Got another bed of taters planted, and some corn. Stowells Evergreen-older seed so it may not germinate.
I replaced some rotten boards around my raised beds with concrete blocks, which allows for some additional depth, and I thought that the small spaces in the blocks would be nice for the beneficial flowers and/or herbs.
I have to post and run - busy weekend, so I'll likely not be able to post much till Tuesday. Hope all of you are doing well. Have a great weekend. Prayers up for all. God Bless.
It’s still cold around here. new England is weird! LOL!
Pinging the list.
The winds of the past week have subsided but we had showers last night and today. I still have to apply some steer manure and spade the patch where the corn is going. I may have a few photos later...
Is it Friday, already? I had a LOVELY day here in Southern Wisconsin. I weeded all of the beds (that had been previously tilled) and put down straw and made the final decisions on, ‘who goes where’ based on sunshine and growth habit.
It’s looking really GOOD for me - I may be able to get my garden planted before the END of May or the first part of June!
Of course, this is the FIRST Spring I’ve spent with lots of garden beds and not managing a Garden Center in the Spring!
I feel for everyone - Mother’s Day Weekend sucks if you’re in Retail. Do your fellow man a FAVOR and stay the heck OUT of the Garden Centers this weekend, LOL!
Today was warm and sunny, so I planted a bunch of starts outside in the bucket farm - sugar snap peas, radishes, carrots, green onion. Now that I have room in the tiny patio greenhouse, I’ll start some more in there.
This new fascination with growing and sprouting things is keeping me away from the fix and repair daily on this fixer-upper house - a good-news-bad-news sort of thing.
I got some weeds pulled, but that was about it for gardening this week. All my focus is still on my chickies.
This week, one of them discovered what her wings are for. I was giving them treats in the brooder, and she flew up and perched on the edge next to me. Needless to say, I found a way to cover that brooder in a hurry! I thought I’d have at least another week before they’d need a cover over it.
And the treats I gave them? Japanese beetle grubs, dug out of my back yard. I found more than 20 of them in a little 2 square foot area. Not a good sign! I hope those chickies like the taste.
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My 3 of 7 Dixie Hybrid Squash seem all dead.
BUT I got another squash $1.44 package, Straightneck Yellow Squash came with a LOT more seeds. Looks like 25-30. Got almost half in good dirt, let’s see what happens.
The Bush Early Girl seeds seem stuck the past 6-8 weeks (indoors). Just don’t get any bigger or stronger. I’m afraid to put them in the Sun since my carrots and other things didn’t seem to survive. 4 were like 36 cents.
Almost all the seeds I got from store-bought peppers are roaring. I’ll have to thin them and move them apart (where I don’t any idea). There have to be 150-200 plants at least, growing. They’re about 2-2.5 inches.
The Bush Early Girl PLANT has at least 14 tomatoes going on her right now. A couple-three good-sized (for the small amount of time) and a whole bunch of little fellers popping up. Always a good producer.
Have a new pepper plant - gotta check the name again, Rosemary plant (strong) and a Sweet Basil pot with 3 good plants. Plus a whole mess of other stuff. A pot of seeds for California Green Peppers is coming up good. Gonna have a mess of peppers.
Plus, seeds from the Sweet Snacking Pepper from last year (3 peppers total - bright orange) have about 12-15 plants going. Jalapeno peppers.
Plus I’ve taken seeds out of Roma, Grape and another fist-sized tomato. With the BEG, gonna have at least 4 types of tomato.
Nothing in the 3x6 bed yet. Was gonna do BEG seeds but I don’t think they’re strong enough yet. May put store peppers in there (another 40 or so growing). Some other carrots (forgot which) going but after early sprout seem to be weakening - don’t know if I’ll get carrots of any size this year.
I had planted Serrano Pepper seeds but nothing - they’re still incredibly cheap at the store. 4 were like 36 cents with tax.
wish I knew how to add pictures.
was in NJ recently and double white lilacs as well as usual lavender lilacs were beautiful, as was pink dogwood. It was a real treat to see them in bloom since I usually do’t get there this time of year. Also peonies were growing buds, sorry to miss their flowering.
my folks getting older and tired of ground hogs, ticks, deer etc but still wanting fresh grown veggies so they are readying to try a new gardening planter on the back deck. I don’t recall the name. they tend to get starter veggie plants.
I’m still hoping to get some outdoor potted plants or herbs where I am.
We had rain come in Thursday - still raining this morning & will probably end up with around 2 inches. The rain should finally clear out later today. It’s been very cool - 50’s during the day, down in the 40’s a couple of nights.
I decided to plant my regular raised beds Wednesday, before the rain. Two are being used in the traditional manner & I have a straw bale experiment in the other two. I bought 6 tomatoes & some pepper plants & have kept them tucked next to the straw bales (warm from decomposing) during the coldest nights & they came through fine. Everything I planted looks great, even in the cooler weather. Next week it will be in the 80’s & sunny so the plants should start to grow.
The straw bale garden is just about ready to plant in mid-week. It is now growing a bumper crop of mushrooms, which is normal and a good sign that decomp is happening so the plants will have something to grow in.
I’ve had big grass bins set up to warm water during the day for the straw bales & realized quite a few birds are coming to them for water. This means they’ll have to stay full to the top - do not want any birds leaning in too far, falling in & drowning.
Good Morning from North Fort Worth where temps are in the 80’s. Garden is really looking good but that is only because we haven’t reached the scorching summer temps yet. Had a little bit of a shock the other day when I realized the package of broccoli seeds I planted 2 months ago turned out to be cabbages. I have a dozen cabbages growing now that I didn’t really want and no broccoli. May try to go to Home Depot this weekend to see if they have any plants since it is too late for seeds.
Very pleasant in SoCal this week and I spent part of the morning propagating a few of my succulents. Love the colors and the way they keep having “babies” so I don’t have to spend money to add to my garden.
I went to the local Amish gardening center. I’m like a kid in a candy store happy, lol. Re-potted my two big cactus plants, a Blue Agave and Century plant. I won’t be able to lift these pots if they get much bigger. One of my two enormous tree planter pots got various peppers. The one in front got Ornamental Indian corn, Crown of Thorns gourds, and some mini (Red Ruffled Eggplant) Pumpkin on a Stick seeds. I’m hoping for some fall color. One of my friends gave me an ear of Goliath Silo Filler corn. I’m thinking of growing a very small row of these between two landscape timbers. I’m not sure I can handle a plant 25 foot tall though, very windy here at times.
Weather has finally pretty much stabilized, and warmer than average.
Peas, spinach & carrots are are making progress from seed; berries & elderberries are leafed out. Potatoes haven’t emerged yet, but are developing well...I peeked.
Yesterday, I transplanted 1 each Yellow Pear, German Queen, Purple Cherokee, and Red Beefsteak tomatoes; and 6 Brussels sprouts seedlings. In the next hour, 6 Romas will get transplanted.
After putting the tomatoes into the ground, I placed a pickup tire around each of them.
The cherry is in full bloom, and the peach has several blooms on it. Last year the peach had ONE peach, which only got about the size of a medium sized plum, and never ripened; instead, it stayed green, hard, then developed rot spots in September.
Garlic, onions, and leeks are doing well for their ages.
Been eating asparagus nearly everyday, still waiting for the 6 new roots to break ground.