Anybody else started on their gardens this year.

[3forfree]

I started my seeds in march just to see if they would grow and they are doing so good I don't want to stop them. I can't get in the garden until the middle of may and by then the plants will be quite big. What too do.do I let them go?

 

[misskeeter]

I have planted red potatoes, onions, garlic, radishes, carrots, spinach, snow peas, blue lake green beans, corn, & orkra. So far I have a showing of everything except the potatoes. I do not know why they have not come up. Nothing not even any green leaves coming up. Any answers? I live in central Oklahoma. Thanks for any enlightment, anyone has.

Potatoes take awhile to show above ground... When did you plant them? Where did you get them? Did you plant them whole or cut them? Did you plant them with the eyes facing up?

I live in northern OK. It usually takes a couple of weeks for them to come up and with the cold wet spell we just had, it could be a few days more. I planted mine in the greenhouse in January and they are doing great but they've been in a heated environment. We usually don't plant until March 15 and then it's about now before we see anything. It's kinda early for corn and okra too.

My dad has always said the perfect day to plant potatoes is March 15. I just now planted my corn and okra, but I'm in northern Texas... I jumped the gun a bit on my okra.. it will come up, but then it will sit and do nothing for awhile until it starts to heat up...

I started my seeds in march just to see if they would grow and they are doing so good I don't want to stop them. I can't get in the garden until the middle of may and by then the plants will be quite big. What too do.do I let them go?

You can always replant them into bigger pots until then. Do you have them outside in a cold frame or little mini greenhouse? You can buy a cheap shelving unit and some grow lights from Wal Mart or Home Depot for them until you can plant them outside too... Just keep the lights at a couple of inches above the plant.. too far away and your plants will get leggy.. too close and they burn... I use plant hanging chains to move my lights..

 

[3forfree]

misskeeter, I have repotted all of them and have a light on a chain so I guess I'll just wait. Thanks.

 

[mlongworth]

I have tomato, peas, cauliflower, romaine lettuce, and some mystery seeds started. More planted but not going just yet. Weather was nice yesterday so i got the sunflower bed ready. If the nice weather keeps up im going to preweed the garden and get my berry patches cleaned up. Also have seeds to start from the seed swap here on BYC and more on the way. Yay! So happy to be playing in the dirt again.

 

[mlongworth]

Here is the link to the seed swap for those of you interested.

Www.backyardchickens.com/t/755856/2013-seed-plant-gardeningswap

 

[offgridhermit]

I started tilling my AZ sand, then last night we got snow. We usually can't plant till June. I'm going to till my garden area and then fence it to keep the rabbits out.

I'm also making my coop area taller so I can stand up in it. All work is put on hold because of the recent snow. :-(
I plan to have cucumbers so I can make sweet pickles. And will try to grow tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, onions, lettuce, spinach, beets, carrots, beans, and what other seeds I have on hand at the moment. I also have some planter boxes to plant veggies in.

I made this planter box about 4 years ago. This year I plan to plant root crops in it, beets, carrots and onions.

 

[yardbird432]

I love gardening too. In west Texas, I've plant squash, zucchini , carrots, 3 types of beans, broccoli,sugar snap peas, corn. I sewed directly in soil, all has popped up. In planters I have big mama hybrid, Roma, sweet 100, jet star tomatoes . I've planted my jalapeños, pequins, bell peppers,. Got basils, oregano, stevia,. I got a bunch of stuff going on. Lots of work

 

[yardbird432]

Come by end of may, bring a Walmart sack

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

I'm in Ohio, and just this past weekend turned Mt. Manure (my affectionate name for our winter manure pile) into three raised beds that are 20x4.5, and one long bed that is 70xhowever-wide-the-bobcat-bucket-is and covered them in plastic so that they will compost quckly. I've got 28 different varieties of tomato started, plus peppers, zucchini, squash, melons, pumpkins, eggplant, carrots, salsify, radishes, beans, and sweet corn. I'm hoping that I'll be able to keep the horses out of the gardens (looking into temporary plastic fencing), and hopefully let my chickens out into it once most of the plants are well established. In conjunction with the garden I'm also working on completely refurbishing my coop before my new chicks get here - I combined the two separate runs into one large one, will be re-seeding both runs with grass and herbs, and will be putting up new fencing on the smaller run.

 

[erinszoo]

Got more potatoes planted in bags yesterday as well as raddichio (which I've never grown), sage, basil, and parsley. Melon, peas, lettuce, spinach, beets, celery, onions, potatoes, carrots, and one cuke are doing well. Squash is still growing in pots. A few tomatoes are in the ground as well. Have to rebuild a bed for my Thomas Jefferson garden and then two others as well. One for sweet potatoes, the other for beans. Still have to figure out where the eggplant and okra are going. Guess we'll be buying some more straw bales for growing in.