BYC gardening thread!!

[dan26552]

Your daddy LOVES you!

Yes he does.

Would your Daddy like to adopt me... Wait, that probably won't work. I'm most likely older than him!!!

LOL

 

[dan26552]

The tomato my dad got (Actually its four in one pot)


One of my olives, it started growing.

Avocado

My little Avocado

My pineapple guava seedlings

The mexican guava I got.

The new growth on my olive

The rosemary



My orchid's first flower.

 

[hippiestink]

Well I just got home from Texas, came back to pretty good weather. It's about 8ºC out and slightly cloudy. I'm taking stock of what I have and ordering seed. Going to be starting onions, lettuce, and probably celery in a seedling tray.

 

[hippiestink]

Ordered Utah Tall celery, Arabic coffee (for my sister's memorial greenhouse), Tam jalapenos, St. John's Wort, and sweet woodruff seed last night. Downloaded the Garden Planning app from Old Farmer's Almanac and I'm LOVING it. Anyone making headway on their gardens?

 

[Stacykins]

I truly wish I could work on my garden! It is buried under way too much snow. Our last frost day (on average) is May 10th. People in my area can't even hope to start seeds for transplant into the garden for quite a while. I have so many seeds I am itching to sow!

A change this year I will cultivate potatoes from true potato seeds (TPS). Seeds from open pollinated potatoes, and since plants produce seed containing fruits to save seeds from, all tubers can be eaten. Plus, no risk of seed potatoes going bad in storage. It gives some variety to the potatoes, since they aren't tuber clones.

 

[lazy gardener]

I truly wish I could work on my garden! It is buried under way too much snow. Our last frost day (on average) is May 10th. People in my area can't even hope to start seeds for transplant into the garden for quite a while. I have so many seeds I am itching to sow!

A change this year I will cultivate potatoes from true potato seeds (TPS). Seeds from open pollinated potatoes, and since plants produce seed containing fruits to save seeds from, all tubers can be eaten. Plus, no risk of seed potatoes going bad in storage. It gives some variety to the potatoes, since they aren't tuber clones.

You and I share the same planting zone! However, I've found that frost dates have changed for me in the last 20 years! Global warming? Bring it on!!! I like your idea of TPS. Where did you get your seed? How long does it take for a seed to produce a decent sized transplant? Comparable to tomato?

 

[Penny Hen]

Ordered Utah Tall celery, Arabic coffee (for my sister's memorial greenhouse), Tam jalapenos, St. John's Wort, and sweet woodruff seed last night. Downloaded the Garden Planning app from Old Farmer's Almanac and I'm LOVING it. Anyone making headway on their gardens?

Well following my Great Uncle Marion's advice I tilled in the snow into the ground to trap nitrogen. Since I was doing it by hand (shovel) I only got some small sections done but it is a start. It was warm today for the second day in a row and all but a few patches of snow in the shade were left. I was double digging and adding woodchips in the bottom and then layer of dirt more woodchips and layer of dirt and then shavings from my chicken pen. I am going to have to set up my dirt screener again because a third of this dirt is gravel and rock. You ever hear of soil called hard scrabble? Well this is it. When I get it back level I will put good topsoil on top of it an raise the bed. The deep bed conditioning is to encourage worms to come in and hang out. These are the beds right by the house on the west side. I am planning to put in sunflowers along the bedroom wall and vineing plants along the covered porch to block the afternoon hot sun. I was thinking of starting some scarlet runner beans for the early season and maybe Maypops or a luffah gourd with some morning glories. I have two spiral garden beds (with a plan to make a third) that I was thinking of growing amaranth in. I found out that melons can take growing near black walnuts so the area of full sun on the edge of the walnut canopy is going to have melons.

I am going to grow some corn but mainly just for the beans to climb on. So maybe some kind of sweet corn that will make a couple of wonderful meals of corn on the cob. And I will be adding the third sister with squash. I am going to cover some areas that I won't have time to prepare fully with crimson clover and let that grow cut off of it to feed chickens and treats to the sheep and then turn it under in the fall.

Gotta go look up that garden planner now.

 

[dan26552]

 

[Stacykins]

You and I share the same planting zone! However, I've found that frost dates have changed for me in the last 20 years! Global warming? Bring it on!!! I like your idea of TPS. Where did you get your seed? How long does it take for a seed to produce a decent sized transplant? Comparable to tomato?

From what I've read it appears they're treated a lot like starting tomatoes. It certainly will be a bit different transplanting a tiny potato plant rather as opposed to planting a seed potato. But apparently seeds also prevent viral and fungal diseases from being transmitted from generation to generation on the tubers, so it can help prevent crop failure from that. This was a helpful resource.

I acquired seeds on eBay from....Russia! I suspect they will germinate just fine, I find it very cool to have seeds that came from so far away! The envelope and stamps were very cool. I'm also going to try and get some true potato seeds Tom Wagner, who has developed many TPS varieties. But the website appears to be under construction at the moment.

 

[dan26552]

I truly wish I could work on my garden! It is buried under way too much snow. Our last frost day (on average) is May 10th. People in my area can't even hope to start seeds for transplant into the garden for quite a while. I have so many seeds I am itching to sow!

A change this year I will cultivate potatoes from true potato seeds (TPS). Seeds from open pollinated potatoes, and since plants produce seed containing fruits to save seeds from, all tubers can be eaten. Plus, no risk of seed potatoes going bad in storage. It gives some variety to the potatoes, since they aren't tuber clones.

I so want to try growing taters from seeds