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**Jim White** · April 11, 2024, 02:25 PM

Last year, we barely got a handful of berries from our mulberry tree. This year it went nuts.

Head over to Show Us What You're Baking for the next step!

**smokenoob** · April 11, 2024, 02:38 PM

The caterpillars better go to chrysalis soon because they ate themselves right out of house and home. 😳 The blue wave is just about to come in!

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**Jim White** · April 11, 2024, 02:48 PM

smokenoob

Did you say caterpillar?

I've had to knock quite a few of these off the dwarf mandarin satsuma I just planted a couple of weeks ago.

**Troutman** · April 11, 2024, 05:28 PM

I’ll see your caterpillar and raise you a frog….

**Troutman** · April 11, 2024, 05:39 PM

Tomatoes coming in strong. New PVC trellis that has three more tiers. Replaces some flimsy one I bought off Amazon that got destroyed in a windstorm last year. This one ain’t going NO where.

**smokenoob** · April 14, 2024, 09:01 AM

Opening day at my Patch!

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**PGH_RAM** · April 14, 2024, 11:06 AM

We're in the middle of rehabbing our backyard (it was all weeds, broken concrete, and construction debris when we moved in), so all planting this year is relegated to hanging boxes on the back deck. I figured I'd start with the five herbs I use the most: basil, cilantro, parsley, sage, and thyme.

**58limited** · April 14, 2024, 02:23 PM

Peppers for my hot sauce business. I have more sprouting to fill in the open spots at the end. Just installed the soaker hose system, it will go on a timer. I have some more in a 2' tall planter in the back yard along with some San Marzano tomatoes.

**SammyJ** · April 15, 2024, 09:06 AM

My 2024 Peppers, Drawing of my dual buckets, and fine dusting of Sevin, used panty hose

**bmillin** · April 16, 2024, 08:41 AM

Going big this year. Lots of peppers a tomatoes, raspberries a blackberries along the side. Okra, chard, cantaloupe, pickling cucumbers….

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**Smoke em if you got em** · April 16, 2024, 11:20 AM

It was a decent year for tomatoes, especially the San Marzanos.

The mint jelly was for the lamb chops that went with the caprese.

The start of some sun dried tomatoes. They took a week, even in the AZ sun. All of those made one small jar.

The garden is winding down for the summer, but I also have (or had) sweet potatoes, spinach, various lettuces, chard, spinach, eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, escarole, onions (several varieties), chives (year round), carrots, radishes, artichokes, pineapple, Herbs - rosemary, parsley, basil (several varieties), sage, marjoram, thyme and oregano. ...And like Bubba Gump said, "That's about it."

**Smoke em if you got em** · April 16, 2024, 12:35 PM

Yep, It's backwards here for the most part. There is very little that can handle 110°+ temperatures of the summer. I start my tomato plants from seed in July or August. A lot of the plants like herbs are in pots, so I can move them to different places in the yard to control the shade and sun. It's really different gardening here compared to MI where I grew up.