Exhausting day today. We planted 9 fruit trees (well ...one is an almond tree, so guess not a fruit).
Orange, Pluerry, Aprium, Plum, Apple, Peach, Nectarine, Blood Orange, & Almond.
I planted seeds 6 days ago. Already much is sprouting... cucumber, cabbage, kale, lettuce, marigolds... all showing tiny green leaves. Cucumbers are especially big for such a short time.
Rather excited since it's my first "real" garden since we've lived in AZ.
Yesterday I planted seeds in all 3 beds. It was still 94F (today also) but it's supposed to drop to low-mid 80s tomorrow and the days following.
I planted just a couple of the tomato, pepper seedlings I had started -- didn't want to lose them all if the heat was too much.
Carrots, scallions...
It looks great!! We are planning on planting a few fruit trees too. We just have to wait another month or two for the weather to cool. Will have to keep that Stark Bros company in mind if we can't find locally.
The Carol Burnett Show was all laughs often surrounding stereotypes. Loads of fun, but I think today's cancel culture would have spasms watching it, lol!!
My mom used to make great pickles from her cucumbers. I'll have to see if she still has the recipe. If she does, I'll hop over to the new...
Government overreach! This is supposed to be the land of the free. It's none of their *!* business whether someone has a garden or fruit trees or collects rain or has a 5yr old selling lemonade! :rant
Thank you! I'm sure I'll be learning and making mistakes along the way.
We moved to AZ from the east coast about 20 years ago when the kids were young. When is one considered a native? Lol! Landscape plants were my first focus when we moved out here-- what a difference from what I was used...
We are too. Just outside of Phoenix. Looks like they changed next weekend's forecast to around 100/101. (Before they were predicting 106.) So that'll be better. I haven't planted any seeds yet. I also have some seedlings (tomatoes & peppers) waiting to plant.
From what I'm reading, the...
Where are you that it's so warm. I'm also antsy to get seeds planted. Yesterday I measured my soil temp (elevated garden) at 1" depth and it was 101F. :hit
I'm still waiting for it to cool well enough to transplant my seedlings and also to plant some seeds directly into my garden beds. I came across this chart with ideal (min, max, optimum) soil temps for vegetable seed germination.
This got me outside measuring my soil temps. Even though we had...
Anyone have any thoughts for how to over-winter these seeds (per their method) in a warm climate like ours? We don't get those cold winter temps. Our coldest month (DEC) averages high of 67 and low of 46. Could that be cool enough for this process?