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Post by laurazone5 on Apr 4, 2024 12:12:50 GMT
Peppers in the backround are ready for repotting. Tomatoes are coming along just fine. Misc. goodies, flower, herbs, etc. Super hots, Bitter melon, tomatoes, you name it I'm growing it!! I buttoned up March with taking all of my finished compost and putting it in one bed (3x30). Hand turned my compost. Broke everything to little bits and layered. Weeded and reapplied straw to protect the soil in the other 2 beds. On deck this first weekend of April is to pot up my root bound goodies. Finish building the 2 tables (pallets) that my gravity irrigation will sit on. If it warms up enough, I will finish spray painting the buckets for said irrigation. Sow beets, lettuce, and other cool crops.
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Post by woolybear on Apr 4, 2024 13:25:20 GMT
laurazone5, your plants are looking very good. I have 8 cayenne peppers that I need to pot up - 2 of those will be my experiment with kratky hydroponics. I plan to set that up today. Once the peppers are sorted and potted starting tomatoes is next. Plus watching my ladybug family expand. When I brought plants inside last fall a ladybug came along for the ride. I watched that bug all winter long, fascinated that it could survive the winter in the cool basement. I guess there were enough tiny bugs for it to survive on. And then one day I found a second ladybug and it turns out one is male and one is female because now I have 3 baby ladybug larvae running around my little lemon tree eating whatever bugs they are finding because they are growing quickly.
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Post by laurazone5 on Apr 8, 2024 18:03:46 GMT
Bought a baby pool, and used that to make my own potting mix. That worked out so much better than I anticipated. I love it so much when an idea in my head works in real life lol. Started Basil, melons, squash, cukes. Re Potted my citrus trees to larger pots. Re Potted tomatoes, luffa, toothache plants and a few others to 3 inch pots. Re Potted all peppers, and Hibiscus to 1 gallon pots Had to procure more lights and hang those clowns. Drilled holes in the 5 gallon buckets I am going to plant in. Started plotting where I am gonna put all my goodies!! Got another chip drop and well, yikes it's too much. However, better too much than not enough. Waiting for this eclipse to be over with so I can go out and work in the yard!!!
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Post by Jolly on Apr 8, 2024 19:34:01 GMT
I'll be picking sugar peas in a week. Planted a half-dozen tomato plants last week, planted 8 more today. Got three eggplant plants done in one of the raised beds (trying a new variety- fairy tale).
Got a couple of rows of corn planted, but I'm way behind on my row crop garden. Rain, bearing died on a disc spindle, had to buy a tractor battery...Just the everyday setbacks of life on the rural route...The big garden is flat broke, but it needs some TLC...
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 8, 2024 23:39:19 GMT
Boy, I feel like such a piker compared to all the progress everyone else is making. The only "planting" we've done is yesterday putting in the 5 blueberry bushes/starts in the little patch. The 5 older bushes are already flowered out and some are starting berries.
I confess to somewhat neglected them last year, had lots of other things going on, but I've made myself a promise that I'll nurture these new plants like babies.
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Post by Txsteader on Apr 10, 2024 11:31:08 GMT
Honestly, I took a chance planting out so early. The only thing I had intended to plant out early were my tomatoes because by July, they're toast. But once I got my hands in and smelled that cultivated earth, I couldn't resist. I've heard quite a few people say that starting seeds early in trays doesn't really give an advantage - that those seeds that are started in the ground later will actually catch up with, and many times surpass, those that are started indoors. So don't feel bad Ozarks Tom, I'm sure you'll get some things growing soon enough.
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Post by Jolly on Apr 10, 2024 16:10:46 GMT
There are a few varieties of tomatoes that will set fruit at higher temps. I usually do a few for fresh fall eating, but I wonder if a few plants could extend the early summer season?
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Post by woolybear on Apr 10, 2024 16:50:32 GMT
Mini disaster in the grow tent. Something ate part or 1/2 of my baby hot pepper plants. It could possibly be the brown marmoated stinkbug I saw the other day in the area. I went full nuclear on the tent..sprayed with raid, sprayed with neem, and dusted with viper dust (partly because it has been a stupid day and it's just now after 12 noon)
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Post by Txsteader on Apr 10, 2024 19:46:46 GMT
We had a thunderstorm pass through early this morning (before daylight). It beat up my little tomato plants, they aren't big enough to stake/tie up yet, but it looks like they'll pull through. It did snap off one of my little pepper plants but I still have several I haven't planted out yet. Squash & bush bean plants are laid over but otherwise intact.
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Post by BrewDaddy on Apr 10, 2024 20:43:09 GMT
My bro is going to hook me up with 2x6's and bagged soil to make 2 raised beds of 32 sq ft each. I've been getting all antsy about what to plant and how to fit it all together. Nice thing is I should still have use of these two coolers I've used the last couple years as well as some more buckets. I'm thinking of doing several types of hot peppers, zucc's, summer squash, Roma's and try and squeeze in a tomatillo or two. Throw some basil, cilantro, maybe greens too. Then in the fall as harvest is winding down, go nuts with some garlic and more greens. Perhaps even get ambitious and make a hoop house or two and see how far I can extend my growing season. bd Attachments:
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Post by woolybear on Apr 10, 2024 23:11:04 GMT
BrewDaddy, maybe try the fabric grow bags. I like them because I can move them around the yard as needed. I have an assortment of 3,5,and 10 gallon for every occasion.
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Post by Txsteader on Apr 13, 2024 20:56:24 GMT
I took advantage of the nice weather today. Up-potted bell pepper & tomato plants, planted pepperoncini and Italian frying pepper seeds. Found an empty spot in a flowerbed and planted more snap beans and carrots. The first bush beans I planted are flowering like crazy and I'm seeing tiny snap beans starting to develop.
I intended to put in the t-posts at each end of the tomato bed so I can start stringing for the Florida weave but got busy on other things and didn't get around to it. It's the only thing on tomorrow's to-do list - honestly it needed doing last weekend.
I planted a couple of chamomile plants. I planted Laura Bush petunia seeds a couple weeks ago and I've got seedlings showing!!
I just thought of one more thing I have to do tomorrow - fertilize my sunflowers! They're not growing nearly as fast as I'd hoped. They're gonna get liquid feed for a quick boost.
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Post by ohiodreamer on Apr 14, 2024 16:56:00 GMT
Been so wet here, not much garden work is happening. Did get my snap peas out a few days ago. Didn't pre-soak, the 2" of rain over the next 2 days did that for me, lol. Dropped spinach seeds in the soil today. I'd love to get my kale seeds in, but I need to add soil to that bed AND take down the cattle panels from last year. Beans will be in a different spot this year. If the rain holds off maybe we can get that done tonight. Panels don't need to be up in their 2024 spot for another 3-4 weeks. So it would be a fast chores (once another set of hands are here )
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Post by laurazone5 on Apr 14, 2024 21:53:47 GMT
Potted up the peppers. It sure helped a ton to start the seeds in a clear cup so I could see the roots. This was a new thing this year and I will be doing that moving forward!! Potted up peppers in the back. Cups in the front are squash and melons of various varieties. Super hot peppers and Hibiscus! MIsc. and my bittermelons in the bucket on the left. Today I potted up a dozen or so of my tomatoes and my Shiso Pulled the few weeds in the front garden and hand turned the straw and crunched it up into smaller pieces. Ran 2 strands of 16 gauge wire from one side of the fence to the other for my hops to grow on. I used twine last year and it kept rotting and breaking. Yesterday I planted a bazillion flower seeds in the alley bed. We are expecting rain Tuesday / Wednesday and after the 6 inches we received last week, I am hoping April showers bring the May flowers. Tonight I am going to sit down and put a plan on paper. I am doing things all willy nilly and that's not gonna work out in the end!!
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Post by indianjoe on Apr 23, 2024 11:51:24 GMT
I planted white corn for milling cornmeal, red potatoes, zipper peas, squash and cucumbers but we have been dry lately. The corn is 6 inches high and maybe within a couple of weeks it will be ready to lay by. The potatoes seem stunted this year, may be due to hard ground. Seems like every year is something that presents a challenge, such is the life of farming.
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