What Has Everyone Been Planting Today ?.

[Dutchs]

I got everything planted except Dahlia's , Border lily and Strawberry's . It's raining real nice right now. I can get the rest tonight or tomorrow. Good lord is watching over my first year gardening.......It's been nearly perfect for everything. Loving it!

 

[Dutchs]

That's what Adam and Eve thought...
just sayin'

But they were in a fruit orchard!

 

[timmie]

we are getting a bunch of zuchinni planted. some are old seed if all of it comes up and makes going to feed our pigs with a lot of them.

 

[Amish Heart]

I have a bunch of old seed, and planted lettuces and beets with old seed. About half came up, so I figured that wasn't too bad. I overplanted to feed the chickens, turkeys, and ducks more greens.

 

[GrannyG]

Hubby planted about eight or more hills of zucchini ......will feed the whole neighborhood....LOL

 

[Dutchs]

Looking grubby but getting a new bed done....

 

[Dutchs]

Dahlias, Lily's done. Beds rowed and raised in go the strawberries!

 

[Dutchs]

Got two rows 120 feet each with 60 plants each row. Watered in with a little 10-10-10 with them and ready to grow. Didn't really want to water with 90 degree weather but I'll be gone and have no choice. Supposed to rain this week though so that's good....

 

[Dutchs]

Ouchita blackberries ripening! These things are incredible and massive!

 

[timmie]

hubby is planting some gourds and some more canteloupe. also a few cukes and pumpkin.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Found 4 more green beans plants.
Think I might have found Cucumbers.
Found 2 under wash stand on legs.
Somebody raided my herb garden.
They helped themselves to about 6-10 transplants.
So LEO(local) I know, walked the neighborhood.
Found my herbs, Marigolds,Sweet Potato transplants.
Filed charges against her, again this year.
She also hit 3 other people's gardens too.
So I dug up extra established plants of Peppermint, Spearmint,Chocolate Mint and new Lemon Pepper Mint,
placed them in cheap wash tin(round), and each of the other three neighbors donated to her new herb garden.
She has dementia.
Her son came by today paid for the damages done to my garden and everyone's else too.
I gave her a sweet potato plant too.
Hopefully this will keep her out of my garden.
Some of my herbs are going to seed already.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

No good about your herb gardens being raided @MoBookworm1957 , sounds like the old dear doesn't really know what she is doing but she clearly has a tie somewhere in her past to gardening. Good her son came and paid for damages and expenses and nice of you to give her some herbs of her own, hopefully as you say it might dissuade her from pinching more plants.

You are all doing so well preparing and planting your gardens.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Something exciting happened over the weekend and a friend who has a blog here in Australia wanted to do a gardening segment on my gardens so I sent her some pictures and she did a post on it which can be found here - http://thebluebirdsarenesting.blogs...dening-with-sewingcreations.html#comment-form . You can see more updated photos of my gardens in this post.

Today we planted some more silver beet, and 40 capsicum seeds in the gardens. DH also dug up, trimmed and we transplanted half the canna and native lilies from the side of the house into another newly amended garden bed on the other side of the house. We are propagating as many as we can leading up to us moving into our own home in a couple of years and we will take most of these with us and leave some here too.

 

[Meerkat]

Got two rows 120 feet each with 60 plants each row. Watered in with a little 10-10-10 with them and ready to grow. Didn't really want to water with 90 degree weather but I'll be gone and have no choice. Supposed to rain this week though so that's good....View attachment 6907

That red clay looks familiar. Nice plot.

 

[Meerkat]

No good about your herb gardens being raided @MoBookworm1957 , sounds like the old dear doesn't really know what she is doing but she clearly has a tie somewhere in her past to gardening. Good her son came and paid for damages and expenses and nice of you to give her some herbs of her own, hopefully as you say it might dissuade her from pinching more plants.

You are all doing so well preparing and planting your gardens.

I figure if they have enough sense to sneak an steal they can face the consequences. Glad it turned out ok for all though and feel sorry for her son.

 

[Meerkat]

No more planting here in Florida. So far all hugelkultur plants are fine.

 

[Dutchs]

I remembered today I had some watermelon seeds a generous man sent from another forum...So i planted those, He says they are a Xbreed Orangeglo-white wonder.....Could be interesting.....Then remembered i had a packet of OKRA seeds so i put them over by the new strawberries......Looks like i just extended harvest period.....

 

[Tank-Girl]

I was right about my crooked turnip rows annoying the heck out of me.

Every time I step out my back door I see them and the aggravation is fresh as ever.

Planted my trombincio zucchini against the trellis near the fence and planted more broad bean seedlings.

My bush zucchini have had zero germination. I'm REALLY unhappy about it because I almost killed myself clearing and
tilling the beds for them. I'll tarp the beds to keep weeds down and I'll wait for a pension day when I can afford to buy starts from
the hardware store.

The Provider bush beans are looking sad. I stripped off the diseased leaves and sprayed the remaining plant with my home made
colloidal copper solution.
I couldn't get out for late afternoon watering because I was too busy icing down and resting my shoulder after another..incident.
Boy were they dying for a drink this morning.
Luckily they perked up a little.
Getting any beans at all off this plants is going to be an act of sheer bloody mindedness.

 

[Bacpacker]

Finally got the rest of my tomatos planted. Also put all my peppers in tonight as well. Hopin we get the rain they keep calling for. We've only had .25" so far in May. Starting to dry out and I don't want to start watering this early in the year.
I put out 2 Serrano, 2 jalapeno, 19 California Wonder Bell, and 3 Sweet banana peppers. I've got 30 tomatos in total. tonights were 1 Celebrity, 1 Lemony, 2 Anna Russian's.
Most all my cukes, melons, squash are up. Beans not so much. may need to replant those. Some of the seed was old. Onions and cabbage are kicking butt. We've been eating green onions for 2 weeks now.

 

[Tank-Girl]

The germination on nearly every type of seed I have has been so poor I'm crying HAVOC and germinating nearly all of them.

I've clipped and soaked in epsom salt solution nearly all my squash and pumpkin seeds. Epsom salt solution is suppose to be a germination
aid from what I read on line and I clipped the non-root end of the squash and pumpkin seeds with a pair of nail clippers because it's quicker than rubbing
the seed against sand paper. It breaks through that hard seed coat to allow moisture to get into the seed more easily.

I'm also soaking in epsom salt solution a lot of cucumber, capsicum and purple climbing bean seeds.

I'm changing seed companies.
Sure, where I had been buying from are cheap but I'm starting to become annoyed with the poor germination of their seeds.
It had been good when I started buying there but now....not so much.
I'll be buying from a very large heirloom seed company with a higher turn over called Eden Seeds.
They sell nearly all their seeds in commercial bulk so if the professional market gardeners buy from them
then their germination rates have to be high or word would get out and they'd go broke.

I can't stand failure after germination failure when I've poured so much time, money and effort and love into seed starting.

 

[Dutchs]

The germination on nearly every type of seed I have has been so poor I'm crying HAVOC and germinating nearly all of them.

I've clipped and soaked in epsom salt solution nearly all my squash and pumpkin seeds. Epsom salt solution is suppose to be a germination
aid from what I read on line and I clipped the non-root end of the squash and pumpkin seeds with a pair of nail clippers because it's quicker than rubbing
the seed against sand paper. It breaks through that hard seed coat to allow moisture to get into the seed more easily.

I'm also soaking in epsom salt solution a lot of cucumber, capsicum and purple climbing bean seeds.

I'm changing seed companies.
Sure, where I had been buying from are cheap but I'm starting to become annoyed with the poor germination of their seeds.
It had been good when I started buying there but now....not so much.
I'll be buying from a very large heirloom seed company with a higher turn over called Eden Seeds.
They sell nearly all their seeds in commercial bulk so if the professional market gardeners buy from them
then their germination rates have to be high or word would get out and they'd go broke.

I can't stand failure after germination failure when I've poured so much time, money and effort and love into seed starting.

I totally get it TG.....I would make a change too...it can only get better

 

[WVDragonlady]

Rain....until sunday ( maybe). It might be a dry sunday....maybe lol

SO hanging inside reading and surfing the net *shrugs*

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Tank-Girl I would write a letter of complaint to whoever you were dealing with to notify them of the problem and insist on a refund. I save my own seeds and get a really good germination rate out of them, mind you I plant straight into the soil with all of mine and they work fine.

Sorry to hear you have spent so much time and not got good results with your seeds, I would also be pretty peeved.

 

[WVDragonlady]

I just checked 2 of my window boxes. The one with the basil plants I seeded some radishes and they've done germinated(!)
The 2nd one I seeded some lettuce seeds and did another row of radishes. Both have germinated. Those seeds were 4 yrs old from a Dollar Tree store

 

[Dutchs]

Re planted some new Radishes after I harvested the original's for the year. Planted some Hummingbird Mint plants(4) some Delphinium (5) Some Foxglove (5) and some Columbine (5) I have a Butt load of Bulbs i need to get planted tomorrow and i am going to spray to kill some serious weed growth I have going on after 4 straight days of rain!

 

[Tank-Girl]

This morning I hoed and planted more seedings into the spring onion beds. I treat these as cut and come again onions and I never harvest the roots.

Planted out another broad bean seedling that had gotten big enough for the main garden.

I put my small KY1 determinate tomato seedlings into large plastic cups to grow out before being transplanted out into the garden.

I'm still waiting on my purple king pole beans to germinate and I'm praying to read right and I haven't killed them by soaking them in
epsom salt solution overnight before planting.

I'm starting to get a good number of Cali red capsicum seeds germinate. I'm liking this method of putting the seeds on moist paper towel
in a clip lock bag in a sunny window to germinate. I then use fine tipped tweezers to plant the germinated seed into prepared pots, mist gently with filtered water
and allow them to grow out.
It fills my need to "fiddle" and my impatience in wanting to know if the seed has germinated.
After the final afternoon watering I check my clip lock bags to see if and seeds have germinated so I can plant them out.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Tank-Girl glad to hear you are having some success with your seeds and you are now planting some out into the gardens.

@WVDragonlady good to hear your basil plants and some radishes have germinated. Just goes to show it is worth planting out of date seeds because more than often they will sprout be it only half of them and sometimes all of them.

 

[Tank-Girl]

@Tank-Girl glad to hear you are having some success with your seeds and you are now planting some out into the gardens.

@WVDragonlady good to hear your basil plants and some radishes have germinated. Just goes to show it is worth planting out of date seeds because more than often they will sprout be it only half of them and sometimes all of them.

It would seem I'm a bit impatient.

Who'd a thunk???

 

[Tank-Girl]

This morning I planted out the last of my broad bean seedlings and all my indeterminate Sprint tomato seedlings.
By the time I finished planting the tomatoes the first row were wilting so watering every few hours will be critical in the next few days.

I brought new capsicum seeds and wow what a difference fresh seed makes. They're jumping out of the soil.
I'm a bit bummed that the chili's and capsicum won't be ready at the same time as the tomatoes but I'll feeze
tomatoes to make canned salsa when they are.

I have 3 new baby comfrey plants sprout from root cuttings under Dus's lemon tree. I was a bit worried none would strike
but out of the dozen root cuttings I planted I got those three and considering they cost me nothing then it was still worth the effort.
They'll give me more root cutting material in the future God willing and they don't get wiped out by act of chicken.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Tank-Girl sounds like everything is going well there and there must have been something wrong with the previous capsicum seeds you purchased but good to here they are now working. We also have planted a lot of broad bean seeds which all seem to be powering as well as a volunteer cherry tomato plant that has gone ape but has a lot of green tomatoes on it so we are letting it grow happily amongst the rosemary bushes for support.