Join garden writer Susan Mulvihill for a tour of her vegetable garden. You’ll see how the broccoli, butternut squash, tomatoes, cabbage and watermelons are doing. And you’ll pick up some helpful tips along the way. From Susan’s in the Garden, SusansintheGarden.com.
Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. While most of this region is in hardiness zone 6, her garden is in a microclimate, making it zone 5b.
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11 Comments
Hello Susan! Your garden and hydrangea are beautiful! My small border garden, not so much. You are an encouragement and a blessing to watch. Be Blessed in return🌻
Thanks for the tour. The hydrangea is gorgeous!
🙄some of those people will still secretly hold on to the belief that your tomatoes have crossed with peppers because you've planted them too close together. 😏
How do you deal with the bugs and animals. I just can’t get a handle on them
That hydrangea is gorgeous! I wish you had also cut into the BER part of the melon to show what it could look like inside. All part of the gardening experience🙂
I have a question about your potatoes in the grow bags. Do you stop watering them when they die back and at what point in the die back process do you stop watering them? I live SE of CDA so I'm in the same hot, very low humidity climate.
Glad you had a nice trip and missed the heat and now we are getting heat in WI starting Sunday and air quality warnings starting today to Sunday. At least you had a taste of watermelon for your efforts. Did you leave a timer on the irrigation while you were gone?
We never had slugs until we put in irrigation and what I thought was an exploded cabbage was a slug fest which the chickens enjoyed. I grew Wakefield, Flat and Ball head, and Red Acre. The Wakefield is tender and sweet and was a winner with ballhead being very solid an flathead very large.
Having a great year with imperator and Nantes carrots spaced correctly. Still need to figure out beets—probably thinning is needed. And learned my lesson on rutabaga thinning as I have a great crop this year🎉
Yes, there are many oblong paste tomatoes and I think I’m done growing them. I just don’t think paste tomatoes have much flavor. I think many are finding cherry tomatoes to be a winner in recipes for preserving.
Grew Belstar and Packman broccoli and the latter hasn’t sent side shoots.
I was given a lime light hydrangea and think a strawberry one is in the future as yours looks lovely! 😃
like you wouldnt know the difference between a pepper or tomatoe… loll people😂
Susan, thanks for showing the blossom end rot on your watermelons, which is something I have never seen before. Although I don't typically grow watermelons, I did plant one hill of them this summer. I don't know if they will have time to produce ripe melons, but I planted the seeds anyway. They are full of blooms and have tiny melons, so I guess I'll find out soon enough.
It only takes a week or two of vacation to make the garden explode with weeds and produce. I'm happy for you guys that you had a wonderful time on your vacation. Blessings to you both. ~Margie
I’m glad to see you back. I hope you enjoyed your vacation. 😊
Wow I’m going to try Belstar next year, Ive never seen the secondary heads what Ive grown has just had little side shoots.