I planted my peppers. A bit early but we should stay in the 50s at night and I have to get things in while it's cool. My health problems are going to greatly restrict warm weather work. I also put 2 rows of corn so far. The radishes and chard have appeared. I'm not sure about carrots cause I don't know what they look like compared to radishes and the 2 are planted together. Maybe another row of corn and then I'm running pole beans up my corn so I don't have to build trellis. The rest of the garden we have to wage war on creeping charlie.
Who is planting a garden this year?
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I've had parts of my garden planted since January , I had 4 cubic yards of soil brought in and added about a yard and a half of rabbit droppings to that.
Anyhow , everything is doing great accept for the red potatoes. This was the first year I planted them. They were growing like gangbusters then all the sudden started withering and turning yellow , prior to flowering. They produced a few nice sized potatoes & the rest were marble sized or smaller.
Wondering why they did that .... Not enough organic material / fertilizer (I didn't use anything other than manure) , too much water (It rained every day for 2 weeks).
Anyhow , everything is doing great accept for the red potatoes. This was the first year I planted them. They were growing like gangbusters then all the sudden started withering and turning yellow , prior to flowering. They produced a few nice sized potatoes & the rest were marble sized or smaller.
Wondering why they did that .... Not enough organic material / fertilizer (I didn't use anything other than manure) , too much water (It rained every day for 2 weeks).
planted potatoes today. And the first of the asparagus is up. Also harvested the first shiitake mushrooms of the season--sauteed them with fiddle heads and wild leeks gathered from the woods.
you are making me jealous,--,Rainey":p1hwbkb7 said:
curelom
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We sowed lettuce, chard, and carrot seeds today. My youngest sister is really excited about the chard--we're growing some different colored varieties. Mom let her pick the packet of chard seeds she wanted, and she wanted the colorful one. 
I planted the carrot seeds (and the little person helped). Now we need to wait for them to grow to find out how unevenly I spaced them out. (They looked more even while I was planting than afterwards when I saw the darker soil marking where the seeds were planted...)
We're also going to be growing asparagus, and I don't know what else Mom and Dad have planned. And we are growing our strawberries in a container up on our deck this year in the hopes that the wildlife won't eat them all this time. And, I suppose, if they do come and eat our strawberries, at least they'll have to come up to where we can see them to get at 'em, so we'll find out who's nabbing them.
I planted the carrot seeds (and the little person helped). Now we need to wait for them to grow to find out how unevenly I spaced them out. (They looked more even while I was planting than afterwards when I saw the darker soil marking where the seeds were planted...)We're also going to be growing asparagus, and I don't know what else Mom and Dad have planned. And we are growing our strawberries in a container up on our deck this year in the hopes that the wildlife won't eat them all this time. And, I suppose, if they do come and eat our strawberries, at least they'll have to come up to where we can see them to get at 'em, so we'll find out who's nabbing them.
michaels4gardens":1jxmxnfa said:
Yeah, me to.
I can get the ramps, but not the fresh shiitakes...yet.
lereg15
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Just started my garden a couple of days ago, and it's much smaller than what I was planning on, but I'm not done yet!!
So far, I planted 52 bush bean seeds, 2 Mr Stripey tomato plants ( I 've heard mixed reviews on them, so I'll have to wait and see what happens), 2 Bonnie Original tomato plants, 5 green bell peppers, 2 sweet banana peppers, 1 jalapeno pepper, 4 japanese eggplants, 4 crooked-neck squash plants, 3 zucchini plants, and 3 cucumber plants.
I plan on adding more tomatoes (romas, early girls, and black krims), some carrots, radishes, and some lavender ( a good deer deterrent). Maybe more, but not to sure yet. I may till up another plot for extras?
I wish I had more room, but it should help on the food bill, and I'm growing organic, so it will be healthier!! I have a rather large back yard, for the area, but golf balls and golfers are always coming in, and I'm not growing all this for them, .
So far, I planted 52 bush bean seeds, 2 Mr Stripey tomato plants ( I 've heard mixed reviews on them, so I'll have to wait and see what happens), 2 Bonnie Original tomato plants, 5 green bell peppers, 2 sweet banana peppers, 1 jalapeno pepper, 4 japanese eggplants, 4 crooked-neck squash plants, 3 zucchini plants, and 3 cucumber plants.
I plan on adding more tomatoes (romas, early girls, and black krims), some carrots, radishes, and some lavender ( a good deer deterrent). Maybe more, but not to sure yet. I may till up another plot for extras?
I wish I had more room, but it should help on the food bill, and I'm growing organic, so it will be healthier!! I have a rather large back yard, for the area, but golf balls and golfers are always coming in, and I'm not growing all this for them,
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I finally got the corn, [Golden Bantam] and squash seed [Seminole pumpkin cross] in the ground, -- and as soon as the corn is up about 6 inches, I plan to plant some "lazy housewife" pole beans
This year has had weird weather, - the last frost was last week, and now it is 80-- but good, - or , bad-- seed is going in-- I am running out of time to make a crop. we have 120 to 150 frost free days on the average,, -- this looks like a short season year...
This year has had weird weather, - the last frost was last week, and now it is 80-- but good, - or , bad-- seed is going in-- I am running out of time to make a crop. we have 120 to 150 frost free days on the average,, -- this looks like a short season year...
I LOVE Mr. Stripeys!! They're tasty, thin skinned, and perfect for eating (and very pretty). Also, look for Mortgage Lifter tomatoes; they're sweet, large, thin skinned, and my grandmother uses them for salads, cooking, raw eating, and canning.
I've planted Hungarian peppers, a Habenaro, a four Fish peppers, decorative corn, kale, mustard greens, spinach, and seeded okra. I've got miniscule beet plants popping up in the seedling trays, and two Brandywine tomatoes, and I think one kale. One foxglove plant and one mimosa peduca. Overall, my seedlings have been pretty sucky, despite daily attention.
We had really good rain yesterday, so I don't have to haul water for a couple days. Yay!
I've planted Hungarian peppers, a Habenaro, a four Fish peppers, decorative corn, kale, mustard greens, spinach, and seeded okra. I've got miniscule beet plants popping up in the seedling trays, and two Brandywine tomatoes, and I think one kale. One foxglove plant and one mimosa peduca. Overall, my seedlings have been pretty sucky, despite daily attention.
We had really good rain yesterday, so I don't have to haul water for a couple days. Yay!
After a week in the 80's we got a hard freeze--down to 26 F a week ago. Everything took a hit. Even the peas which should cope with cold look sad. And looks like no grapes this year--the vine was too far along. Still getting lots of asparagus and lettuce from the cold frames. the potatoes have sprouted and died back frozen twice now but expect they'll come again.
Have been putting out tomato and pepper seedlings this week. No frost in the forecast but the highs are either in the 80s or the 50s, seems to be very little in between. An odd spring.
Got stinging nettle cut and drying and lots of willow--for goats and chickens and rabbits next winter.
The grasses are heading out and the freeze came just as the clover was starting to blossom. At least we've had rain when we needed it.
Have been putting out tomato and pepper seedlings this week. No frost in the forecast but the highs are either in the 80s or the 50s, seems to be very little in between. An odd spring.
Got stinging nettle cut and drying and lots of willow--for goats and chickens and rabbits next winter.
The grasses are heading out and the freeze came just as the clover was starting to blossom. At least we've had rain when we needed it.
My main garden's finally going in.
We've had lettuces and our peas are doing alright. Garlic is prolific as always..
We're still planting...japanese hulless popcorn, spaghetti squash and a few other varieties. Zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, onions, sweet potatos, and probably some kind of bean..
We've had lettuces and our peas are doing alright. Garlic is prolific as always..
We're still planting...japanese hulless popcorn, spaghetti squash and a few other varieties. Zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, onions, sweet potatos, and probably some kind of bean..
LPH_NY
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We have several raised beds. Last year I had 3. This year we have 7 or 8 (#8 is still waiting for fill dirt). Planted onions and shallots, calendula and strawberries in the earliest bed... but the strawberries never came up. Onions are over a foot tall already and I have never planted shallots before and screwed that up - nowhere in the directions did it mention to break the bulb apart! What will happen? At least I can use the greens.
Then I went on a planting spree and did 5 beds all in one day. Big mistake. We had a dry/heat wave that killed off 1/3 or so of just sprouted seeds, including my cucumbers and all of my herb seeds. So I have to start those over again this week. Some of my potato shoots died also during the heat wave. Will they come back? Never grown potatoes before.
What's doing fine now is the sugar snap peas, Nasturtium, Purple Dove beans, Radishes, fenugreek. The single surviving zucchini looks great, although it's just getting it's first set of real leaves. Watermelon seedlings seem to be doing fine. All my previously established herbs (sage, yarrow, chocolate mint, catnip) are still great. Waiting on chard, garlic, cabbage, turnips, romaine, anise. And I have to replant carrots, dill, savory, parsley, cilantro, cucumbers and my poor sunflowers. Will put in pumpkins this week and bring home started tomatoes from the farmer's market early in June. I have terrible luck with starting seeds indoors and transplanting little seedlings, so I direct sow everything... but tomato plants I just buy.
I have seeds for chicory and hairy vetch that I want to plant for the bunnies, but nowhere to put them yet.
This is only our second growing season in this house. I am so grateful that the previous owners left some amazing flowers in the flowerbeds, so I get to enjoy those. Among them are purple echinacea and bee balm (my kids LOVE eating the bee balm!) and gorgeous bachelor's buttons, a bazillion daffodils and irises, tulips and asiatic lily, false sunflower. And there's supposed to be mums, but they've been overrun by a rogue patch of mugwort! We also have wild blueberry, elderberry and chokecherry, and lilacs around the perimeter of the property. This place would be paradise if it weren't for the hordes of blood-sucking insects.
We are also anticipating some food security issues in the near future, so we are trying to learn all we can before we have to count on it for survival. I have been working hard on learning all the local edible weeds and putting away excess eggs in the freezer for the winter. Neither of us grew up with gardening, so we have and will continue to have some hard lessons ahead.
I wish everyone here a fruitful season with lots of edible bounty.
What will happen? At least I can use the greens.Then I went on a planting spree and did 5 beds all in one day. Big mistake. We had a dry/heat wave that killed off 1/3 or so of just sprouted seeds, including my cucumbers and all of my herb seeds. So I have to start those over again this week. Some of my potato shoots died also during the heat wave. Will they come back? Never grown potatoes before.
What's doing fine now is the sugar snap peas, Nasturtium, Purple Dove beans, Radishes, fenugreek. The single surviving zucchini looks great, although it's just getting it's first set of real leaves. Watermelon seedlings seem to be doing fine. All my previously established herbs (sage, yarrow, chocolate mint, catnip) are still great. Waiting on chard, garlic, cabbage, turnips, romaine, anise. And I have to replant carrots, dill, savory, parsley, cilantro, cucumbers and my poor sunflowers. Will put in pumpkins this week and bring home started tomatoes from the farmer's market early in June. I have terrible luck with starting seeds indoors and transplanting little seedlings, so I direct sow everything... but tomato plants I just buy.
I have seeds for chicory and hairy vetch that I want to plant for the bunnies, but nowhere to put them yet.
This is only our second growing season in this house. I am so grateful that the previous owners left some amazing flowers in the flowerbeds, so I get to enjoy those. Among them are purple echinacea and bee balm (my kids LOVE eating the bee balm!) and gorgeous bachelor's buttons, a bazillion daffodils and irises, tulips and asiatic lily, false sunflower. And there's supposed to be mums, but they've been overrun by a rogue patch of mugwort! We also have wild blueberry, elderberry and chokecherry, and lilacs around the perimeter of the property. This place would be paradise if it weren't for the hordes of blood-sucking insects.
We are also anticipating some food security issues in the near future, so we are trying to learn all we can before we have to count on it for survival. I have been working hard on learning all the local edible weeds and putting away excess eggs in the freezer for the winter. Neither of us grew up with gardening, so we have and will continue to have some hard lessons ahead.
I wish everyone here a fruitful season with lots of edible bounty.
My gardens are pretty much in now. Wife is planting the sweetcorn today, I still have to plant cucumbers, but everything else is in, and starting to wilt for lack of rain.
I did plant 6 rows of popcorn yesterday and about half acre of pumpkins, squash and gourds.
Of the 180+ tomatoes I planted, a good half of them are slowly dying, have a couple hundred pepper plants that are holding on for dear life.
420 feet of green beans doing ok. Most everything else is up, but looking sad.
I did plant 6 rows of popcorn yesterday and about half acre of pumpkins, squash and gourds.
Of the 180+ tomatoes I planted, a good half of them are slowly dying, have a couple hundred pepper plants that are holding on for dear life.
420 feet of green beans doing ok. Most everything else is up, but looking sad.
My garden is about all in the ground now-- just planted the last of the sweet corn, [golden bantam] squash, [Seminole pumpkin cross], and flint corn [a cross bred by me for early maturity, and big kernel size],- last weekend. I may put in some pepper plants, and tomatoes-- but maybe not-- this year was a late cold spring,- the last hard freeze 2 weeks ago, and a couple of mild frosts since then, - yesterday it was 80... I have a short season anyway-- so even though I plan to plant some pole beans [lazy housewife ] by the corn when it gets 6 inches tall-- I may not see any fruit. --
-- have been doing a lot of work on my garlic crop, - but the weeds are still winning [even with ducks helping me] and trying to get the next acre ready for this falls garlic planting expansion. Now I need to haul a lot of manure...
-- have been doing a lot of work on my garlic crop, - but the weeds are still winning [even with ducks helping me] and trying to get the next acre ready for this falls garlic planting expansion. Now I need to haul a lot of manure...
I planted some borage seeds in my herb garden this spring and they came up spotty, too close together and then big gaps. My first time with borage (learned on here it was good for the rabbits) and I wondered if I could move some of the small seedlings to give them more room or if they are one of those things that are apt to just die if you move them. Thanks in advance to anyone who can advise.
This is my first year to have a garden...
I planted a few things just for fun. I already had asparagus (that doesn't count as a garden right?) So I'm growing some heritage red okra, eating sunflowers, some tomatoes that I planted directly in the beds and are actually sprouting, some bell pepper that I'm not sure is sprouting, a few broccoli plants, and just because I wanted it, sorghum.
Oh and my comfrey is up! I've feed a few small leaves to the buns and they seem to like it. I'm really excited about the comfrey lol.
I planted a few things just for fun. I already had asparagus (that doesn't count as a garden right?) So I'm growing some heritage red okra, eating sunflowers, some tomatoes that I planted directly in the beds and are actually sprouting, some bell pepper that I'm not sure is sprouting, a few broccoli plants, and just because I wanted it, sorghum.
Oh and my comfrey is up! I've feed a few small leaves to the buns and they seem to like it. I'm really excited about the comfrey lol.
