PLANTED GARDEN TODAY - anybody planting yet?

[math ace]

I planted "winter" crops yesterday. I wait until after tax day ( April 15) to plant spring crops. I have had late frosts / freezes in early April take out my Spring crops two years in a roll.

SO, the moral of the story - - - I don't plant Spring crops until after April 15.

That is for me in NORTH FLORIDA.

 

[Egg_newton]

We are setting up a greehouse in the basement so we can start our heirloom seeds hopefuuly next week. We have the lights and plastic hung up on shelves that are 11x8 and are experimenting with ways to keep it warm enough for germination. We currently have two heat lamps down there but it does not seem to be working.

Any ideas?

 

[math ace]

I germinate my seeds in the house. Once germination occurs, then I move to the garage for the heat / light lamps.

 

[flgardengirl]

I am in NE fl as well. I started my tomatoes (indoors) yesterday. I am growing black cherry, green cherry, sungold, and isis (white cherry), early girl, kellog breakfast, purple cherokee, and some others. I am late, shoulda done it in the beginning of Jan but had too much going on. I am gonna do my tomatoes in pots this year instead of in the ground. My sweet and hot peppers always do good in the ground so might let them stay there. Last year I grew ghost peppers (bhut jolokia) and boy are they hot, much hotter than a habanero. I am trying some purple jalepenos, fish peppers, white habaneros, and some grilling peppers this year. I give up on winter squash here, my vines always get some mildewy by summer (rainy season) aaakkk.. is there a secret to them here or something?
My sage, lemon balm, and lemon grass all survived the cold temps here this winter. I have a 10 x 20 make-shift greenhouse that I set up for my potted plants during the winter. It is a steel carport frame with 6 mil plastic that is doubled to make it 12 mil. and then I heat is with a propane heater on the coldest nights. I grow a lot of tropical plants (I'm in major zone denial lol). I also have our 2 1/2 car garage full of my plumeria, brugmansia, tropical hibiscus, vines etc. DH can't wait for better weather so he can have his garage back lol. I am gonna make a larger greenhouse that is more permanent next year. Then we have a covered patio that I have some 'patio' ponds in that I keep koi and some other water plants and a bunch or orchid cactus.

 

[sundance]

Hope the snow melts this week, will spread the hay from the coop if the temp is above 40 can't get out side if below. but looking forward to my tomatoes and squash, since thats about all I have room to grow. except weeks, they grow about 6 ft tall marrie

 

[Amigatec]

I do hydroponics in the wintertime, I have green beans, tomatoes and peppers coming up.

 

[Wifezilla]

Last year I grew ghost peppers (bhut jolokia) and boy are they hot, much hotter than a habanero.

Try Chilitepin peppers. Imagine all the heat of a haberneo condensed in to a tiny red pepper the size of your pinky tip

SERIOUS heat!!!​

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

heh, i bought those too since my dh is a serious heat fanatic. the only issue i had with them was trying to keep them warm enough to get them to thrive! with the weather we had in our area they basically were washed away and it never got warm enough to make them productive. they need to be grown in a greenhouse to make them worth it in our area and short growing season.

 

[flgardengirl]

A hydroponics garden sounds awesome. I would love to grow tomatoes all year around. I might try something like that once I get my permanent greenhouse finished.

We have grown the chiltepins before. Yes they are really hot (50,000 and 100,000 Scoville Units) but not compared to these bhut jolokia (rated 855,000 units on the Scoville scale). In 2007 they won the world record for hottest chili. I had been waiting awhile for these seeds to be available in the U.S. These peppers are originally from India.
I grow them mainly for dh and my oldest son, as I like to be able to 'Taste' my food

. Jalepenos are plenty hot enough for me. I think dh and my oldest son must of burned off thier taste buds already to be able to stand some of the hot stuff they eat LOL.

 

[flgardengirl]

Chickie'sMoma :

heh, i bought those too since my dh is a serious heat fanatic. the only issue i had with them was trying to keep them warm enough to get them to thrive! with the weather we had in our area they basically were washed away and it never got warm enough to make them productive. they need to be grown in a greenhouse to make them worth it in our area and short growing season.

The ghost peppers aka bhut jolokia took a long time to flower, even here. I didn't get my seeds started until late spring last year though and the peppers finally got going about late July early August. I am starting them earlier this year and will try to keep track of how long they take. Once they started they didn't stop until it froze, they really went crazy. They turned green then bright orange once they started to age. Even some of the foilage was hot! I had to stand one plant up and stake it because another plant got knocked over on top of it during a storm. I accidently rubbed my eye after that and my eye started burning. Never had that happen before with hot peppers before lol.​