Each year I try to grow something new just for fun.
This year, I am trying marshmallow plant, lemon cucumber, and swamp milkweed. You?
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I am adding 2 new tree peonies.
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Roselle - Hibiscus sabdariffa; edible floral cayces and leaves (thanks, cousinfloyd!)
Cotton.
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Butternut squash even though I’m pretty sure i don’t have the room to grow them. They are being grown vertically against my deck - and possibly onto my deck
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I’ve grown them the opposite way: planted them in a raised bed about 3’ off the ground and let them grow down. The squash held on.
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spikenard and sorba japanese red buckwheat.
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toothache plant
My kids thought it looked like eyeballs on sticks, supposedly it also numbs the mouth if chewed…
Scott
Anyone else have a sugarbowl clematis? I have a clematis scottii in its third years and I’m hoping for a bloom this year.
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It does numb the mouth! It’s a strange feeling. Enjoy, it’s a fun one to grow.
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Very cool…
When my eldest was an infant I used to make my own teething liquid by concentrating Kava Kava tea. Is toothache plant similar?
Scott
What am I growing new this year for fun?
Well, I just installed my front yard fruit and veggie garden in January. I’ve had fruit trees before, but this is the first time I’ve had a vegetable garden. Most of the veggies I have planted so far are doing well. There have been a few failures, though.
I’m growing chrysanthemums–spiders and football mums–that I ordered as cuttings from King’s Chrysanthemums last year. This is the first year they have been in the ground, so I’m looking forward to the fall bloom. I visited King’s one year when they were still located in California. I’ll never forget it. Some of those spider mum flowers were the size of dinner plates. And such amazing colors!
And I just ordered an assorted lot of 100 daylilies from Smokey’s Gardens 
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Great list. Trying walking stick kale, common milkweed, fameflower, red valerian, and long island cheese pumpkin. Good luck all!
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I just had to look up walking stick kale. You can actually make walking sticks from this kale!
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Im going to plant a butternut and heartnut tree.
I planted two butternut two years ago. They have barely grown. I’m believing they don’t like the long summer heat and humidity. I was really looking forward to having them as well. The Nuts are high in Carbohydrates and animals supposedly love them.
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I live in Ohio, i don’t think the humidity and long summer will be a problem.
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I was raised in Reynoldsburg. I’m sure your right…lol
Where did you get your butternut trees from? I got mine from Grimo Nut Growing Nursery.
You know. That’s a good question. Seems it was Oikos in Michigan. If I’m spelling that right? Could have been Gurneys too… I’m thinking now it was Gurneys
Giant pumpkins! My 5yo won the kids competition last year with an accidental wold pumpkin that weighed 46lbs. Now she is hooked so we got some giant seeds.
Those lemon cucumbers are a favorite for us. They are suuuper prolific. When you tire of eating them plain i highly suggest making quick korean pickles with them. Also, order some northwoods fire from penzys spices and sprinkle that on them.
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Pumpkin pictures?!
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