We’ll move the corn from the greenhouse to a cold frame in a couple of weeks. Once it hits the top of the cold frame we will take off the cover and let her rip! PNW corn growing…
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You are growing the orchid outside?
Moth (Phalaenopsis)!
Our 2026 asparagus crop lol. I’m sure next year will be better! We are having the few spears for dinner though, along with rib steak and snow crab. Should be good.
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Here on Kauai, our yard is full of orchids…and right now, a lot are blooming.
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Big day for me; I prepped my veg garden with a last clean-up, placed and hammered in all my t-stakes (this takes a lot of time and effort) and planted five tomato plants. Then I ran the galvanized wire between the T-stakes (this is used to support the tomatoes as they grow.)
I also put string beans in the ground around a trellis. I don’t know if they are bush or vine - we shall see.
Didn’t get cukes or peppers in the ground … that was enough for today.
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Sounds beautiful! I’m guessing most. If not all orchids will grow outside there!
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All orchids grow outside here. Some orchids like Cymbidiums have some trouble blooming as there is not a sufficient chill in the winter for them. We have orchids in pots, stuck on bushes and trees, hanging everywhere. It’s a real visual treat.
Since this is a thread about food gardening, I have to say my wife does most of the gardening, and we can garden all year round here. It’s wonderful as it provides the bulk of our fresh vegetables.
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Maybe you can share more here!
I am eagerly looking forward to my cymbidiums!
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Yes, they love my outdoor lanai. Ill put more on the flower thread.
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I brought my plants out one day last week because it was supposed to be 60 and sunny. Our one day that was supposed to be nice (and it was, while I walked around at work). Came back and my poor plants were traumatized - many drooping over, a few leaves that had dried tips. It made me weary of bringing them back outside to harden up any time soon. WTF happened??
You should put them in a shadow first, on a sunny day. Just for a couple of hours. Next day, maybe give them 30m max of sun, then back to the shadow for a few hours. Next day, an hour of sun. Then two. Then maybe four, and maybe the next day they can start to stay outside. They need time to adjust. I’ve also nuked a couple of plants in the past by giving them “only” a few hours of sun. (And I personally wouldn’t do any of this until we’re out of the 40s, but based on some other replies to the thread here it sounds like I might be a bit too conservative.)
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So I quit my job to babysit my plants. Got it… 
Yeah, they’ll have to deal with the tiger parent side. They’re going to figure it out in the next two weeks, or they can be compost.
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I’ve been holding off putting the pots back out 'til it warms up again.
@a_m I wouldn’t go through all that even if I had both the time and actual areas of sun and shade (I have a balcony). I do three or four days of 4 hours outside, then 8, then overnight.
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I’ve done minimal hardening in the past because of lack of proper space that a dumbass squirrel or other critter won’t get to, and actual time commitment. I was thinking I could try to do it properly this year, and my plants all gave me the dramatic hand. So, will just wait till it warms up a bit more and then they all go outside.
Or that! That would also work.
I think milage varies on the attention to “hardening off”; probably depends on intensity of sun and temperature extenes.
I’m still bringing mine in at night, but then I did quit my job!
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Hardening off is in full swing.
Except for the cukes, because they are wimps.
Cilantro, dill, parsley and over-wintered tarragon. Yes, I plant my herbs in alphabetical order. Is that weird?
Sorrel, chard, Komatsuna (spinach-mustard) starting to really get going.
It the time of hope!
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Peas, maybe first and last. Expecting 90’s soon
Crimson clover
Poblano and Italian frying pepper seedlings
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Those clover flowers are gorgeous. Is there some culinary use case for them?
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Only indirectly; attracts pollinators, soil building, erosion control, and weed suppression.
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