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

[ChickenGrass]

Today I will be planting some peas (early onward) and
Broad beans (the Sutton) because many of the seeds I planted last,
Time didn't germinate.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I don't grow the broad (fava) beans. Regular beans need a certain soil temperature to germinate. I can't plant them until the ground has warmed up. I have no idea for the ground temperature requirement for broad bean germination.

If you are concerned about the germination of the bean seeds, take about a half dozen and wrap them in a wet paper towel, then put that towel in an open zip-loc type bag in a relatively warm spot. That's a typical germination test. in about a week you should have a pretty good idea about how many of those seeds should germinate.

 

[digitS']

Broad beans can really take the cold.

Where they can't survive is in record Spring heat. They had sprouted in the typical early coolness in 2016, then nearly all my broad bean plants died in record heat. I'd expected them to have problems with aphids with the stress of our typical hot summer weather. Being conscientious about starting them real early didn't work in 2016.

I have to turn over what is left of the Asian (flowering) greens in the greenhouse bed so the furnace guy can get in there to work. There are some spinach plants that never reached harvest size. I'm tempted to try transplanting them outdoors.

Steve

 

[PennyJo]

trying to get seed potatoes in bags today but wanted to bake bread this morning

 

[lcertuche]

Should've planted peas, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli...didn't, lol.

 

[catjac1975]

Should have planted some peas. Didn't.

Is is too late for you already?

 

[PennyJo]

well did not get my potatoes planted either hope tomorrow
is as grand as today was high 50's here and lots of sun

 

[ChickenGrass]

Today I hope to plant some flower seeds,
For the summer garden and summer window boxes and summer hanging baskets!
I will be planting
Nasturtium (day glow mix)
Calendula (art shades mixed)
Iceland poppy (special mix)
Lupin (Russell mix)
Dahlia (pompon mixed)

Sunflowers;
Colour parade
Red sun
Italian white
Russian giant
Pacino gold
Teddy bear.

I will also be potting up a blue berry plant I have,
And 3 bare root rose bushes I got.
They are both hybrid tea roses
One is called 'blessings, and the other two are called 'pascali'

 

[digitS']

I grow or have grown some of those, @ChickenGrass .

First off, not all that far away, on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, there is the original home for those lupins, we are told. Here is a far more arid location than the Olympics, the lupins have to be protected from aphids.

The calendula almost grow wild in my yard. I like them but they readily reseed, it probably takes cultivated ground for them to actually be invasive.

I start sunflowers and transplant them. It's safer to do that. I think it's actually the cottontail rabbits that dig up and eat the sprouting seed if I direct-sow them in the garden. They or some other creature or lots of them really like sunflower sprouts. Hundreds may be eaten in just a day or two.

Starting them in cells in a flat and giving them a couple of weeks in the greenhouse must make them less tasty. If they just have their true leaves, they transplant easily and I can use an insert with lots of cells because they won't be kept indoors a long time.

Steve

 

[ChickenGrass]

Hi Steve,
Thank you for all of your advice,
I love calendulas, all of the different shades of orange and yellow
Yes I will plant the sunflowers into seed trays,
Then when there bigger put them into a bigger pot,
And then plant them outside.

I think I will go outside and start planting!

Thank you,
Fionn.