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Smuv? Are they seeds or plants you got planted?

Strawberry plants may need a cover...... Here mine come up and get frosted and snowed on but still make it. Thinking variety of plant may vary from what you planted.

Seeds should be fine. May sprout later than desired.

Very frustrating to get it done and get pounded with storms.

I put a low tunnel on my beds because of the frustration year after year.
 
21hens-incharge said:
Smuv? Are they seeds or plants you got planted?

Strawberry plants may need a cover...... Here mine come up and get frosted and snowed on but still make it. Thinking variety of plant may vary from what you planted.

Seeds should be fine. May sprout later than desired.

Very frustrating to get it done and get pounded with storms.

I put a low tunnel on my beds because of the frustration year after year.
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Strawberries are rooted, already got some green tops on them. The other 2 beds were seeds. I didn't get around to starting seeds because of the wiggy weather.... now I'm glad I didn't. One bed is all beets (white, golden and dark red) and the other is salad stuff, plus a section of snow peas. All of the seeds said they were mild to regular frost hardy, so here's hoping.

During Black Friday, we bought a bunch of cattle panels so we could make hoop coops AND some hoop greenhouses.

Picked up a couple of bagged salads yesterday from Kroger to get the DH and PIC used to eating salads again.

I think I have laundry shoulder. It's like tennis elbow, but not as glamorous.

Hope everyone is having a good Sunday evening. Check in!!!
 
You planted pretty close to what I did! I added radish, turnip and rainbow carrots.

I am all fingers crossed too. We are getting silver dollar sized snowflakes right now.

My low tunnels are just PVC hoops and 6 mil plastic. They did OK last year so here's hoping.
 
21hens-incharge said:
You planted pretty close to what I did! I added radish, turnip and rainbow carrots.

I am all fingers crossed too. We are getting silver dollar sized snowflakes right now.

My low tunnels are just PVC hoops and 6 mil plastic. They did OK last year so here's hoping.
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We did something like that when we lived in El Paso, a low PVC pipe with plastic. Oh, and we're doing raised beds, so gotta find out how high our raised beds have to be to plant stuff like carrots. What do you use your radishes for? What kind?
 
I put cherry bell radish in. We use them in salads or on veggie trays with dip.
I make a pasta salad that they go in as well.
I like the French breakfast radish better so in a couple weeks will plant a row of those.

My birds love radish tops. They don't get the turnip tops unless the bugs have chewed those. :p

Swiss chard is another favorite green thing.
They get added to lettuce salads and also cooked like collard greens since we can't grow real collards here.

I get carrots in my 12" deep raised beds. They would probably like deeper though.
I never cook the purple ones...... They turn brown. :sick

I didn't get my peas in yet and am regretting that.
 
21hens-incharge said:
I put cherry bell radish in. We use them in salads or on veggie trays with dip.
I make a pasta salad that they go in as well.
I like the French breakfast radish better so in a couple weeks will plant a row of those.

My birds love radish tops. They don't get the turnip tops unless the bugs have chewed those. :p

Swiss chard is another favorite green thing.
They get added to lettuce salads and also cooked like collard greens since we can't grow real collards here.

I get carrots in my 12" deep raised beds. They would probably like deeper though.
I never cook the purple ones...... They turn brown. :sick

I didn't get my peas in yet and am regretting that.
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What do you use to make your raised beds? We looked for 1x12s and 2x12s but they were SO damn expensive it was redic.
 
I used 2 2x6's stacked. The 1x's will rot really fast.
I used regular pine untreated lumber. I will get at least 8 years out of them before the boards are giving out.

Some lumber is beyond redic in price.

Getting my dirt right for the boxes was a bit tricky too. Some of the bagged soil can make lettuce bitter.
I ended up mixing bags of top soil, sand, composted chicken stuff, peat moss and composted steer manure. Of course your drainage needs are different than mine.

Do you get lots of rain all summer?
We tend to be hot and super dry here.
 

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