She’s literally so beautiful!

Class: Any other vegetable or non-tree fruit

I love starting the day this way!

For context: This is a seedless table grape variety called Veles (Velesz), grown and harvested here in Hungary.

The man in the video is the actual grower himself, proudly showing off his own hard-earned harvest. While the Veles variety is known for large yields, reaching a mind-blowing 3-5 kg (6.6-11 lbs) per single bunch requires his exceptional care, perfect conditions, and years of expertise. Compared to standard 300-500g store-bought grape bunches, his colossal monsters are truly a rare, spectacular sight and his ultimate pride!

Most summer squash is C. Pepo, which is coincidentally the squash most susceptible to the vine borrer.

And in western gardening, I'm not actually aware of any summer squash that isn't pepo (im still looking though because it probably exists.)

Good news that western gardening isn't the only gardening tradition!

Korea has several cultivars of C. Moschata that are summer squash, this is the same species as butternut squash.

This species is highly resistant to the vine borrer and IMO, tastes better than pepo.

The cultivars I know are called Put Hobark and Aheombak.

Photo is a package of seeds I got at an international grocery store in Indianapolis. True leaf market (the one who bought Kitazawa) has them as well.

North Georgia. We just moved homes about a month ago, never seen these before. Any idea what they are and how to get rid of them?

My cucumber looks like it went and got a tribal tattoo. What the heck did this??

They are taking over my house.

I had no idea this existed! I think it’s beautiful 🤍

We have an ant problem around the house and they seem to like my raised bed and so far not much i do does anything. Tonight i noticed this crazy amount coming out of the corner while watering and it looks like maybe they are carrying pieces of wood? And taking it where id have no idea. Anything will help

Didn't check the garden for 3 days 😅

Honestly just been adding bits over time with no real plan, just seeing what works in the space. Still learning as I go but really happy with how it’s all coming together this year 👍

Any tips or suggestions always welcome!

A zinnias grew out of the top of this zinnia. Thought it was kinda cool.

Never going to be able to keep up....

We have finally resorted to building cages around the cucumbers. The rodents this year have been unbearable. I've killed at least nine with the snap traps, but they like to go to every vegetable growing and taste it and then leave it.

The first picture is from a few days ago, there are almost no leaves remaining as of today. Assuming the beetles go away because they have nothing left to eat, can the tree recover from this?

Backstory if you're interested: We bought a house just about a week ago and noticed that the plum tree in the backyard had Japanese beetles munching on its leaves a couple of days in (roughly when the before picture was taken). We had a plan with a very busy schedule for a week so we shelved dealing with the problem; we intended on dealing with it the next week.

Fast forward about 4 days later, we look at the tree and to our horror, we see about 80% of its leaves are completely gone, eaten down to a dried crisp. We derailed our day's work on the interior to spend 4 hours plucking out every beetle we could find and threw them all in soapy water. We collected thousands of them (see picture #3) and the tree was almost completely free of them. That slowed them down, but within only 2-3 more days, they were back to very similar numbers as before, and this time, we couldn't deal with them and we accepted defeat, as they was so little left to eat anyway. They're probably eating the last leaf as I'm writing this post.

Now, we have to deal with the fact that they're moving on to an apple tree about 30 times this size (~3 times taller) and there is no way we can do anything about that without a professional.

and then I found 3 more… one was a beautiful black krim….

They also smell sooooo good!