Posted on 04/17/2015 1:08:22 PM PDT by greeneyes
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I have moved the tomatoes in the 16 oz styro cups outside to transplant into gallon containers for a few weeds before their final transplant into garden or 5 gallon buckets.
I have planted about half of my potatoes and will do the rest this weekend or next week. They may have been greening too long, but we'll see. Hubby got his planted before his surgery.
Last year we canned lots of green beans and then let them go for dried beans, so this year we will do the same. We plan to add beets to the crop-the small bunch we grew last year turned out well, and we like the pickled recipe I found. Our corn will be removed from the cob to save space and frozen. We still have some from last year so we grew about the right amount of that.
Spinach production is great right now, but I am behind on the replanting. Since the winter lettuce took a big hit, my salads and sandwiches are mostly spinach for now.
We have an big abundance of volunteer poke growing now, and hubby has decided he will harvest it while young this year and prepare it the old time way which involves cooking in lots of water, pouring it off, adding fresh several times, then cooking with onions, garlic, and bacon grease. I don't like it - too mushy, but more power to him.
The fruit trees and berry bushes are beginning to look like we might actually get some fruit this year, which would be nice.
Hope all is well with everyone. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
weeds=weeks
Two feet of snow on the ground right now :(
Pinging the list.
Sorry for you. What is the general area where you live?
Hey, I saw something interesting on FB. Start your seedlings in flat ice cream cones and then plant the whole thing. How cool is that?
Been really wet here since Wednesday. So since I have to sit to do my gardening because of the polio I haven’t gotten anything done other than in the green house. But! Earlier in the week I got 60 of the tomato plants set out and the corn planted which is up already! The beans are about 3 inches tall, the carrots look really good, the celery is up, we will eat the first lettuce from outside tonight, and the tomatoes in the greenhouse have tomatoes on! Oh, and the watermelon and acorn squash are up and growing well! So all in all a little late this year but doing well!
Wouldn't those ice cream cones be mush from the wet soil long before planting time? That sounds like an idea that someone had rather than a tested method.
Interesting idea.
Outstanding start!
Still some snow on the ground in southern NH....but less and less of it every day :)
Most beautiful and mild winter I’ve ever seen here in Western Colorado...been in the upper 60’s - 80’s from January to March, only real snow we had was on Christmas. April hits and we got snow yesterday! Thank goodness for the greenhouse!!! 2 inches between 9AM and noon yesterday, and then it melted away. We DO need the moisture, however, so I’m not going to complain. Snowpack in the hills was @ 69% of normal until the last couple days, projecting fire bans and no fireworks for the 4th for us. Let’s hope the moisture was enough to keep my summer camping trips warmed with camp fires!
Cold and wet in San Antonio. My 4x4’s are full of beautiful vegetable plants. Not one veggie to be found.
I was hoping for something different but it looks like another year shot. Will give it another 30 days then I will rip it all up, remove the soil and try again from scratch. It is puzzling.
I certainly haven’t done much since the last pictures I took. I check for weeds, and that's about it. When the sun comes out, I'll get more work done.
/johnny
Eight tomatoes and ten peppers have been transplanted to the garden. We’re still using the frost covers, mainly for too much sun.
We uncovered the peppers and have bird netting over the pipe framework.
I planted radish seeds and will put in some onion sets this weekend. Wife’s final seed starting article was in last Wednesday’s “The Lake Today.” You’ll find in under “features.”
Those cones are very small so would only take a little water every few days which the soil would soak up and then get dry before more water was needed. My granddaughter is going to try it. Am moving so may try it later.
I live in the Colorado Rockies between Golden and Boulder and about 12 miles west at around 8,500 ft elevation.
Yes, very wet here in East Central Mississippi also. Has been raining every day this week and is not expected to clear up until after Sunday.
I’ve been to Boulder several times on vacation trips with my parents when younger. It was strange to me to see tall banks of snow on each side of the road in June.
On one of the trips we went Through Cody Wyoming and had to stop and buy snow tires, during which time we were pelted with baseball size hail.
Do you have a green house, or south or west window?
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