Potatoes look good, too:
Potatoes, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, peas and onions:
Sweet corn Silver Queen planted but not up yet:
It's a beautiful day here in Missouri. Sunny and the temperature is nice. Rain barrels are full again. Was going to plant taters last week end, but no one had any Yukon gold. So I ordered some and am waiting for them to come in.
Hubby is planting the leftovers from last years garden (all have healthy sprouts) today, and reports that he will have plenty of room for more-so that means he'll be buying something from Walmart most likely.
Spinach and lettuce planted last fall, is doing nicely. I am going to have to harvest some spinach, and freeze it for use in stir fry or dips. Time to plant the spring greens and lettuce too.
Lemon Tree is full of blossoms ready to bloom. I'm busy with taxes, so I won't be doing much till after the 15th.
I am going to mention one of my favorite shoes which I buy online: OKABASHI These are American made shoes, and are recyclable. They have a 2-yr. warranty, but the first pair I bought lasted for 15.
I was rummaging through a Dollar Store sale bin for some sandals to wear to the swimming pool, and needed something better than the normal flip flops. Got them for 4 dollars.
A couple of years ago, I bought a pair for each of my kids and grand kids. They cost 15 dollars then, I'm thinking about getting the clog style for my great grand kids for summer outdoors chores. Going to check prices to see what inflation has done.
Prayers up for all. Have a great weekend. God Bless.
Pinging the list.
Hat tip to Tubebender and Freedom 56v2 for Big Red and Tasteless link below:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3541077/posts
It is FINALLY a nice day here in New England! ;-)
I e got a question! I’d appreciate if anyone could help me. I recently moved to central Florida and went to a Fair, and a cowboy reenactment fella was making what he called “swamp cabbage.” It is actually “hearts of palm,” from a Sabal Palm, which is the state plant. It is delicious. Here is my question- is anyone familiar with it? How do you get your hands on it? You can grow the palms on private land but you would need an orchard. You can’t just go into the swamp because it’s considered hands-off by the state. The palm was almost wiped out by a beetle. I tried looking online but you can only buy tiny bottles of the stuff. I want entire stumps!
Thanks for the ping on any day. We have a break in the endless rain as we continue to set new records. I was just out in the garden to feed the birds and the pathways are as soggy as the planting beds here on the shores of Humboldt Bay...
The drought is over. As I post this, it is pouring.
All the asian pear trees have been full of petals, until Hugh gusty winds blew a lot to them hither and yon the last few days. The usual late bloomer FUJI tree just started with blossoms so it may have a decent crop this year.
No veggies planted.. Yet.
more rain next week in the forecast. If we get a hotstreak , look for lots of flooding in the Goldarn State this spring and summer.
Looks like the sun is trying to peek out. good luck, green thumbs, uhh green eyes. :-)
About 8 inches of snow yesterday here in Northfield!
Fang is beginning to harvest asparagus from a fairly old
plant in our garden. I cut it up and mixed it with a can
of English peas. Cooked it in butter. Went well together.
How do you plant spinach and lettuce in the fall for spring-time use? I’d like to do that too!
Just came in a few minutes ago. Small garden blocked off with eggs shells and my late composting. Bone Meal and Organic fertilizer to prep the soil.
Started a tub with about 80 yellow and orange pepper seeds - same stuff added - gonna sprout these outside now that things are a bit better (inside sprouts are going good after about 4-6 weeks with a few more that are only started a week or two ago.
Still going to get another tomato plant, basil, etc. at some point. I’m planting hundreds of pepper seeds and hopefully a lot of tomato. Carrots are sprouting good but very young and tender so no transplanting yet for about a month I think (at least).
Potatoes look good, too:
Potatoes, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, peas and onions:
Sweet corn Silver Queen planted but not up yet:
50 6” black krims ready for transplanting.
50 6” better boys ready for transplanting.
3 dozen korean cukes ready for transplanting.
2 dozen guajillo chiles ready for transplanting.
4 korean peppers ready for transplanting.
3 dozen alabama red okras ready for transplanting.
It took me three years to find a seed house selling Carolina Sieva butter (a lima) beans. I have enough for a decent crop for cooking, freezing and seed savin’. (they almost disappeared for a few years. said to be Thomas Jefferson’s favorite - certainly mine).
I will celebrate my first harvest of these butter beans by simmering a ham hock for several hours before cooking the limas in the hock stock. From there, I’ll serve fried chicken, tater salad, krim maters swimming in Italian dressing and Mexican cornbread. Yum..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EFM5PfnQI4
Ok I am a total virgin/newbie when it comes to gardening. I am interested in growing Green Onions & Beets. What do I need to start growing them? Do I need a small pot to start? What type of potted soil do I need? Any help would be appreciated.
I have spinach seedlings ready to plant but it’s too windy and cold. The wind ripped out one of my zucchini plants today. The wind is sucking the moisture out of everything.
I have two pairs of Okabashi flip flops & love them!
Yesterday, I paid the price for supreme laziness this past fall, plus another mistake I made with two new raised beds. I really did not put the beds ‘to bed’ for the winter & they were all grown up with weeds big time, more than I’ve ever had before. With the exception of about an hour, I was working on beds from lunch time until sunset yesterday (gorgeous day to be out & about). The mistake was where I got dirt for the new beds - evidently it was infested with wild onion bulbs. I saw a few when I was getting the dirt & picked them out - missed a lot more. The 2 inches of rain over the last week enabled me to pull probably 80% or more out (got the entire bulb) & I dug out quite a few more. I looked up how to possibly kill them - no preemergents work, & anything to put on them to kill the plant is stuff I don’t want in a garden where I’m going to be consuming the veggies. I’ll be pulling wild onions for a long time until I eventually get the beds clean.
Friday, I got my straw bales for the straw bale gardening experiment. I was able to fit two bales lengthwise & one bale sideways in each of my 8 foot beds. I’m using pine needles for mulch to keep the weeds down & for the bales to sit on. Today I need to get my metal posts & wire to make the trellis & “greenhouse” for each bed. Around the 18th, I’ll start conditioning so I should be able to plant May 1.
The hour I “took off” from the garden was to help next door - my brother got his tractor stuck - the left side tires were halfway up in really goopy mud. The ground looked ok - he was good pulling over it, but when he backed up, the surface gave way to a mud pit lurking underneath. Our old tractor could not pull him out so all the wheels had to be dug free of the mud which had established quite a “suction” hold. Fortunately, he had a gravel pile nearby so I was hauling gravel in 5 gal buckets & we dumped that in behind the wheels. Once that all happened, I drove the old tractor keeping tension with a chain & he was in reverse (couldn’t pull it out in neutral) - it worked very well, to much cheering by the 3 of us who were working on the problem. Always something ‘exciting’ going on around here!
Busy week coming up for me; I’m getting last-minute soil amendments in before I transplant my veggie starts. I came up with a tasty butternut squash recipe and promptly doubled my planned butternut planting. :) Got purple tomatoes, peach tomatoes, Sungold cherries and red cherries ready to go, as well as numerous lesser vegetables (NOTHING is more important than tomatoes at my house.)
I tried making a laundry-basket planter for strawberries and have them transplanted, covered, and watered, so I’ll see how they do this week. Cornelian cherries and honeyberries planted, plus one of the apple saplings that I thought I’d lost to bored Small Obnoxious Dog has sprouted leaves all over its little stub of a stem. Fingers crossed.
Everything is looking good in California, thanks to that heavy rain a couple of weeks ago. We can probably only enjoy the lush green for a month and then things will look brown and thirsty again.
It was a nice warm weekend in Central Missouri. Two days of sun and wind have made things crunchy in spite of all the recent rain. I did 7.5 miles in the river bottoms yesterday and found one scrawny morel. None of the folks I bumped into had much. Need some rain soon.
I cut all of the grass on Saturday and did some cleanup around the market garden. It is ready to go. Will just need one pass with the tiller when planting time arrives.
The early green stuff in the kitchen garden is coming along. Sometime this week I need to seed another bed of carrots and a bit of green salad.
I have tons of these white finger taters that have huge sprouts on them and have only managed to get about a quarter of em in the ground... been rainin here like crazy, we are already 12 inches above normal rainfall.
Plus some clown of a tree surgeon comes out to the backyard of the lady nextdoor and cuts down like 12 maples. No problem except HE LEFT THEM! So I volunteered to the lady and the other guy next door to cut it up and haul it off, so ain’t had the time to garden yet...