What Have You Got Planted 2018

[Bulldogger]

Don't tell Brassmagnet but I planted a couple of wheel weights in my back yard, hope I can grow a lead tree and not have to scrounge lead all over the place.

If they do sprout, don't forget to stake them. Lead trees are very top heavy when fruiting and prone to toppling over, causing a loss of the whole crop. And remember to not try to use underripe lead as it will not alloy well.

Bdgr

[robg]

Small garden but we have apples pears blueberries stawberrys rubbarb blackcurrants .don't plant them as they grow year on year but we usually plant tomatoes and garlic. Thyme mint rosemary sage bushes and a small bay tree .my wife's a great cook .

[parkerhale1200]

Still waiting for the euro coin tree to come up....
used some 10 euro bills for manure.

If you use soft lead, in a sand soil you will get a nice crop of lead rolls, I had some good success with it.

In the mean time: 12 species of Tobacco plants, potatoes, carrots, white red and green cabbage.
Fruits like every year: apples, pears, kiwis, cherry's, prumes, black red and white grapes and olive's.
Most fruit is for rumtopf, wine and juice, some potatoes and carrots are for wodka.
Tobacco doesn't need explanation, right?

Still no caviar, I don't want to cut open my fishes.

[robg]

My fil made that stuff ,rocket fuel!

[Geezer in NH]

Still 2 -3 weeks to tell what we have planted. Snow melted off 4 days ago.

[farmerjim]

I've been busy the last week. The deer got into my field. It is surrounded by a
8 1/2 foot fence, but they do jump it, and sometimes ram it repeatedly till they open it up and get through. They have never been a problem in the spring, but just the other night they ate the tops out of 200 of my tomato plants and took out a few of my pepper plants. I have bought 4 more electric fence chargers and 5,000 feet of electric fence string and tape. There is electric fence string running over the top of every row (300 feet each) of vegetables ( except onions and eggplant, They have never eaten them) I have also put a single electric strand around the field about 3 feet away from the 8 1/2 foot field fence. Deer are suppose to have poor depth perception and don't like to jump double fences. (so said on the internet, so it must be true) Most of the deer come in from the East side of the field so there I have backed up the field fence with a double electric fence. One is 18 inches high and the one 3 feet behind it is 3 wires 18, 36, and 54 inches high.
It has been hit at least twice as a wire was found out of the insulators in the mornings.
I have not lost any plants since I have electrified this field, but it is a lot of extra work.
It has finally warmed up after the coldest March and April I can recall so I will put in the watermelon, Veg spaghetti and cushaw transplants today before tomorrows rain.
I am now picking cabbage, broccoli, lettuce, onions, summer squash, and a few
tomatoes.
It is now light, so off to the field. Have a great day.

[kbstenberg]

Last week the snow melted enough to get my little tiller in the ground. I only have peas in so far. But I have corn, beans, beats, onions ready to go as soon as I can get to it.
The wife seems to think I should spend all my time finishing the bathroom remodel before I get to anything else! I just don't understand her.

[MaryB]

My rhubarb, strawberries and chives are up. One rhubarb either didn't make it or isn't up yet(it was kind of sickly looking last fall). Starts inside the house are all 2-4" tall now...

[Thundarstick]

Beans are coming up, tomatoes and peppers are growing well, but it does look like the spring garden is a total loss. This had been one of the years where it's been too cold and wet for the cole crops to grow and now it seems we've moved straight into summer! We've had highs in the 80s for about two weeks now with high 80s forecast for until it even gets hotter. Broccoli, cabbage, spinach, and kale are burning up! Rolling them under for squash, and melons this week. Some times you win, some times you lose!

[MaryB]

Ignore the destroyed window blind, woke up to Ollie mewing and tangled in it and he was stuck... trashed it LOL

Top is cukes, squash, watermelon, Scottish bunching onions, celery.
Middle is sweet and 3 types of hot peppers.
Bottom is 4 types of tomatoes.

I won't move anything to the garden until the end of the month.

Mini green house is a 24" wide 3 shelf unit from Walmart, heavy duty window plastic from Walmart taped on and the back flap held closed with magnets. Stays a good 10-15 degrees warmer inside it than room air temp.

[farmerjim]

Mary, I was going to ask when you set out your warm season plants, But now I will ask when is your average killing frost date? When I lived in Montreal our dates were May 21 plant warm and Oct 7 killing frost. It was so nice to grow vegetables up North. No bugs except for Colorado potato beetles, and corn ear worms. No diseases or fungi, long long days of sunlight to make things grow faster, and soils rich with organic matter. I can grow things year round down here, but pay for it with a constant battle with diseases and insects. It looks like you will have a nice crop from those plants.

[MaryB]

I have seen frost Memorial weekend(usually around the 28th of May, and can get frost third week in September some years. More typical fall frost is mid Oct. One year up at the lake Memorial Weekend it was snowing while we were swimming... even water skied in the snow! Had a warm early start of the month to bring water temps to the low 70's then slammed with a late snow.

[Tom W.]

I planted two avacado seeds in a planter on the back deck..... wonder if they'll grow?

[farmerjim]

I planted two avacado seeds in a planter on the back deck..... wonder if they'll grow?

Wash it. Use 3 toothpicks to suspend it broad-end down over a water-filled glass to cover about an inch of the seed. Put the glass in a warm place out of direct sunlight and replenish water as needed. You should see the roots and stem start to sprout in about 2-6 weeks.

[MaryB]

Rhubarb I thought was gone is now up. Might be a different variety than the other 2 I got from the neighbors patch when we broke it up and replanted it.

[Beagle333]

One row (13 plants) of tomatoes. Got a soaker hose run down the row. I used to keep up three gardens, but since being all gimped up now, I just got the one row and am pretty proud to have it.

[MaryB]

I started laying down landscape cloth the last couple years to cut down on weeding. Real back saver for my messed up body!

[Walks]

My wife's Poinsettia from last XMAS. She came out in the middle of a casting session and wanted it planted now.
She's lucky She's a really good cook. And good at other things too.

[MT Gianni]

Traditional last frost date is June 10th so we are getting stuff ready.

[AK Caster]

We now have half a dozen tomatoe plants and 8 assorted pepper plants and 4 cucumber. I did add 6 more garden boxes, each one is 5 foot long and 4 feet wide. Decided to make them shorter as they are easier to level. They sit next to our first two boxes that are 14x4. The first ones now look goofy since they were not leveled.
Three of the new garden boxes will hold asparagus because we found out one of the 14x4 boxes is not enough to keep us well fed with asparagus even though this is the start of the 3rd year for the first bed