Your 2026 Garden

[dirkandlorie]

Collards, kale, lettuce, mustard, amaranth, and nasturtiums are in the ground. Seeded some extra kale and lettuce in some pots while I was at it. Hardening off tomatoes and peppers now to plant around the end of april. Irises are in full bloom, odd how they always come up by colors. I get a full week of nothing but purple, then a week of the blue/lavender. Now the yellow are popping out and next week the whites will come. I have pink ones also, but I hide them behind the rose bushes, don't look pink to me....more like a washed out apricot. Ugh, but can't bring myself to yank and toss, had such high hopes for them when I bought them.

 

[fldiver97]

Planted a few cucumbers and zucchini. Radishes are coming, still waiting for bok choy and spinach…..

 

[HappyHippyChick]

i am ordering seeds from Sandhill Preservation Center which is in Iowa. He has a lot of heritage seeds and also chickens. He seems to be very good. www.sandhillpreservation.com

 

[LaurenRitz]

Tomatoes are almost done. Onions are in. Peppers go in this week.

Seedling peaches all bloomed this year, and every one got hit by that (18 degree F) March frost. So no peaches this year. Seedling apricots didn't emerge until the end of March, so if they had bloomed they would have missed it. Plums also would have missed it.

 

[HappyHippyChick]

I'm late!!!!

 

[Sally PB]

If we have some dry hours on Sunday, I'm going to plant onion sets and peas in raised beds.

 

[tripletfeb]

My rhubarb is coming up and looking good. Well, it was. I've been letting the chickens into the garden lately, so they can get into it and have fun before I plant anything. The little buttheads have been eating my rhubarb leaves! They have just been nibbling and I don't think they will kill it but I thought the leaves were poisonous. Now, I'll have to keep them out of the garden, unless I cage off the rhubarb

 

[LaurenRitz]

My rhubarb is coming up and looking good. Well, it was. I've been letting the chickens into the garden lately, so they can get into it and have fun before I plant anything. The little buttheads have been eating my rhubarb leaves! They have just been nibbling and I don't think they will kill it but I thought the leaves were poisonous. Now, I'll have to keep them out of the garden, unless I cage off the rhubarb

They'll taste everything, and if they don't like it they'll leave it alone afterward. Doesn't help in the shout term, but it does increase the chances of (their) survival.

 

[StarOnFire59]

I'm late!!!!

I'm still waiting to outdoor plant. According to 30-day forecast we have one more frost date, April 16; temp down to 29 degrees F.

 

[Sally PB]

I'm still waiting to outdoor plant. According to 30-day forecast we have one more frost date, April 16; temp down to 29 degrees F.

You all are making me jealous. Pictures of trees and shrubs in bloom. Planting tender stuff outside. April 16 as a last frost date.

Here, I harden tender stuff off the last week of May. No trees or shrubs are blooming yet. They will probably bloom in the next week in the warm spell, and then be killed in the sure-to-follow frost. Our last frost date is usually around mid-late May.

We do, however have daffodils in bloom by the hundreds.