I got the damned garden planted...

[lspencer534]

Took me most of Saturday and part of today. I tuned over the dirt in the planters about two weeks ago and added a bit of slow release fertilizer. This year I have kale, 6 Heirloom tomatoes, turnips, collards, chard, green beans, sweet corn (enough for about 60 ears), soybeans, zucchini, Winter squash, and two Heirloom varieties of cantaloupes (Jenny Lind, which has very sweet green flesh, and Amish, which has deep orange flesh).

If there's no crop failure, things should be up in about 15 days. I think the danger of frost has passed: It was 80 degrees today.

How about your garden this year?

[78SA]

I have strawberry plants going everywhere.

[lspencer534]

I have strawberry plants going everywhere.

Pictures!

[Ruffy]

Debating ripping out about 2 dozen raspberry bushes and the corner garden that is a hot mess of rhubarb, raspberries, other stuff and weeds. I have a lot of work to do to get the property in a state that it no longer looks like it has been vacant for 3 years (because it has).

I'll buy you a plane ticket if you want to take care of my place.

[lspencer534]

Debating ripping out about 2 dozen raspberry bushes and the corner garden that is a hot mess of rhubarb, raspberries, other stuff and weeds. I have a lot of work to do to get the property in a state that it no longer looks like it has been vacant for 3 years (because it has).

I'll buy you a plane ticket if you want to take care of my place.

No speako Englisho....

[vtelvr]

No garden, but laid a little Bermuda sod yesterday. Just watered some fertilizer into it a bit ago. This will be my first time trying to keep things growing.

[99 pewtercoupe]

So have you planted any cats yet? I have one I am about ready to plant

[78SA]

Pictures!

They are mixed in with weeds going everywhere too. :leaving:

[JRD77VET]

Took me most of Saturday and part of today. I tuned over the dirt in the planters about two weeks ago and added a bit of slow release fertilizer. This year I have kale, 6 Heirloom tomatoes, turnips, collards, chard, green beans, sweet corn (enough for about 60 ears), soybeans, zucchini, Winter squash, and two Heirloom varieties of cantaloupes (Jenny Lind, which has very sweet green flesh, and Amish, which has deep orange flesh).

If there's no crop failure, things should be up in about 15 days. I think the danger of frost has passed: It was 80 degrees today.

How about your garden this year?

http://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/off-topic/64227-official-2014-garden-thread.html

:D

[lspencer534]

http://www.thevettebarn.com/forums/off-topic/64227-official-2014-garden-thread.html

:D

No speako Spanisho....

[Ruffy]

I'm going to go take a picture of my apple tree...:leaving:

[Ruffy]

Jealous?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/ruffneckxx2/amazingappletree_zps4faf81cd.jpg

[lspencer534]

Jealous?

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/ruffneckxx2/amazingappletree_zps4faf81cd.jpg

Is it alive?

[Ruffy]

:shrug:

[lspencer534]

:shrug:

Use your fingernail to scratch some bark off, If it's green underneath, it's alive. If it's brown...oh..well....

[Ruffy]

I'll wait and see if it buds. It is sort of thunderstorming out right now and I'm ascaired

[JRD77VET]

I'll wait and see if it buds. It is sort of thunderstorming out right now and I'm ascaired

Hold a piece of copper tubing out to the side when you go out. It will keep the lightning from striking your head :yesnod:


:leaving:

[Steve Austin]

I put mine outside in the sun yesterday. Now they are looking real droopy. I may give in and buy plants. I think I have a black thumb.

[lspencer534]

I put mine outside in the sun yesterday. Now they are looking real droopy. I may give in and buy plants. I think I have a black thumb.

Get them out of the sun. "Hardening off" plants is a 10-day process. Just an hour of sun the first day, and gradually lengthen the time every day.

[Cybercowboy]

All we grow are herbs and chili peppers. My father in-law grows us tomatoes, and our rather impressive Farmer's Market handles the rest.

[mrvette]

20 bags of red mulch on the driveway for about 3 weeks now, no time for it, Sat we bought 40 bux of plants to replace what we lost to the damn winter, but no chance to get them into the ground either.....damnit....:issues:

[OddBall]

What's a garden?
If there is work involved, I don't want to know.