Your 2024 Garden

[LTAY1946]

I have sweet potatoes and onion plants ordered. Onions will be here later this month so this coming week an area in the garden will be prepared for them. A fence around it will be part of the prep or the chickens would help themselves to anything green. If they don't eat it they would scratch it out of the ground. I think they enjoy doing away with things they don't want to eat.

 

[Iluveggers]

I’m planning to start leek and celery indoors this coming week. Probably just 6 cells of each with a few seeds in each cell to separate later. If I start with too many, I don’t have room for the later plantings! I am definitely not starting 50 tomatoes this year…just want 12 paste, 3 slicer and 5 cherry plants. Downsizing tomatoes to 1 row this year, lol.

 

[Sally PB]

Since it's about 5-6 weeks too early to think about planting seeds... I'm not. Thinking about that gets me too antsy, and I can't do anything about it yet.

Sigh.

 

[fuzzi]

Since it's about 5-6 weeks too early to think about planting seeds... I'm not. Thinking about that gets me too antsy, and I can't do anything about it yet.

Sigh.

I could start tomato seeds if I had a cat-free location to do so...we're about 6-8 weeks out from last frost.

 

[Sally PB]

if I had a cat-free location

that made me laugh.

 

[fuzzi]

that made me laugh.

 

[Cozyhill]

How many folks here have started planning their garden for next year. I'm in the early stages of planning based on how much of what we need to use fresh and preseve by drying, freezing, canning, and pickling.

I starteda few of my plants. I have a greenhouse in my basement this year I am loving it so far.

 

[LTAY1946]

I ordered a selection of yellow summer squash seed today including a vine type to grow on a trellis. Order a green ball shaped summer squash also. Ordered one package to try of a dual purpose cucumber. Early stage to pickle or later to slice. Normally pickling types get bitter when they get large enough to slice at least in the past they have for me. Guess now I need to get cattle panel trellis up for the squash. I'm planting a few tomatoes under the squash arbor for filtered sunlight to avoid sun scald on them. Worth a try. The onions I have order will be large enough and flat enough to make onion rings with. Now to find a way to fix them frozen so they can be brought back to life in a skillet of hot oil.

 

[Dough Hill]

We got our seeds in at the feedstore Displayed last week and the wheels are turning on what to start inside. Hope this week I’ll get started

 

[fuzzi]

I ordered a selection of yellow summer squash seed today including a vine type to grow on a trellis. Order a green ball shaped summer squash also. Ordered one package to try of a dual purpose cucumber. Early stage to pickle or later to slice. Normally pickling types get bitter when they get large enough to slice at least in the past they have for me. Guess now I need to get cattle panel trellis up for the squash. I'm planting a few tomatoes under the squash arbor for filtered sunlight to avoid sun scald on them. Worth a try. The onions I have order will be large enough and flat enough to make onion rings with. Now to find a way to fix them frozen so they can be brought back to life in a skillet of hot oil.

I grew my Summer squash on stakes last year, with cloth wound around at the base to discourage borers. It worked pretty well, and I was thinking of trying a short cattle panel trellis this year.