How's your garden doing?

I might plant the peas this weekend (if I can find a dry spot). Gonna start all temp sensitive too. Everythign goes out Memorial weekend
 
yep yep, I'm going to try to get peas in tomorrow, if it don't rain.
Dirt's still a little damp, but maybe workable by mid day.
 
well, the 2 spots where I am going to plant the peas and some beans is still
too wet to lay rows, or plant.
There's not a lot of sand there.
My other 2 spot are good to go for planting though.
I already got that little patch of corn planted, and I'm going to put some
okra, cucumber, and cantaloupe in there with them today, and leave a little
room for some of my tomato plants.
I haven't picked up my tomato plants yet, but the local hardware has them in.

I also got in some heirloom Rutger tomato seeds I'm going to plant in a different
spot to start expanding my seed stock on them, but not today on them.

I have some walla walla onion heirloom seeds too, but I'm not sure if it's too late for seed planting on them???
 
I have lots of weeds, erm... wild flowers.

I'm never going to be a gardener. Senior school put me off all those years ago when they forced us to weed or dig the school gardens for 2 hours every week and called it botany... :eek:
 
I got 4 more rows of corn planted today. (6 total rows planted so far at 150'/row)
I still have 8 to go, but ran out of seed (like I coulda done more today)
I guess I'll pickup another pound tomorrow.
 
Well, the wind is blowing 20-30 mph, but I got some deterrents, and insecticide out.

I spread a 3lb bag of 'Bondi Dog, and rabbit' deterrent, and sprayed
a peach tree, and some area with 'LiquidFence Deer and rabbit' repellent.
Then sprayed some Malathion on the garden where I've already planted to
kill beetle eggs, and maybe help with deterring the crows.

and last but not least I sprayed about 1/2 Gal of 'Roundup' on the poison oak, and poison ivy I saw.
I got most of it killed last year. Just a few spots left to clean up.

......................

I've still got 2 plum trees and 2 peach trees to treat with the LiquidFence,
and one 1/3 acre field with the peas planted in it.
 
I got 9 of 18 tomatoes planted, and got 4 heirloom Wachichu Flint corn seeds
stuck in the ground to see if they do anything.
 
We got 3 more 'maders planted, 3 cabbages I started about a month ago in starters,
9-Jalapeños, 6 lettuce (started earlier), 4 sets of heirloom watermelon seeds,
and another half row of silver queen corn.
:beerbang:
 
The storm broke one of my mader plants :(
I have it propped up, and it looks like it may graft back partially.
It's in ICU condition atm though.
 
Grafting? Stick the stalk into the soil. Tomatoes root from the entire stem.

Most of mine have popped thru the seed medium. 6-8 weeks & I can plant.
 
meh, it'll produce better if it will 'mend'.
Maders are kinda strange. If you break one over, and there's still a flap
of skin holding it, and you just prop it back up with the break stuck back together,
it'll just scare over and keep going many times.
Last time I tried just sticking it in the dirt anew from the break, it lived, but
grew slow and never got to the producing point before the season ended.

I do have some rooting hormone, but I've still got 6 more plants to set out,
but of a different variety.
The one that broke was one of 12 'better boys', and these other six I'm
putting in a different spot are 'rutgers'.

Either way there will be plenty I think.:wink2:
 
man, you gotta be quick to beat the crows.
I just had some corn pop up yesterday, after this last rain, and I went
just now to move my netting, and they already got 6 of um.

I hope they go blind.:cuss:
 
just my corn.
They are trying to get the kernels, but when the ground is dry and hard,
they end up just chopping them off at ground level.

I'm still going to have a good crop though.
 
need rain.

the cabbage and lettuce are doing really good though.
I didn't figure any of the lettuce would do good, so it's like an early Christmas present...
if a rabbit doesn't sneak in and wipe um out.

If it wasn't for malathion (which they are stopping marketing on now),
the black ground beetles would be wiping out my corn again, but I've killed
probably in the thousands now. Only lost about 10 plants from damage, before the bug died.

I hope the new stuff they are going to, works as well.
 
strawberries, potatoes, garlic...in the ground (well, raised beds)...cellar dwellers are waking up. The ground is still too muddy to till.
 
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