2024 garden season

[CloverKnollFarms]

Buying my pumpkin and corn seed today. The corn should last two seasons. I'll get that in the ground asap... I need to pick up my seeder at RK though. Pumpkins will be in the ground in June.

My goal this year is for the 4500sq ft plot to pay for it's own prep and protection. Next year, a little more. It took the honey bees a couple years to start turning a profit too... But now they produce an abundance.

 

[masseyrider]

If I get to it I'll be working up the garden plot today.
Our planting season is aboot 3 weeks away but it's good to turn over the weeds and warm up the ground.
Going to put in the taters this weekend. They're well budded so hopefully they start to emerge after any frost scares.
My little patch of strawberries was just starting to have some blooms last week when we got hit by 2 nights of significant frost. Those blossoms are black inside... so no early berries for me.
Some beans and peas this weekend also.

 

[DJ54]

Two trays of Beet transplant's up in about 3.5 days. Temp was set at 70º in the chamber, grow light on 12 hrs. a day. So far, so good...

 

[DJ54]

Cabbage plants looking pretty good. Hope they don't get too big and outgrow the trays. Picture on the right is of plants grown from seed I saved from a plant that survived the previous winter. Dug it up before plowing and put in a bucket of water for a few days until I got the garden worked down, then re-set it. Bolted early and produced hundreds of seed pods. I got a lot of them but missed many as they dried and popped open before I happened to think to pick them off.

It will be interesting to see how big of a head they make. If they do well, will do another.

 

[DJ54]

Marked out a couple rows with the David Bradley yesterday evening while the kids enjoyed some lush green grass, then did a test run with the Brinly planter behind the 953 Wheel Horse. Found a plate that will drop one kernel at a time or miniature ornamental corn, and should work for popcorn or at least in the shop. Put it in the dirt for the final test. Also found a 6 cell plate for sweet corn and large kernel ornamental corn. I guess we're not supposed to call it Indian Corn anymore, for fear of offending someone...

Called for 60% chance of rain all day but it went to the NW, so decided maybe this would help make it rain. Apparently, nothing to speak of yet as it's still dry this morning. Rain off to the SE this morning now.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Well, I’d plant this coming week, but it looks like a washout for us. So I’ll have to wait a bit. I need to will the 4500sq/ft plot once more, then we are planting 1500 stalks of sweet corn and 16 mounds of pumpkins.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Well, I went to start planting my early sweet corn, and the packages were all infested with

ANGOUMOIS grain moths and the seeds were all bored through. ​

So, I guess I’ll just plant the late maturing today and hope the replacement seed isn’t garbage too.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My front garden is ready to plant,

but I never plant this early, no need to rush into it.

SR

 

[DJ54]

Well, I went to start planting my early sweet corn, and the packages were all infested with

ANGOUMOIS grain moths and the seeds were all bored through. ​

So, I guess I’ll just plant the late maturing today and hope the replacement seed isn’t garbage too.

Was the seed treated..??

 

[masseyrider]

I plant a good acre + of sunflowers just because.
Got them seeded this weekend. Yellow finches love them. There must be at least a 100 of them when the seeds are ready. It's amazing how such a small bird can strip the seeds from so many blossoms. They just hang over the edge and do their work.
Taters are in also.
Still at least a week + for tomatoes etc.