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Post by Alan on Apr 13, 2009 16:46:09 GMT -5
I've got peas up, lettuce, kale, collards, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, beets, raddishes, mesclun, turnips, onions, spinach, and potatoes. Been busy the past couple weeks hence my absence here and at the blog. Getting caught up though, next week corn can start going in the ground!
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Post by oldfatguy on Apr 22, 2009 1:59:57 GMT -5
Little worms wearing ear muffs, beanies and down jackets...Idaho.
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Post by johno on Apr 22, 2009 6:21:15 GMT -5
Between losing (? maybe lost, at least can't get into the old computer yet...) old data and the camera crapping out on me, my record keeping is suffering at the moment. But I do have some interesting stuff (to me, anyway) growing.
There are several types of snap peas in the ground here - the ones from Thailand (from Dave) seem to be the clear leaders, though none are flowering yet. I planted early - in February, I think - so germination rates varied more than if I had planted when it was a little warmer. But I want peas that can be planted early...
Last year I did the same thing with Astronomy Domine F2 sweet corn - planted very early so as to apply selection pressure for cool condition sprouting. With that out of the way early in desegregation, this year I planted the F3s early, but with low tunnels for protection and to speed up the season for them. The plants are up and running! Cherokee Long Ear popcorn is just starting to emerge, several weeks behind the AD to avoid cross pollination.
Others : Oxheart carrots, Steely Green kale, Yellow Cabbage collards, Snowball cauliflower, various potatoes, leeks garlic onions and shallots, fava beans (from Michel), salsify, several types of flowers, volunteer dill, volunteer turnips (attracting bees presently), Jerusalem arichokes, Anasazi beans (just starting), cardoon, radiccio, various herbs (including mint - aaargh!)...
So far I've transplanted 45 tomato seedlings, a little over half of them, in the last few days. Should get much of the remainder planted today.
Not exactly plants yet, but I sowed Hopi Cushaw squash with the AD corn in the field and 12 types of C. moschatas in the garden. Also sowed Scarlet runner beans and several types of pole beans in the garden, anxiously awaiting emergence... Sowed Supreme Mix sunflowers (from Peace Seedlings) and Saucer Full of Secets sunflower mix (from Hip-Gnosis).
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 22, 2009 7:52:44 GMT -5
Here in NC the new asparagus seed are up, French Breakfast radish are almost ready to pick and round 2 needs to be planted...
various lettuces
onions
sweet pea flowers
spinach
chard
green peas
red and white potatoes
couple varieties corn
hamburg parsley
kuroda long carrots
2 types pak choy
gai lan
and I think that is about it. We have some new blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. Today we are planting our 2 new pawpaw trees, a black alder (which I hope is a nitrogen fixer like the common alder) and a Fuji apple.
OH! also, corriander, chives, shoot, several other things in boxes that I can't remember now... Horseradish, lupin, carnations...
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 27, 2009 6:20:11 GMT -5
As of this weekend we have Gherkin and De Bourne cucumbers; Nico, Talladegha, and Fletcher virus resistant tomatoes; Azoychka, Carbon, Green Sausage, Aunt Ruby GG, and 2 Hartman Yellow Gooseberry heirloom tomatoes; and last but not least Declaration, Emperor of the North, and Doux D'Espagne sweet peppers and Pasilla and Ancho hot peppers.
I will be planting a ton of basil around the tomatoes in an attempt to protect them from thrips but I had to order more seed as I ran out =o(
ALMOST forgot, in the row with the cukes there is Tonda zucchini and generic yellow squash with generic zucchini. Those are all growing on a stretch of fencing in the hopes that it will also help shield the tomatoes from the thrips. I'm so tired of not having and decent tomatoes! I sure hope that at least a few come nice this year. I've put them in deep holes so that I can bring dirt around them during the start of growth for good roots and strong stems. I've spaced them much farther than I normally would. I just don't know what else to do for them and I'll be devastated if I can't get at least a small harvest this year.
Why is failing with tomatoes such a mind numbing discouragement?!?!
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Post by macmex on Apr 27, 2009 10:46:10 GMT -5
I've never had problems with thrips before. Sorry to hear about your problem!
We had our last hard frost on April 14, and I think frost is all behind us now. Nights have been quite mild now. We sleep with the window open.
I've got about half our tomato plants out now. Those which are still in flats are starting to show stress. So in the next two days I hope to at least heal them in, while getting their permanent beds prepared.
I've got my first beans up. Snap peas are almost not worth it this year. We had drought when they should have germinated, then, quite late, when they came up, rabbits mowed them down.
Yesterday I got my beloved habanero peppers in the ground. Now just have to get Thai Hot, Pepperoncini, Emerald Giant and Chili Rayado in the ground. I'm going to put out three times more Chili Rayado than before (12 plants), simply because our son so dearly loves them. I can hang the plants in an out building, in October and pick "fresh" hot peppers until March.
I need to get in our first planting of corn, and very soon, it will be time to put out sweet potatoes. I could have had cowpeas out a week ago. But I'll get the first ones in the ground today.
All I have to do is take 20 minutes and I can have our main planting of winter squash in the ground! It's just hard to come up with 20 minutes!
George
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Post by pugs on Apr 27, 2009 17:53:43 GMT -5
I finally planted 8 kinds of taters yesterday. Six of Tom's and 2 others. I've only got 6 more kinds to go.
I realized I'm running out of space (until I get the blackberry patch down) so I talked with a coworker today who has a few acres in the country about renting a parcel of the land from her. We going to go look at it this weekend.
Plus, a few blocks away I've got another coworker who is going to let me plant some squash in their side year. It is fenced, but on a busy street, so I have to be sure and plant ones that aren't too tempting to passerbys.
Pugs
Modified to correct spelling.
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Post by grunt on Apr 28, 2009 0:03:25 GMT -5
Pugs: You just go by and make sure the squash are hidden by the foliage.
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Post by flowerpower on Apr 28, 2009 6:24:06 GMT -5
Pugs, a plot in the country would be awesome.  It's hard to decide when to plant anything outside right now. It snowed on thursday & was 90 on friday. I have some brassicas and onions ready to go in. I started some lettuce, garden peas, sweet pea, and poppies. Today I will be playing with annual flower seeds. |
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Post by pugs on Apr 28, 2009 18:56:07 GMT -5
FP - Snow one day and 90 degrees the next. Wow. I think I'll take raining, cool, Oregon where we don't tan, we rust.
Grunt, I'll try that. Good idea.
Pugs
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It's hard to decide when to plant anything outside right now. It snowed on thursday & was 90 on friday. I have some brassicas and onions ready to go in. I started some lettuce, garden peas, sweet pea, and poppies. Today I will be playing with annual flower seeds.