Got crazy here last week and planted beets, carrots, radishes, and peas. Two days after had a really hard frost just to remind me it’s not summer yet of course! Just had to get some seeds in the ground and try take advantage of our seemingly early spring to get some earlier than usual vegetables. Fingers crossed! My mom always waited until after Memorial Day for most stuff to be extra safe from frost, so I’m sure she’s smiling down on my garden kinda shaking her head! :-). That said, she sometimes tried to jump the fun and got away with it once in a while too!

How are all of yous gardens or garden planning going? Here I’m planning to plant kale, beans, cukes, onions, taters, pumpkins, squash, sweet corn, rutabagas, and giant pumpkins. Last year was the driest I’ve ever seen here, this winter we got almost zero snow, and now this spring it won’t stop raining! Happy trapping! ScottW

Your mother was a smart woman ! Mine is tilled waiting for Memorial Day.

True, but as I said, she couldn’t help herself sometimes either! And about 3/4 of the time we’d get burnt…. Happy trapping! ScottW

In the raised beds last week got in radishes, beets, and onions. A lot of rain coming this week. Average temps, that’s day and night, low 50’s later this week.

got 2 big rectangular bales on mine need to haul in probably 2 more then start planting

much easier to back a bail in right in the back of the truck with nothing planted pull off cakes and lay them out like carpet squares

Show us what you're doing? never heard of that method

I'm waiting on mine...

Eating lettuce and asparagus. Planted some corn , beans , squash and a few tomatoes so far

June 1 ....is safe to plant around here

the tp picture was the first bail on and one of the dogs investigating the hay that cam from the pig barn so it had lots of smells it was stored next to the pigs for future bedding it is old dried out hay that had with some spoilage on the edges


this is last years garden it was a mix of hay and wood chips and cardboard it really helps with the weeds if you can get ahead of them and smother them out
it also really helps with the water even with as dry a year as we had I only had to water a few times.

I get some weeds but most are easy to pull right up and then cover with more hay and I only deal with them once.
I don't have much for good pictures from 23

here is where the idea comes from

I used 3 bails total for last year , my goal is to start with 4 this year then plant then supplement as they brake down

by spring you can only see a few remnants of the 3 bails and 3 truck loads or wood chips from last year

the worms keep the soil very nice underneath

when i planted with straw i had diff bug trouble than normal.

i saved all my cardboard and might carpet the garden with it but its not out yet and I haven't really decided yet.

I used straw once and every slug in the County ate holes in my tomatoes.

One planting of snap peas a foot tall, 2nd about 4in tall, 3rd been in the ground 5 days. 1st corn 4in tall, 2nd been the ground 4 days, two more to go. Strawberries blooming, garlic over a foot tall, broccoli and cauliflower about the same, yellow, white, and red onions growing. Eating radishes and green onions. Blueberries done blooming and forming fruit. Everything looking pretty good.

I plant two gardens, the smaller one at our home is 10 miles from Lake Michigan with lighter soil, so that is where I plant potatoes, peas, onion plants and later beans. I have the first 3 in with small stretches of spinich, lettuce and radish in. I usually wait for beans until the 3rd week of May. I will buy my set plants later this week and have our son tend them while we are gone for 7 days on our Viet Nam Veterans bus trip. I will plant the longer maturity sweet corns, all set plants and the vine crops after getting back and weather permitting. As many do I also plant pumpkins, summer squash, carrots, cucumbers, I do 3 staggered planting of sweet corn and with 3 different maturities. For me I buy smaller tomato plants and sort of harden them for a couple weeks. I find that transplant shock is way less with smaller plants. Got all of our sheep manure composte rotor tilled in about 10 days ago. As to set plants I have tomatoes, 2-3 varieties with celebrity the larger amount, green peppers, Jalopena, cabbabe, cauliflower and brocolli. I have been experiementing with later carrots, later cabbage and cauliflower but need more improvement as if it stays hot and dry into late July and August these cooler season crops don't do well.

Bryce

went and bought some plants tonight local farm that has a green house of starts every spring.

got my tomatoes , egg plants , peppers
got a few cucumber and zucchini to get an early start I will plant more from seed

they had strawberry plants so I had to get a few of those I can't eat many so I went with the everbearing hoping for a few to snack on over a longer time.

I used to start all my own , but with the garden smaller a flat of plants for 20 dollars about does me and some direct sew seeds.

Maters in the tires

I got my hillbilly tomatoes in today. Still got several other varieties to get planted. Will also do some cucs and okra and squash.

nothing yet here to early

I have about half my stuff planted strawberries are setting fruit seems like they are ahead of years in past

I'd like to get mine planted. Got a big skiff of snow on garden this morning. I got it tilled before this last storm. I sometimes wonder why I even try to garden. There is not one month that we don't get a big frost