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[pennyJo1960]

We had allot of hard rain today driving bought a bag of dog food.
They said DH has the kidneys shot down again we both a DNR.
Now I asked try dialysis it restarted once give that chance.
He is not sure if he will last long enough to do it.

 

[ValerieJ]

Peas that come up early can survive freezes...

But green beans cannot. They have to be planted after danger of frost has passed, and after the ground has warmed up some.

I think voles or mice ate a lot of the pea seeds I planted in February. Or they rotted in the ground. I got most of the empty spots filled in with seeds I had left over, but still need to buy another packet. Might even plant a couple rows somewhere else.

I had frozen peas to eat most of last winter but could've eaten a lot more. And I still have close to a gallon of green beans in the freezer I need to eat by August or so.

One bag of the green beans (rattlesnake beans, actually) were blanched before I froze them. The other bag I froze unblanched, just rinsed, trimmed and froze. They were just as good quality-wise in my opinion. I won't blanch beans or peas again before freezing, same as with the whole tomatoes I freeze.

And it rained like heck for an hour or so around noon today. I bet an inch fell.

Thanks for that info on the beans! I was thinking of planting them beginning of May.

The rain came while we were on the road to Olympia. Oh joy.

 

[ValerieJ]

We had allot of hard rain today driving bought a bag of dog food.
They said DH has the kidneys shot down again we both a DNR.
Now I asked try dialysis it restarted once give that chance.
He is not sure if he will last long enough to do it.

 

[Smokerbill]

I'm really sorry about your husband PennyJo. Hope he can get on dialysis and get better.

 

[Smokerbill]

I just planted some seeds. More bok choi since it grows so well and three types of tomatoes. I saved all the tomato seeds from what I grew in the garden last year.

One is from a volunteer plant that made a lot of huge Roma type tomatoes. Another was a Roma plant that was miniature and had small fruits. The other was from Black Krim tomato plant that made bright yellow fruits instead of red, which I thought was pretty cool. They tasted tart and tangy.

I put the seed starts in the chick brooder on top of the heating pad to keep them warm. The seed starter box will likely be covered with chicken crap tomorrow. LOL

 

[rosemarythyme]

How about green beans. Same? Or later?

Later - I actually plant beans on the late side since I have a hard time eating up all the veggies that get going, so I treat them as an early/mid summer crop and plant in May. My goal is to have them mature as asparagus season ends.

Peas that come up early can survive freezes...

To be safe I'll tuck in a few extras after a heavy snow just to make I get sprouts early enough in spring.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

I decided to remove the floating row cover from my brassica patch. Bok choi seems to thrive in the cool wet weather compared to the kale, collards, daikon radishes and cabbages. Lettuce grew a little better under the row cover compared to the unprotected lettuce plants near the onions and shallots.

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Shallots and yellow onions in alternating rows of this bed.
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More yellow onions and my garlic patch. Should have plenty of alliums for my homemade salsa.
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Poor germination in the pea patch. I need to buy new seeds and fill in the empty parts of the rows.
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I am very late getting my onion seed started. I have an egg carton out and am going to seed them in it first so they dont drowned in this rain. Sunday I picked up chive and leek seed I am going to seed today.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Isn't it early for the peas? I think they will come up in May. But, I'm not the master gardener here, you are.

My peas are up

 

[Grandmas Coop]

How about green beans. Same? Or later?

I seeded green beans last Friday

 

[Grandmas Coop]

We had allot of hard rain today driving bought a bag of dog food.
They said DH has the kidneys shot down again we both a DNR.
Now I asked try dialysis it restarted once give that chance.
He is not sure if he will last long enough to do it.

I am so very sorry Penny, I know this has been so hard on both of you. My heart hurts for you.