How is your garden doing so far?

[jlmann]

Obsessed - I guess in your area you can almost garden year round?

 

[obsessed]

Pretty much so. that is what the books have said. I just moved here from Montana so I am just happy to be planting this time of year. And hearing from Pat and the rest of the Northern gardeners I do feel lucky.

The books have said that summer is my down time. Very little will make it through the heat of the summer here. But I will have two tomatoe seasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jlmann]

Lucky dog!

 

[COgirl]

Well I'm happy I'm able to put down my garden mix (sheep,cow, humus and compost) in both my new gardens today and DH is on his way into town to get the mega tiller so we can get it tilled in. DH took the next week off so we can get alot done including getting the plastic up on the greenhouse ... The snow today has helped hold the garden mix down with the winds and I guess we are suppose to get some more tomorrow. I have some cool season stuff I'll plant this week brussels, cabbage and various lettuce. Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter :happy_flower

 

[momofdrew]

I love New England except when I want to start my garden and when the frost hits my green tomatoes the first week in September

 

[Rosalind]

Um...I got... a bunch of mud...and some sprouts.

No, it's not quite that bad. I'm putting out leeks, cabbages, broccoli, strawberries today, along with some other stuff that's going into the cold frame. My onions that overwintered are coming up through their mulch, and the garlic is doing really well. Hope my mint does well too, so we don't all die of garlic breath. The brambles and roses are putting out buds pretty good. Planting peas today: Last year I planted peas in late March, and they didn't come up, I thought the birds got em. So I planted the rest in mid-April. Then by May they ALL came up at once. And then the rabbits ate them and I got about five peas. Figured this year I'd save myself the hassle and plant them mid-April, after the anti-rabbit fencing has been secured.

Nicest thing in my yard is the spring bulbs. They're getting obnoxious, and some volunteers have gotten trampled by dogs. I'm going to lift and divide em this summer, after they're done.

 

[Southern Gardener]

My potatoes are doing great. I've planted two type of beans, three types of cucumbers, squash and 40 tomato plants.

 

[farmerlor]

We've got nothin'....okay, I DO have 400 some plants left in the basement but they're not even hardened yet so we're still weeks away from actual gardening. If it would quit snowing, blowing or raining we might get our peas and some greens out there.

 

[wifezilla]

More snow today here

 

[patandchickens]

The water table is 4" below the surface of the driest part of the veg garden. (It is *above* the surface of the wettest part). Gah. I may try spinach and green onions, and more lettuce than usual, in containers this year, since clearly they're not going into the GROUND in the forseeable future.

Peas will have to wait, or take swimming lessons.

We've eaten the first few leaves off the container spinach sown on Jan 31, though and the lettuce from that sowing should be ready to start soon too.

Pat