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Posted on 05/11/2018 7:13:11 PM PDT by greeneyes
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32 tomato plants out of their pots and into the dirt. Beets seeded. Rutabaga seeded. Collards seeded. Radishes seeded. Mrs. Augie's Russian Bunching cucumbers seeded. Built a few tomato cages.
Straight 8 cukes are up. Blue Lake pole beans are up. Garlic, kale and cabbages are rocking. Peppers are catching up.
All that's left to do in this garden is finish caging the tomatoes, seed the okra, and set up the drip lines for watering.
Soon as Nanner is fixed I'll hook up the tiller and tackle the pumpkin patch and sunflower field.
That’s quite a lot of stuff done. Hubby had planned to do more today, but he’s not feeling so good. So the green house will remain with a lot of plants in it. Some getting too big for the pots.
Sounds like the predictions of a delayed spring and early fall might just be accurate. It’s been true so far for our area.
We really need to get a good crop this year too. Need to mitigate the food budget. It grows very quickly with the every shrinking packages.
Also the oil prices will be having an impact on food costs - time to stock up before the price increases hit. Frozen foods and canned goods etc.
Bastardi is just about the best forecaster. We are also expecting an early fall/winter-so we selected plants with the shortest DTM this year.
Yes we have had snake get in too. Didn’t know about it till later. Guess it spent quite a while-we found the skin. I had moved some boxes from around the desk next to my computer in order to do belated spring cleaning. Dog was going nuts - again. Found the skin.
We also have a lizard quite often. We still haven’t figured out how they get in. As far as I know we have only had the one snake.
That’s interesting. Hubby was just remarking that he’s got some chickweed growing around in the yard, and since it’s edible, he’s going to let a big patch grow.
Makes zero sense to me too.
Thanks for the pics. Those are very pretty. We have a big bed of iris, and hubby picked a bouquet and put it in a vase. When I woke up, he had it setting on my work table for Mother’s Day.
Thanks for the pics. It’s all looking very good. We still have one patio left to clean up and a big stack of limbs to put in the chipper or wood pile.
And I'm praying he's going to be wrong on that one. It's one I wouldn't mind him being wrong on. However, I am not counting on it.
I'm sure you've heard the saying. ......
If you mention something and it's good, it goes away, and if it's bad, it happens.
I am expecting to gain a little extra growing season on this end this year. It *LOOKS LIKE* at this point in time, we are safe to plant.
A friend started my tomato plants this year and they are already a really good size, way bigger than the garden/hardware store 6 packs.
I also found a nice container of huge green peppers that was a little pricey, but they are already two feet tall with lots of flowers, so if they can start producing NOW, we can get them all summer instead of the end of Aug.
I figured I'd grab them before they were gone.
Good job nabbing those. I’m hoping that with the greenhouse, we’ll be able to bring in some things and extend the harvest a bit later even if the fall/winter arrives early.
Have been very spoiled by nice weather through to end of November in a lot of years - even harvesting lettuce at Xmas time. However, during the 70s and earlier, it was not unusual to have huge snows before Thanksgiving.
Mr mm loves green peppers and if they produce as early as it looks, they should pay for themselves pretty quickly.
I have found that scallion overwinter well.
I started my scallions early this year in spite of the cold. I have some old under the bed boxes, one of which I found at someone’s curb and it’s REALLY deep. So I put those upside down over my plants as very convenient cold frames.
Normally scallions are not big enough to eat until late summer so I’m hoping that the ones I planted early will get that size sooner.
But the ones from last year, when the snow melted, they just started right up growing again, so they are good for right now.
Great looking garlic Augie!!! Do you know the variety and what does a Nanner tractor look like?
Can I offer a discussion topic for future posting? The viability of various vegetable garden seeds: sweet corn, black eyed or silver hull peas, lettuce, squash, watermelon, tomato, etc. I just planted Mississippi Silverhull pea seed that is 20 years old; I planted same last year and had 80-90% germination. What about sweet corn seed?
Sounds like a good idea to me. I love chickweed, but it only has about a one-month usable season down here in NC. It’s really good in a pilaf or stir fry - just chop it up fine and dump it in.
I have never experimented. From the lists that I looked at several years ago, Corn’s viability is 2 years, most other veggies are much longer. However, I am sure that corn seed would last longer - just not as big a % germination.
If you will FRmail me and remind me, I’ll include the topic on my next Friday’s post.
Love stir fry. Thanks for the tip.
This might help: https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/1999/4-2-1999/veggielife.html
This one has more detail, but fewer vegetables. And some of the numbers are different: https://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds/seed_saving.htm
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