Your 2025 Garden

[R2elk]

No need to be in a hurry to plant my garden.

 

[Nomadicus]

No need to be in a hurry to plant my garden.
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Looks like you are having weather to plant Snow Peas.

 

[R2elk]

Looks like you are having weather to plant Snow Peas.

More like weather to sit in front of the fire.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

I've had tomato limbs get heavy and lay on the ground and take root with out any help at all. I suspect a stem could be rooted in tap water. I've never tried it but if I remember I will later once I have some pruned off stems to work with.

If you prune out "suckers" from the elbow of tomato plants you can put them in water and in a couple days they will have roots and you will free new plants!

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Nice!

My Spring planting so far:

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2/9/25 planted peas, turnips, carrots

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2/15/25 forecast for 18°, covered with plastic

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2/26/25 sprouting under the plastic!

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3/1/25

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3/10/25 plastic removed

I've been feeding my collards to the flock, too. They get ecstatic!
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Yesterday (Tuesday) I weeded after I got home from work, two beds done.
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More await my attention.
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I love how you wrapped the panel in plastic! That's why I love this gardening thread. I get some great ideas!

 

[HenriettaPizzaNolan]

Despite the weather getting quite chilly and dreary again here in Cleveland, garlic and onions growing tall in my garden bed give me such hope for spring and a great gardening year ahead.

 

[HenriettaPizzaNolan]

Does anyone have experience with using cardboard as a weed barrier in the garden? I was thinking of using it in the walkways and between large plants, and covering it with a little mulch. I let my garden get a bit overridden with weeds last year when I was out of town for two weeks, and never truly caught up. Can't let that happen again!

So if you've used it, how was it?

 

[R2elk]

Does anyone have experience with using cardboard as a weed barrier in the garden? I was thinking of using it in the walkways and between large plants, and covering it with a little mulch. I let my garden get a bit overridden with weeds last year when I was out of town for two weeks, and never truly caught up. Can't let that happen again!

So if you've used it, how was it?

Never tried it but a lot of people on the sister sites use it.

I can't see it working well here as wet cardboard deteriorates quickly. I keep my garden wet.

 

[tripletfeb]

Despite the weather getting quite chilly and dreary again here in Cleveland, garlic and onions growing tall in my garden bed give me such hope for spring and a great gardening year ahead.

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Looking good! My garlic is about that tall, too

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Does anyone have experience with using cardboard as a weed barrier in the garden? I was thinking of using it in the walkways and between large plants, and covering it with a little mulch. I let my garden get a bit overridden with weeds last year when I was out of town for two weeks, and never truly caught up. Can't let that happen again!

So if you've used it, how was it?

I used some in my front yard after the guys repairing a hole in the lawn got a bunch of grass seed in the mulch. It mostly worked fine, the issues I ran into were:

• There wasn’t a lot of mulch in that area so it tended to get uncovered (my HOA does the landscaping so I’m not sure what kind of mulch they used in order to get more).
• The pieces of cardboard I used were a bit small, so if they got uncovered enough they’d get blown around.
• In relation to the above, I had to sort of shingle the pieces to keep grass from poking through.

If you don’t have the problem with running out of stuff to cover the cardboard with, it’s faster and cheaper than hiring someone or even spraying something - the grass, being buried, disappears immediately, and I didn’t have to care about digging out the roots.