35 degrees here this morning.
Onions, pineapple, and working on potatoes later...
Early Girl, Celebrity, Rutgers,Heatmaster and some other odd variety of heirloom they sold in local store. Had to start spraying for early blight since our weather has been so humid and cooler. 2 Ancho peppers and a bunch of Jalapenos, yellow and zucchini squash, canteloupe, honey dew, and okra. Plans to plant blackeye peas as soon as ground permits. Need to pull up turnip greens and the few beets and collards that came up. Will try those again in the fall. Planting and harvesting are very different things in my experience! We live in a tough place but this year has cooperated, except for the wild hog that ate my first squash seeds and birds I think that ate melon seeds.
Just sayin...
/johnny
Here in LA (lower Alabama) I have tomatoes almost ripe, four varieties (Serrano, cayenne, bell, hot banana) peppers all ripe, squash, cucumbers, spearmint, strawberries...garden looks beautiful, although I need to get out and weed...haven’t done it yet because the mosquitos are so bad! We have had a lot of rain this Spring.
On another note, can some kind freeper tell me how to edit the ‘nations visited’ map that shows on my homepage?
Thanks!
March: Onions, Asparagus, early corn
April: Tomatoes, corn, zuccinni, squash, melons, cucumber, peppers ranging from bell, banana, cayanne, jalapeno
May: leafy veggies, eggplant, tobacco, burdock
Leaf lettuce, carrots, cukes, bok choi, Swiss chard, beets all from our own started seedlings (the Burpee catalog has worked best for us)....tomatoes and pepper plants bought at the local farmers market. Plus some marigolds to (hopefully) keep the deer away.
Everything looking good, expect to be eating some greens next week.
I would get the urge to plant in the spring.
And then summer would come and burn up my efforts.
I switched to growing trees.
Pecans, Satsumas, grapefruits, naval oranges, paw paws, mayhaws, pears, persimmons and plums.
My neighbor pointed out the “Rose Rosette Disease” on my knock out roses. I’m now seeing it everywhere I go in the DFW area.
In New Jersey - we started our plants indoors in February. Mothers Day weekend we planted eggplant, several varieties tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, several varieties peppers, tomatillos, various herbs. We have asparagus that comes up every year. I guess the cold winter slowed it down, but we are finally enjoying lots of fresh asparagus. Beans and melons go in the ground next.
Much to my surprise, it actually grew! It's only about 5" tall and hasn't developed any leaves yet, but it's pretty cool.
Because of my living situation, I’m limited to container gardening. In addition to the avocado, I currently have, in different stages of growth: Ghost pepper; Carolina Reaper (current Guinness world record hottest pepper); various cherry tomatoes; dwarf tomato (full size tomatoes on a small plant); Chicago Sport Pepper; Medusa pepper; Edelweiss (no flowers yet); Venus Fly Trap; Yin Yang beans.
I’m a little behind because of a busy schedule and rain every few days, but my potato patch is a foot tall and going like gangbusters, two of my sweetcorn patches are up a few inches, I got a couple hundred tomato plants in and well-established. A few other odds and ends are in and doing okay. Been eating greens for quite awhile now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3290279/posts
Here’s a link if you want to check out last Friday’s thread and update on some more gardening activities.