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I e wanted to start this for awhile but...so busy! So I'm going to be adding pics from spring till now.

I have a drain area for our swim pond and sealed to various trees. Hoping to grow cherries, nectarines and peaches here. These plants are pushing my zone a bit but I'm hoping the pond helps!
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We planted Chinese empress trees. We certainly hope they are as invasive and hardy as advertised.
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It has been one of wetest years. After last year's drought it's welcome.
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The grass and alfalfa are huge!

Also, I did some very small, one tractor bucket scoop swales along a fence line and transplanted 6 caragana starts there. Only 1 died. The rest are doing great.

The excessive rain also brought our first blight. We felt blessed to watch the toadflax die.
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The greenhouse got out of control very quickly.

I have 1 basket gourd plant and it's gotten out of control.
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I had hummingbirds visiting my bee balm. That was a first

Another first was when I went into the greenhouse to discover we had tomato hornworms. No one I know has ever seen them before. My kids loved them.

We took about 12 of them out of the greenhouse and put them in a tub. Kids tried feeding them all sorts of plants but alas, they only eat tomatoes apparently.
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Got 1 good pepper from the greenhouse. I've had so much pest pressure in there this year it's been a disaster!
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Basket gourd now.
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My compost is clearly not hot but it's growing great pumpkins
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elle sagenev wrote:Another first was when I went into the greenhouse to discover we had tomato hornworms. No one I know has ever seen them before. My kids loved them.



Chickens love (to eat) hornworms..
 
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We grew corsican gourds but started them too late - lost alot to mildew in the Autumn. I just loved the sphinx moths that would visit the blossoms! Did you make anything with your gourds? I never turned mine into bowls - need to get some sort of tiny saw, apparently, to cut off the lids.

"The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command." -Samwise Gamgee, J.R.R. Tolkien

 
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