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Posted on 05/01/2025 6:15:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Currently in the 40s-50s in ND, more so we desperately need rain. Trees haven’t even began to bud yet.
I planted some lack of interest plants, some bell peppers, squash, and basic tomatoes of early girl and celebrity, no heirloom tomatoes, nothing of special interest, I’m not obsessing with getting the most out of them, I’ll water them and just see what ordinary produce will come out of it.
My something to do but not getting into it planting.
I'm losing time here since I always start my seeds inside around mid April.
I may have to purchase my tomato plants and cucumbers from a local nursery this year.
I planted a Rio Samba tea rose, a Good as Gold tea rose, some mixed calibrachoa and petunias, geraniums, and sowed some wildflower seeds. Not done yet. Going to visit a “second chance” market to buy veggie starts. Treated lawn for weeds. Collected first compliment.Yay May!
We have had the most spectacular spring ever here in North Idaho. I’ve never seen so many, so profuse, and so colorful blooms and blossoms! I was talking to a tree guy a couple days ago and he observed the same thing. We’ve got an ancient cherry tree that must be 50 feet tall and it’s covered in blossoms from top to bottom. The forsythias all popped this week. Our Bleeding Hearts all popped. The peonies are growing like crazy and we got the hoops on them yesterday. I’ve been limbing a stand of pines to tidy them up. We got pre-emergent herbicide in the lawn six weeks ago and not a dandelion to be seen in the lawn (so many lawns in town are covered in them).We mowed for the first time last week. My efforts to rid the lawn of Poa annua seem to have worked (a delightfully named herbicide “Poa Constrictor”).
I’m considering putting in some tomatoes this year, but it’s tough with all the deer here. I’d have to put up a good barrier to keep them out. It is simpler to buy good garden tomatoes at the farmers’s market in town which starts in a few weeks.
We can still see snow on the surrounding mountains, so it’s really pretty with the lush spring colors, blossoms everywhere, te fresh foliage, the pine forests, the deep blue Western sky, and the snow covered mountains. Lots of fishermen out on the lake in the early mornings, too.
The Amish plant their tomatoes and then ignore them. No watering, pruning, fertilizing, etc. and they always have healthy yields.
You’re just channeling your, ‘Inner Amish’ this gardening season. ;)
What happend to my May Day Ping?.........It got pulled.........
In North Arkansas, we have plenty to share with you. We have enough to grow rice this month. Can’t even mow my lawn. Trees are fully leafed out.
“May” you all have a good and productive May! :-)
Garden status: 4 Sugar Kiss and 4 Honeydew melons tranplanted outdoors. 3 tomato plants transplanted. Lots of peppers and more tomatoes ready to go out.
Sounds beautiful out there!
This seemed like a good place to put this.....
He created a hummingbird paradise in his backyard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02Ss3xgABc
We’re getting off to a VERY early start to our growing season. The weather have been gorgeous and I have in the first planting of lettuce, the snow peas, potatoes, and am currently prepping the beds and putting in onion seedlings and sets. The onion seedlings I’m putting in are the Milano DiRossa and I have a lot of them. They seem fragile to transplant but they’re all taking beautifully.
The carrots and scallions are coming up and I’m trying shallots this year.
Got lots of other stuff started, more lettuce, some tomatoes, a bunch of rosemary and lavender, and bought some Lady Bells to try those again. I also bought the bushiest rosemary I could find and took cutting to root for new plants, so now I have 7 more coming up. I’ve had far better success rooting rosemary cuttings than starting them from seed.
Beans and zucchini will be going in later.
We’re also out of our dry spell. The pond is full again, and the garden is doing great. Perfect amounts of rain at the right times.
We’re way ahead of schedule with the trees leafing out here in NH, too.
For a change.
And I’m loving it.
LOL, good, so I’m still ‘special’.
The high winds and too high of night (and day) temperatures has made quality plants impossible but I am getting ready to start some hi-temp tomatoes seeds of Heatwave, and Solar Flare, and should start getting yield by late August and will see what the season before the first freeze gives me.
We’re not doing a whole lot this year either. Two Bush Goliath tomato plants, one zucchini, one yellow squash, some red onions, bell peppers, jalapenos, and one cayenne pepper. Everything in earth box containers with cedar mulch.
Very dry spring in southern AZ, only two or three light rains since January. Just a couple of 100-degree days so far.
Thanks for the ping to this months new thread. As a chronicle, here are links to posts made on 5-1 to last months:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308122/posts?page=740#740
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308122/posts?page=741#741
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308122/posts?page=742#742
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4308122/posts?page=743#743
Looks good but time will tell.
I know enough meteorology to know better than to trust a forecast more than 7 days out, max. Praying it comes to pass, though. If we’re past our last frost, I couldn’t be happier.
Well, it’s over 50, so out to the garden......
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