I may never get this garden in ...

[digitS']

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. ~ Swedish Proverb

 

[seedcorn]

Not sure we've had 3 days since March that it hasn't rained. This is the year I decided to move my garden spot. So I've done everything wrong that can be done.

Tilled into wet soil.
Planted seeds into wet soil.
Planted plants into wet soils.
Transplanted perennials from one wet spot to another wet spot.
Weeded, weeded, & weeded in wet soils
Third planting of sweet corn has caught second planting(first got devoured by chickens--whole yard to go in, they go into pen w/corn) so now all the sweet corn will come on at once--oh joy.

Fighting birds that want to nip leaves off my plants, ants everywhere--they thrive in this weather. Why couldn't have Eve just left the fruit alone????

 

[bigredfeather]

To answer your question, no it's not too late to plant tomotoes and peppers. In my expiriences, they don't really start growing well until mid June in Ohio, when the soil really starts to heat up. Last year I put some out the end of June and still got some tomatoes, but they were smaller and softer. Plus you miss out on the fruits from the second round of blooming. You can plant radishes anytime, but they are going to be really hot if planted now. I would save those to be planted in mid to late August. You can plant beets for at least another month or so and still get a good harvest. Onion sets-Not sure on that one as I start mine from seed. I've never had good luck getting big onions from sets.

I finally got some of my stuff out yesterday. My ground was too wet in a few places, but I was starting to get nervous about getting stuff in, so I planted it anyway. I'm hoping to finish up all the plants tonight.

 

[chris09]

With all of the rain this year, the ground has been virtually un-workable. We get a couple days away from workable soil, and boom, it rains (pours) again. It's nothing but muck. What's the latest I can get my maters, and peppers in the ground and still get a harvest this season in northeast Ohio? I have onion sets to put in, as well as started tomatoes, and pepper plants. I also wanted to plant radish, kholrabi, and beet seeds, and winter squash. This really stinks!

I'm in N.E. Ohio (Hartville) and half my garden is still mud and muck.
I have never had a garden out before June. The land around here is all swampland and takes forever to dry out.
You have all kinds of time




Chris

 

[so lucky]

Bigredfeather said "I've never had any luck getting big onions from sets." I was told long ago that the onion "sets" (bulbs) we buy are for getting green onions. To achieve big round onions, one has to plant the "slips" or onion plants, those skinny little plants that come in a bunch of approximately 100 tied together. Those are named, such as Bermuda, Granex, Vidalia. When the onion set starts to grow, it sheds the bulb that is already around it anyway, and begins growing tops and a small new bulb from the center of where the old bulb was. Or of course one can plant seeds, but that takes a long time. I think the commercial southern onion growers start with seed in the winter. I don't know for sure. Maybe someone from Texas could say. Anyway, this is my first garden in about 10 years, and my first time trying to grow big onions. I bought the slips. We'll see how they turn out! By the way, here in SE Missouri, it has turned summer. Very hot, with a strong wind. Looks like no rain expected for the next week, with temps up to 95. Two weeks ago it was cold and wet!

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

Yes, seeds are started in the fall in the south. Then around mid Feb they can be transplanted to larger rows to grow out to full bulb size, and finally harvested early summer. I will be doing this in my fall garden with some sweet onions. Mmmm!

 

[Smiles Jr.]

. . . To achieve big round onions, one has to plant the "slips" or onion plants, those skinny little plants that come in a bunch of approximately 100 tied together. Those are named, such as Bermuda, Granex, Vidalia . . .

Hmmmm. Are you saying that the tiny "bulbs" that we can buy at the garden centers by the hand-full are meant to be green onions? Maybe that's why I have never been 100% successful in growing large onions. Mine usually get about 1/2 to 3/4 sized by the end of the growing season.

But, on the other hand, most of the little "bulbs" are already bigger than most of the green onions we get at the grocery.

We usually store 7 or 8 large bunches of onions in our root cellar every year. I braid the green ends together and hang in the open air area. They always last at least until the next planting season.

 

[HunkieDorie23]

I finally got my garden in on Sunday. I am so happy. I didn't think that it would stop raining but it did and I had to water on Sunday and I am back out there watering today. Hang in there it will get better. I even saw the parts of western Texas had a very good chance of rain today.

 

[so lucky]

To Smiles: Yup, that is what I've been told.

 

[journey11]

I don't think I've ever felt such frustration/desperation in my garden before. Our mud has finally dried up, but now we're running in the 90's everyday. I feel so far behind, I don't know where to start. It is very late for me to get most things in. I have several fall crops I can direct seed right now. What a weird year!!