Your 2024 Garden

[Nomadicus]

The tag says zone 4-8, so that isn't my concern, I'm just trying to figure out how to get it so the berries stop going bad before they're ripe.

The roots are not getting to much water are they? I don't know what else could cause it. Commercial fields of berries are grown on flat topped ridges and mostly covered with a black plastic mulch. On the ridge they don't get wet. You may have a disease problem I just don't know about.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

The roots are not getting to much water are they? I don't know what else could cause it. Commercial fields of berries are grown on flat topped ridges and mostly covered with a black plastic mulch. On the ridge they don't get wet. You may have a disease problem I just don't know about.

I don't know. The pot they're in drains pretty well, but it has been raining almost every day in large amounts. Shouldn't be diseased, there isn't any disease in the greenhouse I work at and they came straight home from there. I'll try to get them planted soon though and see if that works with the water since it's still flowering and making berries right now

 

[Nomadicus]

When you transplant the depth is important too. You may know this already but the crown of the plant is picky about not being to deep or shallow. I want a patch but know we just can't get down to plant them the way they need to be so a raised bed is our only option. Maybe one day.

 

[Nomadicus]

We got just enough rain to keep us out of the garden until all foliage is dried off this morning. The little bit of measurable rain we got came after dark last night hours after it was supposed to. It will be a steamy 92° after lunch so there will not be a lot done before 5pm today.

 

[Nomadicus]

Chickens took priority over garden plots today. 3 weeks until 25 new chicks arrive and I want to be ready. So we stayed out of the 92° heat and not only cleaned the brooder but also the sun room we keep it in. I did finally start moving paper feed sacks packed with brooder litter out to start a compost pile. About 17 of them. Now to coat them with some urea as soon as it rains on them and then a layer of dirt from the edge of one of the garden plots and maybe this time next year I'll have something to beef up the soil i a sandy plot that has little organic matter in it. I've got to layer houses + 5 more coops that need to have the deep litter removed and added to the pile too.

 

[NanaK]

I worked in the garden yesterday. It was a very hot day! I picked more blueberries and a Black Krim tomato.
Added some stuff to the compost bin. LOTS of volunteers in the bin.
My compost is ALIVE!

Should be seeing blooms on the greenbeans soon.

The plants in front of the green beans are purple hull peas. The variety is Top Pick Pink Eye Purple Hull. It's a bush variety that makes most of the peas high on the plant for easy picking. I give them support so wind an rain does not beat them down. Less bending when picking.

 

[tripletfeb]

Getting lots of rain today. No outside work for me. Now I get to clean the house. Oh joy

 

[Nomadicus]

I need to get a couple of rows of pinkeye purple hulls in the ground. I hope they are a top pick type too. I'll have enough bending picking the Fordhook Lima beans. I may crawl on my knees to pick them. You just can't buy them at any price any more picked at the right stage to be eaten as a fresh green shelled bean.

 

[Sally PB]

@JacinLarkwell, MSU has a LOT of info online about growing just about anything here in Michigan.

 

[fuzzi]

Today!