Anybody else started on their gardens this year.

[Polly215]

I Love the Spring, am always ready for the change in season's but Spring and Fall are the best! We started a small garden in our backyard about 2 weeks ago, so far just red potatoes,onions & radishes, in raised beds. Onions are already doing well, and the potatoes will be coming up soon I hope. and I may have to re-plant the radishes.... am going to try and plant the radish seeds about every 2 weeks this year till it gets too hot and then start again in the fall. We have a farm in the country and year before last we planted 15 lbs. of red and white potatoes, we ended up with potatoes all over the place! We used Chicken fertilizer from a Chicken Farm! I think that was the trick.... lol We ended up with about 2 huge wheelbarrows of the red and like 1 & 1/2 of the white. The reds are the best, I think, and they really did produce that year, like about 145 lbs from about 8 lbs. of seed potatoes. We are going to plant the Tomatoes and of course the hot peppers this weekend, & squash & cucumbers. Started Sunflowers for the birds and Watermelons for us in the little peat moss starter pack, they are getting spindly though so hope we can get them in the ground this weekend too. I love it! Happy Gardening to everyone!

 

[Peaches Lee]

Wow Polly215, that's a lot of potatoes!

Awesome!

 

[cravenchx]

We are planning on 15# of taters too. Sugar Snaps coming up, garlic and onions doing well.
Have got to start getting ready for beets, carrots maybe some cabbage. May get too hot too fast here for cabbage, but it did well last year. Don't ya just love this time of year!?!

 

[misskeeter]

I finished planting my garden yesterday.

Squash, corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, broccoli, green beans, watermelon, swiss chard, and various herbs.

Oh... and 50 Whopper Strawberry plants from Gurney's in a kiddie pool.

 

[yardbird432]

I love gardening too. Texas is so great. I get to garden dang near year round

 

[Philosofarmer]

Just built some raised beds for this year. I've never used them before, but we're renting this year and can't till up the yard. We'll see how it goes, I guess!

 

[yardbird432]

Raised beds are good, don't have to bend over as far

 

[mlongworth]

Hey anyone interestedwe have a seed/plant swap started. Lots of open pollinated stuff and heirlooms.

 

[erinszoo]

Planted winter squash in our straw bales this weekend and then it turned cold so they are covered at the moment. Hopefully by the end of the week we'll know how they are doing. We cut out trenches to plant in about eight inches wide and deep, then filled it with soil, and popped in the plants. After we covered everything back up with some of the straw we had taken out of the trenches in the bales. We followed all the instructions we found for preparing the bales but they don't seem to really be composting much as everyone says they will.

I guess that's why they call it "experimenting".

Working on finalizing my plans for my Thomas Jefferson bed. I only have one raised bed for my theme garden that is 3 x 10 so I have to make the most of the space. I usually don't plan quite so much, just figure out what I want to grow and find a place to stick it so I pushing my envelope with this.

I also ordered seed for black carrots yesterday. I hope they are the variety that I've been wanting and not the purple carrots with the orange core. The ones I'm wanting actually start out dark on the outside and white inside and then turn blackish purple throughout.

 

[LoveChickens123]

this year i got watermelon, pumpkin, big boy tomatoes, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, strawberries, going to plant beans, okra