How does your garden grow?

[RalphVa]

I've built some frames over my raised beds to put Remay onto. Unfortunately, not soon enough to save my peas, cauliflower and mustard. Maybe the carrots will keep going. Couldn't fine any Remay at Lowes or Home Depot. May order it from Gardeners Supply online.

Ralph

 

[Larro Darro]

I'm aiming for a few plants to keep under the lights for about a month, then another month in the greenhouse. They won't be going into the ground until the middle of March. We are having big, white frosts every morning here.

 

[Larro Darro]

Didn't get any seeds planted today, but I did get my 6 Jalapeno sprouts transplanted into cups. I have 5 Mini Sweet Pepper sprouts that are about a week behind.

I bought a pack of J E Parker New Mexico Chili Pepper seeds today. I grew them two years ago and they are my favorite chili pepper. Mild enough you can eat lots of them. Also picked up a pack of yellow pear tomato seeds. Never grew them before. There were lots to choose from, but after the cheap seeds at Dolar Tree, it is hard to pay full price for seeds.

 

[dragoneggs]

We will definitely have to do bells and Jalapeno's again this year in the greenhouse. We had a bumper crop last year, leaving them in the greenhouse and not transplanting outside.

 

[lakngulf]

Hoping for an early spring

Here we are with five inches of cold rain last night, temperatures dropping and ice and flurries tonight. Some areas north of here will have a little snow. Hope my grandkids can enjoy some sledding.

Meanwhile my little indoor seed starting station is producing. These tomatoes are hoping for an early spring, or some timely up-potting until time to go outdoors. Also, you can see some rattlesnake bean sprouts that I tested for germination. Looks like these seed are good and ready to go.



On another note, this guy welcomed me home recently:

 

[Larro Darro]

Looking good, including the buck. But when he comes back around in the summer and eats your veggies, he won't be so pretty

I kind of have a late spring feeling in my bones. Hope I'm wrong. All I have up is five Mini Sweet Peppers and six Jalapenos. Yesterday and today were good planting days, but I didn't get any seeds in dirt. There will be more good days just around the bend. I don't have much room under the lights or in the greenhouse, so I'm holding off a while longer.

 

[Larro Darro]

I don't get out to the greenhouse often enough. These peppers were a few days past their prime. My Pruden's Purple tomatoes are about played out. I never got the young ones in bigger pots and the older ones died after the tomatoes on them when I moved them to the greenhouse got ripe. I have one Better Boy planted in the ground that is still making a few tomatoes along.

 

[dragoneggs]

Looking good, Larro... not really past prime just not as pretty. Great for cooking!

 

[Larro Darro]

Yesterday Bad Word and I picked a mess of collards. They were good.

 

[Larro Darro]

Google maps just updated their pictures. You can see I had started digging the trench for the peppers and tomatoes in the northeast corner, but they were still in their swimming pools. I have a picture of them in the trench on November 8th, so it was taking a couple of days before that.

 

[Larro Darro]

Not exactly garden related, but I planted a few White Oak acorns yesterday. These came from work. You have to stand under the tree with a stick to beat the deer off them when they drop.

 

[Larro Darro]

Today was a good planting day too, so I got 9 seeds each of California Wonder Bell, Grand Bell Mix, J E Parker New Mexico Chili peppers and Yellow Pear tomatoes, 8 seeds each of Cayenne, Serrano Chili and Habanero peppers, and 15 seeds of an early variety of Jalapeno peppers. I'm aiming for 4-5 keepers of each {will do more Jalapeno, as that is what we use the most of}. I've been watching You Tube gardeners top their pepper plants and improve production, so I'm going to give that a try. My 5 Jalapenos are just about tall enough to top. I'm waiting until they have 6 sets of leaves, and they have 5 now. Now I just need for Spring to hurry up and get here.

 

[DFB]

I'm bumming here now

Tomorrow or Sunday I will cook down the very last of my apple harvest for applesauce.


And NOW we have the cold weather (at least for a few days)


I have just about eaten ALL my garden harvest of HOT pickled PEPPERS that I had put up back in Fall.

Yup Italian Hot Cherry long gone now, Hungarian Hot Wax the last ones tonight with pizza and just a few Jalepenos left for some burritos later this week and maybe with a salsa, sour cream, potatoes, eggs, cheese and sausage big breakfast one more time. Aiyyi!

 

[Larro Darro]

I'm bumming here now

Tomorrow or Sunday I will cook down the very last of my apple harvest for applesauce.


And NOW we have the cold weather (at least for a few days)


I have just about eaten ALL my garden harvest of HOT pickled PEPPERS that I had put up back in Fall.

Yup Italian Hot Cherry long gone now, Hungarian Hot Wax the last ones tonight with pizza and just a few Jalepenos left for some burritos later this week and maybe with a salsa, sour cream, potatoes, eggs, cheese and sausage big breakfast one more time. Aiyyi!

I planted a few apple trees. It just doesn't get cold enough for them to do well here.

We put up a lot of peas. And a little bit of corn. Margie made some pepper sauce, didn't pickle any this year, but we may still have a jar or two from the year before. And the fresh peppers are slowing down. The plants planted in the ground {inside the greenhouse} all had fruit on them when I transplanted them, but have been slow to flower and make new fruit after that was picked.

 

[Larro Darro]

Today is another good planting day. Margie wants me to get some Cilantro seeds planted. I will do that, and look through my seed collection and see what else would be timely to plant today.

 

[DFB]

15 below zero here this morning!

Made a lazy mans cabbage roll dish with a cabbage I been holding since probably late Oct. We had loads for sale down at the orchard store this year. And then more sauce again yesterday from the garden tomatoes I put up for a BIG lasagna today.

Have the very last of my 2015 apple harvest to cook down for applesauce still, so maybe today or tomorrow. I took them in off the porch 2 days ago before they froze up solid!





I will have to order some more Costata and Cousa zucchini seeds soon.

Maybe some pole bean seeds too....I like picking pole beans much better than bush. :confused2:

 

[Larro Darro]

15 below zero here this morning!

Made a lazy mans cabbage roll dish with a cabbage I been holding since probably late Oct. We had loads for sale down at the orchard store this year. And then more sauce again yesterday from the garden tomatoes I put up for a BIG lasagna today.

Have the very last of my 2015 apple harvest to cook down for applesauce still, so maybe today or tomorrow. I took them in off the porch 2 days ago before they froze up solid!


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I will have to order some more Costata and Cousa zucchini seeds soon.

Maybe some pole bean seeds too....I like picking pole beans much better than bush. :confused2:

That is too cold for man or beast. We have escaped this last round of cold, but I still feel like we will have a late Spring this year. I'm trying to plant just a few seeds of each kind because my space under the lights will fill up in a hurry. I'm thinking about using a couple of shower doors I have to make an underground hotbox for sprouts that won't fit inside. I expect there will still be some culling going on. I have already killed one Jalapeno plant that wasn't looking as good as the others.

I planted 12 cilantro and 17 acorn squash seeds this morning.

Edit: That Lasagna looks good. Margie is going to stir up some sausage, rice and beans for supper.

 

[KevT]

Following the Farmers Almanac we planted our potatoes last weekend, This weekend I finished tilling the garden area and started laying out the furrows. Tomorrow the pea, carrot, collards, beets, and turnips will get planted



Seems strange to be planting when everyone north is below freezing and lots of snow...

 

[Larro Darro]

I got a hole dug, moved some of the "spare" pepper and green onion plants into it, and covered with shower doors and smoked glass. I'll stress test it with these spares before I put any of the young pepper plants outside.

 

[dragoneggs]

Interesting set up Larro. I like it. I'm sure you know, but don't forget to vent them so you give them fresh air and don't cook them. Around here we would have to account for rainwater though this time of year.