Maine - Page 311

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Originally Posted by hoppy 

I have already planted peas, greenbeans, lettuce, beets, carrots and have started my tomatos, leeks, asparigus, and peppers in the house. my peas are 2" tall, so no you're not crazy. I may do my tomatoes after I harden them off, that's usually when I kill them.

 

I find that if I put a fan on them inside they harden off pretty well and grow really stocky, too. Just have to be careful at first not to dry them out too much. Most of the time bugs and disease kill my plants, but I try hard to, nonetheless, by pushing the temperature envelope.

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Originally Posted by ashandvine 

I just planted my corn and beans this week.  Lettuce, chard, radishes, sunflowers, brussels, carrots... all in and a lot are up.  Wish I'd started onion early :(

Thanks for the input and confirmation. My sense of seasons is still off, only being here 6 years (my parents already have golf ball sized tomatoes, it's killing me). Soil temp is still about 55 here but after tonight it looks like nighttime temps will be above 45. My peppers and tomatoes are about 8 weeks old now, but the peppers won't go out for another 2-3 weeks at least. They grow really slow for me so I'm not too itchy to put the peppers in yet. I just started my cukes, squash, pumpkins and melons indoors. Gotta get the taters in this weekend, too.

I leave my peppers in pots, they grow so much better. i used to plant them in the ground and I might get thumb sized peppers, but a friend told me to leave in pots and wow, what a difference! I have peppers I can actually share.

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Originally Posted by superchemicalgirl 

I. My peppers and tomatoes are about 8 weeks old now, but the peppers won't go out for another 2-3 weeks at least. They grow really slow for me so I'm not too itchy to put the peppers in yet. I just started my cukes, squash, pumpkins and melons indoors. Gotta get the taters in this weekend, too.

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Originally Posted by hoppy 

I leave my peppers in pots, they grow so much better. i used to plant them in the ground and I might get thumb sized peppers, but a friend told me to leave in pots and wow, what a difference! I have peppers I can actually share.

That's interesting, last year was the first year I had peppers and I did them in re-purposed cat litter containers... (it was ghetto but it's Maine and I'm in the middle of nowhere) so there might be something to this!

I never thought to correlate them, cause I get better at seed starting each year.

Thanks for the tip! I'll keep doing that.

I started leeks, but how big is the actual plant when it growing? I need to figure out where to put it since I am really limited in space especially if it gets huge.

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Originally Posted by buckabucka 


Yikes, I won't be planting for a while. I admit we are in a cold pocket here. I just covered the asparagus tonight in fear of frost. The tomatoes could probably go in the hoop house soon, but the hoop house needs to be weeded, and my seedlings are still tiny, so there is no hurry.
My peas, and tiny lettuce and spinach sprouts are up, onion and leek transplants are all in, and the potatoes went in last weekend.
I am behind on some things. I wanted to get carrots in last weekend, and start indoor melon and squash, but I was too busy with other stuff. Hopefully that will happen tomorrow. I need to start sweet potato slips, and I'm back to trying peanuts this year, so I put some in cups earlier this week.

Ah. Nothing like getting up at 6 am, looking out the window and seeing a horse where he shouldn't be. Out on the lawn munching on the grass.

So I throw on some clothes and go to do some horse wrangling. On the plus side I had left his halter on yesterday. The negative side is that Gosi did not want to go back to the paddock. So he takes off at full speed around the yard. Yee Haw!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let the fun begin. He then decided to go over to the neighbor's yard. Their yard is pretty much sand so no worries about him destroying anything. After a few laps at Kentucky Derby winning speed he detours up to the road. And down the road he went at a gorgeous fast Icelandic Tolt. Couldn't have been a more beautiful looking gait. Other than the fact it was happening on the road where cars go zooming by. At least he was going back towards my driveway. He gets there and gallops down to the goats' pen. Looks around. Bucks a time or two and takes off again in a fast tolt back towards the neighbor's. The other two horses are watching this with what I swear is an amused look on their faces. Finally Gosi decides that all that exercise is bad for his overly plump figure so he stops, puts his head down and starts to graze. I walk up to him attach the lead rope and lead him back to the paddock threatening him with the glue factory.

The annoying part is that I spent the last two days fixing the fence. Put on new hardware and tightened all the strands. Everything looked great. Yet somehow he managed to squeeze out at the secondary gate that is partially blocked by the 70 gallon water tank and shelter. So today instead of riding I have to figure out why the fence isn't charging and possibly run another strand of hot wire to prevent another chapter in the "Escapades of Gosi"

Gosi: Translates as Idiot in Icelandic.

Gosi is adorable!

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Originally Posted by Widget 

Ah. Nothing like getting up at 6 am, looking out the window and seeing a horse where he shouldn't be. Out on the lawn munching on the grass.

 

So I throw on some clothes and go to do some horse wrangling. On the plus side I had left his halter on yesterday. The negative side is that Gosi did not want to go back to the paddock. So he takes off at full speed around the yard. Yee Haw!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let the fun begin. He then decided to go over to the neighbor's yard. Their yard is pretty much sand so no worries about him destroying anything. After a few laps at Kentucky Derby winning speed he detours up to the road. And down the road he went at a gorgeous fast Icelandic Tolt. Couldn't have been a more beautiful looking gait. Other than the fact it was happening on the road where cars go zooming by. At least he was going back towards my driveway. He gets there and gallops down to the goats' pen. Looks around. Bucks a time or two and takes off again in a fast tolt back towards the neighbor's. The other two horses are watching this with what I swear is an amused look on their faces. Finally Gosi decides that all that exercise is bad for his overly plump figure so he stops, puts his head down and starts to graze. I walk up to him attach the lead rope and lead him back to the paddock threatening him with the glue factory.

 

The annoying part is that I spent the last two days fixing the fence. Put on new hardware and tightened all the strands. Everything looked great. Yet somehow he managed to squeeze out at the secondary gate that is partially blocked by the 70 gallon water tank and shelter. So today instead of riding I have to figure out why the fence isn't charging and possibly run another strand of hot wire to prevent another chapter in the "Escapades of Gosi"

 

 

Gosi: Translates as Idiot in Icelandic.

Hilarious story! Thanks for sharing.