Garden Time, JINMAN ??????

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Jinman,
Snow this AM?
Temp???
How much might you have to replant?

 

[jinman]

It only got down to 35º last night and no snow or precip of any kind yet. We got our tomatoes, peppers, and most of the squash covered with 12' wide 1-mil painter's plastic. The plastic just floats on top of the young plants, pressing them down, but not beating them up. We covered and weighted an area about 20' x 60'. The beans, peas, potatoes, onions, radishes, carrots, and turnips will have to fend for themselves. I'm hoping they pull through and next week I can finish planting without too much replanting needed.

Good luck to WayneB, TBDonnelly, and Bill, and MarkV on your gardens surviving too. I don't really have anything to complain about considering what you guys are getting. I looked at Don's beds with ice and sleet on them and that makes me shudder. Scottie! Weren't you in charge of seeing that this didn't happen.

 

[TBDonnelly]

I purchased some frost blanket material from Farmtek. I might have to use it sooner than expected....

Spun Bond Frost Blanket

Don

 

[jinman]

I purchased some frost blanket material from Farmtek. I might have to use it sooner than expected....

Spun Bond Frost Blanket

Don

Don, that's great looking stuff, but the price is OUCH! I noticed the 12'6" wide stuff is over 75 cents per foot. I bought 400' of 12' wide painters roll for about $40, so that's 10 cents per foot. I guess the difference is that stuff is very thick (12 mil) and mine was only 1 mil. You will get many uses out of yours and I'll get just one, probably.

Here's some pictures from this morning. The first is the row cover and the second is our onions, radishes and turnips.

...and it was snowing a very light wintry mix when I was out this morning.

 

[thingy]

Well,I ain't got to replant nothing here in southern w.va.,,,,cause I ain't planted nothing yet,,around here you don't plant anything before easter other than maybe peas,lettuce radishes,first week to mid april is about the right time to plant tators,cabbage,broculli,caulaflower,carrots,spinich, beets,[around here],,my neighbors from new york via fl. called my wife the other night and wanted to know how to protect their plants they had already set out,cause they heard of this cold coming,[it was 82 degrees here last tuesday,,and in the 80's most of the week before,it had been three weeks or so since it froze or frosted here,so,it was tempting],,my wife said nothing cause we hadn't planted anything yet,,,,city people,,you got to love them! Texas weather might even be worse than here now,,it was in the upper 20's last night, and wind blowing 30 mph or so,,with snow,,,ground is slightly white this afternoon,in the low 40's,,,thingy

 

[TBDonnelly]

I bought 400' of 12' wide painters roll for about $40, so that's 10 cents per foot. I guess the difference is that stuff is very thick (12 mil) and mine was only 1 mil. You will get many uses out of yours and I'll get just one, probably.

I only bought 40 feet of the 126" wide blanket. 400 feet would get pretty pricey! I'll probably have alot more opportunity to use it in my neck of the woods. This is spring, right? We just had a windy white out here. We really need to get Scotty workin' on this weather situation.

Don

 

[jinman]

TIME TO BRAG...

I planted radishes from seed on 3-3-2007. Today, it's been only 43 days and I pulled the radishes in the picture. The big ones are crisp all the way through, not pithy like they would be normally. Also, they are growing so fast a few are splitting open.

I had sliced radishes on my salad tonight. Yum!

 

[Egon]

Oh my my Jim, fresh veggies already!

I'm in Alberta right now and prime Ski Season has just arrived. Unfortunetly I will not be able to partake of it.

 

[jinman]

Oh my my Jim, fresh veggies already!
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Egon, they are fresh and great for me, but I've found that people fall into three categories when it comes to radishes: love 'em, hate 'em, can't eat 'em. My brother loves them, but they do bad things to his digestive system. My wife hates them, but tolerates me growing and eating them. My neighbors love them and were happy to take about 1/2 of those I pulled off my hands. They put them into a stew. I've never had them in stew, but maybe I can convince my wife to hold her nose and make me some stew so I can see what it's like.

 

[BB_TX]

I fall into the "can't eat'em" category. I like radishes, cucumbers, and green bell peppers. But none of them like me. Red and yellow bell peppers I can handle.