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It looks like spring is FINALLY here.
The potatoes are going in next week.
A GOOD day so far:
Walked to the mailbox & back - farthest I’ve walked since surgery
On my walk, a pair of bluebirds were active around my garden beds - a very blue (breeding plumage) male was sitting on top of my trellis - he has a great view for spotting bugs!
My brother (best brother ever!) is mowing for me as I type - this will give me an extra week before I have to do it again
My niece is bringing my 10-month old great-nephew to visit - he’s co cute - crawling “like a flash”, pulling himself up & side-stepping, & big enough to wear the Osh Kosh overalls that I gave her for a baby shower gift last year.
Sunny, cool early Spring day here - a real mood lifter!
> Have a five gallon bucket of sand near your tool storage and include some used motor oil
After you clean the dirt off your tools, dip them in the oily sand to build a preventative coat to prevent tools rusting.
That way your tools remain rust free, and ready for future use.
Zucchini plants are blooming and starting to set. Tomato plants are blooming as well. My herbs are doing awesome and it’s already time to trim them back. Spinach is coming on strong and my pepper plants are also blooming now. Over all down here in South Texas it’s perfect weather for the early spring planting/growing season. Looking good!!
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And you thought it was impossible to impress someone simply by putting your hat on.
I was going to have my 22 year old gardening daughter out to my house this morning to plan some flower beds, but looked at the weather forecast last night and called it off. Snow! Maybe next weekend we will walk the yard together...
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Ladies and gentlemen,I have just transplanted the first 4 cabbages of the year to the garden. Two Golden Acre and two Brunswick. Thank you.
Also a question... does anyone know in what way a “Yolo Wonder” pepper is an improvement on a “California Wonder” pepper? I hedged my bet by starting both but is one clearly better in some way?
Warmed up & dried out, so planted my 100 already sprouting in the bag onion sets, just in time to get watered in by overnight rain showers.
Yesterday, I seeded 5 peat post each of green & red cabbage; and 10 more with saved corn seed from last year’s crop.
And, since the lake is finally ice free, I’ve been catching trout for the freezer.
After lunch, I may put in carrot, pea, & spinach seed.
Still 6 weeks to last frost.
I ordered a lawn roller last nightas part of Lawn leveling this year.
Howdy from SE Texas. Got my vegetables planted in mid February. Around the horn we go: Artichokes, carrots, celery, 4 tomato plants, serrano peppers and cantaloupe. Tomato plants are already 4 feet high.
Had a weird winter. My cherry tomatoes kept on producing up until January. Picked my last ones on January 2. That never happened before.
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OK, I want to plant some of my potatoes this week.
What should I use as fertilizer? Should I put bone meal in the trench or the bottom of the bucket?
Mostly cool and damp here in Central Missouri over the past week, and this week looks to be more of the same.
Garden soil is still too wet to work, but the seedlings in the greenhouse are mostly doing very well. We had a couple of very cold nights last week, and in spite of the underheat mats, I lost a few tomato and cucumber plants. Everything else seems to be fairly happy so far. Still waiting on the birdhouse gourds and stevia to germinate.
I finished up rigging the new trolling motor and chart plotter on the boat. Wife and I took it out yesterday just to shake it down and get familiar with the new gear. Everything worked as expected. Now I just need to manufacture some time to go fishing.
Got my front yard garden fence put up and all of my cool weather seedlings put in the ground yesterday, regardless of size. Got two types of mustard greens that germinated fine but have stayed tiny. They’ll either make it or not.
The exception is Tokyo Turnips because I just got those seeds. Might seed them direct in the ground and put toilet paper rolls over them so I know where they are and to keep those stem chewers off of them.
Lost a few seedlings because I missed watering for a day and a half.
Half the peas that something chewed down outside came back. Nothing kept munching them even though there’s been no fence until yesterday. Meant to soak some more seeds last night to stick in the ground today. I have no idea what’s planted for peas because I didn’t keep track when putting them out and I started two different types, Lincoln and edible pod. I think its the Lincoln that are still out there and the edible pod that got eaten. Either one will never make it in the house. I tend to snack on them right off the vine. Can’t imagine growing enough peas to can. Maybe next year or later this year when I get the big garden area squared away. Need to fence the goats out because it’s in their 12 acre fenced area. Got everything I need to do it.
Got a few maters up-potted and the rest of them plus the peppers will all get up-potted today. All will get a little aged, sifted goat manure and maters will get some bone meal. Need to restart a couple of pepper varieties that died during that man-made dry spell LOL.
The soil in the front yard is rockier than I remember though I’ve only grown a single row of maters out there before. Will be fine for peas, lettuce and greens but I’ll have to see if I can find a spot in that fenced area with less rocks for the kohlrabi and Tokyo turnips. Either that or make a spot by going through it real good and pitching the rocks. Gravel driveway is right next to it and I already tossed quite a few rocks over or through the fence onto it.
Another handy chart from Johnny’s
SUCCESSION PLANTING Interval Chart for VEGETABLES
Similar sheet from ATTRA - https://attra.ncat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/continuousharvest.pdf
