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

[flowerweaver]

I've been chomping at the bit to get my planting resumed, but the crews have been here all week ripping off the tornado damaged roof and putting on the new one, installing three skylights and a vented range hood, all looking wonderful. I've been moving pets and plants around to keep them out of harm's way (although DH stepped on a roofing tack and had to get a tetanus shot). Now all that's left is the interior plastering and painting which I hope won't begin until next week so I can dig in the dirt tomorrow!

@ninnymary did you find a Hillbilly? I grew one last year but the tornado took it before I could taste a fruit. I've got one started again for this year so I'm looking forward to trying it.

 

[ninnymary]

Not yet flowerweaver. Went last night to our local nursery looking for Hillbilly and Japanese Black Triefe but nothing. Tomorrow I'm going to the nursery where I usually get my heirlooms and I'm hoping they will have them.

Mary

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Potting up tomato plants and made another greenhouse on the patio for more plants.

 

[swampducks]

Those plants look really, really nice. It's only 29 here in northern Michigan, not time to plant anything outside, however next week I plan on planting some sweet millions tomato seeds and a few varieties of hollyhocks into peat pots. I no longer do the massive planting of tomatoes, etc indoors, I will just buy tomato plants from my local nursery. Once the ground warms though, I'll be out there with the snow pea seeds! Sometime in mid to late April for those.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i've been slacking. just started my seeds last night. i started onions, leeks, some garlic bulbils i had saved from last year's garden, carnations, cosmos, marigolds, and i still have a lot more to go. i ran out of starter mix so i only got 6 trays done with 1 left full of soil. i'll have to wait till payday to get more soil. been trying to use up a lot of old flower seeds.

was working on cleaning the coop today but the snow that is left is making it difficult to spread it out to the areas i want it in. i'm just going to store the rest in some trash bins till 'spring finally arrives' here and i can get to the gardens to spread & till it in.

 

[catjac1975]

• Seed is up for onions in the greenhouse;
• Snapdragon seed sown in soil mix, yesterday;
• Mix going into containers for a soak with pepper seeds sown, tomorrow;
• Top of refrigerator cleared.

It was a task getting the top of the fridge cleared. I don't know what you use that space/horizontal surface for but I've used it for 10 months each year to collect paid bills. Fortunately, less paper of that sort arrives in our mailbox in recent years. Unfortunately, I didn't discard anything in 2013-2014!

Some old service contracts & information has gone in a higher cabinet ... the aluminum foil and newspaper has covered the fridge, I'm ready for the cookie box of soil and snapdragon seeds which has had 12 hours to drip in the greenhouse! Feel like the real growing season has begun!

Steve

I always buy onion sets or plants. How do you plant those thread like onions? Do they grow large? How early do you plant them?

 

[swampducks]

I always buy onion sets or plants. How do you plant those thread like onions? Do they grow large? How early do you plant them?

I tried planting green onion seeds once. Nothing happened. No idea why, they were fresh seeds and I followed directions, so I only plant sets now, too, and hardly do that anymore. Usually it will just be shallots. Harder to get those in the grocery stores around here.

 

[digitS']

I buy the sets, too. Onions and leeks from seed require an early start in the unheated greenhouse, in February. I have also sown seed in the garden at the end of August for onions the following year. I find that shallots do well from seed sown in April, in the garden.

Onions like fertile ground. After the soil is nicely loosened with fertilizer added, rake the surface clear of rocks ...

Lay each seedling where it is to grow. With your digitS', press them into place. Still with your digitS', gather a little soil around it to straighten the seedling.

Sometimes, other plants grow amongst them.

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

I buy the sets, too. Onions and leeks from seed require an early start in the unheated greenhouse, in February. I have also sown seed in the garden at the end of August for onions the following year. I find that shallots do well from seed sown in April, in the garden.

Onions like fertile ground. After the soil is nicely loosened with fertilizer added, rake the surface clear of rocks ...

Lay each seedling where it is to grow. With your digitS', press them into place. Still with your digitS', gather a little soil around it to straighten the seedling.

Sometimes, other plants grow amongst them.

Steve

Those are beauties. Aren't you cold all winter where you are? Or is my geography way off? Your fall planted onion seeds make it through he winter? And those greenhouse seedlings-are they bigger than a thread when you put them outside?

 

[ducks4you]

Very little....sigh...
Bought 5 pots of daffodils and tulips at WM last week. They all had two bulbs with super overgrown roots. I just put them into two front beds that had been heavily amended in 2014. It's really hard to bury them deep when they are sitting almost outside of the little pots when you buy them, but I did it anyway bc I don't plan to move them. I really enjoy loosening up their roots from each other and planting them with these 10-12" roots I think will help them dig deep and survive!
Some mini-daffodils that I planted last year came up and doubled in a tiny bed by the street. Unfortunately, there is a 1 1/2" thick tree of paradise growing up amongst them. I'm thinking that I could just saw it off near the ground, and then remove it and replace the bulbs like around July after blooming and stalk growth. Chime in if you have a better idea.