F series
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Wow that looks great, do Solo cups support a whole kale or lettuce plant?
I'm assuming you water once or twice a day
2021 Veggie Gardens
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I'm assuming you water once or twice a day
Ohio.george
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The solos were a great start but yes, I had to water daily to keep them alive. I've up potted them since then to one gallons and they are happy as hell.
I tilled a bunch of peat into the raised beds the other day, watered them good, and then took some soil samples this morning for slurry testing. Everything looks pretty good so I don't think I need to do anything crazy before transplanting the plants in there. pH was right around 6.5 and the N, P, & K levels all looked great.
Gave the beds a good soaking today and put down the mulch layer.
Also decided to go around the outer edge of the fence with a mix of marigolds and zinnias with giant sunflowers at each corner and centered on each side. I got the seeds started but still need to fill the border around the garden.
Also decided to go around the outer edge of the fence with a mix of marigolds and zinnias with giant sunflowers at each corner and centered on each side. I got the seeds started but still need to fill the border around the garden.
I don’t know if you all knew this about me…but I kinda like making labels 
Ohio.george
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Ok who the fuck rolled the dice on Junanji?!
Nobighurry
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They sure look happy! Exactly how my starts looked last May unseasonably cold weather moved in for a couple weeks so inside they stayed...
gwheels
Hobby Farmer
Kale is outside...snow peas are growing out of the soil, radishes and lettuce poking through.
1 tomato out there going to get a cover built. In the garage the maters and peppers are getting usesd toe colder temps and growing under a QB120...man i cant believe how ROBUST the prudens purple are.
I never grew veg from seed and never planted anything close to this big on may 24...this is going to be a crazy year
20 gallon planters for the choicest of prudens purple and oplaka
2 cherry tomatos in 15s
potatos in 10s and 15s
eggplants in 7s and 10s
Pepperrs in 7s and 10s
a couple of squash pots but mostly on trellissis with 2 x 2s over the north side of the house against the bricks (8 foot 2 x2s secured about 1 foot into the ground against the house with 2 inch square green fencing)
cucumbers
green and yellow summer squash
Maybe 1 other thing.
sunflowers where i can fit them for pollinators....some corn too.
Swiss chard kale and other greens wherever i can fit them and all herbs (dill, thyme, basil, oregeno, sage) out front for noon to dark sun.
What a year...global warming made my city like cali....lets GROW THIS...
1 tomato out there going to get a cover built. In the garage the maters and peppers are getting usesd toe colder temps and growing under a QB120...man i cant believe how ROBUST the prudens purple are.
I never grew veg from seed and never planted anything close to this big on may 24...this is going to be a crazy year
20 gallon planters for the choicest of prudens purple and oplaka
2 cherry tomatos in 15s
potatos in 10s and 15s
eggplants in 7s and 10s
Pepperrs in 7s and 10s
a couple of squash pots but mostly on trellissis with 2 x 2s over the north side of the house against the bricks (8 foot 2 x2s secured about 1 foot into the ground against the house with 2 inch square green fencing)
cucumbers
green and yellow summer squash
Maybe 1 other thing.
sunflowers where i can fit them for pollinators....some corn too.
Swiss chard kale and other greens wherever i can fit them and all herbs (dill, thyme, basil, oregeno, sage) out front for noon to dark sun.
What a year...global warming made my city like cali....lets GROW THIS...
I almost put my plants outside last weekend, but I'm glad I didn't. We got a clod snap and actually got some snow in the state. The snow was about 50-60 miles from me but it was a nice reminder that it's still a little too early for me to move the plants outdoors.
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
I hate those CLOD snaps
I think the frost has past, and the nursery kept my plants healthy for me... I got a few tomatoes and a few peppers. Nothing 'exciting' except maybe the 'Mexican spicy bell'? who knows. I'll have tomatoes for sandwiches. The two big ones are cherry tomatoes and are set until I take them down. I may keep most of it in pots or buckets, but some might go in the ground. More likely into cloth pots when I get more soil, then half buried in the ground.
I threw down some seeds for pickling cukes and zuchinni just to see what would take and not get eaten by the birds and chipmunks- I'll have cupes.
It's a long raised bed with the climbing plants on eash end, and sugar-snap peas and carrots in the middle. A few peas are popping.
This is a pardley and a marjoram that I left out all winter with temps down in the teens for weeks at a time.
Ohio.george
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For sure, we had to turn the friggin heat back on. WtF
All my shit is ready to go outside. That old planting table has been in our dirt floor basement since we bought the house (and probably for at least 30 years before that). I finally decided to clean all the mouse shit off of it and use it for what it was made for. I forget what the plant in the pot is, but one of the cats took the top off it the other day...my wife stuck it in the sun hoping it will get back to growing.
And these are the flowers I started last Sunday
And these are the flowers I started last Sunday
Nobighurry
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Predicting 20-25mph wind with up to 4in of snow sun-mon, just when I get excited about putting some lettuce & spinach out another cold front hits our soil is still to cold
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
The Great White NorthPredicting 20-25mph wind with up to 4in of snow sun-mon, just when I get excited about putting some lettuce & spinach out another cold front hits our soil is still to cold
wonder where that nickname came from
Yeah, I’m closer to the coast so we got all rain and wind…I have two small ponds in the yard from it. I went to my sisters house last night, about an hour drive away, and her years had about 2” of snow.Predicting 20-25mph wind with up to 4in of snow sun-mon, just when I get excited about putting some lettuce & spinach out another cold front hits our soil is still to cold
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
I strung a wire across my bed and put a tarp over it - no damage from the frost. The potted plants came in. This is my "garden" for now.
Tomatoes and peppers, and peas, cukes and zuchini in the bed.
You can see why I have a nice sunny spot because the ancient oak laying on its side used to be where the black pots are - The are all sitting on the ground down stump. This side of the tree is a mulberry bush
I am getting some stuff planted permanent though. The stump in the foreground has spearmint runners everywhere. Also a few pumpkin seeds that made it from my johnny appleseed dump around the house.
For you tomato gardeners, here's an option to ditch the cages.
Last years herbs either got put in the ground last fall or this spring. Eventually the slopw wo=ill be a (nicer) terraced garden. There's rosemary and Marjoram just stuck in the clay.
The Italian flat-leaf parsley was a seed-dump last spring, The sage on the right had long woody stems with flowers on them (chopped) but the base was putting out mucho new growth. Strawberries have a nice little chipmunk hole right under them...
This was just in a pot last year
Tomatoes and peppers, and peas, cukes and zuchini in the bed.
You can see why I have a nice sunny spot because the ancient oak laying on its side used to be where the black pots are - The are all sitting on the ground down stump. This side of the tree is a mulberry bush
I am getting some stuff planted permanent though. The stump in the foreground has spearmint runners everywhere. Also a few pumpkin seeds that made it from my johnny appleseed dump around the house.
For you tomato gardeners, here's an option to ditch the cages.
Last years herbs either got put in the ground last fall or this spring. Eventually the slopw wo=ill be a (nicer) terraced garden. There's rosemary and Marjoram just stuck in the clay.
The Italian flat-leaf parsley was a seed-dump last spring, The sage on the right had long woody stems with flowers on them (chopped) but the base was putting out mucho new growth. Strawberries have a nice little chipmunk hole right under them...
This was just in a pot last year
Yeah, my plants have to get planted outside no later than next Wednesday, so I picked up some rolls of plastic sheeting just in case we get anymore chances of frost. I can't wait to get them out of the house because they are all getting a little too big and hand watering all of those plants every day is becoming a royal pain in the ass. I wanted to get my surgery out of the way before the summer but I really screwed myself when I scheduled it for next week. I have until Wed to get all the plants out in the garden, get the rest of my chicken coop and run secured from weasels (one took out my entire flock a few years ago), grade a 256 sqft patch of land for a 4' tall x 15' diameter pool, and setup the pool. It doesn't help when I refuse to ask my family and friends to help with it all, either
Oh...and I also have to setup that new 2x4 tent, build the new light for it, and get the competition plants moved into their final pots on Wed
H.A.F.
a.k.a. Rusty Nails
Or vegetables...Oh...and I also have to setup that new 2x4 tent, build the new light for it, and get the competition plants moved into their final pots on Wed