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?

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First garden in a long time...

Green peppers
Romaine lettuce
Carrots
Green beans
Wax beans
Broccoli
Corn
Peas
Tomatoes
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
Pumpkins

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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.

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Tomatoes
Green Peppers
Cayenne Peppers
Carrots
Lemon Cucumbers
Peas
Strawberries
Swiss Chard

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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spices grow really well in pots. I grew oregano, chives, basil and rosemary in pots last year. The chives came back this spring.

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yeah, get a fence. mine doesnt keep out chipmunks or rabbits but it does the deer.

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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.

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Oh Christ, yeah. Mum wanted mint so badly ... until we couldn't get rid of it.

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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.

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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

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Thanks. I just seem to have a lot of trouble getting germination rates. Not sure why.

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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.

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Thank you and sorry for the side-track.:beer:

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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.