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Put me on the list! Suburban gardener that hasn’t gardened in 20 plus years. Nearing retirement and just had my yard redone with new garden areas (It helps that my neighbor just cut down some very large trees on my south side).

My goal for this year is beans, snowpeas (just planted), tomatoes, and some exotic vegetables my kids got me for Christmas.

DC area

Had lots of rain last night along with a thunderstorm. Lost power here for a while, and since I was away from the house, and not expecting rain at all... I lost 60 baby tobacco plants that were still in egg cartons. They were out where they could get hammered directly by the rain.

Everything else is doing fine. Potatoes are going crazy, putting out green, tomatoes and pepper plants are little, but doing well, sunflowers are growing faster than the weeds. All of the cantaloupe, pumpkin, and squash are doing well.

I started tobacco seed this morning for 56 replacement plants, and next week, I'll start peanuts.

Not terribly unhappy with the way the year in the big garden has started.

/johnny

rightly, went to Lowes and the rain/temp gauge is stuck in the ground - no more constantly picking up the other one. My weather report says we will have rain tomorrow, which is Saturday, and Sunday. I insist on knowing how much rain I'm getting. I also got the Miracle Gro citrus tree granules for the orange tree. I'll use that sparingly and stick in a Jobe’s stake for good measure.

I was looking at the 90 or so containers on the deck and I put the plants out there as they needed to go out, so they are totally mixed up. A cucumber maybe next to a pepper and another cucumber in another place and another one in another place. Peppers are also everywhere next to whatever. Tomatoes in small pots until they get bigger are spread around here and there. Brussels sprouts, several kinds of peas, and many more are just mixed up.

I'm going to have to bend to move all those plants into categories. Rats on the bending but I'll do it, maybe some at a time and stop, then go back and keep doing that until its done.

I also got two water hoses. Each one is 15 ft. The Sears, guaranteed for life, heavy duty 50 ft. hose, is so heavy, it's hard for me to use. This morning I measured how long a hose would have to be for me to water everything and I could make it, barely, with a 25ft. hose. However, when at Lowes and a guy helping me, he had a 15 ft. hose, 5/8 inch as most hoses are, and it is a feather weight. I could easily hold one of those with one hand and another on top of that still wasn't heavy. Together, that gives me 30ft. and that is for sure all the length I need. They were 7+ dollars for each. They have solid metal fittings so shouldn't leak. I'll get that together before today is over and not have to fight that really heavy duty hose.

I read about the pocket hoses and none of them are worth buying, they fail plus they have plastic fittings and leak and I can't have a leak where it hooks to water as that water fitting is on the deck coming out of the wall of the living area and next to the wall of the storage room. I would have water going in both places. Anyway, I'm sure this new hose will be easier to use.