Gardening Gardening

Sounds like a somewhat harmlesss but unsightly fungus feeding on decaying matter. I've gotten a little bit of it from leaving dropped leaves and from being a bit too generous watering.
I'd try cutting back on frequency of watering, try scraping it off if it really bothers you or maybe put a 1/4 -1/2 in ch of sand on the surface to help keep the surface dried out.
Sand or vermiculite is supposed to help with damping off fungus too.

 

My first ripe and ready to eat tomato this year is a yellow cherry tomato.

 

I got rid of the mulch. Yeah, I would repot the plant.

 

Local strawberry fields, we didn't get much picked, but he learned something about where food comes from.

 

When I was a kid, we had 4 long rows of strawberries.
Half way through the summer my sister and I would actually
complain about having strawberry shortcake after dinner....everynight.
....well, strawberries are back in our yard. The first real addition to my
greenhouse. This pot was my sisters. It was her idea of having a garden.
It has been stored away all these years.....now it has found a new home
and come back to life.

 

I hope you get some berries. The deck looks very nice, and I see you've started a red rock patio!

 

Thanks!
I do, too.

That is actually the path from the back yard to the garden shed.
My wife does the flagstone.
We are going to build a patio in front of the greenhouse w/flagstone.
Going to have a water feature and fire pit.
That's next summers project.
…..this summer is all filled up.

 

Kinda have up on my garden this spring due to a lengthy bathroom remodel. My son, who works at Tractor Supply, brought home plants that were free (end of season clean up). So this morning before the heat hit, I got after it. Most were undesirables but what the heck.

 

This is Burpee's "Fourth of July". Tag says, "the first tomato to ripen by Independence Day!" Pretty close to ripe,
I'll give it to them as NH is pretty far north.

 

I used to pore over the reduced price reject pile at Lowes all the time.
The two oak trees in front of my house by the street were rejects. I think I paid 6 bucks each for them. One will always likely have a "unique" shape and I'll probably have to do some pruning on it. The other just grew too fast and couldn't stand up straight. It had a 10 foot rebar brace to keep it upright for three years. You wouldn't know it to look at it today.

 

Ours have bloomed also.
Chazsbetterhalf tells me they are both lilies.

The white is in a "flower garden" (part flowers, part weeds)

The orange grow wild all along our road.

 

A view down Tomato Row.
For decades this was a flower garden in front of the house. I tried keeping it up but the soil is awful - a couple inches of topsoil on top of sand. I got fed up with losing the battle of the weeds and not enough time nor effort, nuked it all, even pulling out some overgrown yews and had a bed of 30-40 Wave Petunias for a few years with drip. Covered it over with fabric last year and had jalapeno and habanero peppers in containers and this year it's Tumbling Tom tomatoes in those containers. ( A celebrity and an early girl in the bigger pots at the end of the avenue).

 

You're going to be swimming in tomatoes!
Do you supply your family and neighbors?

 

Heh, I bought 10 seeds (12) of yellow tumbling tom tomato. Figuring on giving most away keeping one or two for myself. Nobody wanted patio tomatoes this year. So I ended up with 11 plants. I also had some Lizzano red cherries from last year. Some are in 5 gallon buckets, some are in one cubic foot milk crates lined with a plastic garbage bag and some are in two cubic foot recycling tubs. I may be in over my head, we'll find out.
I had too many zucchini in the past and the local food bank gladly takes them.

I can grow flowers to look at and pretty green lawn or food. I don't care what the neighbors think so it's food.