What's in your garden?

I might as well start some fun threads here since whats her face took leave of her mind!


so, I am hoping to start my garden this weekend. The night time temps are avg 35 to 40 so i think it is time to get the ground tilled. I will start the seeds in the greenhouse then get them in the ground when they are nice and tall. I usually get them from the garden store at that height but i want to grow them myself.

so whats in your garden and have you atarted it yet?

Hey Maps!

Thanks for starting this thread. I have flowers not veggies and I've really been enjoying watching them pop up. I have an armenian basket flower that is huge already...it won't bloom until mid summer.

I think we are going to plant some patio tomatos this year. Something for the hubby to do!

I got nuttin in my garden right now. Maybe soon...

Are you sure, there might be something growing. :)

negative

My neighbor has some strange plants in their garden and for some reason, they shoot at me when I try and get a better look at them.

Just wait'em out, maybe you can catch them while there gone this fall, and snatch a few leaves :)

forget the leaves, go for the seeds!!!!

Ahhh, them seeds,

Umm, really what you want are the flowers.


I planted cardinal climber and scarlet hyacinth bean last week. Both hardy blooming heirloom climbers. The rest has to wait until Mr. Greenjeans gets home to wrestle the rototiller.

sass when is he due home. he has been gone along time. how are you and the little one holding out?

We had our first asparagus of the year tonight. My wife grilled them on the barbecue.

Yumbilicious!

great now you will pee yellow

            Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum (1910-1987)
           (Mr. Green Jeans, his Own Bad Self)


Oh, and here's a link you Botanical Types might enjoy.

I wish I could grow more in my yard. I am limited because of the humungo black walnut in the back yard. Its roots leach a substance into the ground that kills almost everything except grass. My only option appears to be raised bed.

peppers
jalapeno peppers
chives
cilantro

so far anyway

A bunch of the seedlings I started snuffed it while I was in Florida. I guess I wasn't detailed enough in my watering explanations to my neighbor about watering. Oh well. Some are still alive but look peaky.

veggies are lookin good and the flowers and stuff are attracting lots of birds, bees, and butterflys................

yesterday we planted arugula, heirloom maters, a few varieties of chilis, tarragon, basil, thai basil, fennel, and a bunch of flowers, and a black sweet potato vine. Got a good sunburn out of it.

I am starting seeds today inside. hope to get them into the ground within the next month!.


carrots
corn
broccoli
cucumbers (one is a kirby)
radishes
lettus
four differnt colored peppers
peas
green beans
summer squash
three kinds of tomatoes
celery
egg plant
garlic (in ground from last year)
onions (in ground from last year)


plus a load full of herbs!


thats just the start!
once they are all in the ground, i will start a new batch of stuff in the greenhouse!

I love the smell of compost in the morning!!

oh and lots of mint for the bar. lotsa mojitos this summer.

ohhhhh thats a thoughts.
we were just talking about making them last night.
but the like to grow all over the place. maybe i will pot them and keep indoors!

definately pot them. Nice garden by the way.

Hey Mapleleaf, lettuce is pretty tricky to transplant, plus it's a cold weather crop. You'd probably be better off just growing it in the greenhouse totally or just planting it in the ground. It's not too early for lettuces, spinach, radishes and peas.

ok will do, thanks for the feedback!

Things like radishes and peas should also be direct seeded rather than transplanted.

My shallots are doing beautifully. The 2 potato plants I have going, from one manky little one left in the veggie bin, are very pretty little plants, too. Laurel dotes over them.

crap i didnt read about the peas. oh well they will get a start in the greenhouse. i do not like peas so i will not be heart broken if they do not make it. but tree might be :(

spent all afternoon playing in the dirt.
I love spring...I have so much GO GETTEM gusto, then fizzle out by July

HAHA

I stopped by Hammonton, NJ (the blueberry capital of the world) and picked up three more blueberry bushes today.

I learned that the old man that taught me so much about blueberry husbandry passed away this winter.

At least I have 6 of his plants.

I just decided to have a herb/kitchen garden right next to the house where the woodpile was. I cleaned all the debris up today and it's almost ready to plant, but for the weather.

Violin, sorry to hear that. it's people like that, that you will learn the most from. But he will live on in your backyard (umm that sounded creepy sorry)

I am soo mad!~!

My jackass neighbor is working on his stairs. three days ago I noticed a baby Juniper Plant laying on the ground in between our houses. I set it upright. fast forward~~~numnuts lets it lay there drying out and dying


let's just say the little guy has a nice new moist compost filled hole to live in next to a kick butt greenhouse

I need to get the second potato raised bed in place, pronto. I'm certain all of the sweet potato slips will show up really soon and I won't be ready. Also, I suck at starting seeds. It's completely frustrating for me.

I do too. I just put them in the ground and be patient.

I may just do that today. If I can find my "month by month gardening in the Carolinas" book, I'll be planting corn soon. It's a variety called maple sugar. It's supposed to taste like it was dipped in maple syrup when grilled. That sold me quick.

Slugs.

"sluggo" and other brands of iron phosphate do wonders on slugs. Turns into fertilizer, too. Thanks for reminding me, I need to put iron phosphate out around the raised beds. I found quite a few dried slime trails down at the southeast corner.

WTH?

OHG geobeet just called treebait a slug.

pulling up chair and eating popcorn, it's gonna get ugly

Hey Geo, when are you going to grow tomatoes again?

hahahahaha that was such a low blow..

good one girl!

I now grow my tomatoes in the produce section of the supermarket. Psycho is banned from the market after he made such a mess of things. You haven't seen anything till you've seen an angry produce manager kicking a crazed squirrel out the door.

Considering the nature of the produce manager at the grocery I frequent, he'd probably lay a live trap in the store and take the critter home to add to the stew pot. He's an old Scottish guy wit ha great fondness for fresh game with lots of vegetables.

Well this is the Philly area. Peeps don't eat squirrels up here. It's like a sacred cow thing. Plus PETA would inevitably get involved and picket your house. You kill a squirrel and Michael Palin walks in and says, "You weren't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!"

i hit home depot yesterday. more jalapenos because the bunnies have attacked ours. more cilantro, because, well, you just can't have enough. and we are going to try tomotos. i bought some more containers, and some chickenwire to keep the bunnies out. i was bummed that i couldn't find chives or green onion. and i bought more dirt. dirt is good! this ought to keep steve happy and busy for a while.

I tilled up some nice soil right next to my house yesterday. The plan is to have a kitchen garden with salad greens and some colder weather vegetables close by. After being without t.v. for about a year, I had just turned it back on the night before and fell asleep without watching anything. After I finished tilling, I went a little further down the row in order to turn the awkward machine around and promptly cut the cable. Today's list of chores will include a trip to town and some cable splicing materials. I've done worse, far worse.

who needs the tv anyway? I don't watch it, the birds and critters are more entertaining............

LOL Nimble, HPM almost did the same thing last week, placing 6x6 posts for the west garden gate. He just grazed it, without damaging the covering. I think Laurel would be more distraught than either of us.

Our garden is going gangbusters now. I need to go out and do some more weeding, though. Ugh. There's now a global hop shortage, for beer. I may try to grow a few vines, and sell the hop cones to local brewers.

in bloom now are, the roses, the aloe vera, the honeysuckle, and the Christmas cactus.

Dang, I can sit out in the yard and watch the garden grow! That's frightening. I couldn't do that in Florida. The tuberous sunflowers are growing especially fast, as are the shallots. The garlic and leeks don't look too happy though. I need to find my missing gardening book and see what I need to change for them. The corn is already about 4-5 inches tall, too. Woo Hoo! Red potatoes are doing way too well, and I just got in most of my sweet potato slips for planting this afternoon.

I still have to prep most of the yard for the koi pond tour next month, on the 14th. I have to make everything as pretty as possible. Oh goody, huh? Any of you freaks who live in the region are more than welcome to stop by.

;D

Now I got it, we're not dregs, we're freaks, lol.