2010 Garden Reports

Sean (TX) · Mar 28, 2010

Seeded mine yesterday. Corn, green beans, wax beans, radish, cucumber, zucchini, acorn squash, water mellon.

I have tomato's and strawberries in topsy turvies. This will be the first year I tried that. The tomato's look good already. The strawberries we just planted yesterday. They were all seedlings. Strawberries already had fruit when we bought them.

I think we have passed the last freeze danger. 10 day forecast looks good with rain next weekend. I planed on planting first weekend in April....But the 10 day forecast told me to plant this weekend 8)

Colin King · Mar 28, 2010

Garden????? We still have 6 more weeks before snow is no longer a possibility.

1,500 onions were seeded in Feb, and are up in their little flats. Coles are also up, and tomatoes were seeded into trays this week.

Lettuce was seeded into a bed in the garden. That's the only cold dirt gardening that's been done.

Colin, MN

Bruce (VA) · Mar 28, 2010

Nothing new in VA.

Peas & onions in 3/1 are up & look good. Broccoli, potatoes, cauliflower, cabbage, bok choi, etc in last week. We got an inch of rain the day after it was all planted & are supposed to get 2 - 3 inches more tonight, 80's next week, so everything should get off to a good start.

I'm waiting to get the asparagus & strawberries I ordered a month ago. They're coming from MI & the lady said it was too wet to dig.

Transplanted the artichokes & cardoons into 6 inch pots. I figure they will sell ok at the market in May.

Planted squash & cuke seeds in flats yesterday.

Had some early (wild) asparagus for dinner last week. We usually don't see much of it until April 15th or so.

Did the "good neighbor" thing about an hour ago & disced up the garden spots for 2 of the neighbors.

Sean (TX) · Mar 28, 2010

(quoted from post at 17:42:28 03/28/10) Garden????? We still have 6 more weeks before snow is no longer a possibility.

1,500 onions were seeded in Feb, and are up in their little flats. Coles are also up, and tomatoes were seeded into trays this week.

Lettuce was seeded into a bed in the garden. That's the only cold dirt gardening that's been done.

Colin, MN

Colin that is a bunch of onions. :shock: You must sell them at market..Spring comes early in the south. I bet I am close to 1000 miles south of you. This is my second year plowing this patch. You would not believe the amount of rocks I removed. I am going to have some top soil hauled in in the fall. Eat what we can and most likely give some away to friends and neighbors.

Bruce (VA) · Mar 28, 2010

I've never grown onions from seed. Do you set the plant? Around here, we plant "sets"; little onions about nickel size.

The only onions that keep at all around here are "potato" onions. They are a multiplier type; set a large bulb & get sets. Plant the set & you get a large bulb.

I gave up trying to keep onions over winter years ago.

Tom Jubilee · Mar 28, 2010

It's all about the fall garden in my area here in Texas. Have lettuce,radish and carrot still. Spinach all eaten. I too have planted my corn, cucumber, squash, beans,tomatoes and cantalope. Cross your fingers for rain this spring

Sean (TX) · Mar 28, 2010

(quoted from post at 17:49:49 03/28/10) Nothing new in VA.

Peas & onions in 3/1 are up & look good. Broccoli, potatoes, cauliflower, cabbage, bok choi, etc in last week. We got an inch of rain the day after it was all planted & are supposed to get 2 - 3 inches more tonight, 80's next week, so everything should get off to a good start.

I'm waiting to get the asparagus & strawberries I ordered a month ago. They're coming from MI & the lady said it was too wet to dig.

Transplanted the artichokes & cardoons into 6 inch pots. I figure they will sell ok at the market in May.

Planted squash & cuke seeds in flats yesterday.

Had some early (wild) asparagus for dinner last week. We usually don't see much of it until April 15th or so.

Did the "good neighbor" thing about an hour ago & disced up the garden spots for 2 of the neighbors.

I could have used your disk 8)

Sean (TX) · Mar 28, 2010

(quoted from post at 17:56:38 03/28/10) It's all about the fall garden in my area here in Texas. Have lettuce,radish and carrot still. Spinach all eaten. I too have planted my corn, cucumber, squash, beans,tomatoes and cantalope. Cross your fingers for rain this spring

Rain called for next weekend in this area Tom...Low 41 predicted tonight...But the weather channel has this statement...They always sweet a load LOL...

Issued by The National Weather Service
Austin/San Antonio, TX
3:42 pm CDT, Sun., Mar. 28, 2010

... NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE OVER PARTS OF THE HILL COUNTRY BY SUNRISE MONDAY...

CLEAR SKIES... DIMINISHING WINDS... AND A COOL DRY AIR MASS OVER THE HILL COUNTRY TONIGHT WILL ALLOW FOR A NIGHT OF STRONG RADIATIONAL COOLING. LOWS TEMPERATURES TONIGHT ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY WILL FALL INTO THE MID AND UPPER 30S. HOWEVER... SOME LOW LYING AREAS OR VALLEYS IN THE HILL COUNTRY COULD SEE TEMPERATURES BRIEFLY DIP TO NEAR THE FREEZING MARK BY SUNRISE MONDAY MORNING. SO TENDER VEGETATION MAY NEED TO BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INDOORS.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 28, 2010

Very nice - the way things are going here, I may have to do a rice paddy.

Tom Jubilee · Mar 28, 2010

Pics here in Texas

John in Mich · Mar 28, 2010

Nice looking plot. SE Mich. soil is still to cool. I spread some 2 year old horse manure on my garden plot last fall and will probably plow in about a week. I won't plant anything until about April 15. We can get frosts as late as middle-late May so I have to watch weather reports once plants are in and cover them. Enjoy the fresh veggies!

Anonymous-0 · Mar 28, 2010

Try some sometime. Need sandy soil.

Trick: Just plant "sweet onions" and name the fruits for your Va. County. Use pretty quickly, and NEVER complain about your Sweetheart's bad breath.

John,PA Cold Storage project for Uv. of GA.
1994

36 Coupe · Mar 28, 2010

Bruce.Try onion plants from texas.We have nice big onions upstairs, no heat,They will start sprouting now but they are still usable.I use the tops in cooking,never throw them out.

teddy52food · Mar 28, 2010

A varity called first edition will keep up to a year if stored right. The spanish & sweet ones don't last long & have to be used up soon after harvest. I still had a snow pile on the north side of the garden shed yesterday.

oldtanker · Mar 28, 2010

may get to plant some in about 2-3 weeks. Still got frost on the ground every morning. This year's garden should be about 2 acres.

Danny in CO · Mar 29, 2010

GARDEN??? GARDEN!!!

We got 16" of snow on Tuesday/Wednesday and another 8" on Friday! This week we are supposed to get up into the upper 70s, matbe even low 80s!

Our last freeze date is around May 15th. My wife has seeds started indoors and we will get the garden ready over the next several weeks (weather permitting). We'll plant some things at the end of April and then the tomatoes around the middle of May.

Danny

Sean (TX) · Mar 29, 2010

(quoted from post at 14:25:45 03/29/10) GARDEN??? GARDEN!!!

We got 16" of snow on Tuesday/Wednesday and another 8" on Friday! This week we are supposed to get up into the upper 70s, matbe even low 80s!

Our last freeze date is around May 15th. My wife has seeds started indoors and we will get the garden ready over the next several weeks (weather permitting). We'll plant some things at the end of April and then the tomatoes around the middle of May.

Danny

Bummer...We hit 80 today..

Colin King · Mar 29, 2010

Bruce,

Our experience has been that the seeded onions will have a longer storage life than sets, and will produce just as well. They do require a little more care and work, but it's worth it to have onions all winter.

The little plants basically look like little grasses when set out, but they grow fast once they're out of the trays and into the garden.

Colin

Colin King · Mar 29, 2010

Sean, We do sell quite a few of those onions. Tomatoes and strawberries are the big crops, though.

Working up new ground can be tough. I'll be opening up more ground this year for the 2011 season, and I'm awfully glad I won't have to do it with a garden tiller anymore. Now I get to hop on Eleanor and get'r'done.

Enjoy your spring! We're supposed to hit 75 this week.

Colin, MN

Bruce (VA) · Mar 29, 2010

So, plant the seeds like tomatoes in a pan, then re-pot them? Or, just put the entire plant in the garden w/o re-potting?

Colin King · Mar 30, 2010

Morning, Bruce;

We just plant them into their trays 3 months before they need to go into the garden. No re-potting. They'll go directly from their starting trays into the garden in late May. They get a foliar feeding every couple of weeks with a fish emulsion mixture until they get set out into the garden.

Colin, MN

Bruce (VA) · Mar 30, 2010

Tnx! I'll give them a try next year. Stand by for questions in January!

NoNewParts · Mar 30, 2010

still a bit muddy here in WNY.
Made a couple of passes today with a potato plow
to try and dry out my dirt pile, so I can get my loader
tractor in there.
Looks like I will stay away from the garden for awhile.
We don't put the fair weather plants
in the ground till Memorial Day anyway.
Sure was fun though

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