What's growing? The garden thread.
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Little early for me yet, we had 6 inches of snow on the ground this time last week!
Honestly dont remember. Dont feel like it took super long, let the bees and butterflies do their thing with the flowers for awhile. I just know that off of 3 radishes plants, we got a shload of sead pods, enough that we couldnt eat them fast enough. Gave up mid-summer I believe, and then let them dry out and stored them for planting.
Seed tape for small seeds are amazing.
Its the only way I do lettuce seeds now.
I've seen some carrot seed tapes but I like the color/hybrid carrot varieties and haven't seen as many seed tapes for that, usually just the orange.
Its the only way I do lettuce seeds now.
I've seen some carrot seed tapes but I like the color/hybrid carrot varieties and haven't seen as many seed tapes for that, usually just the orange.
I sowed peas last week for my trellis. I space them about 2 to 3 apart. They vine well.
Did edamame hybrid a couple years back, work great.
2' x 2' plot broadcast of spinach and first row of radishes are in. I will plant lettuce (black seeded simpson) this weekend and a row of each every week of radishes (cherry bell and german giant) until the middle of May. Rows are about 6' long. I then set my tomato plants among the rows when I feel we will be fost free. The radishes and lettuce will go to seed and I pull them for compost. I started my tomatoes in January. One of the 8 plants has blooms already. I am trying english cucumbers this year, along with my tried and true straight eights.
I can keep the pothos, ficus, and moss roses (potted) alive and once won a tomato growing contest (field of two) but I recently signed up for a small plot at the community garden and realize I don't know anything about planting things in the actual ground. Are there can't fail vegetables? Best tools? This plot might be on the wet side. Thanks for any suggestions or youtube videos you can point me to!
Guy bought tomato plants and plans on putting them in tomorrow. Seems a tad early for central Iowa.
My wife won't plant tomatoes and pepper until May 15th. That is supposed to be the last frost date for Iowa.
It is. He'll have to go out and cover them many nights for another month.
If you feel like you can tend them
Being raised on a farm and 100% self taught. If the ground is always wettish. You may want to read on line or on the seed packet and see if it says well drained soil. If it does plant in hills. Pull up the soil in mounds with a hoe and garden rake, so that the roots are not always wet. Cucumbers are this way, they like water but they dont want their roots to be wet. Green beans are really easy, beets are also. Radishes are finicky at least that is my experience but I plant a lot of them so it turns into a numbers game. Cabbage and onions are easy if you buy plants. I have a well drained garden that takes a lot of water. Learning a garden plot and how it is situated for sun-shade-drainage-soil type is part of the art of gardening. We lost a couple of ash trees to the west of our garden to ash borers, last sumer the evening sun really dried out the garden with the extra sunlight. The tomatoes and cumbuers loved it best crop ever.
