What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

[digitS']

Yesterday, we planted about 100 square feet of gladiolas and about the same in the calendulas (Calendula should note ).

Today, it is tempting to start putting dahlias in the ground but here, of course, it is very early. There may well be a risk of disease but the ground isn't really very damp and the temperature should be about the same as their basement storage. So, I'm debatin' .

There are only so many hours each week with comfortable outdoor weather and that's part of the motivation . I'll try to find that thermometer and factor the soil temperature in . . .

Steve

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

I pulled a few scrawny squash plants out of one of my 4x8 beds and decided to put some new seeds in their place. I put in the top I saved from one of my juliet tomato plants that got "topped" in the hail storm we had a week or so ago. I've been rooting it in the bottom of a soda 2-liter bottle, and thought I would see how it does planted. Maybe it will make it, maybe not. We'll see. I also put in a couple short rows of radish and carrot. Oh, and I put the elephant ear garlic cloves in the ground, too. Not an ideal planting time for them, but I did it anyway.

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

So, the tomato plant top I attempted to save didn't make it.... poor thing, looks like it just lost it's last friend. Might have to find a replacement plant! Can't have unused space in the garden!

Busted out my muscles today and dug some big (2' wide, 18" deep) holes (no easy task here) and filled them w/ a combination of loosened dirt from the holes and good dirt from one of the chicken yards and planted some okra seeds. Hope they grow... that was a lot of work!!

 

[sparks]

Planted cukes, squash, pumpkins in pots in the greenhouse. Next day all the seeds were dug up. Mice perhaps? Mousetraps in the greenhouse now!

 

[calendula]

Yesterday, we planted about 100 square feet of gladiolas and about the same in the calendulas (Calendula should note ).

Steve

Nice planting choice Steve. Do you plant them just for looks, or do you use them for anything? They are pretty to look at, but I also use them to make balms.

 

[digitS']

DW can use them for bouquets. She likes "Radio Extra" because they are soooo orange.

:rainbow-sun

I used to work for a wholesale florist outfit and they brought a fair number of them in every year for the flower shops. Disbudding is tedious but necessary, especially with a shorter variety like Radio Extra. They don't like heat but are fine indoors in a vase.

Steve

 

[hangin'witthepeeps]

Well yesterday we planted the "family" garden. It started after a good home cooked lunch of roast pork, okra (from last years garden), green beans (from last years garden), creamed potatoes, yeast rolls, slaw, and cucumber and onions soaked in vinegar. Boy was I full. Then my uncle plowed the garden two more times, then worked in the lime and fertilizer, them "laid the rows". He dug 30 2' deep holes and I put in the potting soil/compost/lime/epsom salt mixture in each hole and planted and watered the tomatoes. So all in all we planted.....

30 tomato plants
12 pepper plants
4 eggplants
5 hills of yellow squash
5 hills of cucumber
6 rows of silver queen corn
4 rows of green beans
3 rows of butter beans
2 rows of okra

and drum roll please............

I have 6 hills of zucchini!!!!!! Yeah

Before all this family planting, I planted 2 upside down cherry tomatoes, 2 raised bed cherry tomatoes, 4 Ichabod eggplants, 8 basil, and 4 cilantro plants in my little raised bed garden. We got the 22 x 30 area tilled up to plant my tomatoes and beans.

My right foot is hurting bad and the back of right leg is numb, so I figure its that herniated disc again. Hopefully there will be no more bending for me for a while. It was a wonderful Mother's Day for me. I hope ya'll all had a wonderful Mother's Day too.

Melissa

 

[lesa]

Wow, Melissa you guys were busy!! What a wonderful way to spend Mother's Day! Wishing you a wonderful harvest! Enjoy!

 

[4grandbabies]

Today, our daughter and I(mostly our daughter) planted 10 hills cucumber, some radishes and also some mint around the cucumbers to hopefully repell bugs. ..may or not work, time will tell. our potatoes and peas are looking good, should be able to have new potatoes and peas together in June.

 

[Cats Critters and Garden]

I planted 3 different types of watermelon inside yesterday: peacock striped (which there is zero pictures online of so expect lots of pictures), sugar baby, and moon and stars. Which join the 3 little crimson sweet watermelon plants that I got for free. And today I planted 4 types of carrots and a salad mix.

Also I planted 3 tulip plants that I had bought my mom for her B-Day (May 4th)