With some warm weather in the Pacific Northwest, my garden finally picked up and started producing! I was able to get some good greens for a soup and salad, along with the first bunches of herbs! Pictured in the basket:
They were delicious! What sort of greens are you harvesting?
It's an older meme classification, sir, but it checks out
I've only grown grain for my cats......rye is an excellent catgrass.
I've got our lettuces, onions, and various cole crops started and planted!
I need to get started on the rest of what I'll be growing this year.....I haven't gotten any garlic or potatoes started, ehh.....
You′re walking in the woods
There's no one around and your phone is dead
Out of the corner of your eye, you spot them
(Written in Rust)
They're following you, about 30 feet back
They get down on all fours and break into a sprint
They're gaining on you
"Written in Rust!"
You're looking for your car but you′re all turned around
They're almost upon you now
And you can see there's blood on their face
My God, there′s blood everywhere!
Running for your life (from writing in Rust!)
They're compiling a knife (it′s written in Rust!)
Perhaps the ICP should appeal more to the everyday layperson.....a gender neutral term coined in 1972, just seventeen years before the unrelated 1989 release of Belgian techno anthem, Pump Up the Jam.
It's mild and wet in the Pacific Northwest. It's been in the 40s, mostly. I was hoping it'd be closer to the 50s but NOPE! I started a bunch of plants in February - lettuce, kale, several hundred onions, spinach, carrots, you name it. I transplanted them a week ago during a spat of more normal 50s weather.
I have a good cold frame cover over my raised bed plot, and thank goodness.....everything appears to have survived, despite local 30-43F degree weather here. That includes one dip to 31F! I'm super happy! Spring 2025 friends:
Welcome to the Fediverse! Thanks for the post, I love your authorial tone!
I will check out Polonium! Thanks!
I know you said Gnome, but if you are willing to look at Plasma, I've just started using Bismuth on KDE Plasma and I think it can do at least a chunk of that. It can set particular sizes with Window Rules, it looks to have a quite robust shortcut system, including resizing windows, swapping, rotating, or changing layouts. As for the focus vs open, KRunner lets you choose the active application when you type it's name. There's also this: https://github.com/academo/ww-run-raise but I have not used it and cannot vouch for that.
Alligators steal hats all the time?
Howdy, gardeners! It's been a minute since I posted, but my PNW garden is just getting up to steam!
My first cukes came in, I'm growing 'Spacemaster 80' slicing cucumbers and 'Homemade Pickle' cucumbers, for obvious reasons.
I've just made my first batch of pickles using a Claussen knock off recipe from the forbidden site, so we'll see how that goes. It just went in the fridge for cooling, so I get to try it in just a couple days!
I've started researching canning, as I want to can peppers, tomatoes, beans, and maybe corn - should the Corn Experiment prove bountiful. Learning how to Not Get Botulism seems pretty important!
My tomatoes are doing well - I'm growing Roma, Gardener's Delight, and Oxheart.
I'm endlessly fascinated by how the Roma tomatoes look like they do on the label of the can :)
Those are in containers. The other two varieties are trellised and are going nuts!
Gardener's Delight:
Oxheart:
Gardener's Delight Closeup:
Oxheart Closeup:
All the peppers are finally flowering. I'm growing Serrano, Jalapeno, Poblano, Shishito, and Ground Cherries. They are all growing rather well except a couple of the Shishito's in the raised bed seem quite small.
In my Three Sisters Garden, corn is growing fairly well, it seems half of them are 'normal' size and the other half are still half height, so I may have packed it too tight. I'm growing Blue FM1 pole beans, which have just flowered and are doing well, as well as pumpkins, of which two have grown so far, still green.
In the Squash Garden, I've got crazy vines from my Kubota squash, with 4 or so gourds growing. I planted beans here but they never really took off.
I also built a 'Wildlife Garden' this year. It's open to the public (animal visitors) and I don't do any pest control here. It's also gone NUTS! I have Blue Hubbard squash growing a mile a minute with 8 gourds on the vine, scarlet runner beans reaching for the sky, some ridiculous sunflowers pushing their way up, chamomile, clover, feverfew, boy it's wild! It's fun to look at.
For salad greens we've had the 'Tower of Power' going for a few months - it was a strawberry planter that I stuck a bunch of transplanted lettuce/chard/kale/mustard plants into. It produced salad for us every couple days, pretty excellent! My wife asked me to start migrating it back to strawberries, so I've started that process. Due to that, I've replanted a bunch more greens to keep us going!
And speaking of those strawberries, I'm propagating a bunch of strawberry plants (june-bearing) to have more ground cover for next year in addition to the strawberry tower, and I'm hoping my ever-bearing strawberry will put out runners, but it's still fruiting consistently!
I got a small onion harvest (time to figure out how many onions I'd actually need in a year), and plenty of garlic. This was my first year growing onions, and half the garlic was from last years harvest!
I also have numerous other things going - my lemongrass is growing really well:
As is my celery in a pot:
I've been growing marigolds and nasturtiums all over the place. The nasturtiums are great in salad! My cabbage started doing pretty well once I defeated an Aphid Menace that was stunting them.
So, that's my big ole report! What’s growing on with you all?
(Apologies to LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org if I stepped on your toes, I felt compelled to make a weekly thread!)
Spring is approaching! I've just set up a level 1 greenhouse (plastic tier, I'll have to grind to upgrade to glass and metal....). Regardless, it's exciting! My seedlings are doing well, I can't wait for better weather!
What are you going to grow this year, Beehaw?
cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/37238
To the Window! To the Wall!
This is a beautiful Lemon Queen sunflower in my backyard. I've planted a whole row, but this one shot up and got an early start, the rest barely have their heads grown.
I'm growing these as part of The Great Sunflower Project, a citizen science effort to track pollinators in the United States. These were chosen for their wide appeal to pollinators, and true to form, there is always at least one sort of insect buddy visiting at any given moment!
I'm self hosting this, and it works pretty well. It can be integrated with Google Calendar with some effort, and it works with CalDAV (which I'm using through NextCloud).