How are your gardens / houseplants going this year so far?

My dad planted our garden about a month ago and the zucchini have blossoms on them. They seem to have loved all of the rain we've had lately.

Today I am repotting some plants for my plant stand on the patio. A neighbor had put the stand out in the trash and my sister and I snagged it. it's perfect on my patio and I will see if I need to get more plants after I repot all of these.

Has anyone tried adding coffee grounds to their soil? We don't drink coffee but I saw my local Starbucks gives away grounds. I live in So Cal and have clay soil so an always trying to add things to it. I have a very established hydrangea that is very happy as long as I remember to water it. It has pink flowers but if I could eventually get blue flowers with out a ton of work that would be amazing.

Everything is really small! I started some seeds indoors, but not many of them took, so I replanted outside. We are leaving town for a week very soon, so we'll see how they fare.

For squirrel repellent, we use cayenne pepper. They dont really eat plants, but they dig in the planters. Cayenne works on them as well as bunnies who do eat plants!

I've heard garlic also works as a bunny repellant. I've got a strawberry plant on my back deck that I'm hoping the squirrels don't find as they seem to have found every other fruit plant I put in the ground.

I bought my bedding plants on Thursday. Then it rained and now we're away for 2 days. Close to freezing the last 2 nights, the warmth of town probably saved them. So if there isn't rain Monday I'll plant them. I still need to get some cherry tomato plants. I should have planted a bit of lettuce before the rain. The other stuff can wait, it's just May long weekend now, so it's not late.

My perennials are coming up nicely. Peonies up about 6". Daylilies are pretty big and can see some buds on them. Other stuff is coming also, my mom was dividing some of her things so I've added to my flower bed.

I basically just have herbs and a couple of tomato plants (my yard is shady and it’s hard to grow anything, but I like the shade so I’m not cutting down the trees). I managed to kill my basil but everything else is doing well. We’ve had some cool, rainy weather, and the herbs have enjoyed it .

Im in a pretty different climate- Yucatan Peninsula- and we are having a terrible heat wave. I lost all my African violets this week 😭They can be fussy and hard to grow but my grandma had them and I’ve raised them successfully for my whole adult life so it wasn’t anything else but the dreadful heat. We had a real feel temp of 59 C this week- utterly insane. I’m watering like crazy but I think my (finally mature, grown from tiny starts) passion fruit vines criss crossing my patio are doomed too.

Birds are dead all over, and other animals.

My lawn has never looked better. DFW here and with all, and I mean all, the rain we have gotten recently, everything is greener than green.

Rain, rain, rain! Dh can hardly keep up with the lawn. He used to criticize my dad for mowing when the grass was still wet but I've noticed him violating that rule himself this year.

I got all my annuals out by the 3rd week in April. We did have some frost after the hydrangeas put out but I covered and fussed with them and they are full of buds and some bloom already! The baby hydrangeas I transplanted 2 years ago are blooming this year, all but one that is in too much shade. My peonies are just finishing so for the first time, I have an arrangement of both hydrangea and pink peonies on the dining room table. I added some lavender which is also blooming and it is very pretty.

The glads are up. I expect my first bloom in about 3 weeks. I ordered a few new colors and some of those are up. I'll do the last planting of new bulbs at the end of the month. The good news about all the rain is it makes planting very easy. I'm most pleased with my dahlias. I dug up most of them last fall and replanted in new locations this spring. I also ordered a couple of new colors. All 12 hills are up! Six different colors. I don't have any dinner plates. I prefer a little smaller size I can put in arrangements.

Dh has Roma tomatoes and watermelon. The watermelon vines are not as large as he would like probably due to less sunshine, I assume. We don't grow any other vegetables. I've got to get out in the morning and do some more weeding.

We have so many deer in our area, and the first couple of years here they were eating everything I planted, whether shrub or plant. Hydrangeas, roses, arborvitae, pansies, peonies…. I had to redo everything I’d planted. You could now call my home lavender hill as I have so much of it and such a variety of species, as well as butterfly bush and bee balm. I do have some herbs outside that are deer resistant - rosemary, chives, etc. The only annual flowers I’ve planted are clearly marked deer resistant.

I envy those in warmer climates.  I just planted my veggie garden this weekend.  I have 2 cherry tomatoes, 2 big boy and 2 wisconsin 55 that were recommended at the farm store I bought from.  I have 4 raised beds and I planted a little of everything.  Zucchini, onions, cucumbers, chipotle peppers, longhorn peppers, cherry peppers and jalapenos.  Also have kale and lettuce that was planted a few weeks ago that are going to be ready in the next week or so.  Once that bed is empty I have to find something else to plant.

For those who grow cucumbers or beans, what do you use for a trellis?  I had a tik tok fail when I tried to order supplies to make my own and arrived at lowe's and found that I had ordered an 8 foot tall wire panel that was completely rusted and would not fit in the back of my SUV.

Great!  This is our 5th season of our whole front yard being a raised bed veggie garden.  Our 20 tomato plants and thriving.  We also have eggplant, bell peppers, squash, green beans, and lots of other goodies going well.  We are growing pumpkins for the first time and we over wintered our hot peppers plants and it was warm enough for them all to survive.  Our garlic was a complete bust this year so we already dug it up and put in cucumber plants instead.

I spent a lot of last weekend harvesting our fava plants (so much work) but delicious in the end.

We planted tomatoes, jalapeños, okra and cherry tomatoes about 4 weeks ago, and it’s been doing well. We have had lots of rain, and were afraid that the garden drowned, but the rain stopped and it’s looking better now. Except for the okra. Something (possibly deer) came along and ate the tops and leaves off of the okra about 3 nights ago.  They look like sticks coming out of the ground. Ugh. The strange thing is that our next door neighbor’s garden is about 15 feet from ours, not separated by a fence or impediment, and his okra (he plants about 5 times as much as we do) was not touched.  ??