How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[injinji]

Still waiting to get outside here. Snow 2 days ago and going to lows in the 30's again.

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I'm way behind on my peppers this year. Last year I started some around Christmas and they took off when I put them out. I've got several outside already, but they are not taking off. We are still having lows in the low 40's. Our TV weather guy says each cold front from here on out will stall out a little more north as we get deeper into spring. Hope he is right.

 

[MICHI-CAN]

I'm way behind on my peppers this year. Last year I started some around Christmas and they took off when I put them out. I've got several outside already, but they are not taking off. We are still having lows in the low 40's. Our TV weather guy says each cold front from here on out will stall out a little more north as we get deeper into spring. Hope he is right.

I'm okay on my start. A bit before I get outside. And I now over winter anything I like. Restricted to pots. But huge yields if you harvest as offered.

How is @xtsho doing? I hear an inch of snow overnight there. It is headed here. GRRRRRRR!

 

[xtsho]

I'm okay on my start. A bit before I get outside. And I now over winter anything I like. Restricted to pots. But huge yields if you harvest as offered.

How is @xtsho doing? I hear an inch of snow overnight there. It is headed here. GRRRRRRR!

 

[MICHI-CAN]

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Sorry man. I cringed for you when I heard the forecast last week.

 

[xtsho]

Sorry man. I cringed for you when I heard the forecast last week.

Well it's coming your way. So you better start cringing for yourself.

I'm not worried about any plants in the garden. The beets, carrots, turnips, peas, etc... will all be fine once the snow melts. All my warm weather starts are inside under lights. The added snowpack in the mountains is needed. I can replant everything. The needed precipitation in the region is more important than a few plants of mine.

 

[MICHI-CAN]

Well it's coming your way. So you better start cringing for yourself.

I'm not worried about any plants in the garden. The beets, carrots, turnips, peas, etc... will all be fine once the snow melts. All my warm weather starts are inside under lights. The added snowpack in the mountains is needed. I can replant everything. The needed precipitation in the region is more important than a few plants of mine.

Nothing but chives, lillies, peonies and Iris outside here.

My hummingbird feeder has frozen solid a half dozen times over the last week and a half. I'm still inside. Great sun angle through my Eastern slider and Western picture window until end of the month. Spring is about 18 days late the last 4 years here. Go figure.

 

[xtsho]

Nothing but chives, lillies, peonies and Iris outside here.

My hummingbird feeder has frozen solid a half dozen times over the last week and a half. I'm still inside. Great sun angle through my Eastern slider and Western picture window until end of the month. Spring is about 18 days late the last 4 years here. Go figure.

Thanks for reminding me about the humming bird feeders. Just went out and cleaned the snow off of a couple.

This sure is a change from last weeks 78°F day.

 

[MICHI-CAN]

Thanks for reminding me about the humming bird feeders. Just went out and cleaned the snow off of a couple.

This sure is a change from last weeks 78°F day.

I hear you. We hit 66-72 for 4 days. Then snow. Still wonder how robins ate. They are still here. Yellow bellied sap suckers showed up a couple days before the return to winter. Hummers follow them. They feed from the tree sap the wood peckers tap or expose until flowers open. I hung my feeders just in case.

 

[bam0813]

nothing fancy on the peppers here ,bell,hot cherry, and jalapeños

 

[injinji]

I brought some of the bigger tomato and pepper plants from the riverhouse. Going to plant a few here, give a few to Sam our new small engine guy, and take a few to my work people.

 

[GreenestBasterd]

The Peruvian pink peppercorn tree has fruited for the first time. They apparently fruit after 4 years, I’d say this tree is roughly 5/6 years old going by the size it was when I planted it.

Not related to the actual peppercorn but it’s the pale pink/reddish one that is sold in the mixed peppercorns you buy.

 

[StonedGardener]

An indoor hibiscus popped !

 

[injinji]

I got the three small plots at the riverhouse planted with flint corn yesterday. I have a row and a half planted the last moon cycle that's about six inches tall.

At the new sandhill garden I planted three rows of squash and transplanted four homestead tomatoes from cups. Straight neck yellow, unknown and zukes. In sprout news, the crossed up flint is coming up real good (they are too thick). As are the green beans. The melons, squash and okra all have a sprout here and there. Our rain didn't amount to much, so I soaked the rows where I could reach with the hose.

 

[injinji]

. . . . . . . . . . .In sprout news, the crossed up flint is coming up real good (they are too thick). As are the green beans. . . . . . . .

I had to go back out to finish the watering. so. . . .

 

[injinji]

Last night after supper we got two inches of rain in less than an hour. I'm glad I don't have a couple three hundred acres to worry about.



There was some worse, but they were completely covered, so not great for pictures. I used the push plow, hoes and potato rake to free up the little corn plants.

 

[injinji]

The green beans were not as bad. And they are still coming up, so they should be fine after plowing.


Two of the three rows of okra are OK. The other one is really sanded. I'll wait two week and plant the skips if they don't come up.

 

[injinji]

I ignored the lightning way past the safe zone, but rain chased me before I had worked the whole garden. Hope tonight's thunderstorms are milder than last night's. I don't want to turn around and do it all over again.

 

[injinji]

I transplanted three tomatoes and 6 peppers this morning. Two San Marzano, one cherry, four cayenne, one hab and one hatch.



Fruit on mini sweet. (I saw some on plants I gave away yesterday too)

 

[xtsho]

Nothing amazing but things are growing slowly. We've had below average temps for awhile so that's been a factor. A few more days and the temps are going to rise. Precipitation for the next few days but it's supposed to be nice this weekend. It's still April so I'm probably just being impatient.

My indoor tomato starts are getting pretty tall. I probably should have waited a month before I started them but I do the same thing every year and start early because I can't stop myself.

Getting a head start on the Thai basil by sprouting some store bought. As long as you keep the flowers pinched off it keeps growing.

The Yukon Gold potatoes are coming up. They'll be a nice treat. Potatoes are cheap and take up a bunch of space for a long time so I don't devote much to them. I have some reds I'm going to grow in bags as well. There are also some volunteers coming up from last year so I'll leave them be and see what I get.

Decided to do a little landscaping around the greenhouse since I'm not going to move it until the end of this summer. I'm putting in an outdoor kitchen where it's currently at. I have to relocate a current shed in order to move it to the location it's going to and I have too many summer projects to do it now. I'll be replacing the cover with new plastic as well.

 

[myke]

Living through your gardens here. Had 12" of wet snow fall a couple days ago.Forecast is for 3-4 more days of cold ,around 32F. Friggen winter.