Your 2025 Garden

[Nomadicus]

The next time I'm where there is a Mexican grocery store I'm going to see if they have some very, very, large Lima beans. I bought some I found in a FL Mexican grocery store a decade or so back and planted them thinking they would be a bush variety. They were a runner or pole type. They ran all over the garden. Made a real mess and I ruined them trying to get them on a trellis. The vine were brittle enough they broke up getting them untangled. Those beans were double the size of a Fordhook 242 bush Lima bean.

 

[NanaK]

@Nomadicus
I wonder what variety that Mexican lima was?
Sounds like a huge one.

Have you ever tried the speckled lima types?

I grew one called "Christmas Lima" several years ago. It is a pole type and put off lots of large reddish spotted beans. It's flavor was very good fresh or dried but a bit different than the green types.

 

[fuzzi]

I wrapped my raised bed in plastic, as an Arctic Blast is forecast for later in the week.

I planted peas, carrots, and turnips. I don't want them to die from the severe cold if they sprout.

 

[Nomadicus]

@Nomadicus
I wonder what variety that Mexican lima was?
Sounds like a huge one.

Have you ever tried the speckled lima types?

I grew one called "Christmas Lima" several years ago. It is a pole type and put off lots of large reddish spotted beans. It's flavor was very good fresh or dried but a bit different than the green types.

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We grew these in NW Missouri back in the '70's. Very productive but much prefer the flavor of green Lima beans fresh shelled or from frozen fresh shelled. We very rarely have them from dry stage. My dad ate the white when dried Lima beans like a cow eats spring grass. I can eat them once in a while if they are painted red with ketchup or BBQ sauce with diced onion on them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Just trying to get time for me to plant anything.
DH cannot be left alone he is crying helpless.

 

[Nomadicus]

I was able to hang an extension grow light today so I was able to take a tray of germinated plants off of the heat matte and move the tray of newly planted seed on it. They were not germinating at all. With a little heat 3 days and it was out of the ground they came.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I think I need to get another grow light or two. I’ve got the existing ones at all kinds of weird angles to cover all my trays and I haven’t even done the peppers yet.

 

[Nomadicus]

I need to get another table for the remaining grow light. I was thinking of keeping it as a spare but with all the plants I can thin out of the trays now and transplant into more trays I can use it now. Maybe next year I'll just buy another 46" light like these two for an emergency spare to keep my Uncle Murphy out of my garden plans.

 

[Sally PB]

I bought the last heat mat that the garden store had on the shelf. $45.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I bought the last heat mat that the garden store had on the shelf. $45.

Yeah the Ferry Morse grow lights were $45 too, it’s why I’m hesitating over them. I’m like, do I really need another one? (It’s looking that way.) Will the sunlight coming through the window be enough when March rolls around? (Probably not.) Will I use it for more than one year? (Probably.)

I might give re-arranging things another shot this weekend when I have more time first though.