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

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

cold feeling today with it being very windy. i feel like i've run all around 4 towns today. had to drop off 6 roosters to be processed 2 towns to the east of me, then back home, then 1 town over (about 20 minutes away) to take the dog for his annual checkup. then had to go back to the processor to pick up the carcasses and bring them home for their stay in freezer camp.

i got 2 new plants along the way. a pink turtlehead plant and penstemon with the red/purple stems and leaves, i think it is the Husker's Red from the look of the lady's pics and the plant.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

@secuono do you're black birds hang on the corn plants when they eat it? i'm wondering if that is what happened to mine last year when something started nibbling on some of the ears. strange thing i found was the stalks weren't broken from whatever was eating it. i figured it could be birds but not sure what ones.

 

[secuono]

I kept deer netting on corn patch.
They were digging up my seeds, too.
Mice teeth marks I found and only saw one black bird on the corn before I ran out and put the netting back over the area.

 

[Smart Red]

Weeded the strawberry bed. WOW! This is going to be one great year for the berries! White flowers where ever you look and plenty more plants have petals that already dropped. (Should'a taken a photo.) There were very few weeds to be found in the bed. Great! I lost the last berry bed to grass, QA's lace, and dandelions.

I am already planning to cover the berry bed. I want all the strawberries I can get. Yum!

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Well, I didn't plant today, but I spent 5 hours screening top soil for some more raised gardens. Put down a layer of weed block, a 2" bottom layer of peat moss, then 8" of freshly screened top soil. Tomorrow I will top dress with composted chicken manure and Black Kow. Another 64 square feet of planting space.

Very nice! I am seriously thinking of taking out a section of the yard and expanding. I went to the store and spent $60 on not much of anything and I am tired of running out of room and not planting all that I would like.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Only planted 6 hollyhocks that I had started from seed. I am now circling the garden and wondering where I can fit in flowers and herbs.

 

[digitS']

@Gardening with Rabbits , you remind me of my grandmother . Of course, I didn't know her when she was younger but the area between her house and garage was filled with flowers. If you wanted to hang out there, it was on a flagstone patio, under the trees. There was no lawn.

The area between her house and the corral and little barn was filled with her vegetable garden. She did have hollyhocks surrounding a privy that was out thata way .

I wonder if grandmother knew about basil. Maybe today I will set out some basil in the shady corner. That heat-lover does quite well there. The cool-loving chives also do well in the shade and provide my earliest springtime taste from the garden ... but that's long past .

Steve

 

[Pulsegleaner]

At the moment I'm in sort of a "indeterminate state" due to the weather. The last few days it has been unusually cold for this time of year. The kicker is that no matter what the weather does, there will be problems in one way or another. as long as it stays like this, the warmer weather crops (cowpeas, rice beans adzuki's etc.) are in more or less stasis (not dying, but not really growing much either) as is the peach tree (it's flower buds are opened a little, but they've been like that for almost a month now, I think they won't actually open into flowers until it gets warmer, and I honesty don't know how long flowers can stay in that state, or if being so has long term consequences (such as no fruit because the pollen all matured, fell and died before the flowers were open enough to let any bees in) And as a final sting my the edible Job's tears (they're all technically edible, but I mean the kind people grow for food, not beadwork) I sowed in a pot inside (getting sowable eating type seed is almost impossible, so I couldn't afford losing a chunk to birds and squirrels.) are progressing to a point where I'll HAVE to put them outside soon, and they're one of the most warm weather things I try and grow (and being so hard to get, it's not like I have any reserve seed or can get any in a timely manner.)

On the other hand, if it DOES warm up, I have a nagging suspicion the peas will never actually get around to flowering (when the weather turns warm they tend to start trying to finish whatever they were doing so the flowers never come (or stop if they started) and something similar could happen with the vetch/lentil experiment (not knowing what I have in there, I can't guess that one one way or another). Either way I think one or another crop is in trouble.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

@Gardening with Rabbits , you remind me of my grandmother . Of course, I didn't know her when she was younger but the area between her house and garage was filled with flowers. If you wanted to hang out there, it was on a flagstone patio, under the trees. There was no lawn.

The area between her house and the corral and little barn was filled with her vegetable garden. She did have hollyhocks surrounding a privy that was out thata way .

I wonder if grandmother knew about basil. Maybe today I will set out some basil in the shady corner. That heat-lover does quite well there. The cool-loving chives also do well in the shade and provide my earliest springtime taste from the garden ... but that's long past .

Steve

I take that has a great compliment. I am trying to picture her garden. A lady that gardens around here using oregano as a ground cover and I have been kind of going from there with these ideas.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Komatsuna!

Really, it's a lot like bok choy

I like it. It seems to be quite trouble-free.

Steve

I have some of it bolting. If I cut it, will it continue to grow?