2025 Compendium

General Garden Notes:

The Roses suffered heavily from leaf rollers (and maybe sawflies, but I am thinking it is leaf rollers mainly). I tried using a few rounds of neem oil when I thought it was sawfly and it did little. Now I am trying BT. It is VERY important that I remember to treat them hard and early next year, because the issue is getting out of hand.
My first round of cabbages were wiped out by cabbage maggot worms. I sprayed them with neem oil when the second round of cabbage began to suffer. In the fall, make sure not to leave any extra debris in the beds and do a heavy tilling of the soil when the cold comes (go down at least 6 inches). This will help prevent them from overwintering in the beds. Also, treat with diatomaceous earth next spring when you plant any brassica.
We had a cold and slow start to the season, even though we started earlier. Because of the limited snow and warm March and April, we were able to plant out sooner. However, we had a cool down in late May and early June that slowed everything. Also, lots of wind. We did have nice weather, it was just cooler than normal.

Below is a list of all things grown in the 2025 veggie beds.

Not included are perennial flowers that are established in the front, shade and rose gardens. I hope to expand the site more in 2026 to fully include everything in those gardens as well.

Asparagus

Martha Washington | Jersey Giant

Moved them from the rose bed to bed 1 in 2025. I have 4 Martha Washington and 1 Jersey Giant.
I could have harvested from 1 plant, but I decided to hold off 1 more year (again) due to the move.
By the beginning of July, I had new stems coming up on all the transplanted asparagus. I think we will have a harvest next year!

Baby's Breath

VARIETY (perennial)

Slow to start, but these should be perennials, so I am focused on root growth and development this year.

Bachelor Buttons

VARIETY

All self seeded. I moved some to Bed 1 to be near the borage for the bees.
By beginning of July, I started to see the first flower buds.
In mid July I noticed they had also self seeded in bed 6. The bees are not overly interested in them.
By late july, the flowers in bed 1 were completely overtaken by the borage. Be more mindful of height and placement next year.
One plant will get about 2 ft tall with a radius of about 6 inches.

Basil

Large Italian Leaf

Planted outside and in the greenhouse with the tomatoes and cucumbers. Also planted in bed 1 to see how it did outside.
Greenhouse grown is doing very well. Outside is struggling (something ate some of them)
By early July they are starting to grow well in the greenhouse. The plants outside are still struggling.
By begining of August, the basil in the greenhouse is doing very well. This is the way to go in the future.

Borage

Blue

In early June they began putting on large leafs, and by late June they all had lots of buds emerging.
First buds began to open in the final days of June. The colors are a mix of rich cobalt blue and violet.
By August the plants are huge! 5 plants have taken over half the bed. They are getting weighed down as well. The honey and bumble bees love them!
Next year grow fewer plants spaced out and in the back of the bed, with shorter plants in the front. Also, cage them! They are about 3 ft tall and about 12 inches wide each.

Cabbage

Napa | Giant OS

Worst Cabbage year EVER!
All the cabbages I started had their roots (and roots only) eaten by, what I believe, is cabbage root maggots.
I purchased more Napa style cabbage from Home Depot (only outside plant I purchased this year and did not grow myself)
One June 30th, I lost another cabbage to the root eaters. I am going to treat with Neem Oil and see if it helps.
Note For Next Year: Get diatomaceous earth and sprinkle it in the soil and hole the cabbage go into. That will keep cabbage maggots away, but also prevent too many issues with potentially harming worms and bees.

Carrots

Bolero

Grew one line under the greenhouse topper, one outside the greenhouse topper.
No surprise, the ones in the greenhouse sprouted faster.
By July 1, both lines of carrots were coming along nicely with lots of young leaves. No signs of shouldering or carrots yet.
As of the start of August it feels like the carrots may be ready to harvest. I will pull some up to check on them.

Celery

Utah

Transplanted in the eary spring before the final freeze, and is still doing well.
By late June, they were tall with plenty of stalks coming out.
Began harvesting and freezing in early August. I could have been harvesting them all along with cut and come again, however we haven't needed any. Plant less next year, we don't eat a lot of celery.

Cosmo

White Cupcake

Planted only in pots.
First flower opened on June 16.
By late June, one flower had about 6 blooms, and the other plants were all about to open.
As of August they are all in bloom and getting big. They grow best when being deadheaded. The bees like them.

Cucumber

Sashimi | Socrates

Both grown in greenhouse. Tried to grow outside and they died from the cold.
Socrates put on its first fruit around June 10th. I harvested that fruit on June 30.
Socrates has slowed down and only put on one more fruit by the end of June. However, the Sashimi has outgrown the Socrates and has 4 fruits as of the end of June.
By early August I have harvest about 2-3 cucumbers from each plant. They have done very well, and I plan on gorwing them again next year. They do very well in the greenhouse.

Daikon Radish

Chinese variety that my Dad got in Taiwan.

They were doing great, but then bolted after about 5 days of sun and warm weather.
I let them go to flower and gave up for the season. The bees seemed to enjoy them.

Garlic

Music

Started coming up around the end of May. Around a 70% germination rate.
Scapes came on in mid June, and I harvested them in the first week of July.
Harvested on July 31. They were all pretty nice. I am happy with the harvest.

Lettuce

Buttercruch | Salad Bowl

Went into the gorund in mid May and took a few light frosts fine.
Grew quickly in May.
For the first time ever, the Salad Bowl variety began to bolt in mid June. I ended up staring another round of lettuce in Late June. Still a good flavor, even though it was starting to bolt.
I planted out the new starts into the beds on August 1, after pulling all the old plants except one Buttercrunch that is holding on. I am excited to see if I can get a full second succession before winter comes.

Marigold

I think these got stunted in the late spring weather. By Late June, they have no flowers and are only a few inches tall.
As of August I am getting my first flowers. I need to start these earlier and not move them out into the beds until the temps are in the 50s at night, so maybe early to mid June?

Nasturtium

Alaska Red | Pink

Planted in mid may, were slow to start due to the cold spring.
By late June they are getting bushy and starting to put on signs of their first flowers, but nothing blooming yet.
First blooms on both varieties began to open around July 10th.
By late July they were in full production mode. They are lovely colors and look great.
The bumble bees like them, but not the honey bees.

Onions

Patterson | Sterling

Ordered from Dixondale Farms.
Received on April 29th. Planted them the first week of May, and they took the frost well.
Took a little time to put on new growth, but by late May they were growing.
By the end of June we were starting to get nices bulbs. The Patterson are bulbing up faster and larger than the Sterling.
The Patterson began to flop over on July 30th. I am harvesting as they are fallig over. The sterling seem to still be growing, but they are getting close to harvest.

Potato

Magic Myrna | Yukon Gold | German Butterball

Magic Myrna were purchased at the last farmers market of the season and overwintered in my mini fridge. By the time they went into the ground they had eyes and sprouts about 3 inches long. They were the first to come up.
Planted all potatoes in mid May. They began to come up and show leaves in early June.
By early July all the plants were over a foot tall and starting to show signs of flowering. I had to lightly trellis them to keep them from falling onto the cabbage.
By July 15 the potatoes have begun to flower and are about 2.5 feet tall. Coming in nicely with no signs of disease. I think it will be a very good potato year!
After the rains at the end of July, many of the greens started to flop over. I will most likely harvest them in a late August as the greenery begins to die back.

Pumpkin

Atlantic Giant

2 outside and 1 in the greenhouse.
Greenhouse pumpkin showed it's first female around June 10th.
Greenhouse pumpkin had its female pollinated on June 23. Her name is Paula.
Outside pumpkins were slow to start, but by late June started to put on growth. One had a female but too small to pollinate.
First outside pumpkin was pollinated on July 9th.

Tomato

Except for the celebration (greenhouse only), I have one of each tomato in the beds and in the greenhouse.
Polar Beauty blooed first (outside and in the greenhouse) It had 2 fruits going as of June 15th. All others had flower by then.
It seems the plants in the beds are about 2 weeks behind the plants in the greenhouse.
In early July I noticed 2 greenhouse tomatoes (Aurora Heirloom and Cosmonaut) had some tomatoes with blossom end rot. I think it is from irregular watering. I am going to mulch them and try to keep them moist by watering more frequently.
I harvested my first tomatoes from the greenhouse in the final week of July. By August 1, I had tomatoes from the Polar Beauty, Polar Baby, Aurora Heirloom and one from the CosmoNaut. They are yummy! Lots of your tomatoes all about to come in.

Snap Pea

VARIETY

Very slow to start with poor germination. Planted around theJ sunflowers in bed 6 and in their own container against the shed. The ones near the sunflowers only had 2 germinate, but the others germinated more.
By mid June we saw growth, and by late June they were about 6 inches tall.
I had a small harvest on August 1.

Strawflower

VARIETY

Planted into the ground in mid May. Slow to start, like everything.
By late June they all had reached about 18 inches tall and many had started to show signs of their first blooms being put on.

Sunflower

Chocolate Cherry | Mongolian Giant | Taiyo | Chinese Variety | Volunteers

Planted into the ground in mid May. Slow to start, like everything.
By late June they all had reached about 18 inches tall and many had started to show signs of their first blooms being put on.
By the end of July, all but the Taiyo and Mongolian Giants had begun to bloom. They look amazing! It has been a great year for Sunflowers.

Zucchini

White of Palermo | Gray | Costata Romanesca

Planted into the ground in mid May. Slow to start, like everything.
By late June we had male flowers on all of them, but the cold start had stopped them from developing too much. We had females opening by the last days of June on the Gray and the Costata. The Gray seem to be putting on and developing the fastest.
I harvested my first fruit off all three types of zucchini on 7/15. The Costata had a weird looking end (maybe wasn't fully pollinated), but besides that was good.

IDEA- next year grow the Costata in a big bucket by itself to see if it will grow better. May be a bit crowded.

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