PLANTED GARDEN TODAY - anybody planting yet?

[Chickie'sMoma]

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Tilling and planting makes you almost giddy - - doesn't it ?

oh it does! it does!!!!

especially since i have a new rototiller! got tired of having to transport my parents' tiller back and forth across town!

and i REALLY need to till some new areas this year so it will be a continuous event throughout this spring/summer!

 

[math ace]

My children and I have spent the last 2 hours picking green peas and shelling them. So today we picked and cooked a large pot collards and picked a small bowl of green peas. Tomorrow, we go after the green beans.

Now that the peas are out of the garden - - - I have some room to plant some Okra.

 

[Jen4]

All of your gardens and pickings sound so great! Cant wait to getta pickin!

 

[RhodeIslandReds]

Just wondering for next season.
Where do you all buy your seeds for strawberrys and for garlic?

Thanks,
RiRs

 

[aussieheelr]

For my strawberries I bought 25 for about $5 from Burgess, they're doing very well. then once it was all planted I decided ti wasn't nearly enough and found an add for "you dig 'em, you can have 'em" in the local paper! That was the best deal. I got a whole 5 gal. bucket FULL just for the effort with a shovel... and some even had berries already! Turned out I had more than I needed but a friend of mine was willing to take the abundance off my hands.

 

[vfem]

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I got my strawberry plants for $9.99 from a deal on Gurney's last year. I get my garlic for $3.99 a pound in the fall from GrowOrganic.com (Peaceful Valley Organic Seeds)

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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I got my strawberry plants for $9.99 from a deal on Gurney's last year.

Yup me too. Gurney's has lots of good stuff for reasonable prices. I got 2 Mulberry bushes for $12 and they have fruited in 2 years. They also have the "Lil Big" apple trees. Only grow about 6ft tall and put out a half bushel of full-sized apples. My produced the first year planted! They have a heavy load of fruit on them this year too.

My garlic came from an old neighbor. His mother planted it. These bulbs have been getting planted for over 60years.

 

[vfem]

Not much I can do with all the rain lately

More on that story on my blog, and how its affecting me plants... both good and bad.

However, I have a new visitor who is hanging out on my tomato cages at the new hummingbird feeder.

Pretty little ruby throated.

 

[schellie69]

We made a raised garden this year we tilled the girls pen to put in sand. we used the dirt from the pen and then added top dirt and I planted, 5 lettuce salad blend, leaf lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, sweet roasting peppers, hot peppers, pumpkins, cucumbers, spinach, zucchini, yellow squash, winter squash, radishes, watermelon, raspberry bushes (black and red), everything but the roasting peppers came from seeds and everything is growing great right now I can't wait till I can start picking the veggies and make a great salad. I also have a nectarine tree that has fruit this year 1st year for fruit, my apple tree did not fruit this year due to having problems last year but at least it is alive. we also have a mulberry tree and the fruit is almost ripe need a recipe for mulberry jam anyone know a good one. this is my first real garden so I am very excited.

 

[BC_Farms]

Planted the garden today! We bought too many tomato plants...guess it's a good year to learn how to can? Of course we forgot to buy cucumbers, summer squash, and zuchini

Bought more sunflowers, and am planning on planting them EVERYWHERE. We own a small plot across the street (where old septic tank was), and I planted some there...I really hope they grow.

Also planted some of my pumpkin seeds. I bought Atlantic Giants, sugars, jack-o-lanterns, Caspers (white ones!), Blue Moons (blue ones!), and Cinderella seeds. We planted them on a hill...it'll look really cool if they grow.

Here is our garden so far:

And here are some of the planters we filled today: