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Post by kazedwards on Dec 21, 2014 0:04:21 GMT -5
Is any body else starting to plan out there garden for next year or am I the only one with nothing else better to do?
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Post by RpR on Dec 21, 2014 1:31:09 GMT -5
Yeah, corn, potatoes, squash, onions, broccoli, tomatoes and some flowers.
Hmm,I think that is the same one I had in 1985.
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Post by littleminnie on Dec 22, 2014 20:58:00 GMT -5
Mine has been plotted for weeks!
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Post by kazedwards on Dec 22, 2014 21:14:07 GMT -5
So far I have decided where to put what for the most part. I need to figure out when I need to start/sow what. I will need to be really careful or the spring plants will overlap with the summer. If that happens then the summer will get out late or the spring sacrificed. Also will be doing a lot of companion planting. Hopefully it will work out. I just wish I had more room, but don't most of us?
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Post by zeedman on Dec 22, 2014 23:27:21 GMT -5
Technically, my 2015 garden has already started, when I put in two wide rows of garlic in early November. There were also some seed crops which failed last year, and they are automatically at the top of the list for replanting.
Generally though, I don't begin planning the garden in earnest until the SSE Yearbook comes out, when I search for varieties on my 'want list'... but I'm starting the plans earlier this year. Rather than waiting for all seed to come in, I'll just map out the locations for "tomato A", "bean #1", "cowpea #1" etc., and fill in the specifics when the list firms up.
As for planting dates... I find that even after all the years I've been gardening, I'm still making adjustments. I changed my seed starting setup last year, and under the new lights, growth was much faster than it had been under the old T12 setup... so some things (like tomatoes) will be started later. (In the case of tomatillos, much later, they grow like weeds!) On the other hand, I'm just starting to grow some of the super hot peppers, and having observed their slower growth, I'll be starting them quite a bit earlier than the others.
The last few years, though, have demonstrated that no amount of planning can compensate for bad weather. I count myself lucky if I get all of the Spring planting done on time, I've only had a dry Spring once since 2010.
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Post by philagardener on Dec 23, 2014 6:32:08 GMT -5
Mine has been plotted for weeks! Never stop plotting!  |
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Post by reed on Dec 23, 2014 9:43:22 GMT -5
I'm all the time plotting and planning. Right now I waiting for some good weather to fix some mistakes. Two grape vines and some blackberries ended up in the middle of one of my gardens when I made it bigger. They gotta move.
Also moving the locust posts in other new garden to wider spacing. They are 8' high and three feet in the ground with tight barbed wire across the top. I'll make 5' x 10' frames with strings 8" apart and just lean them at an angle and secure to the wire. I experimented last year and worked great for beans. On an angle like that the beans just hang on the downhill side, real easy to pick. Planning on 5, 50' rows next year.
Drawing out plans for the new corn patch on graph paper, trying to figure out to make it most accessible and how to maximize cross pollination of several varieties with varying maturity times.
I check my garlic seeds Joseph sent every day, never had them before so don't know if the warm wet spell we are in will bring them up or if I have to wait till spring.
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Post by RpR on Dec 23, 2014 15:26:25 GMT -5
Well as I look out at one garden, some onion sets I put in last spring, but were overtaken and hidden by flowers also planted are now lying pretty much just where I put them, lying on not in the ground, as if they were frozen in time.
As we have had far too warm weather, I am wondering if I should go out there and stick them in the ground or just leave them be.
To be or not to be, that is the question.
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As I think about it, I have decided I will take a bag of leaves I ripped open with the snowblower and scatter it on top of them.
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 23, 2014 22:46:47 GMT -5
The plot thickens.
Seed inventory Check
All seeds cleaned...almost
Early seeds removed from freezer and sorted into seed fridge...almost
Trays scrubbed...maybe next week
Potting soil ready...yikes, there's none!
Grapes pruned, asparagus mowed, last year's tomatoes pulled out...OMG..who's in charge here? Why hasn't this been done. My Steev clone is on the fritz.
Planting stakes cleaned and repainted...not even.
Compost ordered...waiting for the xmas tree crush (it's cheaper then!).
Okay, So on paper it looks good. In reality, there's a 'ella uvalotta" things on the to do list. And some of them are due!
Who put Christmas here? Darn nuisance! Get those ornaments out of my living room, can't you see I'm trying to paint plant stakes?
Too wet to go out, to cold to play ball, so we sat in the house and painted that's all.
January
Broccoli
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Chard
TPS
Leeks
Onions
Peas
Grains
Tomatoes
Trees
Peppers
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Post by jondear on Dec 24, 2014 13:56:29 GMT -5
The only thing I'm sure of for 2015 is that I'm gonna need more room.  #somanyprojectssolittlespace |
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Post by diane on Dec 24, 2014 20:32:17 GMT -5
I don't plan everything, just decide on my major project for the year and spend the winter trying to track down seeds.
Every year it's a different vegetable - last year a few types of tomatoes (long-keeping, dwarves, and a few others) - about
100 varieties. In other years it's been peppers, squash, melons, snap peas, favas ...
Next year it will be overwintering cauliflower and purple sprouting broccoli. My first batch of seeds arrived today - from
Ireland. I'm still looking for more varieties, so I'd appreciate any ideas.
These overwintering crops will fit in nicely with our travel plans for the year - sow in April, harvest from February to May.
We've a granddaughter who has been waiting impatiently till she can go ride elephants in South Africa like her older
brother and sister did six years ago. Next year's the year.
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 25, 2014 17:41:00 GMT -5
I've done the overwintering caulis and broccs. I liked "All The Year Round" and Violetto de Sicily. Romanesco for the broc.
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Post by diane on Jan 12, 2015 21:11:45 GMT -5
That's interesting that you overwintered Romanesco. It hasn't been mentioned as an overwintering variety in any seed site
that I've read. What month did it head?
I'll definitely try it - I've only grown it in the summer.
All the customers writing reviews of it on the Baker Creek website say that their plants grew large but never produced a head.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 16, 2015 14:10:11 GMT -5
Today i transplanted some of the pea sprouts. The varieties transplanted so far are Sugar Magnolia, Opal Creek, Biskopens, and suspected joseph's red podded (the label washed off).
I already planted some seeds for watermelon landrace, some radishes, carrots ("chantenay a coeur rouge 2" from the Nordic seed bank), beets, black seeded sunflowers, and some green chili pepper varieties: (Anaheim, Zia Pueblo, Ploblano, Velarde, and Pueblo Chili aka Mosco Chili (bred by the colorado department of agriculture))
So far only the pea sprouts, sprouts for zuni beans, and my squash are growing. They are all outside.
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Post by RpR on May 27, 2015 14:46:29 GMT -5
Corn is coming up three weeks after planting, cucumbers and volunteer squash are coming out of the ground. The first of approx. fifty hills of potatoes are starting to come up.
In my small garden I planted far more tomatoes and Chile peppers than in quite a few years with 11 each of tomatoes and Chiles.
The larger garden has sixty plants of potatoes divided between five varieties and left over odd-balls plus seven different corn varieties along with two cucumbers and one squash planted.
Lettuce, radishes, broccoli, kohlrabi, and onions planted on a mound around the small garden are looking good despite the fact the cats used it for a lounging area early on.
As an after though I put a few radishes, lettuce, carrots and onions in the larger garden but I have to go down there to see if they are coming up as that is black gumbo and the small is very sandy although various mulches and dirts dumped in it have changed it general consist.
Of the onions left from last year, only two survived.
Both gardens are planted full except the larger one has an approx. six by eight area where Canadian Thistle is a big problem and has been poisoned.
The thistles laughed at the first poison sprayed on them but I am hoping when I get back this time they will be belly-up.
As bad as poison is, compared to what used to be around, that I found in my Grandpas old shed, some of the new stuff is near worthless.
I sprayed some chickweed and lawn grass growing along a fence by the smaller garden and I think it is greener than it was before.
I did not get the purple sweet corn I bought in the garden as I was going to put that in a third garden isolated and I just never had time to rebreak the ground there.
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