What Have You Got Planted 2018

[mpkunz]

Yeah, you buy something full price and next week its on sale. Happened to e again and again. I finally called the out on that practice last year after ti happened for about the 4th time in as many weeks, and told them I do not like being merchandized and would be returning the product and purchasing it on sale because the shipping cost was so much less than the amount of money saved. They offered to refund the difference and apologized. FWIW, YMMV.

[jonp]

Had stuff in for a couple of weeks. The tomato plants died because of a frost but the broccoli, cabbage, beets, brussel sprouts are just fine. Always dicey to plant this early and we expect to lose stuff but it's easily replaced.

[Omega]

My plants had germinated, peppers and tomatoes, but now the leaves started to turn brown. This is just the second year I started from seed so maybe I'm missing something. I had them under a dome and light so I took the cover off to see if that will fix it. We're expecting a light snow so too early to put them out, hopefully they'll survive. Last year, with all the experimenting I planted too late for any sort of harvest, only a couple peppers from each plant and no tomatoes.

[Thundarstick]

I've got broccoli, kale, and cabbage plants, spinach and Chinese cabbage from seed up in the garden. Tomato and pepper are 2-3 inches tall. I have been hardening them off, but did bring them back inside the house till the freeze passes. I try and not plant tomatoes and peppers until May first. Btw the only reason I start my tomatoes is to get varieties I can't buy at Rural King or Wal-Mart. Darn thing about Tennessee weather is so many years is too cool for cole crops to really get growing and about the time they do is 85F and burning them up! A month of spring, eight months of Summer, a month of Fall, and a two month winter, that's four seasons, rite?

[Thin Man]

Nothing yet, the dang weather keeps on changing in temperatures giving highs in the 70's one week and 40's the next. Plenty of rain but it comes in with high wind. I keep on telling myself - patience, grasshopper.

[MaryB]

More snow incoming, the winter that refuses to end!

[Iowa Fox]

Its going to take the soil temp a while to warm up enough to get excited here. We got 3" of snow yesterday, night time temps in the teens and twenties.

[farmerjim]

I have an 8 1/2 foot fence around 8 acres where I grow my vegetables so that the deer have to jump or break a hole through to get in to eat my plants. They do both. I have large gates at the front and back to get the truck and tractors in and out. Next to the house I have a 4 foot gate to walk in to get things to eat out of my kitchen garden. It has railroad ties for the sides a 2x4 across the top to keep the top square, and a strand of barbed wire just below the 2x4 at about 5 foot 6 1/2 inches. It has been like this for 12 years. I am now 5 foot 7, use to be 5 9 1/2 before back started breaking down. I have to duck to not hit the 2x4 or barbed wire. I always caution anyone going with me to be sure to duck. Nobody has hit the 2x4 or wire in 12 years. Yesterday I was in a hurry and forgot to duck.

[Edward]

My snow shovel

[kbstenberg]

We still have 6" on the ground and are expecting another major storm this weekend.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

We still have 6" on the ground and are expecting another major storm this weekend.

For the last month, every time a little garden soil is exposed, we get more snow.
So judging by this photo I took this morning, we'll be getting more snow this weekend as well

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[rr2241tx]

I planted some onion sets and ristra peppers out in the backyard, then the last two cold fronts came through and froze the leaves off the onions. The peppers have either not germinated or the deer got them already. I'm still somewhat in mourning for a 20 year old chili petin that the contractors pulled up because it was inconvenient to move their scaffold around it. Have had no luck getting another one big enough to be deer proof.

[MaryB]

I have an 8 1/2 foot fence around 8 acres where I grow my vegetables so that the deer have to jump or break a hole through to get in to eat my plants. They do both. I have large gates at the front and back to get the truck and tractors in and out. Next to the house I have a 4 foot gate to walk in to get things to eat out of my kitchen garden. It has railroad ties for the sides a 2x4 across the top to keep the top square, and a strand of barbed wire just below the 2x4 at about 5 foot 6 1/2 inches. It has been like this for 12 years. I am now 5 foot 7, use to be 5 9 1/2 before back started breaking down. I have to duck to not hit the 2x4 or barbed wire. I always caution anyone going with me to be sure to duck. Nobody has hit the 2x4 or wire in 12 years. Yesterday I was in a hurry and forgot to duck.

OUCH! How many stitches?

[farmerjim]

It looks bad, but it's not. I kept working for about 20 minutes after it happened. When I went inside my wife looked at me and with a gasp said what happened to you, are you OK? I went and looked in a mirror and saw what is in the picture. When washed off it is just a small puncture scrape on top of my head. It doesn't help that I am on a blood thinner.

[MaryB]

I am on coumadin... know the bleed a lot thing!

[Hossfly]

Well i was impatient and after waiting for Good Friday to set out tomatoes + two weeks guess what temp will be here in north La. Sunday morning 38’ and Monday may be 36’ so will cover complete tomato patch because if they say 36’ here on this sand hill it will frost. Pole beans are starting to climb fence and potatoes are budding now, already spraying for potato bugs but so far they are under control. Hope your up to date on tetanus shot.

[MaryB]

And 4' snow drifts, blizzard conditions...

[farmerjim]

Hossfly, It sure does get colder up there north of I 20. We are only predicted to go to 39. However some of my tomatoes are blooming and temps much below 50 will sterilize the blossoms. Those with green tomatoes on them or not yet blooming are OK. I put out my first tomatoes Feb 17 and only had a couple of light frosts on them. I cover my early tomatoes with Agribon AG-30. It gives me frost protection down to 27. It can be reused 3 or 4 years. I get my tomatoes 3 weeks earlier than anyone around me. It is a porous fabric and does not have to be removed until the plants get too big. I get mine in 800 and 1,000 foot rolls 83 inches wide, but I am starting to see some of the seed catalogues selling 50 and 100 foot rolls. I have only lost my Feb planted tomatoes twice in 20 years. I get my best sales of tomatoes to those that wait for Good Friday to plant.
Tetanus shot is up to date, thanks.

[Hossfly]

Thanks for the info on the Agricon we had a little frost last night then again Monday 36’ predicted so they get covered again this evening. Real pain must uncover as soon as sun comes up. That Agricon sounds like the ticket. Time now to get it all in the ground. Only got 3 qts of green beans left to eat plenty pickles and tomatoes from last summer. Happy growing.

[MaryB]

17+ inches of snow mixed with 70mph wind gusts yesterday, 20mph all day today. 6' drifts in spots. Snow plow got stuck trying to blast through the drift in front of my garage that was 4' deep and 30 feet long. Wet heavy snow on top of a muddy road so he had no traction.