What Has Everyone Been Planting Today ?.

[Dutchs]

First pic… Bottom left you have a vine… Parthenopids quinquefolia, also known as Virginia creeper. It’s the thing with 5 leaves in a whorl. It’s known to cause contact dermatitis in the fall of the year for lots of folks. It’s very astringent so in spring and summer it can be used to treat poison ivy.

The thing leafing out next to the post is beauty berry, Callicarpa americana. It makes a great bug spray.

Top right you have Sassafras sprouting or passion flower, too soon to tell, is it a vine or woody? I’d let it grow regardless. Both are great medicines.

Center, lower. You have another vine Cocculus carolinus aka Red-berried Moonseed, kill it, useless and annoying.

The two dark stems with what looks like red leaves coming out of it… no idea. I’ve never seen it before. I checked two plant data bases, it didn’t turn up. It looks tropical, probably an invasive. Sorry

I've been told the one you can't identify may be this.....Aesculus pavia......

 

[Peanut]

I've seen mature red buckeye, they have leaves. I've never seen a red buckeye sprout. If your plant develops palmately compound leaves let me know...

I spent the last 15 minutes searching the net. I was unable to find a photo of a red buckeye sprout. Post some more photos as your plant matures, I'm curious now!

 

[Dutchs]

I've seen mature red buckeye, they have leaves. I've never seen a red buckeye sprout. If your plant develops palmately compound leaves let me know...

I spent the last 15 minutes searching the net. I was unable to find a photo of a red buckeye sprout. Post some more photos as your plant matures, I'm curious now!

Will do sir...... I'm interested myself now!

 

[Dutchs]

I've seen mature red buckeye, they have leaves. I've never seen a red buckeye sprout. If your plant develops palmately compound leaves let me know...

I spent the last 15 minutes searching the net. I was unable to find a photo of a red buckeye sprout. Post some more photos as your plant matures, I'm curious now!

After a half a day of rain I decided to go check that plant. It has several branches on it and leaves. Here they are. The big kind of heart shape ones.

 

[Peanut]

I went through my N American Tree field guide but didn't find a match. It covers native species. Its definitely not a buckeye. Keep an eye on it to see if it blooms. Also, sometimes the leaf shape of an immature plant will change as a plant matures.

 

[Dutchs]

I went through my N American Tree field guide but didn't find a match. It covers native species. Its definitely not a buckeye. Keep an eye on it to see if it blooms. Also, sometimes the leaf shape of an immature plant will change as a plant matures.

Very interesting....I will keep you posted. A true mystery here..... I'll carefully cut all the other stuff away and get a pic of the whole plant too....

 

[Peanut]

I can't believe it! I was moving some of my plants inside as the weather blog in B'ham gave vague references of possible frost in some areas. I had set out jalapeno peppers on Wednesday. They looked like some kid had used them for target practice with a bb gun. Little holes in all their leaves. I think I will lose one of them. I gave them a good dusting with DE anyway.

 

[Tank-Girl]

I can't believe it! I was moving some of my plants inside as the weather blog in B'ham gave vague references of possible frost in some areas. I had set out jalapeno peppers on Wednesday. They looked like some kid had used them for target practice with a bb gun. Little holes in all their leaves. I think I will lose one of them. I gave them a good dusting with DE anyway.

Sounds like flea beetle damage.

I hve them here so I'll have to either spray with neem or use netting to keep the little dears out.

 

[WVDragonlady]

no planting going on yet here ( we had light snow showers here all day). did stop and buy a nice looking sage plant and a parsley plant that looks like it can be divided up today. they'll sit in a south west window until time for planting. thats 2 off my list to buy. hoping to find some lovage and borage again this year. the lovage tastes just like celery and worked great in my potato and macaroni salads last year

 

[Dutchs]

Taters coming on good.......

 

[Sewingcreations15]

The sage and parsley plants sound good @WVDragonlady hopefully you will have some indoor herbs.

@Dutchs the potato plants are looking good, how are you liking your new drip irrigation system setup ?, much easier I would imagine having it all automated.

@Peanut sorry to hear about your peppers I hope you can save them all, doesn't it peeve you when the bugs attack things .

 

[Dutchs]

The sage and parsley plants sound good @WVDragonlady hopefully you will have some indoor herbs.

@Dutchs the potato plants are looking good, how are you liking your new drip irrigation system setup ?, much easier I would imagine having it all automated.

@Peanut sorry to hear about your peppers I hope you can save them all, doesn't it peeve you when the bugs attack things .

OMG.....Sooooooooooooo much better. Very wise investment. Thank you for your advice. It's taking a wee bit to get it all tweaked right. The one has two lines on it and I have another separate single timer on the fruit tree irrigation. I unwittingly set one on the double the same time as the one on the trees and the pressure was awful and some stuff just didn't get watered. Lesson learned and fixed. Found out since they are on raised beds the Florida storms are usually pretty violent and they blow the drip tape off of the piles even with some staking so I have 300 more stakes coming...Yes..Overkill nut it was like 10 dollars @ 100 so i just rather have to much than not enough. I'm sure I'll find use for them all...

 

[NannyPatty]

Planted Malabar red stemmed spinach in a wicking planter. Watered all my wicking planters yesterday and today. Trying to keep up so we don't have anything that needs doing over the week my hubby has his back surgery.

 

[Dutchs]

Got 3 blueberry. O'Neal southern highbush. 75 Strawberry and 2 butternut trees planted. Hers the blueberries....

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Added more herbs to the herb garden.
Added: Ciltrano,Pineapple Sage, Sweet Basil, Lettuce, Marigolds.

 

[Tank-Girl]

I'm soaking seeds ready to plant into seedling punnets tomorrow.

Broad beans, bush beans, yellow crook neck squash, black beauty zuc's, golden nugget pumpkins, multi coloured silver beet and a mix of red beetroot.

I'll be planting turnips, onions and tomatoes, lettuce and a range of medicinal and kitchen herbs tomorrow without the pre-soaking.

I'll be using Charles Dowding's method of multi sowing cells for turnips, beetroot and onions.

I've half figured out where the devil I'm putting everything and no doubt I'll change my mind a dozen times before it comes time to transplant
the seedlings out into the ground.

It's still too warm to plant potatoes, carrots and brussel sprouts.

I had a lot of old half full seed packets so I decided I'd soak them and plant the whole lot out in one go and if they germinate great! If they don't no biggie.

 

[timmie]

hubby planted about 30 tomatoes and 25 peppers today

 

[Bacpacker]

I planted 250 Copra yellow onions last night to finish off my onion planting for this season. Fertilized most all them last weekend. planted Cantaloupes, patty pan squash, spaghetti squash, buttercup squash, butternut squash, Red burgundy Okra, various cucumbers, several watermelons varitities, and 3 types of beans. Long day, but some really good work accomplished.

 

[Tank-Girl]

Planted at least 10 comfrey root cuttings around the base of the lemon trees to act as a living mulch.
Chipped out more root clumps of elephant grass that I hacked the tops off because the blades of grass will slice your hands open if you run your hand down them.
I'm planning on putting my broad beans where they are.
I move the teenager chicken tractor over the spot so they can work over the soil, eat those wretched cutworms, clean up and left over soft grasses and manure the area.

Made up a large seed starting soil, got seeds soaking and I'm excited to be planting.

I need to make up a batch of colloidal copper in case I get blight again but I've chose a tomato variety called Sprint which is claimed to be cold tolerant and
blight resistant.
Blight wiped out the last lot of tomato plants I had and really hit my chilies and capsicums hard so I only got a few poorly developed fruit so having colloidal copper on hand to spray them down with will help.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Wow fantastic everyone you are all doing so well on your planting and I hope you all have wonderful crops .

Tomorrow we also will be having another big planting session in the gardens too of both vegetables and separating and planting lilies into a new garden bed if we get the chance to do all of that tomorrow.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Got the three rows of green beans planted, watered in.
Got one section of raised bed ready for compact dwarf tomato plants.
Heavily mulched the whiskey barrel blueberry bush.
Lettuce is in and looking good, so is onions, carrots,garlic.
Everything that got planted, got watered in too.
Still haven't decided about potatoes as to whether to plant or not.
Probably not, beings 5 pounds of potatoes lasts me about 6 months.
So that spot of the garden will have something else.
Decisions.. decisions......
It's raining here now. Misty rain....

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@MoBookworm1957 yes garden space is at an all high as to what to plant and we do the same thing here as well even though we have quite extensive vegetable, herb and berry gardens here.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Today was a good long day in the gardens and we got a lot of things accomplished with DH widening the paths between 2 ploughed amended vegetable gardens so we can fit a wheelbarrow down the rows now.

We planted -
- A 6mt row of broccoli and 2.4mts of cauliflower and a 6mt row of snow peas.
- Out of saved seeds we planted a 12mt row of broad beans and early Massey pea seeds saving $7.75 over purchasing the equivalent amount of seeds in the shops.
- In the side gardens we dug up, thinned, trimmed and transplanted rest of the canna and native lilies as well as some elephant ear plants.

 

[Sonya_6]

Three days of rain starting yesterday (though right now it is sunny and clear) so I have been making a big effort to plant most all of my overgrown transplants.

After deciding to a) plant tobacco and b) manually carve out field for more garden space I learned the hard way that tobacco takes up a LOT of room, and manually digging out field grass is very very slow/tedious work.

Finally just sectioned off a part of the not too thick grass area and planted the tobacco there. Then transplanted some more peppers, parsley, and herbs in the garden.

I need more straw as a weed cover for the tobacco but at least it is in the ground. Will see how it does. This year it will be mostly a learning experience.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Sonya_6 looking good on the planting and first time I have ever seen a tobacco plant growing, very interesting .

With hay being such a high price here we tend to rake up all our dried leaves, dried grass clippings we put in a pile to dry and some hay and run over it with the ride on lawn mower and mulch with that. It makes the hay go much further and we find that mulching with a finer hay makes it go further and makes it easier to mulch between the small rows in our vegetable gardens.

I hope this helps to make your hay spread much further.

 

[Sonya_6]

@Sonya_6 looking good on the planting and first time I have ever seen a tobacco plant growing, very interesting .

With hay being such a high price here we tend to rake up all our dried leaves, dried grass clippings we put in a pile to dry and some hay and run over it with the ride on lawn mower and mulch with that. It makes the hay go much further and we find that mulching with a finer hay makes it go further and makes it easier to mulch between the small rows in our vegetable gardens.

I hope this helps to make your hay spread much further.

That is a good idea! I forgot about using pine straw, and there is plenty of that in the yard. It would last longer than wheat straw too, maybe I will gather some of that up to use. I am also using any weeds that get pulled as well (once they dry out the weeds/grass makes decent mulch and that area is full of seeds anyway).

 

[Patchouli]

Picked up some oat grass seed (Avena Sativa) to grow for kitty. Since Friday when I planted it, it has sprouted up 2".
Maybe this summer will be a little milder. Hoping so.

 

[Amish Heart]

I've been planting oat seed in good sized patches in the duck habitat. It's really taken off! Also soaked sunflower. Have been meaning to pick up a big bag of wheat seed, but haven't yet. I like to make wheat grass for the chickens.

 

[Patchouli]

@Amish Heart -- tell me more about the soaked sunflower.

 

[Amish Heart]

I soak sunflower seed in water for awhile and then plant it. It's "ready" when it's a few inches high. The shell sticks to the top. The chickens love it. I buy the big bags of black oil seed. Not expensive.