Planting Day is Here!

[Callender Girl]

Count me in the "jealous" camp. Grass was just starting to green up and this morning I walked outside to find snow -- on the ground and still coming down. It's supposed to melt off later today, but grrrrrrr! No planting here for a while.

I am planning to test germinate some of my older seeds this year and expand the size of the veggie garden. The only thing I've done so far is to pot and refrigerate some pits I saved last year from the old cherry trees at what used to be my dad's house. They are the most delicious tart cherries, and I'm hoping to get a tree or two to live up here, some 150 miles from their southern Iowa home.

But, I have made my wish list for this year's garden and am ordering another apple tree today (curses, you darned bark-eating rabbits who girdled my Honeycrisp) to replace a tree I didn't replace last fall.

 

[Melodychick]

Well I was just out in the garden attempting to plant the tomatoes, but the gnats drove me inside! I have a net to go over my head, but they bite my arms and legs too. The chickens won’t come out of their coop and the horses are staying inside their shed. I’ll try again after the sun gets a little higher in the sky...

 

[Mtnboomer]

Count me in the "jealous" camp. Grass was just starting to green up and this morning I walked outside to find snow -- on the ground and still coming down. It's supposed to melt off later today, but grrrrrrr! No planting here for a while.

I am planning to test germinate some of my older seeds this year and expand the size of the veggie garden. The only thing I've done so far is to pot and refrigerate some pits I saved last year from the old cherry trees at what used to be my dad's house. They are the most delicious tart cherries, and I'm hoping to get a tree or two to live up here, some 150 miles from their southern Iowa home.

But, I have made my wish list for this year's garden and am ordering another apple tree today (curses, you darned bark-eating rabbits who girdled my Honeycrisp) to replace a tree I didn't replace last fall.

It was 35 this morning shen i started working. My Great grandmother always said if it snowed on the peas (while they are in the ground but before germination) it made them sweeter.
Last year we hot snow in April that knocked back my cool plants but they all recovered and the raw peas tasted like candy! Only time will tell.

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

Pansies in Kansas! My crocuses are coming up!

 

[Farmdog267]

I've got strawberries planted along with some lettuce, and have carrot seeds planted. I also have bunching onions transplanted. Zone 6B.

 

[Self sufficient chickens]

Planting tomatoes, peppers, cauliflower, lettuce, asparagus, garlic, kale, peas! SO fun.

 

[Mtnboomer]

I got almost everything i wanted to get in the ground this weekend. Its been crazy. Rained all day today and most of Saturday and my oldest son has caught a case of the flu. Not THE flu but he's been knocked out for the last 48 hrs.

Potatoes, spinach, lettuce, and 120 ft of peas are in the dirt. Only thing left to plant until May is another 60ft of peas.

I had about 10lbs of potato sprouts left from last year's harvest that I gave to a neighbor. Hopefully they will do well for him.

 

[Self sufficient chickens]

Also, cover crop is growing like crazy.

 

[Self sufficient chickens]

Sometimes I will rip up some and give it to the chickens!

 

[Mtnboomer]

Sometimes I will rip up some and give it to the chickens!

I usually plant clover as a cover crop in the fall and do the same but time got away from me last year and it didn't happen.