Updates Gutter, Hanging Tomatoes/Cukes & Grocery Basil

let's get an update on growing in the 2 rain gutters...check on the hanging baskets with the tomatoes and cucumbers in them and finally the grocery store basil which was transplanted. All is going great!

[@PalmettoPrepared]

It's a good thing bunnies are tasty. Rabbit fricassee

[@OldSchoolPrepper]

tiny little juveniles....alas Sarah does tend to find them and one by one they disappear....

[@marygallagher3428]

It all looks fantastic!

[@OldSchoolPrepper]

Thanks Mary

[@CorsairTrainers]

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[@OldSchoolPrepper]

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[@CamppattonFamilyCompound]

Thanks for the update

[@OldSchoolPrepper]

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[@cbass2755]

Aww…I’m with you. I’d protect garden from bunnies. They’re only doing what bunnies do. Garden looks great!! I knew it would…❤

[@OldSchoolPrepper]

darn bunnies, if they weren't so cute!

[@MichaelR58]

Good update, have a wonderful day, thanks for sharing YAH bless !

[@OldSchoolPrepper]

Thanks! ☮️

[@mikesfarmmikesfarm3977]

I do not know if you grow a lettuce alternative in the summer ? I do not like lettuce, so I grow water spinach in the summer. You can keep reharvesting every 10 days to 2 weeks. I do not know if its considered invasive in your region, but I grow in a gutter and do not allow it to bloom. The leaves and stems are delicate and I assume asia uses them in stir frys too.

[@OldSchoolPrepper]

thanks for the info, i cannot grow lettuce to save my life....it just goes from tiny to seed...so i'm doing something wrong. So I also grow spinach and beet leaves, swiss chard, mustard in place. I'm going to look into water spinach.

[@vickenator]

I'm a month late on this one! Sorry if that messes with your algorithm. I've yanked some of my bolting/flowering lettuce at this point and letting the others come to flower so I can try to collect seed for next year. MIGardener's video on it was very helpful but I anticipate some frustration, plus I haven't been keeping good track of what variety is which, so it'll be a free-for-all next year. The cucumbers are coming in nicely and we'll do our first pickling round this weekend. Cantaloupe are still very small. One of our lilacs looks like it's been scorched and all the leaves turned brown and are falling off so we're puzzled and upset about that but the others alongside it look okay. Maybe because it's in front of a garage window whereas the others are just against the brick garage? Hard to tell. Tomatoes are slow to come in this year and I've only been able to collect two ripe ones, but quite a few green ones on the vine still, so maybe some fried green tomatoes are in my forecast. Chef John from the FoodWishes UA-cam channel has a delicious remoulade and a great recipe for frying 'em up so maybe that'll be next weekend! CLEARLY I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO TALK TO ABOUT MY GARDEN HAPPENINGS.

[@OldSchoolPrepper]

I love that you are collecting seeds...I like MIGardener and have purchased seeds from him in the past. I too have only collectected 2 small cherry tomatoes boo! the lilac sound like they got burned...sun burned...it's happeneing to a lot of my plants too. I plant my lilacs in partial shade for that reason. Chef John just got out of the hospital (he just did a video) sad story but he's on the road to recovery...looks like we watch the same channels~

[@vickenator]

@@OldSchoolPrepper Thank you for the tip on the partial shade for lilacs as I think that's where we'll be planting our other ones. These are south-facing and get full sun with no shade whatsoever, so we might need to think of some sort of shade for them in the future. Poor guys. Oh no about Chef John! I'll go check it out -- did not know about his health issues. :( Great minds think alike!! I think I found you on either Huples or Modern Refugee actually!

[@dianaj3139]

I like the idea of using my old gutters for gardening :) Anytime I can recycle something like that it's fun! Because Of my elevation and where I live my garden is really behind everyone at lower elevations even 2 miles away at a drop of a thousand feet, I see gardens that are much better off than mine. So probably going to do more farmer's market shopping this year.

[@OldSchoolPrepper]

hi Diana, I bet you are in a colder microclimate. The newer USDA gardening zone lists are including microclimates now. I'm half a mile from a warmer space myself. Then I look at my friends on the East Coast (SC) and we have the same garden zone...but they are at least 6 weeks ahead. My blueberries are just starting to look blue and his all picked and gone. Strange climate times we live in

[@dianaj3139]

@@OldSchoolPrepper My blueberries are still green . So yeah there's that.. Honestly I am lucky to grow much of anything :)