Gardening

Whos getting/has gotten their garden going yet?
I tilled our garden the other week for Mom. Shes always out there battling against the weeds. We tilled the garden over in the fall, and then again a week ago; hopefully this will help with the bugs that eat the plants up.

Planted some muscadines, got the raised beds cleaned up, should have strawberries soon as I run everbearing varieties. Probably won't plant any annuals till next week as the weather forecast is wet,wet,wet the next week or so.

I have everything in the ground other than some corn that I plant in 3 weeks spacings, so that I can harvest fresh sweetcorn over a longer period. have to re sow some beans as a critter chewed up some. Other than that, I am waiting or food to happen now. well run the cultivated through the rows now and then and hill up the corn and spuds once that time comes. Other that that I am pretty much done till harvest time.

Garden 1 about 2/3rds in. Garden 2 not started but composted manure is tilled in. We have been very, very dry and we got 2 inches yesterday and last night and there is a slow rain right now. That is really great. I will welcome a bit of delay in planting with the moisture trade off.

Bryce

I'm ready but two nights of frost this week yet.
The May full moon is late this year.
I've learned to pay attention to that moon.
Going to harvest a hemlock this weekend and some White Firs after that mess..

Yellow squash, and red potatoes are being picked now, should have cucumbers and snap beans next week.

I got a little small garden, planted potatoes the 13th of March they are doing ok, we need some time to dry out around here. Planted okra for second time Saturday and it rain that night, seems that kind of been the pattern last few years. Wet wet springs.

Corn is spiking. Planted 4/20.
Potatoes are breaking ground. planted 4/17.
No sign of carrots. planted 4/17
radishes are up.
Be another week for beans 4/25
Cucumbers squash tomatoes and peppers aren't in the ground yet. Probably wait til middle of May.
just

Have picked radishes, lettuce, and green onions so far. Snap peas, broccoli, cauliflower, all looking good. Green beans and first planting of corn up and out of the ground. Strawberries are blooming and blueberries are starting to form.

Got radishes, carrots, green onions, yellow onions, all seed in ground.
Also put in 7 hills of cucumbers, 5 hills of zucchini, and a dozen roma tomato plants.
Seedlings inside still not quite ready to plant are 9 pots of beefsteak tomatoes and 8 pots of peppers. Still got a few egg plants seedlings going too.
Toying with putting in some green beans to pickle too.
Jim

Are radishes, onions and potatos are up, tomatos are in the ground also are new asparasgus is up.

Too cold here yet
Asperges is up and bring sold ,but annual crop

Late start here with temperatures and rain. Maters panted. Peppers planted. Banana, jalapeno, and Trinidad scorpions. Radishes, yellow squash, and watermelon sprouting.

Yellow winter onions were planted last week of March. Planted Candy onions two weeks ago, along with beets and carrots. Got all my potatoes planted a week ago. I’ll plant sweet corn around the 15th of May. Tomatoes, peppers, squash and pumpkins early in the week of Memorial Day. Green and yellow beans at the end of May also.

The home garden is smaller and lighter soil and further from the lake. That is where my potatoes, peas, onion plants, early sweet corn, beets, carrots, early lettuce, radish and spinach got planted April 29th. This year I dug fairlly deep trenches and put in 3-4 inches of compost about 1 foot wide, covered with soil and planted and covered the seeds. I hope this helps in in-row weed control as well as nutrition. Sure takes a lot longer to plant! I am planning to put down 8 inch wide black fiber strips when the plants are up and growing. All the set plants and later corn, vine plants etc. go in the other garden. Most are planted around mid-May here which is still earlier than what many do around here. Will plan to do some cauliflower, cabbage, carrots etc. from seed in July and have the crop grow until freezing in mid-October.

Bryce

I've got mine going, but it has been a very difficult spring due to all the crazy weather.

My primary garden is nearly all planted for the first round. 60 Tomatoes, 60 Peppers, 30 cabbage, 30 cauliflower, 30 Broccoli, onions, picklebush cucumbers, cushaw squash, and zucchini. I still need to plant my watermelon, corn, beets, turnips, & another round of radishes.
The 2nd garden is tilled, I'm just waiting for it to dry up a bit. We have had over 3" of rain in the last week and 3 more days of rain predicted. I will soon plant pumpkins, squash, muskmelons, & overflow of whatever I have extra of.