Food Gardening 2025

I just submitted a few words ( Knowing Your Onions; five obscure facts) about them for our local Master Gardeners
blog! :smiling_face:

I had a similar raised bed with redwood planks. Maybe 25 years later, the planks are fine, but the beds are unsustainable; overrun with roots from the nearby still alive redwoods. One them.

Also, I am still “stumping” for Dwarf Tomato Project tomatoes! These are in Earth Box Containers

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First peas are flowering
Favas


Sugar Snap

I don’t think I have had Sugar Daddy grow so tall before!

Also flowering

A hummer!

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I bought 16 packs of new flower seeds and vegetable seeds this past week. I am looking forward to being able to plant. I doubt I’ll be planting anything before Easter.

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Gorgeous. Our trees won’t flower until late April/ early May.

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Oh gosh, I don’t think I can handle this…

What do you mean? Whatever you mean, sure you can! I’m just in to overthinking it.

Same applies to these Sugar Snaps, which are apparently not “Sugar Daddy”.

Maybe “Sugar Magnolia”.

@bogman Could it be Dwarf Grey Sugar? I bought that one from a different company a few years ago, but don’t remember growing them.

Yes, Dwarf Grey Sugar makes very similar flowers, if not identical. If it is that variety, you’ll want to harvest flat pods kind of young, as they get fibrous. Pods are green on this one. You can let some mature to see if they’re Sugar Magnolia, which will be obvious if the pods turn purple/maroon.

I usually grow Dwarf Grey Sugar for sprouts, shoots which many call “tendrils”. On the small plants (5-7 inches high), the tips are clipped, picked off to use as a green vegetable. These tender tips typically contain just one mature leaf, plus an unfolding one and the vine tip. For sprouts, I grow them in trays, densely-seeded, and grown in complete darkness to obtain blanched shoots. These are best in salads and as garnishes, raw vs. cooked.

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I finally got some seeds in the pots the garden. Sticking with my shishito peppers and thai chilis. I had to transplant my old scallions from the border of my old in group plot to planters, so waiting for these to show signs of life and hope that they come alive when the weather stays more consistently above freezing I got new scallion seeds in case these die (and no thanks to the aggressive squirrels who were digging in the planter on and off all winter).

Planted 2 types of tomato plants (raspberry lyanna, and black krims), sugar snap peas, and my beit alpha cucumbers. Blueberry plants outside showing sum buds! I have so many more seeds but don’t know if I’ll have the space. Itching to try asparagus for the first time, but slightly confused about the instructions saying you don’t harvest the first few years?? If that’s true, I don’t know if I can give up space to wait that long. :roll_eyes:

I also have Japanese cantaloupe seeds, but stories online of the bugs and pests they tend to attract has scared me off of planting them (plus the concern over the space needed).

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You definitely have to wait a few years for asparagus to come in - they might sprout a few the first couple of years, but don’t harvest. They need the energy. Once established, they’ll produce for a decade or two. Unless you transplant them, in which case you go back to square one. IMO fresh-picked asparagus is so worth the time and effort - you can’t (in my 'hood at least) buy anything that comes close in flavor to fresh-picked.

A bright spot in an increasing dark world.

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Yay! To that end , mostly Dwarf Tomato Project seedlings

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Hey - you just got an extra hour of sunlight :flushed::upside_down_face::grimacing:

And my little guys are LOVING it!

I think they get the same number of sunlight hours no?

Yeah, but maybe plants are like my cat. He much prefers hanging out with his peeps, over getting up an hour before everybody else.

They get what they get! I only have so much plant space.