Author Topic: Anyone get their gardens started yet? (Read 1286 times)

agunforeachhand · « **on:** April 25, 2009, 09:17:18 AM »

I got all my red potatoes and onions in the ground on tuesday. I couldn't find walla wallas but put Candy onions in and also red onions. I still have cucumbers, tomatoes and pumpkins left.

What is everyone else planting?

Maybe if there are enough we could all trade our extra veggies for different veggies.

Nomad · « **Reply #1 on:** April 25, 2009, 12:06:23 PM »

Garden is ready to plant soil worked, putting in spuds this weekend with carrots next.
house is full of starts wanting there turn.........
Larger garden then last year, took out 700 lbs of spuds all reds last year.........
Enjoy gardening and the quite time.............

NGO · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2009, 02:55:21 PM »

Tomatoes ( upside down) two out of three died last night it looks like....

Potatoes are in using the box idea

carrots and onions also.

wait until after mothers day for everything else.

we have a bunch of herbs inside in starter boxes.

hawkiye · « **Reply #3 on:** April 26, 2009, 01:34:47 AM »

Several shelves of starts ready to go in. Beds are ready just finishing up some trellises for beans, melons squash, and cucumbers, Also doing onions, carrots, spinach and potatoes, along with a bunch of herbs.

Michael N · « **Reply #4 on:** April 26, 2009, 05:39:51 PM »

Unfortunately the fact that I am not at home means we will probably get a late start on our garden if we have one at all . The Mrs. wants tomatoes for sure which shouldn't be hard as we could grow them in pots just as easy as in a garden .

Norton1 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 26, 2009, 06:05:57 PM »

Tomatos and cukes are all we're doing. And I have not even started - - -

Miss_me · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2009, 07:44:42 PM »

hey Mike if you guys need help... let me know...

Mom hasn't quite started hers... we have some started in the green house but mom won't plant until Mothers day... its an old wives tale thing...

agunforeachhand · « **Reply #7 on:** April 26, 2009, 07:45:41 PM »

Quote from: Steve N on April 26, 2009, 06:05:57 PM

Tomatos and cukes are all we're doing. And I have not even started - - -

What kind of cucumbers do you do steve? My wife and kids like the lemon cucumbers I don't care for them myself.

Miss_me · « **Reply #8 on:** April 26, 2009, 07:47:25 PM »

ohhh and last year we had... beets, onions, carrots, peas, Tomatoes, peppers, Corn, and strawberries oh and pumpkins and Cucumbers...

NGO · « **Reply #9 on:** April 26, 2009, 09:02:42 PM »

The green house on Victory and Five Mile has some really excellent product.

Plenty of heirloom vegtables and really good looking starts.

And much cheaper than Wally world, Zamzows, D&B, Home Depot etc.

I would highly recommend you check them out.

egress81 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 26, 2009, 09:46:06 PM »

i just built another garden box to put tomatos in. just need to get off my butt.

the other garden box will get jalapenos, onions, green and red peppers, and cilantro.

Mmmm.. fresh salsa

Miss_me · « **Reply #11 on:** April 26, 2009, 09:52:40 PM »

Quote from: NGO on April 26, 2009, 09:02:42 PM

The green house on Victory and Five Mile has some really excellent product.

Plenty of heirloom vegtables and really good looking starts.

And much cheaper than Wally world, Zamzows, D&B, Home Depot etc.

I would highly recommend you check them out.

And they are locally owned... and privately owned...

NGO · « **Reply #12 on:** April 26, 2009, 10:30:21 PM »

The ladies I talked to provided excellent service and had very good infomation. Even info on canning the tomatoes. They seem to knmow what they were talking about....not like the big box stores....

agunforeachhand · « **Reply #13 on:** April 27, 2009, 09:46:57 PM »

Got my carrots in today. woo woo

DarkHelmet · « **Reply #14 on:** April 30, 2009, 03:53:37 PM »

We're going whole hog this year with a complete redesign of the backyard. There will be a fire pit and raised beds and pouring a larger patio and all the usual backyardy type stuff but we are taking about 1/3 of our yard and making it a garden area. Probably 3-4 4'x16' raised beds with a TON of different veggies, berries, salad greens of all kinds. The wife and I are quite excited about it.

- DH

Miss_me · « **Reply #15 on:** April 30, 2009, 05:29:46 PM »

i'm going to try to convince my mom to do lettuce because how much salads i am eating but i don't know... lol..

e11charlie · « **Reply #16 on:** April 30, 2009, 08:46:14 PM »

We tried lettuce last year and when it was ready to pick it was full of earwigs. We had to throw the whole crop away.

agunforeachhand · « **Reply #17 on:** May 04, 2009, 09:34:17 PM »

Quote from: 240-Rifles on April 30, 2009, 08:46:14 PM

We tried lettuce last year and when it was ready to pick it was full of earwigs. We had to throw the whole crop away.

Lettuce sucks to grow. I haven't had any luck with it yet. But cilantro is da bomb

Miss_me · « **Reply #18 on:** May 04, 2009, 09:49:09 PM »

ohhhh yeahh...
we love making homemade Salsa...

Nomad · « **Reply #19 on:** May 05, 2009, 05:48:51 AM »

Plants are still grow in the house waiting to be planted...
Ready to plant spuds, carrots, beats. and and corn.....

WTF · « **Reply #20 on:** May 18, 2009, 05:32:52 PM »

Some good info for the newbies looking to garden, found this while checking to see what fruit trees can thrive in the idaho area.

http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/idahogardens/gb/index.htm

GrayWolf · « **Reply #21 on:** May 18, 2009, 11:38:41 PM »

Quote from: WTF on May 18, 2009, 05:32:52 PM

Some good info for the newbies looking to garden, found this while checking to see what fruit trees can thrive in the Idaho area.

http://www.extension.uidaho.edu/idahogardens/gb/index.htm

Good link.

Also, here's a link to GardenWeb -- a forum that I use all the time to ask questions about my 2 favorite veggies -- tomatoes & peppers: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/

agunforeachhand · « **Reply #22 on:** May 31, 2009, 10:46:59 AM »

Man have my red potatoes and candy onion taken off.

WTF · « **Reply #23 on:** May 31, 2009, 11:08:19 AM »

the other day, I got a good look at my neighbors organic garden. one of the things I noticed was he already had full heads of Lettuce all over the back yard. he explained to me 3 years ago, he let one head of lettuce reach seed maturity, which requires 2 years.

that second year the lettuce dispersed and dumped so many seeds that he no longer needed to plant seed to grow them. he said they start growing in early march. and many of his other veggies started growing in early march as well, with no frost damage. and it appears he will be able to start harvesting his other veggies in about 4 weeks. just fyi.

agunforeachhand · « **Reply #24 on:** May 31, 2009, 12:02:58 PM »

Quote from: WTF on May 31, 2009, 11:08:19 AM

the other day, I got a good look at my neighbors organic garden. one of the things I noticed was he already had full heads of Lettuce all over the back yard. he explained to me 3 years ago, he let one head of lettuce reach seed maturity, which requires 2 years.

that second year the lettuce dispersed and dumped so many seeds that he no longer needed to plant seed to grow them. he said they start growing in early march. and many of his other veggies started growing in early march as well, with no frost damage. and it appears he will be able to start harvesting his other veggies in about 4 weeks. just fyi.

WTF cilantro does the same shit. I was out weeding and noticed it wasn't weeds I was pulling but cilantro. I let one seed last year and it is every where this year.

Author Topic: Anyone get their gardens started yet? (Read 1286 times)

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