Gardens

[Josh]

This is a continuation of our old discussion concerning gardening, composting, and how you were all jealous I lived in the ever warm land of Hawaii.

Now that warm weather has set in, how are y'all doing with your gardens?

[lizzy065]

with all my animals and husband who works all the time i havent started mine yet. he has to do it cause if i touch anything green it will die on my lol. he grows the garden and we have 8ft high tomatoe plants i touch it and they shrivle and die lol.

liz

[Heidicat]

Aww Liz, just "look" at them then :roll: You should try something easy, like radishes, if you like them, they require little if no help from us, just throw in some seeds and watch the grow, till you go to pull them.

I love to grow just about anything, outside plants and trees, as well as indoor plants. I listed all that was in my graden so far, somewhere here??? But today, I am going totry and get some potatotes in the ground, we have some rain coming, and need to get them in. I am tring a new method as well, we made a fairly deep furrow, and I am going to place the whole seed potatoes in it, and cover them with compost, and top it off with straw. I should be able to dig them myself then.

I am also revamping my strawberry patch this year too, we had such a bad drought last summer, I lost more than half of them. I coudn't water them, as we were "out" of water. I have the new well now, so look out, I will be watering everything this year!!! Dirty ole horses will even get a bath, great for me, but for them, not so great. Neither like baths, but it should be fun! :roll: NOT! Picture: Heidi chasing around the horse with the cold hose, jsut to have him, roll just after I finally get him clean, after I go out and buy a heater to warm up the water. Buy new buckets, as he has stepped on all and broke them, buy new sponges, as he ate them. Call the vet, because he ate the sponges, and cut his foot stepping on said buckets, and take water heater to get fixed because he kicked it! Should be interesting................. :wink:

[bbuckbee]

I started to do some of the tilling,but that will take a few more days.
My heirloom plants in my little green house by the patio window are doing great.
We had a hard frost last night and being zone 4 won't be able to put plants out until after may 15 and even then you may have problems with frost but everone likes to get a early start.
If we get lucky weather and end up with 120 growing days without frost it's a good thing!
It's ok to get the onions, garlic, spinach, radishes, in but haven't had enough time to get er done
I have transplanted quite a few blue spruce, white spruce, norway spruce, black walnut, sugar maples, so now we need some rain it is so dry here.
Josh, send me some of the warm rain you have too much of!

[msodooly]

Our garden is about 70' x 30' and we have onions (purple, white & yellow-Vidalia), potatoes (Red Pontiac), squash (yellow & zucchini), corn (Merits & Bodacious), leaf lettuce (Black Seeded Simpson & another variety), spinach, tomatoes (several different varieties & sizes), cabbage, carrots, basil, rhubarb, asparagus, and strawberries planted. I still have to plant my radishes, cantaloupe, okra, and sweet potatoes.

My onions are starting to get bigger, my corn is about a foot high, and my potatoes and tomatoes are fixin' to bloom.

I have had gardens before, but this is our first year working this particular patch of ground. Hopefully all will grow well!

[DaveJZ]

Tomatoes fixin to bloom... man I just put ours in... we have a small 12'x 12' garden... Much like the chickens... I do all the labor While the wife sits in the chair and watches It's ok though I enjoy those kinds of things

Did throw some watermelon seeds in though.. Never had any luck with melons, or pumkins so we'll have to see.

[msodooly]

Oh my tomatoes are still really small, but am hoping that they are going to be go-getters, since they are already trying to bloom!

[Heidicat]

Tomatoes bloomn'????? Aww not fair! ha ha, oh well, I was frosted out totoally last uear, so I am waiting a bit before I go and put in the warm weather stuff. Corn a foot high?? WOW 8O I would be planting more, so you have a longer harvest. Do you put up anything??? We all had talked about it, in the doomed last forum, but still had to ask. :wink:

[msodooly]

Yes, I do put up some things. I have wild blackberries all over the place. So, I make a lot of blackberry jelly. I have also made peach and pear jam. I also make homemade spaghetti sauce and salsa to put up. I like these things, because they don't require a pressure cooker...just a hot water bath. Someday, if I decide to get real ambitious, I may get a pressure cooker.

I am blessed with a long growing season down here!

[DaveJZ]

I don't usually do too much with mine... eat what we can and give the rest away.. I did find a old pressure cooker still sealed in the box at a thrift store for $5 I picked up so I'll prolly try and go for it this year. This should be interesting