2026 Gardens!

[CloverKnollFarms]

It's time. I'll be starting my tomatoes and peppers next week. I actually brought two serrano pepper plants indoors last fall, and they are growing new leaves.

This year I'm improving my seed starting operation. Last year my seedlings failed due to lack of light. This year I built a grow light stand and I'm going to be using soil blocks instead of plastic cells.

I'm reducing my sweet corn crop from 2000 plants to 1000. No more succession seeding. Last year succession seeding hurt pollination and also allowed racoons to have a full month to attack the field (I have a new method to control them too) I'll harvest it all the first week of July. Building a wire mesh tunnel for pole beans, not bush beans like last year. Growing more tomatoes and peppers for salsa canning. I'll still be planting about 300 pumpkin vines, but we will have blocky orange ones, pale orange baking pumpkins, blue and white pumpkins too.

The garden is seeded to winter rye at the moment. I plan to start about 40 plants indoors in 2" soil blocks.

What do y'all have planned?

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

It looks like they are forecasting El Nino this summer... I'm planting all early maturity plants this year, and starting seeds early. Hopefully I can beat the drought if it comes

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

We added a 10'x20' gothic arch greenhouse to get starts growing earlier in the season. Half of it is planted and doing better than expected.
Outdoor Temps at night in the low 20's, but placing light weight insulating row covers over the raised beds in the greenhouse has kept the soil at 40 to 44°F. So the thermal mass is keeping the temps above freezing overnight inside the insulated row covers.
Very pleased with the greenhouse so far.
My wife has commented that after a tractor, the greenhouse is the first thing we should have installed 15 years ago.
So for anyone reading this you need a tractor first! LOL So you can till your garden!