What Has Everyone Been Planting Today ?.

[Bacpacker]

The ground looks great Dutchs. Looks like that tiller does a great job.

I too run a subsoiler thru my garden spots every fall. Pull it as deep as the tractor will pull it. Some years I will pull my cultivator plow threw it after a few rains and plant annual ryegrass to over winter. Other years just leave it subsoiled till spring.

 

[captain belly]

Cabbage, peas and beets are in the ground as of yesterday in the drizzle. Potatoes are next on the list.... they've been cut and giving time for them to scab over before planting.

 

[Dutchs]

So...... I amended this area for asparagus and some other small things I haven't gotten yet. I just put 1200 lbs. Of compost/cow manure down and tilled it. Don't know about you but I can't tell I did! Lol........I know it's in there so I guess that's all that matters.

 

[NannyPatty]

Got lick tubs for 4 more wicking planters. I will have 8 when all are finally made. We're going to a seminar on them this afternoon.

 

[Dutchs]

Getting Drip Irrigation. I just can't see making this whole thing work without it.......Not Tooo Bad???$650.00 will be enough to do all my beds and my fuit trees...I think. Or Very close at least. Dragging 500 feet of hose is getting old......

175 Ultimate Drip Irrigation Kit for Small Farms 1 $513.99 $513.99
1702 Claber 8488 Dual Select Advanced Push-Button Digital Water Timer 1 $129.99 $129.99
1425 Claber Rain Sensor 1 $29.99 $29.9

 

[Weedygarden]

If I had enough buckets I could! What with the herbs and all I probably have 100 transplants to put out.

This fall I want to put up a couple of low tunnels over two beds for the winter veggies, once I do that I can use them in the spring too.

Found this neat method using regular string on the hoops so folks can bunch up the sides of the plastic, or move it all to one side, without taking it off. Haven't seen anything like it in English so the video is in Spanish but the visuals are enough to figure it out, watch at 7:00 mark to see how neat it is when it is done.

Have you tried getting buckets from your local bakeries or bakery department in your grocery stores? I've gotten some for free. I have also seen them on Craigslist. Some people get a lot of them and need to pass them along.

 

[JamesY]

I planted okra, butternut squash and herbs today.

 

[Dutchs]

I am so OCD it is starting to freak even me out a little bit.
So…I’ve decided to start planting Bulbs for Perennial Flowers and i have Herbs coming. I think as usual I went a little crazy but i have plenty of area I can plant in and I had a flashback of a home we used to rent in Ohio. Mrs. Flack was one of the original families in the little town I was raised in ( Reynoldsburg) We had the most beautiful grass in the backyard she had nurtured and as the winter wore off you could see all the way through spring, summer and fall she had bulbs planted to flower for the entire season in all different areas of beds around the yard. I was very impressed. This was a good 45 years ago so you can see it made quite an impression on me. The bulbs i bought range from planting now to not even getting until the fall. OH! The ones that say Collection or Mixture have anywhere from 5 to 8 different varieties in that set.
1 FOXGLOVE COLLECTION
2 GOLDEN BELLS CARPET DAFFODIL
1 MILLENIUM DELPHINIUM COLLECTION
1 SONGBIRD GIANT COLUMBINE COLLECTION
2 SUGAR BABY CARPET BORDER LILY TM
2 SUN GOLD JUMBO TULIP
1 LONGFIELDS BLACK MAGIC REBLOOMING DAYLILY
2 MOST FRAGRANT DAFFODIL COLLECTION
2 SAFFRON FALL BLOOMING CROCUS
1 BRECK’S DUTCH TREAT TM COLLECTION
3 FIRESPRAY TM TULIP MIXTURE
1 GIANT DUTCH CROCUS COLLECTION
1 GIANT HYACINTH COLLECTION
4 LAVENDER MOUNTAIN LILIES
5 of : Lantana ‘Athens Rose’

4 of : Lavender ‘Munstead’

4 of : Rosemary ‘Tuscan Blue’

4 of : Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm’

4 of : Rudbeckia ‘Prairie Sun’

6 of: Maximillan Sunflower

I love tons of color and plants that can be useful. I think I am getting both. Any of you gardeners out there have and tips? Bits of wisdom? Wise cracks? All are welcome…Yea, i know…I am seriously OCD…Thanks

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Wow I am impressed with what everyone is planting and glad that most in the States have got warm enough conditions now to plant.

@Dutchs your soil looks way better now you have amended it too and you would have probably noticed the difference in the soil being way more friable or lighter than before you amended it with the clay. Not ever been a bulb planter unfortunately so I can't help you there but personally I prefer the French lavender known by the botanical name of Lavendula Angustifolia which have wonderful scented flowers that you can dry for lavender for your home and potpourri. The munstead Lavender I never had any success with growing at all here. Foxgloves are a beautiful plant too so pretty but never personally grown them here.

We are still amending garden beds here and have one more to finish to plant garlic and other things in shortly. In the meantime we will continue to plant out the two garden beds we have already amended. I need to buy some more onions seeds, some more strawberry plants for the front gardens and plant some more parsley. We have our herb and berry gardens in the front yard with a few veges mixed in and in the back yard and paddock gardens we grow our vegetables.

 

[Peanut]

I got the ground under my string bean cable plowed. I got half a row of string beans planted, ran out of seed. I think I'll go to town and get seed tomorrow. I also got the ground ready for planting squash tomorrow.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Good to hear you got half a row of string beans planted @Peanut and hope you were able to get the rest of your bean seeds planted too .

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Been doing likewise with ploughing horse manure into our last garden bed and just need one more load of cow manure to finish it off. Went to town also purchased some more onion, snow pea, carrot seeds and some Australian white garlic bulbs from the local farmers market to plant. Unfortunately the garlic bulbs we saved from our last crop didn't all make it so we needed to buy some more.

 

[Dani]

I have basically been playing around in the garden since the first week of March trying to get everything ready for planting. Most beds ha e been raised back up with tilling in old cow manure, compost, and mulch. Had to add in a little sand to a couple rows too to help break up the clay in the newer area of the garden. All my squashes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers have been planted for a couple weeks now. Last week I planted seeds of tomatoes, peppers, corn, cauliflower, cucumbers, cantaloupe, honey dew, lettuce, beets, radish, green beans cabbage, different herbs, pumpkins and spinach. I still have one row that needs tilled and then planted which I was going to do this morning before the radio n started this evening, but plans change. . . the rains started this morning instead. I did realize though, I have not planted any pumpkin pie or watermelon seeds! I picked my dry stalks of collards, put them in a big plastic garbage bag to thresh to collect my seeds for this fall. The leaf and curly mustard along with arugula are still setting seeds so that will be three more raised beds opening up soon. I also need to plant my southern beans, but will start those when the summer heat moves in and things like lettuce, etc don't want to grow so well.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Dani that is fabulous that you have got so much gardening done you really have a good jumpstart on growing and having a good supply of produce for your family. We also save a lot of seeds from our own gardens which saves a lot of money buying seeds.

 

[Dani]

I did get my one row tilled and planted with watermelon this morning in between showers. Trenched another row and started putting more compost and mulch around my tomatoes then weeded the whole garden. It only takes me about an hour or less each day if I stay on top of it. Things are popping out of the ground now which makes me happy. Nothing worse than looking at all the bare soil with nothing growing in the beds.

Now I'm back in the kitchen canning my corned beef hash and cleaning house. The rains have diffinately set in now. Just hope we don't get the 5-7 inches predicted.

 

[Dutchs]

Took some advice from some friends and added a few. Looks like some of them are actually shipping for next week too where I can get started. This is so much fun...I just love it

Item Desciption
1 63782 BEE BALM COLLECTION
1 69777 BUTTERFLY HYBRIDS CONEFLOWER MIXTURE 15 PLANTS
1 65923 BEE BALM MIXTURE SUPER SAK[R]
2 82133 ASIATIC LILY MIXTURE SUPER SAK[R]

 

[Sewingcreations15]

It is going to look so pretty in your yard when all the flowers are planted and it will attract the lovely bees in the area to pollinate your vegetables too @Dutchs .

 

[Dutchs]

It is going to look so pretty in your yard when all the flowers are planted and it will attract the lovely bees in the area to pollinate your vegetables too @Dutchs .

I almost can't wait to get a picture with everything bloomed....Of course WHEN....HAHAHA...Not if they come up!.....A Little positive reinforcement there

 

[Dani]

This is a picture I took after we got the majority of rain yesterday morning. Believe it our not, we do live on one of the highest places in the county and did not get water in the house like my of our neighbors. The water does drain quickly, but its because of these 5 + inch rain storms that I do raise up and dig trenches in the garden. My friends who also garden close to here think its too much work, but when they lose crops to flooding, I don't. Water may be in the trenches, but haven't gone over my beds yet.

That's the bed of tomatoes and peppers. Across the way you can see my mustard and arugula go to seed. I'm still waiting before pulling those up to thresh. To the left is my butternut that granddaughter and I planted a couple weeks ago the the shoots coming up in front of the tractor is some contenders.

 

[Sonya_6]

We had rain last night, and it should be cloudy for the next couple of days so yesterday I got busy and planted all 16 tomato plants (two Cherry, two Beefsteak, and 9 San Marzano as I hope to try my hand at canning some homemade pasta sauce this summer, maybe some salsa too).

Also planted half a dozen Echinacea Angustifolia and four Valerian transplants.

Apparently I started way more transplants than I have room for in the fenced off section of the vegetable garden, and I can't plant them in the main yard as the dogs will pee on them constantly. Will have to find other places to put 2-3 dozen little transplants, will consider the areas outside the fenced yard.

I think I will soak some bush beans seeds today and put them out tomorrow as the weather is finally looking like perpetual spring! Knock on wood!

 

[Meerkat]

I have some sweet pea seeds soaking and I will put them out along some of my fence later today. I have some sweet peas along part of my fence, but got some more for free from the city garden people, along with as many other seeds as we wanted.

I am going to start some other seeds today: tomatoes, peppers, and some tender flowers.

I will also plant some onion sets today. I bought a bag of mixed varieties that I will share with my daughter.

We are so behind on planting this year. Have been busy with G-House , new peeps, boat and transplanting some outside past couple weeks.
I need to at least seed some okra and other things, so far we put seedlings we sowed into raised beds, beets, turnips, spring onions, mustard greens, lettuce . next couple weeks should be able to harvest all of it and plants out okra.

 

[Sonya_6]

We are so behind on planting this year. Have been busy with G-House , new peeps, boat and transplanting some outside past couple weeks.
I need to at least seed some okra and other things, so far we put seedlings we sowed into raised beds, beets, turnips, spring onions, mustard greens, lettuce . next couple weeks should be able to harvest all of it and plants out okra.

Do beets do well for you? I can never get them to grow to decent size, the fall beets never developed roots even after 4 months. Am thinking about planting some along the edge of the bed that will have bush beans.

 

[Meerkat]

Do beets do well for you? I can never get them to grow to decent size, the fall beets never developed roots even after 4 months. Am thinking about planting some along the edge of the bed that will have bush beans.

Beets do ok for us. Maybe it is the seed your using? We just put plenty of compost ' mostly dead leaves and coffee grounds ' in our beds.
We start them in peat moss seed trays till time to put outside.
What we can't grow well is one of my favorites, watermellon.

 

[Sonya_6]

Beets do ok for us. Maybe it is the seed your using? We just put plenty of compost ' mostly dead leaves and coffee grounds ' in our beds.
We start them in peat moss seed trays till time to put outside.
What we can't grow well is one of my favorites, watermellon.

Maybe I need to use more manure/compost. I usually soak them (or even pre-sprout). I think I will just soak the seeds and put a board over them to see what happens.

Seeds came from various places, these last were from the feed store (and their stuff seems to have a very high germination rate). This year the plan is to plant a lot of stuff and see what does well.

 

[Dani]

The beets I sowed for fall last year didn't started popping up till spring of this year. Go figure and the seeds I planted this spring are already starting to come up. Ull have plenty real soon. I don't always do a fall garden but last year I decided why not.

 

[Meerkat]

Maybe I need to use more manure/compost. I usually soak them (or even pre-sprout). I think I will just soak the seeds and put a board over them to see what happens.

Seeds came from various places, these last were from the seed store (and their stuff seems to have a very high germination rate). This year the plan is to plant a lot of stuff and see what does well.

We have never soaked seeds. They are put into soaking wet seed starter cells. We just put them in seed starter cells we make from peat moss and have always had great success. Or you can buy the really cheap kits with pellets or soil already in them. We use the cells we have had fro years now.

Once they get to plant stage we just put them in the soil or in container .
If outside in raised beds and cold spell hits we put kerosene lantern's under plastic covers, works great.

You can use lamp oil or kerosene and put one close to each end of bed.

 

[Meerkat]

Maybe I need to use more manure/compost. I usually soak them (or even pre-sprout). I think I will just soak the seeds and put a board over them to see what happens.

Seeds came from various places, these last were from the seed store (and their stuff seems to have a very high germination rate). This year the plan is to plant a lot of stuff and see what does well.

Seeds don't need any fertilizer at all. Some will even kill them ,burn up their little roots, especially hot ones like chicken manures. Just use stores seed starting soil or plain peat moss. Keep seeds moist but not soggy.


Whoops ignore this post, I didn't understand what I read, lol.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Dani looks like you have the idea on digging the drainage trenches to save your crops and they all look like they are thriving . As you say with a little more work your garden has been far more productive because of this, I would take your option.

@Sonya_6 we are not nearly as precious with planting the beetroot seeds here they just get a whole dug in the soil and plonked in about 4 around each dripper if I get more than one then I wait for them to get about 3 inches high and transplant them to where I want them and they do well. Of course your soil does have to be warm enough to plant wherever you live to do this and I am in Australia in a temperate zone so things here may and probably are totally different to your situation and climate there. In my experience the beetroot likes rich soil as in we put a lot of cow and horse manure and trench compost vegetable scraps in our soil and also mulch with Lucerne hay and they like a lot of water to keep them happy.

 

[Sonya_6]

Have you tried getting buckets from your local bakeries or bakery department in your grocery stores? I've gotten some for free. I have also seen them on Craigslist. Some people get a lot of them and need to pass them along.

I just saw this. Yeah I could try asking around for buckets, I did ask the grocery store bakery once and they said a few people want them so it is "first come first serve" and whoever asks at the right time gets lucky.

Occasionally I will see them on the side of the highway (we don't have much trash but buckets stand out and wonder if I should stop and retrieve it, but with my luck it probably had plaster or something inside.

 

[Dutchs]

Got my Garden Bedder and did some rows today. Going to finish tomorrow and do furrows in the rows and get to doing some planting! What a Fantastic tool! Took about 30 minutes once I got everything set right!