Posted on 05/20/2015 6:59:43 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
I put in(pots) 5 varieties of Tomato from this outfit(got them all at Bamgaars)(http://chefjeffsgarden.com/about.html) and one Pepper Plant(also in a pot).
35 degrees here this morning.
Onions, pineapple, and working on potatoes later...
Early Girl, Celebrity, Rutgers,Heatmaster and some other odd variety of heirloom they sold in local store. Had to start spraying for early blight since our weather has been so humid and cooler. 2 Ancho peppers and a bunch of Jalapenos, yellow and zucchini squash, canteloupe, honey dew, and okra. Plans to plant blackeye peas as soon as ground permits. Need to pull up turnip greens and the few beets and collards that came up. Will try those again in the fall. Planting and harvesting are very different things in my experience! We live in a tough place but this year has cooperated, except for the wild hog that ate my first squash seeds and birds I think that ate melon seeds.
Just sayin...
/johnny
Been picking Strawberries for the last 10 days or so. Not enough to do more than eat and put up 1 qt so far. Blueberries are on the plants but not near the size they should be and not ready to turn purple. Blackberries are blooming. Toms have 5 on 1 plant and 2 on another, the others are in bloom stage to to small to bloom. Cuke is blooming. Only need 1 as I’m the one that eats them.
Green beans 1 planting is in bloom, rest are about 10 days away. I put them in those big plastic swimming pools as I don’t have much planting area. Toms are in 5 gal buckets.
Hybrid roses have the yellow spot, and it’s rained all week off and on so can’t treat them. Memphis is hard on roses other than Knock Outs.
Weird weather patterns, it’s either to cool or to wet then we go dry.
Here in LA (lower Alabama) I have tomatoes almost ripe, four varieties (Serrano, cayenne, bell, hot banana) peppers all ripe, squash, cucumbers, spearmint, strawberries...garden looks beautiful, although I need to get out and weed...haven’t done it yet because the mosquitos are so bad! We have had a lot of rain this Spring.
On another note, can some kind freeper tell me how to edit the ‘nations visited’ map that shows on my homepage?
Thanks!
I wanted to find and plant Chef Jeff’s tomato variety called “Homely Homer” but I couldn’t find it(pretty UGLY BUT TASTY)!
Tomatoes and pole beans in SW Virginia. I’ll plant peppers this weekend.
March: Onions, Asparagus, early corn
April: Tomatoes, corn, zuccinni, squash, melons, cucumber, peppers ranging from bell, banana, cayanne, jalapeno
May: leafy veggies, eggplant, tobacco, burdock
Leaf lettuce, carrots, cukes, bok choi, Swiss chard, beets all from our own started seedlings (the Burpee catalog has worked best for us)....tomatoes and pepper plants bought at the local farmers market. Plus some marigolds to (hopefully) keep the deer away.
Everything looking good, expect to be eating some greens next week.
I would get the urge to plant in the spring.
And then summer would come and burn up my efforts.
I switched to growing trees.
Pecans, Satsumas, grapefruits, naval oranges, paw paws, mayhaws, pears, persimmons and plums.
My neighbor pointed out the “Rose Rosette Disease” on my knock out roses. I’m now seeing it everywhere I go in the DFW area.
Try a calamondin tree or two. Like a sour orange, about the size of a golf ball. We had a big tree in our back yard when I lived in Florida, I would eat those things like candy.
The Florida sun is COOKING everything! We lost roses, the aloe, the oregano.
The pineapple loooves the heat!
In New Jersey - we started our plants indoors in February. Mothers Day weekend we planted eggplant, several varieties tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, several varieties peppers, tomatillos, various herbs. We have asparagus that comes up every year. I guess the cold winter slowed it down, but we are finally enjoying lots of fresh asparagus. Beans and melons go in the ground next.
“Try a calamondin tree or two”
Thanks! I’ll get one or two.
I just don’t know how long I’ll be able to grow citrus with the upcoming “Global Cooling” “Climate Change” “Next Ice Age”.
Well my Mango tree that froze to ground came back up, Yea!
Here In N GA we are having a pretty cool spring. Weather has been great for working outside.
I’m experimenting with potato buckets. Got two 5 gallon buckets going. So far they look great. One jalapeno plant with blooms on. Plum, cherry and big boy tomatoes with some plums already on and the rest blooming. The bush beans are really up and running. Spinach is up a couple inches as well as carrots and I went with Basil from seeds this year as I’m not paying $3 plus for a basil plant. I also got some large leaf Italian parsley that is so sweet tasting.
“35 degrees here this morning.”
And still raining. My tomato sets are waiting in the garage poor things.
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