i thought arugula on first glance, but hawksbeard is another possibility (dandelion also came to mind).
i’d just try a taste of the green leaf. if it’s nutty and only slightly bitter - arugula. if it’s bitter-bitter - weed!
we grow a lot of arugula of different varieties so that we have it almost year-round.
loves me some arugula on a ham sammy!
That was fast!
Can’t wait to see them grow 
The Tasmanian Purple peppers have pretty little flowers! I hope they taste good and aren’t too hot for me
The plant in the background is he Sweet 100. Which we tend to call the Sweet 1000. It’s already huge. 2 months ago it was less than 6 inches. This is after trimming about 4 linear feet of canes.
First ripe tomato got eaten by a bug but there will be more soon. So. Many. More. We used to have two of these a year. But then we had 1/3 of the raised bed left.
In case someone here has already hacked a cost-effective spotted lanternfly trap that is bird-friendly and non-toxic, please let me know. This one here looks solid but is $40 apiece. Yikes.
Here’s a DIY trap, and if you have used this, I’d like to hear if it worked for you:
It’s new days here, since I am only now facing this new foe.
It is now found in every county of my state. It’s here. I fully understand that I can never win this war by myself, but I would like to reduce the numbers of this invasive, damaging, voracious-with-no-natural-predators insect. Something something exponential increase something compound interest something something speed of light etc.
Thanks in advance.
I guess hawksbeard is just another name for hawksweed?
I really miss good chicory. We used to get a mix of leaves from the farmers market in Italy. It was erbe di campo, or field herbs, so wild chicory, dandelion, wild arugula/rocket, and possibly things like dock, and very possibly some others I didn’t recognize.
how exciting!
can’t wait to see what you do!
Garden Envy Intensifies
eta: mind your back, bub!
Also… I went outside today and noticed that not only do I have some little tomatoes, all of my pepper plants are peppering! Yay! I’m not a failure!
Brought in my first preliminary flush of pink oyster mushrooms.
I’ve got winecaps goung as well, but those have not run the substrate yet. Well ahead of my previous year’s schedule!
During the duststorm last week I moved some tomatoes to the ground, and foolishly forgot to pick them up again. Now they’re Bunny food.
Bun E.-lert
Bunny’s alright, bunny’s alright, it just seems a little weird: surrender! surrender!
@Axolotl
Working on 10’ T-posts over here, for the 8’ black polypropylene deer fencing, and eventually, electrified deer-fence-wire, and maybe some really long metal wire staples for the bottom edge of the fence. At the moment, we’ve got a mama bunny and her kits denning in the blueberry patch, and I just don’t have the heartlessness to trap them all.
Plus, what would the hawks eat if I take them away?
Our backyard neighbor just shot his first groundhog. For this year. Well, at least here’s that.
ETA: word missing, also: coffee missing
Will post some pics of my garden later… so far, so good.
I’ve been able to harvest some collard leaves, some of the herbs. I’ve cooked with them all and made simple syrup with the mint!
I have 2 different cherry tomato types (sundrop and husky), and the sundrop is massively tall (like just about my height!). I had to put in a second stake to keep it upright, since the storm we had last night caused it to tilt over. But both have plenty of baby tomatoes and the sundrop has at least one turning from green to yellow.
I’ve already picked on jalapeno and I think I might be able to harvest at least one poblano soon.
Unsure about the onions, as the tops are floppy, but the stem still seems stiff? Digging down, it looks like they’re growing well…
Got a couple of strawberries that are about to be pickable, me thinks…
The only plant that isn’t doing great seems to be the green pepper. It’s pretty short, and has so far only produced one smallish pepper. Maybe the other plants around it are to tall and it’s not getting enough sun?
Oh, and I also put in a potato in a pot and it’s doing well!
Green pepper - you may need to give it a buddy to increase odds of pollination. I usually grow mine in pairs within 12" of each other.
Tomato - cherry tomatoes are usually indeterminate, meaning they will continue to vine all over the place. You may want to consider giving it a structure to climb along.
I’ll check and see what they have at the Home Depot this evening then! Maybe that’ll help…
I put in another stake for the taller tomato to cling to… I think that’ll help. I’ll also look and see what else they have at home depot, too, in terms of support.
Thanks!
Oh! Also… i have not had to water my plants for like… a month? I’m kind of wondering at what point we just decide that our summers are not tropical and I start growing more tropical plants!
your garden sounds lovely! can’t wait to see how it grows. pics, please (when you can). glad you are getting some produce from your efforts. greens, herbs and peppers are usually our first to pick, too.
unlike your situation with water, we have had set backs and loss. in this drought, our water bill has almost tripled! this is the latest garden we have put in yet, and finally some growth. next-door neighbor cut down the very tall, very dense row of Chinese ash trees along his side of the fence and that allowed for sunlight on two garden beds that had been completely shaded out for a long time. now, there are plum tomatoes and yellow squash in one bed:
more damn bananas!
starfruit tree is bursting with new blossoms:
down the garden path, the shade and the perfume of the plumeria make a lovely place for BuddyCat to nap beside the pagoda:
where you also will find these long peppers and some poblanos:
and two more with cilantro, Thai basil and mint:
sorry for the spam post with so many pix. there is actually much more, but that’s enough for now.
I’m already on the forefront of growing for a warming climate with my container citrus collection in North Alabama. OK, so I am providing them with winter shelter when the oddball snow/ice events happen, but I am betting that those will become ever rarer and that I’ll be able to plant them in the ground within 5 years 
Here in the Shenandoah Valley, I have a Flying Dragon that I am growing in ground and it has started being very productive. Gonna try adding a Yuzu this year. Not sure if it will be as hardy, but we shall see. Put in a pomegranate last fall and it made it through the winter. Now whether it will eventually fruit is an open question, but the experiment is on!
the drought in south florida has been tough on tropical fruit. mango growers are reporting this to be a very bad year for mangoes. our tree had one blossom (which can bear as many as 3-4 fruit). none of them survived. we will have zero mangoes for the first time in eight years.
looks like bananas and starfruit will be plentiful, however.
