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Post by laurazone5 on Feb 5, 2024 12:22:53 GMT
Finally we here in Central IN. have sun!!
Enough to make my cheeks pink!
Cleaned up the trash in the front yard, pruned the elderberrys and put them in water to make MORE elderberries!!
Cleaned up the hillbilly trash in the driveway.
Found a chicken poop source, and picked up about 200lbs of do do with bedding!!
Turned the dirt (I don't know what the tool is called, it has 5, six inch spikes and a handle bar. Ya stomp it in the dirt, and twist) in the alley garden which will be my pollinator garden.
Sprayed the peach trees, and grape vines.
Cleaned up the trashy-ness in the back yard.
Hung the growing lights and put the electric blanket on the seed table....
My elderberry and peach tree cuttings have leaves (2ish weeks old) so I am going to try to root them!!
White Ghost, Trinidad Scorpion, and Carolina Reaper are poking thru the dirt!!!
Started:
Pepperfish peppers
Thai Chili
Sugar Rush Peach hot pepper
Cayenne
Buena Mulata (purple cayenne)
King of Bitters
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Post by laurazone5 on Feb 5, 2024 22:19:16 GMT
 QUEEN MOTHER LODE chip drop!!!!!!  200, 5 gallon buckets went in the back yard inbetween the bed. The chips that were well on their decomposing way went around the peach trees (2) and on the mushroom bed. I'm starting to line around the outside of the front yard fence......... And still didn't reduce that pile by 1/3. It feels so good to hurt all over!! |
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Post by woolybear on Feb 6, 2024 0:06:30 GMT
On Friday planted the onion, pepper, celery, cauliflower, broccoli, elderberry seeds. Broccoli has made it's appearance today. Eventually they will be planted into 3 gallon fabric grow bags. I'm still gathering up supplies and watching youtubes on the kratky method of hydroponics. I want to give it a try and see how it works out. I'm just a bit excited for this coming growing season.
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Post by laurazone5 on Feb 16, 2024 13:11:39 GMT
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Post by laurazone5 on Feb 18, 2024 14:54:59 GMT
Does anyone use drip irrigation? If so can you share with me what you use!
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Post by laurazone5 on Feb 26, 2024 2:40:38 GMT
Broad forked the 10x20 plot in my front yard, worked in some organic fertilizer.
Moved my pallet pile (10 pallets) only to find a tunnel to china that dang ground hog dug!
Dug out my firepit (I burned some trash, and wanted the residue out) and moved that yuck into the ground hog hole.
Weather is gonna be nice the next couple of day, so I will keep working on that chip pile.
The goal is to chip my whole side yard and front yard.
Lots and lots of seeds are popping up!!
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Feb 26, 2024 3:32:28 GMT
Broad forked the 10x20 plot in my front yard, worked in some organic fertilizer. Moved my pallet pile (10 pallets) only to find a tunnel to china that dang ground hog dug! Dug out my firepit (I burned some trash, and wanted the residue out) and moved that yuck into the ground hog hole. Weather is gonna be nice the next couple of day, so I will keep working on that chip pile. The goal is to chip my whole side yard and front yard. Lots and lots of seeds are popping up!! You’re making my list for today look really puny! |
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Post by mzgarden on Feb 26, 2024 10:32:17 GMT
I'm way behind Laura, but I got the unheated greenhouse cleaned up - we use it for firewood storage during the winter so it got a little messy. Pea seeds started - I know they're supposed to be direct planted but when I do the squirrels dig up all the seeds. I've found that if I start them in egg cartons, I can just plant the egg cup with the sprout and avoid upsetting the roots - and the squirrels leave them alone. Today is supposed to be nice so I'll get out to the garden and start cleaning up the beds and get some lettuce, spinach, kale and chard planted. I need to peek at the asparagus patch and the garlic.
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Post by woolybear on Feb 26, 2024 13:56:20 GMT
laurazone5, I have not tried drip irrigation. I use soaker hoses that look like they are made out of shredded rubber. They have worked pretty good for me over the last couple of years (until I cut one when chopping down corn stalks and had to order a new one) The soakers have developed some "leaky" spots near the connectors but I wrapped those areas well with electrical tape and had no more leaking for that season. My peppers both sweet and hot are taking for ever to sprout. Planted around 30 seeds Feb 2, placed on a seed mat, so far I have 4 jalapenos and 2 Anaheim that have come up. It's really strange, last year all the peppers sprouted in 10 days. I planted a mix of sweet onions that sprouted semi-decent, but the tray of bunching onions that had some type of seed coating on them has only sprouted one seed (I'm going to blame it on the seed coating, it looked really thick and I was wondering if a seed could punch thru that coating)
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