime trees keeps fruiting, the other one just gives me leaves. I'm not too sure what to do with the fruit. Sofar, I just take off the skin and dry it.

*I've decided on a new name for the tree

Lime jam maybe?

 

[Barriehie]

I'm harvesting pawpaws and masau....
My curry tree is growing wild.
One of my double leaf* lime trees keeps fruiting, the other one just gives me leaves. I'm not too sure what to do with the fruit. Sofar, I just take off the skin and dry it.

*I've decided on a new name for the tree

Ferment it!

 

[badjak]

Ferment it!

There's no juice in the fruit.
And a lot, really a lot of really bitter pith

 

[Barriehie]

There's no juice in the fruit.
And a lot, really a lot of really bitter pith

Hmm, perhaps a home concocted bitters for drinks?

 

[badjak]

Hmm, perhaps a home concocted bitters for drinks?

I think I will just collect enough peel for Thai red curry paste and keep trying to remove the blossom
I'll collect pips as well and see what tree I end up with

 

[Lullabelle]

On the deck in the back garden, annuals but they are colourful

 

[Lullabelle]

Starting to get some bees

 

[Barriehie]

It's been raining for weeks and has really wrecked my tomato plants. Too much water really messes them up for absorbing the right nutrients. Leaves curling and turning purple, then yellow, then dead.

One of my Big Beef plants is 6' tall, stalks going everywhere, and barely a bloom on it. I'm going to trim the heck out of and give it some bloom booster food.

I bought 3 more tomato plants today and a sage.

 

[karadekoolaid]

We finally got some rain last night, which I hope will help my chile plants recover. The leaves all turned brown at the edges and the fruits were small, scraggy and covered in brown scabs. I've got no idea whether it 's a fungus, whether it's an insect (or insects) or whether it was birds. Refreshed the plot on Saturday, added some extra nutritious earth, sprayed with an anti-fungicide, sprayed with a strong insecticide, put down some ant pellets (there's a large ant here called a bachaco which will strip a plant overnight) and some slug pellets. Tomorrow I'll add some extra nutrients to the soil and then repeat the process for a month or so and hope for some success.

 

[Barriehie]

I got my round three tomato plants in along with my sage. I've never grown sage before I had to look it up.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I got my round three tomato plants in along with my sage. I've never grown sage before I had to look it up.View attachment 145940

It can be like a cross between heather and mint given the chance. It takes over and gets long and leggy but the bees and butterflies love it.

 

[Barriehie]

My garden is starting to produce.

 

[Barriehie]

It can be like a cross between heather and mint given the chance. It takes over and gets long and leggy but the bees and butterflies love it.

Should it go in a pot, or box???