What Did You Do In The Garden?

[Collector]

We have been busy with garden chores since about mid March here. Our garden has a few patches of snow in it and extremely wet still. The greenhouse is filling up rather fast, if it continues at this rate the sides will start to bulge lol. One experiment that we are trying this year is starting an asparagus patch from seed. We have seeded a flat with Mary Washington asparagus. Has anybody been successful starting from seed? Our last patch we started from crowns and it did very well, it is just expensive to go that route.

 

[ducks4you]

This morning I planted companion seeds for my potatoes:
Blue Dent Corn
cabbage
cilantro
lettuce
caulflower
spinach
Dig some shallow trenches, broadcast the seeds, covered with 1-2 inches of compost.
Wait for the rain...check in a few weeks for germination.

 

[flowerbug]

We have been busy with garden chores since about mid March here. Our garden has a few patches of snow in it and extremely wet still. The greenhouse is filling up rather fast, if it continues at this rate the sides will start to bulge lol. One experiment that we are trying this year is starting an asparagus patch from seed. We have seeded a flat with Mary Washington asparagus. Has anybody been successful starting from seed? Our last patch we started from crowns and it did very well, it is just expensive to go that route.

i've never heard of that but will be interested to hear the results @Collector.

it has to work somehow as we have wild asparagus going in places along the ditches here - i tried harvesting some seeds but they never sprouted where i put them... we don't have prime habitat for them here anywhere so that wasn't a big surprise.

 

[digitS']

@ducks4you ,

• did you sow and leave room for the spuds,
• account for north/south exposure,
• reference studies on compatibility,
• make a trial run to find the ends and outs...

digitS'

 

[Beekissed]

We have been busy with garden chores since about mid March here. Our garden has a few patches of snow in it and extremely wet still. The greenhouse is filling up rather fast, if it continues at this rate the sides will start to bulge lol. One experiment that we are trying this year is starting an asparagus patch from seed. We have seeded a flat with Mary Washington asparagus. Has anybody been successful starting from seed? Our last patch we started from crowns and it did very well, it is just expensive to go that route.

I did that right out in the garden but with no results....except a few. And those didn't appear until a couple of years later. Right now those two lonely plants have 2 spears each starting to grow. As soon as those spears are done, I'm moving both of them to my raised bed where I planted all the other asparagus roots I bought this year.

 

[ducks4you]

@ducks4you ,

• did you sow and leave room for the spuds,
• account for north/south exposure,
• reference studies on compatibility,
• make a trial run to find the ends and outs...

digitS'

Of Course I did ALL of those things. Doesn't everybody?!?!?


I also solved the maze--go E, go N, go S, go E, go N, go E, go S, go W, go S, go E, go N, go E, go N, go E and leave.

 

[Collector]

@Beekissed , I really don’t have very high hopes for this strategy to eat asparagus. But as the saying goes nothing ventured nothing gained.

 

[Beekissed]

@Beekissed , I really don’t have very high hopes for this strategy to eat asparagus. But as the saying goes nothing ventured nothing gained.

I agree!!! I'm eating much more asparagus around here and so wish to be eating my own instead, though I don't have much hopes for it either. I don't have much of a green thumb, so I'll try for 3-4 yrs(that's about as long as I try anything to finally keep it or give it up)before I call it a total loss...or a success!

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I planted a little bit of spinach and lettuce today. I need more seed, but have the box ready for tomorrow. I am going to plant some mustard, spinach and bok choy tomorrow. I restarted some tomato and pepper seeds. I just do not like how my tomatoes look, but that’s the story every year for me. I am overwhelmed when I go out in the garden. Do I want to rent a tiller and ask DS to till? Do I want to turn it by hand? I am going to get a truckload of compost and I think I am going to just work in sections each day. Instead of looking at the big whole thing, just divide in seconds like 4 x 10 or so and turn by hand, get the weeds out and get the compost on, and then on to the next, and as it warms up and I get things hardened, I can plant the early stuff and keep getting the rest of the garden ready. I have rabbit manure spread on the garden in different areas, and I turned some under and the ground is just loaded with worms. I think I will spread more over the whole garden and then it will be getting rained on and soaking in until I get to each section. I am making one compost bin and only rabbit manure, leaves from last year and garden trimming things are going in. Hopefully, it will be ready by fall.

 

[seedcorn]

Planted parsnips today. Separated garlic starts and planted them.