Garden 2022

[hashbrown]

Not sure if you've done it before to know so in no way mean to insult: have you ever tried growing rosemary from seed - can be challenging. Often easier to buy a plant and cut it up into starts. If they aren't super successful, don't be thinking you did anything wrong. Then again, maybe they will do great and I will have egg on my face.

Never tried it before, usually buy 2 or 3 plants.

 

[joel]

I am trying new mush melons & a few watermelon this year.

 

[joel]

 

[UrbanHunter]

This morning I was able to step back and look at the garden now that the new walkways are in place.




The screened in area is ready to start receiving new plants,

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I am looking forward to getting stuff moved out of the house now. There is still a lot of clean up to do and work needed to get the irrigation system running, but I can see some progress.

 

[hashbrown]

This morning I was able to step back and look at the garden now that the new walkways are in place.
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The screened in area is ready to start receiving new plants,
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I am looking forward to getting stuff moved out of the house now. There is still a lot of clean up to do and work needed to get the irrigation system running, but I can see some progress.

Theres a lot going on right there!

 

[Bacpacker]

This morning I was able to step back and look at the garden now that the new walkways are in place.
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The screened in area is ready to start receiving new plants,
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I am looking forward to getting stuff moved out of the house now. There is still a lot of clean up to do and work needed to get the irrigation system running, but I can see some progress.

Nice work Urban

 

[UrbanHunter]

I ended up moving 8 trays of plants outside today. I worked until dark trying to transplant my celery (40 plants), the wife uses a lot of that. The garden is now at about 80%. I still need to move the paste tomatoes outside and I have some onion and leeks to put out, then I will feel like I am well on my way. I am trying to resist the urge to start my okra seeds, last year I jumped the gun and lost the first planting to a late frost.

The irrigation system is now 90% complete, I need to add a few lines to some of my new area.

I had to laugh when I was transplanting my bell peppers, I have 4 peppers on 2 plants each about the size of a plum.

I think I worked my fingerprints off my right hand this weekend, but I didn't get the lawn mowed.... There is always going to be work for tomorrow.

I need to harvest spinach and lettuce before it gets completely out of hand.

I decided I like that little tool for planting bulbs, push it in all the way and pull out a nice plug, fill the hole half way with potting soil and the drop the starter plant in and cover the edges with some more soil. It makes a nice clean hole and it is easy to have uniform spacing.

 

[user 2656]

Soooo, tomorrow it’s supposed to be a high of 34 with the next four nights in the 20s. Crazy crazy weather but
Yesterday:
With temperatures in the mid70s, DH and I took advantage of it.
He set out 30 bales of straw on our 29 raised beds so that it’s no weeds. Broke the flakes in half and covered every inch of each bed.
He did some rototilling to chop up the strawberry row into rows again, and did two or three beds that he had missed when he did the rest of them. Our little electric SunJoe Rototiller is fabulous.

I planted many many hundreds of Yukon Golds and Red potato starts in three 4‘ x 8‘ beds,

AND then went wild planting kale. Yes kale which I hate fresh but love in soups and all kinds of dishes and casseroles and lasagna and of course the dried kale tastes like heaven!
Red and White Russian (don’t hate me I bought all those seeds before the war), Dino and Blue Dwarf. Rounded it off with a ton of cilantro!
Did a couple of rows of lettuce seeds. My favorite mix right now we are at the Plantation brand seeds and I use the Italian blend.
Also planted flowers for the first time ever into of the raised beds . Buying a multi pack of marigolds last year was so expensive I thought Criky! I have bags and bags of marigold seeds.

I’ve been raising the “Hallmark” flower Ranuculus Indoors from things that look like octopuses. Called “corms”. Put them out to harden off as they can be put in the garden while it’s still cold.

The deer ate down our front garden cutting garden including all the chives. Interesting decision for them.
They won’t get any more as decorative spinners and fences are in place.

Very excited. 26 raised beds left to plant, and about 150 ft.² of ground beds. 7500 sq ft fenced garden and I hope it’s a great year!

17,300 tiring steps yesterday-yikes.

 

[Amish Heart]

Your garden looks amazing, Urban

 

[UrbanHunter]

Your garden looks amazing, Urban

Thanks, but honestly I envy what you and yours are able to do.

I wish I could move to an area where I could grow much, much more, but then again I can only eat so much. I think of my dad's garden growing up it was about 1/6 of the space we had and it was still 4 times as much room as I have now. I am able to get almost as much stuff out of this garden, just no corn and no great big single harvests, I try to make up for that with lots of little harvests and extended seasons. I watered this morning and see that after I removed the netting from the plants on the side yard something dug in the plants . I think I will need to set up a small fence around the whole works. I have now emptied 2 shelves from the growing station, it felt good to be able to turn those lights off.

 

[elkhound]

siberian kale,curly kale,collards and walking onions. been picking by 5 gallon bucket and we went to low 80'sF temp wise last few days and stuff is trying to bolt. get this..next few night we plunge into 30's for several days...such is ways of spring time and gardening. get it done best ya can..praise YHWH !

 

[Ozarks hillbilly]

Are the "pods" peat pots? If so they are empty of nutrition. Have you fertilized the seedlings? I've also found that in dryer areas, like mine, the nets that are on some of the peat pots don't decompose fast enough and your roots will be trapped.

Sorry, been away for a few days. They were the peat pots. The roots blasted through the netting, which is why I transplanted them. Been a few days with additional watering and light. They still look said, almost dried out. I've got more seeds, but waiting to see if these make it.

 

[Amish Heart]

Planted in ground about 30 broccoli and cabbage plants yesterday. Have a dz or so more to do, maybe today

 

[Chaosdawn]

I don't have as large of a setup as some, so for seedlings I have 17 tomato, 10 mini tomato (from seeds I saved myself for the first time) & 11 eggplant. I tried some pepper seeds but they didn't germinate so I'm soaking some more overnight to try again. I haven't grown peppers in years.

I can't transplant them outside until at least Memorial day, but I'll be starting lettuce and spinach outside this week. The high temps are in the 50s but lows are still in the 30s.

 

[UrbanHunter]

Today I when out and checked at lunch time, of the 40ish celery plants that I transplanted it looks like I will lose 2. I really only needed about 10 plants so all's well. It rained all afternoon and the plants will love that. The pole beans are coming up and that is a good thing. I realized that I didn't start any cucumber plants but there is time.

The weather man says that we have a frost/freeze warning for Wednesday... But, I'm willing to hold my breath, close my raised bed tops and take my chances. It looks like after that we will be having lows in the 40s and highs around 65.

 

[joel]

I have 8 tomatoes ready to transplant, 2 peppers.
I have seeds still not up out the soil, but I have time, November the first is a long ways off.
In 1973 I picked half ripe tomatoes the 2nd week of November, just before a hard frost.

 

[lilmissy]

Wonder what the tomatoes do?

 

[Bacpacker]

I planted what taters I had last night. Had more than I thought, got 1 full row of yukon golds, and another row of a purple varitey I got from a guy I work with.
Also fertilized my onions, garlic, shallots, and the taters I have in beds with a 46-0-0 fertilize. Then we got .73" of rain overnight and this morning.

 

[Neb]

Today I when out and checked at lunch time, of the 40ish celery plants that I transplanted it looks like I will lose 2. I really only needed about 10 plants so all's well. It rained all afternoon and the plants will love that. The pole beans are coming up and that is a good thing. I realized that I didn't start any cucumber plants but there is time.

The weather man says that we have a frost/freeze warning for Wednesday... But, I'm willing to hold my breath, close my raised bed tops and take my chances. It looks like after that we will be having lows in the 40s and highs around 65.

Your weather expectations make me smile recalling a customer in Cleveland asking...

Him: What kind if weather are you seeing?

Me: Same as yours but a few hours latter.

Ben

 

[joel]

Wonder what the tomatoes do?

Not sure, I watched the vid, because I am planting celery seeds for the first time.
Maybe it is a misguided attempt to add compost or water to the pots.

 

[UrbanHunter]

Not sure, I watched the vid, because I am planting celery seeds for the first time.
Maybe it is a misguided attempt to add compost or water to the pots.

I think they were trying to lower the PH with the acid from the tomatoes. I watched the video too and they made the soil look really crappy, but they indicated that it was garden soil enhanced with manure and the sliced tomatoes. Their watering method looked very interesting a super fine mist like the misters at the grocery store. I have to wonder how often they water the plants.

This year I planted 2 pinches of celery seeds into 2 starter cups, ended up with 40+ plants. I transplanted the little fellas into raised beds on Sunday night, they look happy now. Don't know how they will feel after tomorrows frost....

This is my second year, the first year they got infested with earwig bugs that freaked the wife out (they got into the groves of the stocks). This year I am planting them under insect netting.

 

[Terri9630]

Sorry, been away for a few days. They were the peat pots. The roots blasted through the netting, which is why I transplanted them. Been a few days with additional watering and light. They still look said, almost dried out. I've got more seeds, but waiting to see if these make it.

The peat around the roots will dry out faster than the surrounding soil. Make sure the peat is wet.

 

[joel]

Sorry, been away for a few days. They were the peat pots. The roots blasted through the netting, which is why I transplanted them. Been a few days with additional watering and light. They still look said, almost dried out. I've got more seeds, but waiting to see if these make it.

I had shot glass size peat pots & I potted them up in three quart nursery pots, until II am sure the cold was gone.
They double in size in three weeks.

 

[Woody]

The little greenhouse. First pic was 3/28. Here in Delaware still lots of nights in the 20’s. Only 4 small heating pads kept it will above freezing, although I did buffer the germinating pots with bubble wrap and an old shower curtain! I do get yelled at for never throwing stuff out, but a lot of it comes in handy

4/27 A month later! Still nights in the low 30’s so can’t really put much out. I bring everyone out in the daytime to get direct sun, but then back home each night for bed. I put tomato cages between the sides for extra room, that is the difference between the first pic and the second. It was hard to see all that valuable real estate go to waste.

Under the bubble wrap on the right are watermelons and squash. Yeah, should have started the mellons a month ago but didn’t plan on them. Got the ok to dig a hill off to the side for them so went and ahead and will give them a try this year.

GH is in its third year! Took a little duct tape on some of the seams, but held up much better than expected for a $59 purchase. Planning on buying a second one, for the new cover, and modifying to put in more racks using the extra pipe and fittings.

How cold has this spring been here? Radish seeds have been in since March, took almost a month for them to germinate!! Did a second planting to fill in the holes of ones that did not germinate, but they are really slow due to the cold. Most are just getting their first set of leaves!! Got nothing from the first… or second planting of spinach done at the same time. Third planting is just starting to sprout. Same with Peas, all rotted in the ground. Sheesh, what a cold start. I did start a few peas inside though and look good so we will have some early ones.

 

[Peanut]

I was unsure what to plant this year, figured it'd be limited. I knew dad was going to be in the garden despite the fact he shouldn't.

So, I let him run the show, what ever he want to grow. I made plants and seeds available. I plowed, laid off rows, ran the planters when ever possible.

He made one mistake. He bought crappy G-90 sweetcorn seed again despite the fact I bought Ambrosia seed. It's been crappy seed for the last 12/13 yrs. Last year I replanted 3 times. You can see in the photo it's still crappy seed.

He did want Mosby white corn, wants to grind corn for cornbread this year. So I planted 6 rows, and planted the amborsia but none is up yet.

I thought the potatoes had rotted, didn't come up for almost 5 weeks. But 2 nice rows eventually came up, blooming now.

We have onions, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, watermelons, cukes and squash up and doing well. Beautiful day out, dad was out early putzing around the garden.

 

[joel]

The little greenhouse. First pic was 3/28. Here in Delaware still lots of nights in the 20’s. Only 4 small heating pads kept it will above freezing, although I did buffer the germinating pots with bubble wrap and an old shower curtain! I do get yelled at for never throwing stuff out, but a lot of it comes in handy
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4/27 A month later! Still nights in the low 30’s so can’t really put much out. I bring everyone out in the daytime to get direct sun, but then back home each night for bed. I put tomato cages between the sides for extra room, that is the difference between the first pic and the second. It was hard to see all that valuable real estate go to waste.

Under the bubble wrap on the right are watermelons and squash. Yeah, should have started the mellons a month ago but didn’t plan on them. Got the ok to dig a hill off to the side for them so went and ahead and will give them a try this year.

GH is in its third year! Took a little duct tape on some of the seams, but held up much better than expected for a $59 purchase. Planning on buying a second one, for the new cover, and modifying to put in more racks using the extra pipe and fittings.

How cold has this spring been here? Radish seeds have been in since March, took almost a month for them to germinate!! Did a second planting to fill in the holes of ones that did not germinate, but they are really slow due to the cold. Most are just getting their first set of leaves!! Got nothing from the first… or second planting of spinach done at the same time. Third planting is just starting to sprout. Same with Peas, all rotted in the ground. Sheesh, what a cold start. I did start a few peas inside though and look good so we will have some early ones.
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A lot of people say that greenhouse will be blown over by a strong wind.
Looks to me like you fixed that little problem, with all the brick reinforcement.
It looks like you are ready for a summer garden.

 

[joel]

I was unsure what to plant this year, figured it'd be limited. I knew dad was going to be in the garden despite the fact he shouldn't.

So, I let him run the show, what ever he want to grow. I made plants and seeds available. I plowed, laid off rows, ran the planters when ever possible.

He made one mistake. He bought crappy G-90 sweetcorn seed again despite the fact I bought Ambrosia seed. It's been crappy seed for the last 12/13 yrs. Last year I replanted 3 times. You can see in the photo it's still crappy seed.

He did want Mosby white corn, wants to grind corn for cornbread this year. So I planted 6 rows, and planted the amborsia but none is up yet.

I thought the potatoes had rotted, didn't come up for almost 5 weeks. But 2 nice rows eventually came up, blooming now.

We have onions, cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, watermelons, cukes and squash up and doing well. Beautiful day out, dad was out early putzing around the garden.

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You are about three to four weeks ahead of us when it comes to planting out side.

 

[Terri9630]

My seeds are just coming up. We still have a month+ before we can plant outside.

 

[Mel]

I have been waiting for this day for 3 years. This is on my orange milkweed...

 

[Neb]

I have been waiting for this day for 3 years. This is on my orange milkweed...

Thanks for the reminder!

I collected milkweed seeds a while back. I should include them for on The Ridge.

The weather forecast is delaying transplanting the seedlings outside until Friday. Hard freeze with a low of 29 degrees tonight. Not good for the apples, pears, and cherry blooms. There are some that haven't set blooms yet so there may be hope there.

Ben