Anyone gardening yet.

[LBrandt]

Soil a little to cold yet? I really got the itch to get my hands dirty.

 

[wslayer]

Taters,peas,corn,zuc and banana peppers.
Hopefully ground warms soon

 

[Vollmer]

SOON! :dance:

 

[Greg Bommelman]

Too cold

Soil a little to cold yet? I really got the itch to get my hands dirty.[/QUO

Usually may 10. Last night 28 soil temp south of kenmare is 43 degrees.

 

[USMCDI]

Everything is indoors except lettuce, radishes, carrots, garlic and some new strawberry and asparagus roots. The boss usually plants everything else once I seed corn. I'm done with wheat and barley but that's it, corn, flowers and beans next week if it's dry. I have about 30 lbs of watermelon and pumpkin seeds ready for the grass drill that I plant in our 5 mile waterway but I'm going to wait 2 weeks before I make any more ruts in my precious waterway.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I normally don't start until the third week of May

 

[jpv]

I'm with you LBrandt I've been really itching to get the garden in but the wife said "not yet" so I guess it will wait another week or two. Damn women

 

[BDub]

Garlic is looking good. Planted last fall.

Tomatoes and peppers are looking good in my greenhouse.

Potatoes planted 2.5 weeks ago.

Picking asparagus almost every day. If the sun shines it grows.

I will start radishes etc soon. But no big hurry to plant much. I am a firm believer that the end of May is the overall best time to plant gardens. Peppers do not like cool. No need to hurry.

 

[Account Deleted]

Seeds started in the green house. That's about it.

 

[huffranger]

I need to get over to the neighbors junk pile and get a tractor tire to get my strawberry patch going.

I did order 50 Hybrid Poplar trees

I'm itching to get planting too

 

[Kurtr]

I could kill Russian Olive but I just got done building a enclosure and planting four strawberry plants. Will the big back yard at new house there are big plans for a garden we will see.......

 

[Traxion]

I had to restart a bunch of plants just last week. My initial batch started well but tanked for some reason. With good sun they did well, not so much with the week and a half of cloudy weather. Oh well.

Onions are in and growing well.

Garlic planted last fall is going well. But I only had about 1/4 of it come up, not sure why? Any ideas??

I am planning for a late May planting. I won't have mature enough plants till then. I am only a second year gardener so the learning curve is steep.....

 

[BDub]

I had to restart a bunch of plants just last week. My initial batch started well but tanked for some reason. With good sun they did well, not so much with the week and a half of cloudy weather. Oh well.

If you are talking tomatoes and peppers, grow lights are the ticket unless you have a perfect setup (light).

Onions are in and growing well.
Good deal. If we get a hard frost you may have to cover them. I learned the hard way.

Garlic planted last fall is going well. But I only had about 1/4 of it come up, not sure why? Any ideas??
Fall garlic should be planted real late, mine was planted in November. Then cover it with straw.

I am planning for a late May planting. I won't have mature enough plants till then. I am only a second year gardener so the learning curve is steep.....

Not to worry. It's not a race.

 

[Ristorapper]

tilled her up today. Seeding southern exposure garden asap, other one soon.

 

[Petras]

not to hijack the thread, but, I have a question for all you green thumbs. I'm not real great at growing stuff... I got one of those kits for growing stuff from seed. It's one of the ones that has like 30 spots in it and a little wafer that expands into soil when you pour in water and once your done planting your seeds, you just put the clear cover and let it sit. I planted a whole pack of sweet 100 cherry tomato seeds in this kit. About 25 of them sprouted up and grew pretty quick to the top of this planting thing. One day, when it was fairly nice, my wife decided to take them outside along with some tomato plants we bought from the greenhouse to get some sun. She took the clear lid off and left them out there for a few hours. Now they all look deader than crap. every last one of them has folded over and shriveled up. Can anyone tell me what went wrong? The day she took them outside seems to be the day it all started to go bad. it was about 65 degrees that day too so I can't imagine it was too cold for them.

 

[scrotcaster]

Do you have to plant garlic in the fall or can i get away with planting some this spring still?

 

[KDM]

Got the gardens rota tilled and am now waiting for the weeds to start to grow so I can whack them for a clean start to planting. So far I have nothing growing, but I KNOW them dirty rat bastages are just waiting for me to put ONE seed in the ground and BAM!!! Instant weed carpet!!!!

 

[Lycanthrope]

Everything is indoors except lettuce, radishes, carrots, garlic and some new strawberry and asparagus roots. The boss usually plants everything else once I seed corn. I'm done with wheat and barley but that's it, corn, flowers and beans next week if it's dry. I have about 30 lbs of watermelon and pumpkin seeds ready for the grass drill that I plant in our 5 mile waterway but I'm going to wait 2 weeks before I make any more ruts in my precious waterway.

What you gonna do with 30000 watermelons?

You can plant garlic in the spring, but should have been done earlier. The stuff I planted last fall is about 8 inches tall right now, stuff I planted this spring is about 3 inches tall. Ive had same issue where some of the stuff I plant in the fall doesnt come back in the spring, dug up some cloves and there was some kind of worm/maggot munching on them. I think they are called onion root maggots, but they seem to hit the stuff overwintered harder, maybe they are active after the surface freezes for a while or something.

 

[BDub]

Do you have to plant garlic in the fall or can i get away with planting some this spring still?

I have planted garlic in the spring several times. Once it worked. I talked to a gal at the farmers market whom raises a couple thousand garlic plants. Plant in the fall. The bulbs get much bigger.

 

[LBrandt]

Too Petras. With the cover off in direct sunlight they probably dryed out too much. You need to transplant the little pot to a bigger one, about the size of a red beer cup with drain holes so you don't over water. Harden up a little more in house then to garage then outside a little at a time. Tomatoes are like women damed touchy!!!!!