What have you planted in your garden?

[RSKY]

Got all our gardens out last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Here is what we planted.

My garden at the old farm:

4 rows Early Sunglow Corn (62 day),
8 rows Honey Select Triplesweet Corn (79 day),
2 row Kentucky Wonder Pole Green Beans,
1 row Willowleaf Lima Bean,
1 row Thoroughgreen Limas,
1 row King of the Garden Limas, and
1 row Fordhook 242 Limas.
Later this week I will plant,
8 rows Peaches and Cream Corn.
Then wait another week and plant,
8 rows Kandy Korn.

At the oldest daughter's house I planted,

2 rows Early Sunglow Corn,
4 rows Bodacious Corn,
1 row Kentucky Wonder Green Beans,
6 rows Pinkeye Purplehull Peas,
6 rows Big Boy Purplehull Peas,
6 rows Mississippi Crowder Purplehull Peas, and
3 rows California Black Eyed Peas.

At the youngest daughter's house we planted,

1 row of mixed corn.
They are in charge of the peppers and other small plantings as their lot and garden are small.

At my house we will plant in our tiny garden,

tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, ground cherries, okra, carrots, and cantaloupe. Some of these will be planted in buckets.

Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, cantaloupe, okra, and pepper plants will be added when the last chance of frost is passed, which is May 1st in our area. All plants are started and looking health in our utility room.

Ahhh, it sure is wonderful to be retired.

Now if I can keep the grass, coons, and deer out of the gardens!!!!

What are you planting?

RSKY

 

[DeereMann]

Wow - it's too cold up here to do anything but cold weather crops.

Put in the potatoes, lettuce & spinach. Many others I started in the indoor hotbed planter.

It is 46 degrees here, with wind & rain, predicted to continue all week. Average high temp. is 63 degrees. The winter that won't end!

 

[flyerdan]

We're supposed to have some unseasonably warm weather this week, so I'll be getting mine in a bit earlier than usual. Going to put in corn, peas, carrots, radishes, onions, cherry tomatoes and try some cantaloupes again. Not a great deal of anything, just enough to eat in season. Maybe a few roasting ears in the freezer for over winter though.

 

[/pine]

Have snow peas in the ground and a few early eggplant and broccoli starts set... The ground is just now warm enough for seeds to germinate but we still have a risk of what most around here call "blackberry winter" (other areas have different names for a late frost/freeze) we often get it the first couple weeks of May...but this was a strange year WX wise...

have mostly starters that are going through the "hardening" process before they get transplanted to the garden...

Will probably set (direct seed) some okra, beans and squash later this week after looking at the long range forecasts...then cukes, tomatoes and more of everything from starters...

 

[oosik]

Holly smokes RSKY. You must hire folks to weed that huge garden. We used to plant a large(80 x 120) garden but my weeding with my stand alone rototiller was pretty hazardous to it, so we quit. Now I have two large brick planter boxes that are planted to squash - butternut and acorn. Nothing can dig into the planter boxes and soon the big squash leaves prevent weed growth. My kind of garden.
What got our garden mostly was pocket gophers - any below ground crop was a goner. It took them three years to find the garden plot - then they had a field day. I will usually get 75-80 squash and they are stored downstairs where its cool.

 

[RSKY]

LOL, oosik, I don't have anybody hired to weed. I did get me a one row cultivator and I plan on using it on the two larger gardens. The two small gardens will have landscape fabric and newspaper put down. My father would use a one row cultivator with the outside tines removed and go down each row. When the plants got larger he would put the outside tines on and take the inner ones off. Then he would go down the rows at a pretty good speed. I will use a front tine tiller and also intend to use Preen on some of the garden.

Now my rows are short, only about 50' to 60' long so it makes it sound bigger than it really is. We have some friends who have cut back this year and only have 14 100' rows of potatoes. But they have a set up in their basement to store them most of the year.

Last year the coons got about a third of my corn and the deer got all but a handful of the purple hull peas. That is why they are all at the oldest daughter's house. They have a dog that will, hopefully, keep the deer away.

I have been reading how a larger and larger percentage of our canned vegetables come from China. There is no regulation as to what pesticides are used on them. That is one reason I am putting out such a large garden. Another reason is to pass on to my kids and grandkids the skills and knowledge about growing their own food. With the way the country is headed you never know when those skills could mean the difference between having food or going hungry.

Besides that, I am retired, my wife works at a local university during June and July, and it is fun.

RSKY

 

[oosik]

Well, we do have a coon or two, now & then but I've only seen them in the apple trees. The old coons will send the young ones up the skinny branches to knock the apples down. The deer will move in and eat the apples the coons knock down - the old ones can't protect all the apples the young ones are knocking down. This all happens in the dark of the night - I go out and sit near the orchard and listen to all the grunting and squealing. I used to put fencing around the garden but a lot of the animals get tangled in it - so I took it down.
Its a lot easier to buy my vegetables at local farmers markets or roadside stands. I don't miss all the weeding - neither does my back.
I'm retired too - I gave up the rat race when I was 55 - 15 years ago. I would rather watch the animals out here than weed. Actually I'd rather do just about anything than weed. :dance1: :laughing:

 

[PaulMel]

RSKY I want to come learn from you!
We planted 9 heads of broccoli and my blackberries I started last year are growing out new shoots and I am super excited!! Yeah, we're city folk. Got our land in Kentucky and just started with getting it prepped to fix up.
Won't plant these berries out there for a couple more years, but we are looking forward to learning from farmers how to get started.
Found out for sure last week that I can have a chicken coop here in the city! I'm so very excited and am going to start small.... If we do well, then we know we will continue.
Any input? We welcome feedback.
Take care and God bless.
PaulMe

 

[TomSeller]

Running behind this year.

Planted so far:
Peas
Onions
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Radichio
Potatoes

Will plant shortly :
Celery
Fennel
Kale
Chard
Cukes
Beans
Turnips
Pumpkins
Squash

 

[Gunny]

It's a little earlier than I normally start but after I looked at the long range forecasts, I went ahead and put out 150 cabbage and right at 140 tomatoes (Rutger, Roma, Better Boy and Super Saucer) Got finished up Sunday afternoon, then the rain hit early Monday morning.

Our soil temps are still a little low for seed planting, hopefully we'll get enough drying weather so I can get the beans, cucumbers, etc planted about mid-May.

I split most of mine up this year, one garden down in the bottoms, by the creek, one up by the barn, just to cover my bases. If we have a wet year, the upper garden will do well, if we have another drought, then I can water the lower garden from the creek.