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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 23, 2014 18:24:36 GMT -5
My plums and crabapples are blooming. The snow turned my rhubarb black. Not sure if it's going to recover. The strawberries I planted the other day are all still alive.
Dan tilled the garden a couple of days ago, but I haven't planted anything yet. I think I need to wait a couple weeks longer.
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Post by Valerie on Apr 23, 2014 18:31:18 GMT -5
The stuff in my bucket garden is doing real good. I've got tomatoes, banana peppers, eggplant, zucchini, watermelon, rich sweetness melons, mint, lemon grass, chives, and one lonely little ground cherry (the only one I've gotten to sprout in 3 years!) So far so good.
In the raised beds I've got six more tomatoes, yellow squash, pole beans, cucumbers, bell peppers, and one more eggplant. I planted okra the other day, too, and seminole pumpkins. Oh yeah, and holy basil & borage, which haven't come up yet. Around the front of the house I've got sweet potatoes and choctaw sweet potato squash. So far all seems to be doing well. I say that every year, though, and then something happens. I'm really hoping it all goes well this year!
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Post by BigM on Apr 24, 2014 6:20:06 GMT -5
Thanks for the list. I've done most of those on the herbs section. Hmmm, I think I need to research around a bit and see what I'm doing wrong.
I don't expect any edible peaches this year since we've only had them a few months.
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Apr 24, 2014 13:43:35 GMT -5
Ground cherries are a weed around here. Try throwing the seeds on the compost pile. LOL
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Post by Valerie on Apr 24, 2014 14:37:01 GMT -5
LOL, Kim. My goal with them this year is to harvest at least one cherry to save for seed. I grew them once, about 5 years ago, and they were so good. I haven't been able to get them to sprout since. I was just about to break down and order some more seeds, when this one came up!
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Post by Valerie on Apr 26, 2014 6:26:13 GMT -5
That ground cherry is looking suspicious. I think it might be a pepper. A pepper seed could have fallen in that space when I was planting. Ugh!
Oh well.
The okra sprouted yesterday, along with half of the holy basil and the rest of the seminole pumpkins!
I can't wait until Becky and Brandon get home from NC. They each have their own raised bed and his was just starting to show a little bit of sprouting action when they left. They should be so surprised when they get home and see their growth! They have a neighbor watering for them and keeping an eye on things.
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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 26, 2014 21:52:11 GMT -5
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Post by BigM on Apr 27, 2014 7:15:00 GMT -5
Thanks Gayle!
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Post by susan on Apr 27, 2014 15:54:13 GMT -5
My turnip greens from last fall survived the winter, at least some of them, and have gone to seed. So we broke up the ground in between them for 2 rows of onions. Got 9 cabbage plants in at the end of those rows and 6 rows of potatoes at the other end of the garden. Just hobbled out there and the onions are popping up. I looked at the herb garden, then went online to look at pictures. I've got an oregano coming back up! They are perennial, but don't usually survive extreme cold. I guess our extreme cold wasn't cold enough to kill it. My lemon balm is looking real good. Now if it would just get warm enough and stay warm so I could get my other herb plants I bought into the ground. I bought a mint, rosemary, sage, lavender and parsley. The parsley doesn't like the hot sun so I think it's going to go in a raised bed when I plant the cucumbers and build a teepee trellis. I'll let the parsley stay underneath it in the shade. Susan
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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 30, 2014 10:10:16 GMT -5
Cut my first bunch of asparagus last night. I forgot to cut it before supper, so Ben and I ate it as a bedtime snack.
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Post by Valerie on Apr 30, 2014 15:45:29 GMT -5
Oh yummy! That is one veg I wish I could grow here. I wouldn't want to suffer through the cold it needs, though.
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Post by Granny Smith on Apr 30, 2014 16:08:23 GMT -5
I'd buy asparagus if I didn't have to have winter anymore. It would be worth it.
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Post by susan on May 1, 2014 15:06:29 GMT -5
Mike tilled, raked, hoed and put in 3 rows of corn yesterday. I've got space to plant some crowder peas or beans and when the corn comes up I'm going to plant the pumpkins in it. It's all outside the fenced garden and next to my grapes. I'm hoping we don't have too much problem with varmints eating the plants. My grapes are growing like crazy and I've got to get them trellised. Two of them died, but I'm happy with the 4 that lived. I need to go out and get some lettuce into the raised beds.
Susan
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Post by Valerie on May 9, 2014 9:51:51 GMT -5
I put up a trellis for the cukes last night. FYI, if you bend 10' sticks of 3/4" PVC to make them lay down in the back of the truck, they stay bent. So, my trellis is a wee bit lopsided, but I don't think the cukes will care much. I was going to get rolls of string to tie on it, but Walmart had this trellis netting stuff for only $5! It's a piece 5'x 15' with 4 or 5 inch mesh. Supposed to be heavy duty for tomatoes, cukes, and melons, so I think it will work. I attached it to the frame with zip ties, of which I am the QUEEN! Also started a Florida weave to support the six tomato plants in raised bed #1. They seem to be coming along well. Not real tall, but thick and bushy and already starting buds. Three of them are yellow pear tomatoes, which I absolutely love! They are from the last of my saved seeds, so I need to make sure to save seeds from them this year. The sweet potatoes and chotaw squash seem to be happier since I weeded their bed. Shame shame. I'll get the rest of that bed weeded this weekend and get the rest of the sweet potatoes planted in their too, I hope.
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Post by Valerie on May 21, 2014 16:53:36 GMT -5
I just picked the first yellow squash! It's so pretty!!!
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