[greeneyes]

Good evening Gardeners. We had a lovely day here in Missouri with lots of Sunshine. It's a bit chilly right now in the basement, as all the heaters have been turned off all day, while I was gone.

My potatoes, are growing nicely. Both the volunteers from last year and the Yukon Gold planted this year. Lettuce, spinach, and carrots have sprouted. Chives have tiny bulbs.

Fruit trees have survived the frosts with some blooms intact. Some of the trees have 5 years growth, so we are hoping for some fruit this year.

Picked up some magazines at Walmart. First up to read is Mother Earth article-self reliance on 1 acre. Will have to go to Springfield area this weekend. Does anyone know anybody from that area who would like to earn some money by mowing a yard?

Will also be working in some compost and getting another bed ready to plant and adding some soil and straw to the potato bed as some of the volunteers are a bit close to the surface.

Prayers up for all. Hope you have a great weekend. God Bless.

[greeneyes]

Pinging the list.

[tubebender]

FIRST!!!

[goodwithagun]

Garlic is growing more every day. Lettuce, beets, carrots, peas, kale, bok choy, chard, and onions in and up. We are eating spinach, parsley, and chives. Green is good. I’m so happy things are green again!

[EvilCapitalist]

I’ve got plenty of little white flowers on my strawberry plants here in PA. I hope to be enjoying some tasty strawberries in a little more than a month.

[Arkansas Tider]

I’m excited, tomorrow the Morgan/Decatur Farmers market opens, it will be a 4AM wake up for me. I will have summer squash, new potatoes, baby swiss chard, lettuce, radishes and lots of potted plants for sale.

[tubebender]

We had a 1 1/4” of rain from 11 last night until 9AM this morning PLUS another 1/2” from 9 to 3 this afternoon then ended the day with lovely sunshine. Had 2 doctors appointments today so didn’t do anything in the garden or green house. Sat & Sun are my days of rest

[Ellendra]

I had 2 days off this week in which the weather was supposed to be perfect. My plan was to plant berries on both days, make a dent in my berry patch plans.

Here's what happened instead:



One of the dead stalks I was clearing out shattered in my hand. One shard drove straight into my thumb. It wasn't until I got the bleeding stopped and drove home to wash up, that I discovered a piece had been pushed further inside! The Dr at Urgent Care couldn't find it, either on X-ray or by digging into the wound, so she sent me home with antibiotics and said I was probably mistaken about the splinter.

This morning, it was swollen about 3 times its normal size, and as you can see it's a nice shade of purple. I've been soaking it in hot water with Epsom salts, but it hasn't stopped throbbing.

Lesson learned, no more bare-handed gardening! At least not when pulling weeds.

[mojo114]

Thank you for setting up the gardening thread, hoping all is well with you and your family.
We have had a wonderful Spring in Connecticut, more like summer with temps in the 70’s.
Bought one tomato plant from Walmart for $1.00 and it is flourishing. Doesn’t have a home yet as I doubt the warm weather will last.

[Dirt for sale]

Figs were showing an awful lot of fruit.Two cold snaps took the leaves off most of the fig trees; they shriveled and turned black. Figs next to the house however lost almost zero leaves. Giant sunflowers are unhappy from the recent cold but all alive at their posts and rabbits mostly ignoring them. Mulberries are small and white now but will soon turn black. Muscadine grapes are happy and thriving in all situations so far, and air layering has been a success with them. Worm activity in all bins of different substrates even with neglect are proving their hardiness and breeding up a storm. Castings will be amended into whatever I grow this season.

[Redleg Duke]

Our bog filter is now operational and Barb is planting both bog plants and land plants in the surrounding beds. It was a lot of work, but the Jonh Deere 318 with its 44 Loader sure made it possible.

I just moved our original raised beds over to the new garden area, around the pergola and water feature and the area exited will become “my” vegetable garden for potatoes, winter squash, cabbage, Brussels sprouts and sweet corn. You know, small-town Wiscconsin stuff!

[tob2]

The weather is moderating here so I have spent some time outside cleaning up the gardening pots. Pansies blooming nicely, bumper crop of lettuce - yummy. Some spring bulbs are sending up flower stalks, others none at all. Think I’ll pull all of them up in the fall and freshen the soil. The rose bushes are loaded with buds and will bloom sometime this week. The lavender is a pleasant surprise. It is blooming profusely in this bright, indirect light!

[dirtboy]

Had really nice weather this weekend, put in peas, chard, beets, greens, turnips and taters. Also put in two early tomato plants (first time I’ve ever planted those in April) and a mound of zukes. No sign of frost in the long-term forecast, so it’s worth the risk of losing a couple of plants. The stuff I planted on March 12 is coming along, although the beets are still pretty puny. The radishes are comical - they are six weeks old and have bulbs not much larger than a pea.

[Augie]

Another warm sunny weekend in Central Missouri has come and gone.

I hauled my entire compost heap out to the tomato patch. I had enough to cover 1020' of 6' wide bedding rows 4"-6" deep. That's a lot of compost.

Saturday morning I spread sunflower, turnip, pearl millet and oats on the wildlife food plot and tilled it in. I spread 200lbs of urea on the back pasture after I finished the seeding. Pops came over yesterday and we hung the gate in the new pasture fence. That project is now officially complete.

I'm going to hit the nursery on my way home from work tonight and get some cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower to stick in my kitchen garden.

[ApplegateRanch]

Best cuttings yet for asparagus; 18-20 spears a day. Usually, the first sets of spears make it to 3 or 4”, then freeze; rinse and repeat a couple more times.

Late in the week, we MIGHT get a bit of snow, but it’s only expected to stick like charges against Hillary.

[Darth Reardon]

First okra “harvest” of the year tonight. I’m not a big fan, but the dogs love the stuff and it grows so well around here that I grow a couple plants every year just so they can each have a pod a day during the summer months.

This is the earliest I’ve ever gathered okra, which of course means that 2016 will be the hottest year on record due to global warming/cooling/climagechange. Either that, or I started them a few weeks earlier than normal under the skylights this year.

[ncpatriot]

Can somebody help me with this question. I purchased a few cuke plants last week - they are really leggy, about five inches of stem and then a couple leaves.
My question is: when I transplant them should I bury the stem up to the leaves (like on a tomato plant) or not?
thx