What have you done for garden prep so far?

[user 7704]

I've filled 2 gardens, but am saving room in the 3rd for tomatoes and peppers

 

[Brent S]

Yeah, I had more seeds than room to plant them all by far! I’m going to add some potatoes soon but will stop with that. I’ve allready got a lot to keep weeded. Although the mystery monster that is still eating my pea plants is still at large, so I may have more room soon.... luckily he or it isn’t eating anything else, yet. I’m doing my best to not apply any poisons unless absolutely necessary. I believe this is something bigger than an insect though, but no footprints left...

 

[user 7704]

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Yeah, I had more seeds than room to plant them all by far! I’m going to add some potatoes soon but will stop with that. I’ve allready got a lot to keep weeded. Although the mystery monster that is still eating my pea plants is still at large, so I may have more room soon.... luckily he or it isn’t eating anything else, yet. I’m doing my best to not apply any poisons unless absolutely necessary. I believe this is something bigger than an insect though, but no footprints left...

I am at the mercy of pests since I got the bees and chickens.

 

[user 7704]

Planted 8 tomato plants in the garden. It's been in the 80s so I made a newspaper tent to shade them from the sun.

They have survived 2 days. We are expecting rain today. The gardens need it. Plus I planted grass seed.

 

[Dani]

Getting excited. . . I found my first baby tomato !! I also have a yellow squash that is about ready too. A couple m guys ago I got to eat a fresh from the garden salad for dinner. It wasn't much variety to choose from yet but it did have arugula, jalapeno, radish, and some beet greens.

I planted my okra and peanuts this morning along with some mammoth sunflowers in a row I have some thing viney, I think it was the pumpkin pies maybe?

It's been overcast most of the day. We were supposed to have had rains this morning, but maybe later this evening. If not, I will water tomorrow.

Put cages around about half of my tomato plants, but I have ran out so will have to come up with something. Also went ahead and trimmed back some of their green leaves. They look nice with all that foliage, but I am after tomatoes.

 

[user 7704]

My seeds are just popping through. This rain will help. Nothing like God's water.

 

[Mountain trapper]

The wife got home yesterday, after being gone for two months, and the first thing see wanted to see was the garden. The asparagus is coming up, most of her herbs survived the winter and some onions have sprouted. The raspberry, blueberry, and blackberry's are all budding out. Nothing on the grape plants yet. All of the fruit trees are budding too. Last night was only in the mid 30's but most nights have been in the low to mid 20's. The asparagus and herbs need watering today. I'd like to start tilling soon to get ready to start planting in a couple of weeks.
We're going to plant a few more apple, plum and cherry trees in the orchard and couple more rows of blackberry's, grapes and blueberry plants.
No rain in sight.

 

[Dani]

Hunny did take the skid steer to the back of the house to load up the freezer that went kaputs a few weeks back and took it down the road to get picked up. Probably by one of the guys who scraps metal for a living.

Today was more trimming out extra leaves and stems of tomatoes that were not wanted. I want to make sure that my bottom leaves are at least 12 inches off the ground to help ward off diseases and also give good airflow underneath. While I was in the process of that, hunny said he was going to go to the hardware store and asked if I wanted to go. Heck yes. my back was hurting and I needed the break and I wanted the free popcorn. I was hungry, hadn't eaten anything and past lunchtime.

After we got home hunny went back to his recliner and I talked to him for a little bit telling him what was going on in the garden and with my goats. I got the you need to do this and do that . . . yes I know, but I am one person who can only do one thing at a time. Honestly I am fed up some days when I know good n well that hunny is ok right now, just going thru a depression. I get the depression, but you can not let it control your life. Apparently he knew I got ticked and eventually came out to fix the sprinkler that was leaking and also put in a couple stakes so my goats could go out to the canal without knocking over the temp fence. It was a 'sweetie' kind of day. . .

Did get to start mulching. The mulch I got last year that seemed ok at first ended up to be more broken down than I originally thought so I ended up hooking up a small trailer to the back of the golf cart and went down the lane that leads into the big cow pasture. It is a wooded area that boarders our property with the pipeline. It is a combination of mainly live oaks, pines, scrub oaks and hackberry. I ended up just raking all the leaves and pine needles for the mulch around my plants because there is no way I can leep up with my schedule. . . . As soon as I get the garden weeded I just have to start right over again and I am not able to get out there everyday any longer.

 

[user 7704]

I've never had any aspirations that I would have help from mine. He makes a bigger mess just trying to do what he wants.

 

[user 7704]

I planted 2 container tomatoes yesterday. Lol

 

[user 7704]

Got a new hosta today as a Mother's Day present.

We had ours early because my husband, daughter and SOL are off to Pine Island, FL for another fishing trip.

 

[user 7704]

Been stuck inside for 2 days due to rain. My beans are getting runners so I need to stake them, but it's too wet.

Oh well.

 

[Brent S]

We are slated for rain all day too. I need to get out and weed. At least I will do the greenhouse. I think I’m going to can a few jars of collards for the first time. I’ve been making them with a can of beef broth and a can of chicken broth. Best darned collards I’ve ever had. The number one thing though for today is mother’s day. Gardening can wait.

 

[user 7704]

We did our Mother's Day last weekend so husband and daughter and SIL could go to FL fishing. Mom and I are here with my son so I'll cook something. No way woyld I go out in the mobs to get to a restaurant today.

 

[user 7704]

I planted some more tomato seeds for a late crop. It's too muddy to do anything else.

 

[Brent S]

Thanks for the tomato reminder. A rainy day is a good time to transplant a few more of the tomatoes that randomly popped up in the greenhouse. They are amazingly resilient plants. I have at least 8more or so to move into the main garden.

 

[user 7704]

Thanks for the tomato reminder. A rainy day is a good time to transplant a few more of the tomatoes that randomly popped up in the greenhouse. They are amazingly resilient plants. I have at least 8more or so to move into the main garden.

I had two of the transplants I put in the garden die. I've only transplanted 9 to garden and 4 to containers. Since I killed the initial 36 seedlings, I'm off to a slow start

 

[Mountain trapper]

I think about all we're going to plant in the garden this year is a few tomato and some pepper plants. And we've got a couple more raised beds that the wife wants to plant some more herbs and asparagus in.
If it's not too late we'll get a few more fruit trees.
The wife's going to be gone most of the summer and I still have a couple more miles of fence to build and repair.

 

[Brent S]

I had two of the transplants I put in the garden die. I've only transplanted 9 to garden and 4 to containers. Since I killed the initial 36 seedlings, I'm off to a slow start

All of the initial transplants I did survived, but they were very young. I transplanted 4 decent sized plants yesterday and will see how a more mature plant does. All the tomato seeds I planted are about two inches tall right now so the transplants will hopefully give me that first tomato of the season before long. One of yesterday’s plants had flowers on it but I’m sure they will die from the shock. Thought about plucking them but this is really just kind of an experiment anyways. I will go water them in a bit more this morning. I did get most of the outside garden weeded yesterday. That was about all the productivity I managed on a rainy day. Today I get to mow and weeds eat 2.5 acres here. Yeah! Not....

 

[Maverick]

Garden is ready for planting, we going to start planting June 1st providing we get some sun in the forecast around June.

 

[user 7704]

Garden is ready for planting, we going to start planting June 1st providing we get some sun in the forecast around June.

It's back to winter here. 60 today with lows in 40s.

Nothing is going to grow like this. It won't die, but won't grow either.

Bring back the heat and take away some of the rain. I haven't been able to stake beans or the pitiful 8 tomato plants.

 

[Maverick]

It's back to winter here. 60 today with lows in 40s.

Nothing is going to grow like this. It won't die, but won't grow either.

Bring back the heat and take away some of the rain. I haven't been able to stake beans or the pitiful 8 tomato plants.

We where 73 today but rain for the remainder of this week and next week.

 

[Mountain trapper]

They're calling for snow next week at our place.

 

[Petoski]

Carrot seeds planted in the ground, onions in, and got 2 grape vines planted. The first asparagus started to pop up. Hope this be the first year of free asparagus.

 

[Dani]

Carrot seeds planted in the ground, onions in, and got 2 grape vines planted. The first asparagus started to pop up. Hope this be the first year of free asparagus.

And for the next 15 years or so. I love my asparagus.

 

[Petoski]

We are quite exposed to the wind here and every winter a panel of the greenhouse roof gets blown off. It is very old and could do with knocking down. Every year I end up doing a quick patch up job. I would love to get a new one up but there isn't enough time this year.

 

[Brent S]

I managed to get some weeding in the greenhouse and garden done today. That’s about it. I got an emergency call in the middle of the night that we all responded to so didn’t get much sleep. Have napped and eaten in bed all day otherwise.

 

[Dani]

This morning I tilled. . . Most of my corn didn't come up. Hunny says it was because they were old seeds. . . I just got them last year so was expecting at least a 90-95% germination rate. Who knows what happened this year.

 

[Dani]

Yesterday I cut out all the yellow from my squash. Its been very wet and I did end up losing one of my Jalapenos. . . looks like maybe a second. With all the yellow squash and zucchini, I ended up slicing some yellow for the freeze drier, mainly gave away 1/2 of them to family and then sauteed 1 yellow and a zucchini then made zucchini bunt cake sprinkled with powdered sugar.

 

[Brent S]

My squash and zucchini’s aren’t flowering yet, but are looking a bit haggard allready. Hopefully I will get something from them this year. Finally have some tomato blooms! I bought two red tomatoes from the store that looked good but had zero taste.... I did see some decent sized broccoli heads on the plants in the greenhouse yesterday, but no cauliflower yet. I noticed a lot of small holes being eaten in many of the plants leaves. I’m deciding if I’m going to spray anything or not. Will probably just let nature take its course as I don’t like using pesticides on things I eat.