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Post by kazedwards on Apr 21, 2014 11:15:13 GMT -5
Right now I have onions, garlic, walking onions (fleener's topset) radishes, peas, and cabbage growing out in the garden. I have tomatoes, peppers, more backup onions, and lettuce started inside. I am hopping to sow some carrots, more radishes, lettuce, and kohlrabi out in the garden this week. What and all of you guys doing?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 21, 2014 12:27:02 GMT -5
I have been harvesting the perennial Egyptian Onions for about a month. The annual version, planted from bulbils is doing very well. The garlic is at about the 4 to 6 leaf stage. I building a frame over the bed soon to hold a light to try to get them to flower during cooler weather.
The cold weather pulses are growing great: peas, garbanzo, fava. Oh my heck. I kept planting peas, and then forgetting what I had planted so more peas had to go into the ground to make sure that I didn't miss planting anything... Ooops.
The parsnips, spinach, and radishes are growing well.
This week I'm intending to plant the moderately frost tolerant crops: Beets, chard, carrots, etc, and some tomatoes indoors to be transplanted in about 6 weeks. The cold tolerant tomato trail has sprouted and is almost ready to start going outside.
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Post by imgrimmer on Apr 21, 2014 14:48:53 GMT -5
This year is unusually warm and frost free, so I have potatoes in the ground, peas, carrots, maize (josephs frosted), lupin, bush beans (vulgaris) are sown and typical for spring salad, parsnip, ruccola, radieschen, favas starts to germinate. garlic, spinach, cardoon are growing again. cauliflower, broccoli, kohlrabi, beetroot, fennel, onions, challots are growing in a cold frame. artichokes are in pots outside. I direct sow tomatoes in my cold greenhouse. In house there are tomatoes, sweet peppers, aubergine/eggplants, physalis (several varieties), TPS potatoes, basil and uncounted fig cuttings. in a week there will be some cucumber, melons, squash, and zucchini inside for earlier harvest and the rest of them will be sown mid may outdoor.
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Post by kazedwards on Apr 21, 2014 17:05:12 GMT -5
Just finished sowing carrots, kohlrabi, lettuce and radishes. Hope my soil is good enough this year for longer carrots. Last year the biggest I got was about 5 inches. I guess that is what I get for living in clay county.
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Post by littleminnie on Apr 21, 2014 19:38:57 GMT -5
About 10 days ago I seeded a few beds- some of peas, carrots, spinach, brassica greens and also some alfalfa. Then we got over a foot of snow. So this week all the onions, leeks, scallions, broccoli, cabbage and more cold seeds need to go in.
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Post by blackox on Apr 21, 2014 19:43:42 GMT -5
Planted about eight different varieties of peas a few days ago, including Joseph's breeding mix (the unsorted, didn't plat out the peas that were sorted out yet). Started a flat of tomato/pepper/eggplant seeds a few weeks ago, planning on starting a few more flats of tomatoes tomorrow.
The garden's going to be a little bit on the skimpy side this season...
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Post by kevin8715 on Apr 21, 2014 20:38:19 GMT -5
Around 7 tomatoes overwintered this time. My favorite tomato is sungold because of its drought tolerance. Planted: amish bottle onion sets, generic and holland red shallots, saffron, amuri onion, walla walla onion, lentils, TPS, astomony domine corn, high carotene corn, sunchoke from seed, potato onion from seed etc. Next list, volunteers: leeks, cilantro, quinoa, tomatoes, onion, ornamental amarathus, etc. Will sow: glass gem corn, amish bottle onion seeds, marshall strawberry from seed etc. This isn't my complete list of stuff planted due to it being too long.
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Post by flowerweaver on Apr 21, 2014 21:27:04 GMT -5
Today I sowed winter squash and pumpkins, Thursday I sowed bush beans. Already up are TPS potatoes, pole beans, soybeans, dent/flour corn. Okra and some of the tomatoes are transplanted. Still harvesting kale, endive, dandelion, radicchio, mache. Collecting seed from bok choy and broccoli raab. Spring greens, amaranth, peppers, eggplants, assorted flowers and herbs still in the greenhouse.
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Post by littleminnie on Apr 26, 2014 18:36:48 GMT -5
Planted 4 beds of onions and have 2 to go! So tired and sore I can hardly believe it. And I have to ice my transplanter hand. About 475 onions per bed.
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Post by YoungAllotmenteer on Apr 27, 2014 1:50:55 GMT -5
Do you plant sets Minnie? How do you do it? I doubled my onion production to 600 sets this year and planting was dull!
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Post by littleminnie on Apr 27, 2014 19:28:54 GMT -5
I plant plants from Dixondale. They grow better than sets.
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Post by YoungAllotmenteer on May 5, 2014 1:02:21 GMT -5
Ah thank you, I'm not sure I have access to plants in any bulk quantities, growing from seed may well be the future next year for me if I can get a greenhouse sorted out this year.
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Post by kazedwards on May 8, 2014 13:30:14 GMT -5
Plant 3 of the 6 tomatoes that are going in the garden. It's not as much as most of you guys but it is the most I can do at this time. Here are the pics of my babies that I have started from seed that went out today. This one is stupice only put one of these out today. Have 2 more that are going in the garden. http://instagram.com/p/nvubIaCp8l This is Italian heirloom. 2 were put out today with 1 more going in soon http://instagram.com/p/nvuU3hCp8L This is all three the middle and left ones are IH and the one on the right is Stupice. http://instagram.com/p/nvuQX_Cp8B It was quite windy today so I only put in half. And it is going to rain/storm today so I hope they make it. Here is a pic of my garlic for the hell of it. It is doing very good from what I can tell. http://instagram.com/p/nvudwsCp8s Happy gardening to all!
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Post by littleminnie on May 8, 2014 18:05:16 GMT -5
I finally got the brassicas transplanted today and then a hailstorm hit. I think they will be ok. They had row cover put on right before the storm started. Tomorrow early corn and early tomatoes and summer squash. All the spring seeding is done.
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Post by kazedwards on May 9, 2014 1:14:54 GMT -5
Well I hope they make it. The tomatoes seem to have whip lash. There are a few bolen leaves and some whilting. I didn't water them in very well because of the storm that never came. At least rain wise it didn't.
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