How does your garden grow?

[lakngulf]

Gonna be COLD in central Alabama tonight. Hope my stuff makes it, and hope this is the last cold night.

 

[TomSeller]

Yesterday I finally got the garden rowed up and started planting.

That is a BIG garden. Very nice.

 

[LA Confederate]

Thanks Tom. It's just a touch over half an acre. A lot of that will be cover crop and will be used to get the soil better. This coming winter that'll likely be a strawberry patch. I have another area that'll probably be the vegetable garden next year that I'll start working on eventually.

 

[Larro Darro]

L 'n G, I think these cold nights are slowing everything in my garden down. Or else the frost set it back more than I thought. Everything is growing slowly.

LA C, glad to see your water level went down enough you could get started We just got over another 100 year flood here, the third one in the last 20 years. It got some of our new longleaf pines down at the riverfield, but didn't effect us here at the house.

I side dressed, plowed and hoed the field corn and peas this morning. Also got a few more trays ready for planting on Tuesday and Wednesday. I just need to decide what, and buy the seeds when I go to town.

 

[lakngulf]

My early tomatoes seem to have weathered the weather OK. Maybe night temps now will stay in the fifties.



Many of the larger ones still have blossoms but I don't know what the cool temps have done to them. Maybe!



These were planted a little later, and still look good after the last two nights in low forties.



And lots more that need to go somewhere.

 

[Lowcountry17]

LA Confederate,

What implement do you use to make your rows?

 

[LA Confederate]

It's a row builder from Lowery Manufacturing out of north Alabama. It's also called a hipper and a bedder in other regions. There's a small equipment dealer that sells their stuff and I'm happy with it. Seems well made.

 

[Lowcountry17]

It's a row builder from Lowery Manufacturing out of north Alabama. It's also called a hipper and a bedder in other regions. There's a small equipment dealer that sells their stuff and I'm happy with it. Seems well made.

Thanks. I need to get something like that.

 

[Larro Darro]

My early tomatoes seem to have weathered the weather OK. Maybe night temps now will stay in the fifties.



Many of the larger ones still have blossoms but I don't know what the cool temps have done to them. Maybe!



These were planted a little later, and still look good after the last two nights in low forties.



And lots more that need to go somewhere.

Other than the Cherub tomatoes, I don't have an excess of anything. I only planted 6-8 of most stuff and when you cull out the runts, that's not very many to give away. I have a old Asian lady friend with whom I trade plants and seeds back and forth. I was getting a cross section of hot peppers ready for her today, and on some varieties, I only have two good plants. It's hard to give away half of your crop. But I did get a lot more pepper seeds in soil a couple days ago. Maybe they will be big enough to transplant, and give away, soon.

 

[CalG]

Garlics up, peas are in, It rained all day today.

I spread wood ash to combat the acid soils. The winter rye IS so green! Daffodils on the kitchen table.

Gardens are fine

 

[lakngulf]

Breaking News....Breaking News.....



The first little tomato of 2016, showed up about April 10. Plants look healthy after a couple of cold spells. Should be ready to take off when we have 80 degrees on Monday.

And here is Man Vs. Raccoon, Phase II

 

[Larro Darro]

Breaking News....Breaking News.....

The first little tomato of 2016, showed up about April 10. Plants look healthy after a couple of cold spells. Should be ready to take off when we have 80 degrees on Monday.

And here is Man Vs. Raccoon, Phase II

Tomatoes are looking good. I have a couple of small ones on my Beef Steak tomatoes. The Yellow Pear and Pruden's Purple is a little behind them.

Most of my viney replants are up, along with the ones in the trays. In the non-viney stuff, the soybeans are all that is sprouting from the last planting.

Live traps is a good way to go with raccoons.

 

[LA Confederate]

Garden is sprouting good. Most of the corn is peeking, all of the beans, collards, and some of the okra too.

 

[aarolar]

Cultivated the beans and field corn this afternoon ain't nothing prettier than clean straight rows of groceries.

 

[Larro Darro]

Everybody's garden is looking good. I have a few small Beef Steak tomatoes now.

 

[lakngulf]

Everybody's garden is looking good. I have a few small Beef Steak tomatoes now.

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Looking good!!

 

[Larro Darro]

I have a few small crookneck.



Blooms are just a couple of days away on the zucchini.



1st blooms on a Pruden's Purple. No need to label these. The PP leaves are very distinctive.

 

[Larro Darro]

Here was the PP last Sunday when I transplanted it out of a 1 gallon pot. {I really need to be posting more often}

 

[Larro Darro]

There are a few acorn squash now.

 

[Larro Darro]

The Yellow Pear tomato is starting to bloom, and is still growing like crazy. Although the peppers are not growing at all. They are less than a foot tall and starting to bloom.


I transplanted a row of sweet pumpkin. Still have a couple of the six packs of them, plus lots of melons and other viney things to give away. They came up so good in the garden, there is no skips to replant.