2025 gardens

[DJ54]

Pulled my plants out of the heated shop to get some real sunshine yesterday. Temps here have bounced from 50 at day, low to mid 20's at night. Got a little leggy reaching for light but should come out of it. Will put them back in Wed afternoon as they are calling for a low of 34º. Only take 10 minutes to do it so no problem. Don't want to lose them this late in the game.

I have plowed the garden this early before, but this year it's been raining every few days, and not dry enough. Not in a big hurry, as I usually don't plant anything until the last week of May anyway. It will lay fallow until then in the past. When I do, it's nice many weeds will germinate, and I will run a disk over it to kill them. Just that many I won't have to deal with cultivating/hoeing them out.

 

[workinonit]

My tomatoes are already bearing, some of them. I got a huge stand of Watts and Heirloom peas. Corn came up spotty. Potatoes are actually still coming up a month later. Most of them are knee high.

 

[masseyrider]

Couple weeks ago I bought 2 packs of everbearing strawberry plants.
I put them in small pots to grow them on before planting in 3rd week of May.
The one variety came out 100% and most already had blossoms that I removed.
The other variety only about 60% grew and only aboot half look vigorous.
Same company supplier.
Today or tomorrow I'll pot up watermelon, squash and some heirloom tomato seeds.
I wasn't going to garden this year but old habits die hard.

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Finished turkey hunting early Saturday (see hunting thread).

Planted about 75 pepper plants. Some non hot habanero, marconi, cayene, poblano's .

Planted about 15 each broccoli, cabbage, and romaine plants, and summer squash.

Taters are coming up, corn is about 5" tall, gonna throw some nitrogen on em this week.

Wife planted some melon seeds for transplants.

Have some jalepeno and various companion plants (flowers) for the garden to go out in a couple of weeks.

Also kinda excited to plant our first attempt at turmeric. I just got the roots in from Hoss tool. We may experiment making out own mustard this year.

Gonna can large batch of fire roasted salsa and freeze dry some tomatoes if the harvest allows.

Maters survived the cold snap we had last Wed.

 

[Oaktree]

I'm by myself and the extended family is too far away to make it worth coming for/taking to my produce.
Nobody around here wants to help grow or pick and then they're fussy about what you give them.
6 tomatoes for myself, few cukes, zucchini and egg plant.
Other stuff I can buy as I need. There are a couple excellent produce stands near me.

I wish we did around here. There are a couple so-called "farmers markets" that are one-day-a-week operations, mostly catering to tourists with prices to match.
As I get older, I'm being more selective about what I plant too. Just me and the wife, don't need a huge garden. I'll do several plum tomato plants (for canning), one or two cherry tomato plants, potatoes (which haven't done very well past few years), pole beans, cukes, carrots, beets, onions, peas, and salad greens (lettuce, spinach). Doesn't get hot enough here for peppers to grow.
Doesn't make any sense to me to plant more than we need and end up having to give it away.

Garden was terrible last year...really dry until about mid-July then rain and lots of it. Garden sits in kind of a low spot, and the soil got really soggy. One lesson learned was not to get manure from our neighbor...man, that stuff was nothing but weed seeds.