What Have You Got Planted 2018

[luna butte]

Today me n the kids seeded 15' kale, 15' spinach, 15' Swiss chard, 45' beets, 45' carrots, 45' cabbage, 15' lettuce, 15' radishes, 15' green onions, 45' peas.

Gotta wait till mid/late may for the warm season stuff. It's a good day

[MaryB]

4-10 inches of snow possible tonight/tomorrow...

[Echo]

Son planted some heirloom tomatoes recently, from a neighbor...

[farmerjim]

I put in another row of tomatoes and a second row of peppers ( 160-170 plants per row) yesterday. Seeded 200 heat set (Bella Rosa) tomatoes into flats for field planting in 6 weeks. Deer have only eaten 2 of my tomato plants so far this year.

[dverna]

I learned a few years ago that it was not worth the effort to plant anything. Unless I want to erect an 8' high fence, the deer will get a lot of it and then there are the small pests that need to eat too. The weird thing....in my area, just about the time anything I grow is ready to harvest, there are roadside stands full of the same stuff!!! I think it is a conspiracy.

I have a buddy who has always planted a lot because his wife wants "organic". I think that means they dump the poop from their livestock on it. And wind up giving away what they do not use or can. Many of us benefited from that, but I think he drank a lot more of my whiskey and beer than what he gifted me. I hear they are downsizing a lot this year...so I will need less booze around near harvest time.

While on the organic topic. Last year they raised a pig and it died just before they were going to butcher it. A few years ago they sold one of their pigs to another neighbor and it cost him about $500. This organic fad is expensive. I wait for the sales and get pork for less than $1.75/lb. At 67 years old....just how much longer will I live by eating organic stuff anyway?

[tja6435]

Onion, radish, peas, beets

[Omega]

Still have freezes predicted so nothing in the ground, but have a few tomatoes and some peppers under the lights ready for when I decide to chance it. Hope to get them in the ground at least by mid month. I have some peppers coming up, from seeds that I got from a member here, Aleppo and Piment D Espelette (sp), I tried last year but I didn't plant in time and only got 2 peppers from one plant...the entire garden didn't produce. This year I may have started too early, we'll see, I have them under a dome and lights, the tomatoes germinated withing a few days with the peppers right behind them.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

nothing yet i would need a jackhammer and a greenhouse to plant anything today

Yes, been wanting to "plant" a few steel fence posts for steel targets but being in zone 3, it will be a few more weeks.

[snuffy]

I think there's something wrong with folks in the southern states coming on here each spring with what they have already planted in their gardens.

While us in the top tier of states still have frost in the ground. Nah na nah na! I will dig this thread up in July-August with a question; how's the sweat on your brow, how's the air conditioner running? Yeah, sure you will have had fresh tomatoes and peppers since June 1st, while we up north have only had plants in the ground for maybe 3 weeks.

Tomatoes seeds I planted 3-29 have just sprouted, while peppers will not show up for another 10 days. 6 weeks till last frost when I can transplant with first tomatoes maybe mid July. With a shorter season, the rush to get stuff canned is from then on till first frost around 10-10.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

My Garden and firewood shed.

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[Geezer in NH]

3/31 Started lettuce, 3 kinds of tomatoes and 2 types of peppers all on the greenhouse porch. they will get transplanted end of may to the garden.

[quilbilly]

This weekend I got the potatoes, onions, and the first batches of spinach and radishes in the ground even though the ground is a bit cold yet 9it was 28 yesterday morning). Next up will be lettuce, arugula, and carrots in a week or so.

[shdwlkr]

Johnb
That looks like it was here last year this year much different more normal for us. No snow, ground ready for planting early stuff and yes we still might get a storm that could make things interesting. But weather report says we are going to be warming up into the 60's in the next few days and rain. Yes we like rain out here as when it stops there is only irrigation water and we deal with the snow that fell in the mountains over the winter and hope there was enough to fill our reservoirs so we have enough water to get through the summer. I look at gardening as a way to connect with nature, God and life. Spring is the renewal of life, summer is the chance to mature, fall is the old age of life and winter is death of life.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

shdwlkr,
I love the change of seasons and gardening, your analogy is a good one.

Minnesota can deliver a different Springtime every year.
Some years, I can work the soil in late March and plant some cool tolerant seeds (spinach, cabbage, raddish, beet). This year, besides this snow, Yikes, there is still frost in the ground and the weather idiots are predicting another big snow storm next weekend...as well as, cold weather (daytime highs of 30 or low 30s) for 2 more weeks. I'll be lucky to work the soil by May 1

[MaryB]

Jon I was up at the lake as a kid Memorial Weekend... it had been a really warm spring and water temps were mid 70's already. We kept jumping in the lake to warm up because the water was a lot warmer than the 35 degree air! It even snowed that weekend. Mom has pictures of my Dad water skiing in the snow!

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

I've heard stories of snow on Memorial weekend before...Myself, I don't recall it happening...but I do recall, sometime in the early 90's, that we had a 7" snow storm in early May...much like the one that happened today.

[lefty o]

i remember snow as late as june 6th, though i am ready for it to quit falling now!

[farmerjim]

To those of you in the North, be patient , your planting time will come soon. Although born and raised in the South, and back here now, I lived up north for 12 years. For 9 of those years I had a 115 acre weekend retreat in upstate New York just South of the Canadian border. I had a 1 acre garden and grew truckloads of vegetables that we would can or put in the freezer, or give to neighbors. Plant day for warm season vegetables was May 21 (the Queen's birthday). Wow, did things ever grow fast up there. The days were much longer than down South. There were few insects that attacked my vegetables ( except Colorado potato beetles) The plants were not wet 12 hours a day and did not have fungus and bacteria attacking. No need to spray the plants 2 times a week with insecticide and fungicide like down here. The soil actually had good organic matter in it. Down here the year long warm soil breaks it down fast. The vegetables grew large and fast with little fertilizer. I still remember going out into the garden in the winter and digging under the snow to get carrots and parsnips.
For those of you far to the South of me, I also envy you being able to grow all those tropical plants. We would often go visit our friends in the Florida Keys in the winter. There were gardens with tomatoes growing, Mangoes, Breadfruit, Avocados, pineapples, and just North in Homestead, another friend farming all kinds of vegetables.
We all have things we can grow where we live. I had 9 tomato plants on my balcony when I was in an apartment In Montreal. I enjoy reading about what you are planting in your area and learning about new varieties of vegetables that I might get to try.
Keep growing them to serve with the meat that we hunt.

[gwpercle]

Tam Jalapeno Peppers
Goliath Jalapeno Peppers
Classic Purple Eggplant
Big Beef Tomaio
Sanibel Tomato
Sunkeeper Tomato
Blueberries
My Meyer Lemon might have survive the big freeze (16 degrees) I'm starting to see some new green growth , the Grapefruit tree, Bay Laurel and both Satsuma trees are all OK.
Going to plant some Gypsey Peppers and Okra later
The honey bees that live in the hollow tree in my back yard also survived , 16 degrees and 4 1/2 inches of snow...them guys are tough !
Gary

[lightman]

I know this is mostly about gardens and I'm not a gardner. But, I've got about 10 acres that I have disc twice and will probably plant Sunflowers next month for my Dove Field. I plan to do something different this year. In years past I have broadcast them but this year I am going to rent a drill and plant them with my tractor. It cost about $4 an acre and I'll save more than that on seeds. Plus I should get a better more uniform stand.