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Seleukus Nikator | 04-23-2008 01:20 PM
your spring planting I got about 7 4x8 ft boxes. what did you plant? I planted tomatoes, green peppers, banana pepps, jalapeno pepps; garlic-- a ton- hoping that will help with the critter problem-- asparagus roots (wont yield till next year they say). my perennial herbs etc are coming up fine: onions, chive, strawberry, basil. Left for later: cucumbers, last year that worked out great. except for rabbits stealing them. One thing I may try next year esp if prices for staples keeps going up: potatoes and sweet potatoes. what bout you?

Sparky | 04-23-2008 02:03 PM
Re: your spring planting First garden in a long time... Green peppers Romaine lettuce Carrots Green beans Wax beans Broccoli Corn Peas Tomatoes Watermelon Cantaloupe Pumpkins

eat_beef | 04-23-2008 02:08 PM
Re: your spring planting 6 30' rows. 1 row each of; Purple Hulls (Black Eyed Peas) Contenders (Green Beans) Lima Beans English Peas 2/3 row of Corn (Sweet) and Carrots (Imperators) With some Yellow Crook Necked Squash, Zuchini, Watermelon, and Cantelope thrown in. Everything except the carrots are up, and I'll be planting potatoes and lettuce later in the year. I wanted to do some strawberries and bluberries, but didn't get around to it. They take a year or two to make a good crop.

gruven | 04-23-2008 02:10 PM
Re: your spring planting Tomatoes Green Peppers Cayenne Peppers Carrots Lemon Cucumbers Peas Strawberries Swiss Chard

momopanda | 04-23-2008 02:54 PM
Re: your spring planting What's in: Lettuce, Black-seeded Simpson, Simpson Elite and a Red (foregt the name), Oak leaf. Chard , Red and Rainbow (5 color silverbeet i think) Carrots Peas Radishes Beets Spinach Broccoli Cauliflower Basil Potatoes, seperately in a wire tower Started in pots and going in ~2 weeks Green squash Tomato , couple, cherry grape and table, 2 heirloom, 2 hybrid Cukes Pole beans Peppers Onions (I'm late but hope to throw a couple sets in). raspberries coming up strong, hope they fruit stronger this year. Blueberries.. well there's a bud or two on the Charlie-Brown-Christmas -tree- looking bushes that the deer mauled last year, but i ain't expecting much.

Seleukus Nikator | 04-23-2008 02:57 PM
Re: your spring planting get rid of that lawn and plant a garden mowing grass is a waste of time energy and gasoline get rid of your lawn and plant a garden thats the best prep you can still make this spring. I am going to pull my restrictive covenants and find out how much more of mine I can plow up without getting the neighbors honked off. I got a lot to go I think. Plus my new neighbor grew up on a farm and he wont give a damn anyways, in his first year he put my piddling boxes to shame with about half the space.

BellevueBully | 04-23-2008 10:50 PM
Re: your spring planting Tomatoe Green Pepper Banana Pepper Zuchini Cucumber Cabbage (look out wifey!) Onion Radish Leaf lettuce Romaine Lettuce Mixed herbs Peas Bush beans Potatoe I can't grow a carrot to save my life.......please help me.

Professur | 04-24-2008 09:11 AM
Re: your spring planting How many people are focusing on spices this year? I'm thinking pepper and cloves for the kids. Well scratch that. Neither will grow well here.

Avalon | 04-24-2008 09:36 AM
Re: your spring planting We are having a real problem with deer eating out plants... You have to keep an eye on guinea Hens too. They will dig at the roots of plants with their feet..Any suggestions on the deer?

Avalon | 04-24-2008 09:38 AM
Re: your spring planting Quote:
Originally Posted by Professur (Post 1076368) How many people are focusing on spices this year? I'm thinking pepper and cloves for the kids. Well scratch that. Neither will grow well here.
spices grow really well in pots. I grew oregano, chives, basil and rosemary in pots last year. The chives came back this spring.

Seleukus Nikator | 04-24-2008 10:35 AM
Re: your spring planting Quote:
Originally Posted by Avalon (Post 1076417) We are having a real problem with deer eating out plants... You have to keep an eye on guinea Hens too. They will dig at the roots of plants with their feet..Any suggestions on the deer?
yeah, get a fence. mine doesnt keep out chipmunks or rabbits but it does the deer.

Seleukus Nikator | 04-24-2008 10:39 AM
Re: your spring planting Quote:
Originally Posted by Avalon (Post 1076423) spices grow really well in pots. I grew oregano, chives, basil and rosemary in pots last year. The chives came back this spring.
you will never get rid of the chive once its established. I have been a chive connoiseur since a little kid since it grows wild throughout the midwest in ample quantity. in some places it tastes better than others. I like shade chive better than full light chive. cooler tastes better is the generalization I have made, but I dont know if I'm right or if its just a soil factor. Mint is another prolific weed that grows like wildfire. You must contain mint or it will overwhelm your lawn and everything. I am working on establishing a mint patch this spring too and somebody else said to buy a couple cinderblocks and sink them in the soil along a fenceline, and plant the mint in the holes.

Professur | 04-24-2008 10:46 AM
Re: your spring planting Oh Christ, yeah. Mum wanted mint so badly ... until we couldn't get rid of it.

JJ_ | 04-24-2008 12:37 PM
Re: your spring planting I have Roma Tomatoes (Heirloom) Big Boy Tomatoes (hybrid) Oakra (Heirloom)- Picked a Lot of oakra Last year - A lot of gumbo made w/ the tomatoes I grew and lots fried w/ White Bass and Hybrids caught here locally Cucumbers Green Beans (Bush Kentucky Wonder(Heirloom)) - Made Pounds of these last year, on an 8' row.. very tasty. Yellow Squash -3 plants Zucchinni (Heirloom)- 6 plants French Breakfast Radishes-1 10' row Purple Top Turnips-1 10' row A cuople of Garlic Plants and one lonely russet potatoe plant I'm trying out I had to replant my Radishes and Turnips.. they're doing much better now.

brewer | 04-24-2008 12:50 PM
Re: your spring planting Bellvue, maybe I can help with the carrots. We're in SE Oh and use raised beds for all our gardening. This weekend I pulled the remaining 30lbs of carrots from a 4x24 bed and got'em in the freezer. These carrots were planted JULY of 07... they like it HOT to start out. Fall, we mulch with 6"-8" of straw leaving just a little bit of top showing. On topic... Swiss chard Butter crunch lettuce Snow peas Sunchokes The garlic we planted in NOV 07 is doing great. Lots of stuff in flats waiting for the soil to warm up. Good luck with the garden

BellevueBully | 04-24-2008 09:04 PM
Re: your spring planting Quote:
Originally Posted by brewer (Post 1076777) Bellvue, maybe I can help with the carrots. We're in SE Oh and use raised beds for all our gardening. This weekend I pulled the remaining 30lbs of carrots from a 4x24 bed and got'em in the freezer. These carrots were planted JULY of 07... they like it HOT to start out. Fall, we mulch with 6"-8" of straw leaving just a little bit of top showing. On topic... Swiss chard Butter crunch lettuce Snow peas Sunchokes The garlic we planted in NOV 07 is doing great. Lots of stuff in flats waiting for the soil to warm up. Good luck with the garden
Thanks. I just seem to have a lot of trouble getting germination rates. Not sure why.

brewer | 04-25-2008 06:14 AM
Re: your spring planting Bellevue, here's a few more tips that I forgot to add for carrots. For carrrot seed we spend a little extra and buy Johnny's Seeds, 80% germination. Use a liberal amount of seed per row, thin when seddlings are 2"tall. Cover the seed with 1/2'' of potting soil, this also helps to indicate the row and holds moisture. Cover the bed with floating row cover, this also helps keep the bed moist,but lets light in and critters out. Don't let the bed dry out. And again plant when it's hot, 80+. Hope this helps, now back to topic.

BellevueBully | 04-25-2008 07:08 AM
Re: your spring planting Thank you and sorry for the side-track.:beer:

UberNoob | 04-25-2008 09:40 AM
Re: your spring planting We have a four season garden. Still have a couple of weeks before the seedlings go into the ground for this season. Just finished cleaning up all of the brassicas and tilling them under. Already have the taters, onions, turnips, and carrots in. We uncovered the asparagus. In a couple weeks though...we'll plant the peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, tomatillos, canteloupes, cukes, corn, beans, and peas from the seed boxes.

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