What you got planted ?

[Geezer in NH]

90 feet of raspberries.

[johnson1942]

thanks for reminding me, 11 well rooted raspberry plants in a compost filled stock watering tank. man 90 ft of them. you will be eating good. ever bearing or summerbearing?

[dragon813gt]

Planted the potatoes today. Also planted the first patch of bush beans. I will plant another in two weeks and maybe a third in a month. All depends on how many peppers I decide to plant.

[gwpercle]

I got something eating holes in my pepper plant leaves....I tried dusting them with Sevin Vegetable Dust but that didn't do any good....I'm thinking it's snails . Had an infestation a several years ago , put out some slug & snail be gone and wiped them out. Looks like they're back !

[Uncle Jimbo]

Well I hope the weather here in Northern Utah is done being a plant killer. I planted my tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and squashes today. Also put in another row of radishes.

[farmerjim]

I got something eating holes in my pepper plant leaves....I tried dusting them with Sevin Vegetable Dust but that didn't do any good....I'm thinking it's snails . Had an infestation a several years ago , put out some slug & snail be gone and wiped them out. Looks like they're back !

Sevin will kill snails and slugs. I use 80% wettable powder or liquid to get good coverage.

[gwpercle]

Sevin will kill snails and slugs. I use 80% wettable powder or liquid to get good coverage.

I'll do them again with Sevin , maybe I didn't use enough and I will get more on the underside of the leaves.
Past couple years my jalapeno peppers haven't done well, hardly making anything, in the past pepper plants grew like weeds. Might to try try some Miracle Grow , cow maneuver just isn't getting the job done.
Anyone have any pepper growing tips for me to try ?
Gary

[johnson1942]

if you really want them to grow buy some alaska fish fertilizer. you wont over fertilize no matter how much you put on and your plants will really really take off. put some on rhubarb that wasnt doing well once the it got 5 ft tall that year. also rabbit manure if anyone around you raises rabbits. their a a sioux native american over on the rez who raises rabbits in cages. he put all of their manure in his garden. he has peppers twice as tall as they are ment to be and the bell peppers are way bigger than any in the store or anywheres else. rabbit manure is hard to find but if you can you have garden gold. also got another cattle galvinized big round old watering tank. going to fill it with cheap saw dust the farm store sells for chicken houses and some cheap peat moss. top it of with compost and a little sulfur and fertilizer and wet it down and let it rot untill next spring and plant blueberries in it next spring. should hold about 5 bushes. it might even be ready for a fall planting. my son put 12, 45 cal size holes in the bottom of it with my 45 cal cowboy gun for drainage. we do things the practical way out here in the west. wouldnt work so well in the city.

[rancher1913]

spread umpteen ton of cow dung from cleaning the corrals Saturday, got it plowed in and ran mulcher over it, spread chicken poo and mulched it one more time, that was a long day but 5 acre's are ready to go. sunday got sweet corn planted and everything else, you name it and my wife propably has it planted. still have a hundred or so tomato's to move from the greenhouse to the garden but that needs to wait until it warms up a little.

[farmerjim]

gwpercle,
We have had a cool spring, Too cool for peppers and eggplant to grow well. I am a little cooler than where you are, but not much. I have some nice peppers on my plants, but they were set on them in the greenhouse where it was much warmer. They are just now blooming in the field. My eggplant are just now blooming, I should already be picking them. Tomatoes will tolerate more cool weather than peppers, but will loose blossoms below 50. I don't use miracle Grow in the field because it would cost too much, but I do use it on the transplants that I grow. I use 1/3 of a teaspoon per gallon of water and use this concentration for 100% of the water the transplants get. At that low of a concentration you will not get too much fertilizer. It can supplement your manure fertilizer. It takes a large amount of manure to supply nitrogen to modern hybrid plants. It does have the advantage of supplying it over the entire season whereas chemical nitrogen needs to be added several times during the season. All said I think your main problem this year is the cool weather.
Good luck and good growing.

[rancher1913]

farmerjim, have you looked into manure tea instead of miracle grow, lots cheaper but takes labor so maybe not a good trade off.

[MaryB]

Garlic and horseradish came in today so I need to get that planted tomorrow. Checked ground temp and still to cold for corn and beans.

[DerekP Houston]

My corn is forming tassles now and cherry tomatoes are getting picked every other day. Cucumbers and squash took a beating during the storms, not sure if they will recover. My volunteer pumpkins have taken over the entire side yard though and with little pumpkins hanging on for dear life. Looks like i might have a pumpkin patch for halloween this year.

[farmerjim]

farmerjim, have you looked into manure tea instead of miracle grow, lots cheaper but takes labor so maybe not a good trade off.

I am growing 4 acres of vegetables without any help except my wife who will pick the cherry tomatoes and the cut flowers (Zinnia) . I buy an off brand of miracle grow at $ 3.50 per pound and use 2 pounds per year on about 3,000 transplants that I grow in a 10 x 20 greenhouse and 4 4 x 8 cold frames. I can get the manure for free if I will shovel it out. Making the Manure tea takes time that I don't have. When I slow down (When?) it is something I may try.

[Geezer in NH]

thanks for reminding me, 11 well rooted raspberry plants in a compost filled stock watering tank. man 90 ft of them. you will be eating good. ever bearing or summerbearing?

Beats me the son said they a 2 year kind new shoot grows this year and makes berries on it the next year. We have another 90 feet going in this week.

[DerekP Houston]

Beats me the son said they a 2 year kind new shoot grows this year and makes berries on it the next year. We have another 90 feet going in this week.

Either way imho you can't go wrong putting in berries or nut trees if you have the space

[smokeywolf]

Corn is 5 ft. tall and showing tassles. Peas are being harvested here and there. Sweetest and best tasting peas I've ever tasted. WOW! Zucchini is 4 to 5 inches long. Tomatoes are blossoming. Soy beans never did do well. Never did get good sprouts from the Burdock root seeds.
Wish we'd planted more peppers; a lot more.

[MaryB]

Ordered 5 bare root raspberry plants last night. I want to get a decent patch going. Next up are blueberries if I can get some cheap...

[johnson1942]

wife wants some red potatoes for potato salad so i planted one 15 gallon container with them. no more planting untill june 1st and then all the frost fragile ones will go in. all my contaiers are ready to go as well as the blackplastic garden. going to have a lot of pole beans this year and going to put glass clotches over them to keep the rabbits and mice from eating them. i made my glass clotches from 1 gallon glass jugs that i cut the bottoms off of with a 5 dollar glass cutter. the only way i could afford them but they are just as good as the expensive bought ones.

[MaryB]

Corn and beans went in together in the same rows. Pole beans will climb the corn so I don't have to trellis them. 2 kinds of acorn squash, 1 type of cucumber(1 more to plant), watermelon, and sunflowers went in today.