Gardens for 2021 season

[Sonny580]

Still frosts here---sposed to be warm-up starting tomorrow, so hang on to your fanny! summer is about to hit!! lol!

 

[kenmbz]

First Radish here, but it's been chilly. Next set of Tomatoes and Peppers is supposed to arrive tomorrow for planting.
Pears/peaches etc. are starting to get large enough to see, but last year were all gone before ripe. Wildlife is always grabbing stuff, why I have a 7foot fence around my little raised garden.

 

[hube2]

Still frosts here---sposed to be warm-up starting tomorrow, so hang on to your fanny! summer is about to hit!! lol!

I cann't safely plant here until after Memorial day and I tend to wait until first weekend in June. I have seen frosts through end of May no matter what my weather man/woman says. I would have liked to have it ready for planting by now but it's been too wet to get the tilling done. Looks like it's going to get a late start this year. I need to get some seeds started, mostly quash and cukes because they do not germinate well when planted directly. I generally buy some stuff started in a local greenhouse.

Hoping for some decent weather so I can start getting it ready this weekend.

I don't have as big a garden as some of you folks, it's about 50x100 feet. We grow enough of the things we grow so I don't need to buy those things. Tomatoes, corn, broccoli, cukes, peppers, several kinds of squash. The rest depends on how I'm feeling each year. Maybe some cabbage if I'm running low on sauerkraut. I also leave some room for my father in law to put in whatever he feels like adding. I've had the garden in the same place for 24 years.

Here's a picture of it from google, you can see my FIL in it digging potatoes, the white dot in about the middle is something in his hands. The image is from several years ago but you can tell it was late in the year, the shadows are getting long, you can see the pumpkins, most of the other stuff is dead and the weeds around the edges are getting tall.

 

[herm0016]

We have been harvesting lettuce from the greenhouse for a couple weeks. We got several inches of snow and freezing temps last few nights. We had a bunny sleepover on Sat. Night, so we will see if sugar is pregnant is about a week. Got rid of or jerk rooster to make room for a maren rooster that is about 6 weeks old. We also have 17 other chicks and 5 turkeys. Broccoli, onions, garlic, radishes, spinach, beets, potatoes, cabbage, in the raised beds under row covers. Peas in the ground. About 300 seedlings awaiting this cold spell in the green house and our office. looking good for a nice fruit harvest, it appears it was not quite cold enough to kill the apple/pear/cherry buds. The greenhouse is a game changer.

 

[SylvainG]

I cann't safely plant here until after Memorial day and I tend to wait until first weekend in June. I have seen frosts through end of May no matter what my weather man/woman says. I would have liked to have it ready for planting by now but it's been too wet to get the tilling done. Looks like it's going to get a late start this year. I need to get some seeds started, mostly quash and cukes because they do not germinate well when planted directly. I generally buy some stuff started in a local greenhouse.

Hoping for some decent weather so I can start getting it ready this weekend.

I don't have as big a garden as some of you folks, it's about 50x100 feet. We grow enough of the things we grow so I don't need to buy those things. Tomatoes, corn, broccoli, cukes, peppers, several kinds of squash. The rest depends on how I'm feeling each year. Maybe some cabbage if I'm running low on sauerkraut. I also leave some room for my father in law to put in whatever he feels like adding. I've had the garden in the same place for 24 years.

Here's a picture of it from google, you can see my FIL in it digging potatoes, the white dot in about the middle is something in his hands. The image is from several years ago but you can tell it was late in the year, the shadows are getting long, you can see the pumpkins, most of the other stuff is dead and the weeds around the edges are getting tall.

Yep, although I'm higher up (latitude wise) than you, we also wait until first weekend of June to plant.

 

[Sonny580]

Strawberries are actually setting some green ones, so not all of the flowers got froze. Might have a small crop yet.

 

[hube2]

It was nice this past weekend and for the first time in years I have my garden ready to plant well ahead of time. I may actually get the corn started early since a late frost isn't likely to hurt it.

 

[Sonny580]

soil temps here are WAY too cold for seeds. Have replanted some of the stuff 2 times and still nothing. Either too cold or I have soil insects attacking the seed! Anyway I will try 1 more time after it dries up and warms up and see what happens.

 

[hube2]

soil temps here are WAY too cold for seeds. Have replanted some of the stuff 2 times and still nothing. Either too cold or I have soil insects attacking the seed! Anyway I will try 1 more time after it dries up and warms up and see what happens.

Insects is one of the reasons I have to start all of my squash and cukes in pots. Once upon a time they treated all seeds with fungicides and pesticides to help protect the seeds until germination. The bugs in my garden seem to really like hollowing out my squash seeds. The corn seed I get is still treated. The farmers are all planting their corn here, not that it's an indication of being time to plant, but corn can handle cooler soil temps.

 

[oldballs]

Besides being below average temps, it has rained ....rained ....and rained..... 2 inches several days ago and 3.8 inches last Sunday. My nicely tilled garden is a 50 X 100 mud hole. There is rain forecast everyday for over a week....to some percentage.

Besides that.....I need cataract surgery and a heart stress test to be done........... But I'm still hopeful to get a few things planted....when it dries out.

Cheers,
Mike