What Have You Got Planted 2018

[Baja_Traveler]

I planted several dozen dragon fruit cuttings this month. The macadamia trees are setting flowers and it looks like I'll have several 5 gallon buckets of nuts based on the number of flowers I see. My key lime is also going to have a bumper crop year based on flower set. I'll be starting my watermelon patch in a few weeks. Arabica coffee plant is really starting to take off, and I can practically watch the mango tree grow right now.

[Wayne Smith]

Early blueberries full bloom, later ones budded and beginning to bloom. Too cold and wet to do anything else so far. Hard to plant in mud!

[blue32]

I pruned the crab apple and dwarf peach tree last week. We have a freeze coming tonight so I'm worried about the peach. I've been dumping food scraps into the vegetable plot all year and tilling the soil with a hoe for three weeks now. Its looking good for planting but I need to be sure the calcium is up because I lost my whole crop of roma tomatoes last year due to blossom end rot. I'm looking forward to another surplus of romaine (hopefully) and will try sweet onions again since it was a complete failure last year. March in my region has proved to be turbulent temperature wise this year. It will be 70 one day and 30 the next.

[Hossfly]

Same here with the weather up and down with the temp. Turned off boilers in both greenhouses and hoping temp stays up at night. Ground temp coming up for now pole beans starting to sprout got fence up so they can run close to house to keep deer from munching. Right on blue with the calcium under the tomatoes it sure stopped the end rot here, last year was the first time didn’t have one tomato with it. My biggest battle is with potato bugs they know where i plant oh well just have to plant enough for them to.

[bob208]

our planting is on hold. we got 12 inches of show to day.

[Lloyd Smale]

my wife would pull a camper under one of those macadamia trees and live there.

I planted several dozen dragon fruit cuttings this month. The macadamia trees are setting flowers and it looks like I'll have several 5 gallon buckets of nuts based on the number of flowers I see. My key lime is also going to have a bumper crop year based on flower set. I'll be starting my watermelon patch in a few weeks. Arabica coffee plant is really starting to take off, and I can practically watch the mango tree grow right now.

[Baja_Traveler]

Last August’s haul - still have half a bucket to crack...


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[15meter]

Checked to see if my hops had started to sprout last Saturday. Not yet.

That's as much gardening as I can handle.

[waksupi]

I see some garlic peeking out of the snow in the garden. I planted tomatoes and peppers according to the moon, and the growth has definitely been better than previous years when I didn't pay attention to it.

[sundog]

Pear (Moonglow and Keifer) trees are in full bloom. I pruned them really hard a few months ago, and they are looking good. My Doc is getting a pile of pear wood for his smoker. Asparagus patch was cleaned up a couple weeks ago, and some are coming up - maybe enough for Easter dinner! Garlic wintered over and is ~8". Planted some more, too. Onions have been in since mid February and look good. Peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes are started inside and coming up. A friend is a salsa guru, so I've got a bunch of different sweets and hots to grow for him -- in exchange for salsa.

We've had 4" of rain the last several days, so things a purdy soggy right now. Gonna have a light freeze Sunday night, but the pears should be okay.

Cuke, melon and squash seeds are all standing by for a mid to late April planting.

Pecan trees (native and paper shell) all looking good.

[DougGuy]

I moved this year and the new place has very little yard, and very little sun gets to the yard it does have. Ugh.. Will be lucky to grow some herbs in pots.. Had to leave a chocolate persimmon, my blueberries, my tart cherry tree which bore fruit last year for the first time. fig tree, all left at ex gf's place..

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Yesterday, I 'scored' the surface of some Okra seeds and soaked them (in water) overnight. They will be planted in a flat later today...to be transplanted into the garden in late May.

[DerekP Houston]

Found out we have a loquat tree in the backyard as well, looks like we might get a decent crop of pecans as well if this weather is good all summer

[Echo]

Well - the best I could do is transplant. I decided I needed a little more adornment to my front yard, and I knew where there was a stand of several Santa Rita prickly pear plants, so I drove there (1/2 mile away), sliced off 3 pairs of pads, brought them home, and planted in prepared spots near the street. Used my pick a few days ago to whack the ground - Tucson dirt can be similar to concrete - and watered nicely, and let it soak in a couple days before sticking a shovel in the softened ground and sticking a pad in 1/2 way (after scoring the underground part, to enhance root growth), gave them a fresh watering, and will water again a a couple days, including a shot of B1 to help root growth. I'm including a picture of one - the other 2 are in the shadow of a small Palo Verde tree, and wouldn't make much of a picture.
And I will buy a Lysoloma tree today and plant in the back yard. Already dug that hole a couple months ago, so will be easy to plant. I'll put a picture here later this year showing it's progress.

[sundog]

Moonglow pears are already setting fruit. Keifers are just now blooming. Sunday night is forecast close to freezing, but I think they will be okay.

Got my grow light working yesterday in the back room. Pepper, tomato, and eggplant seedlings looking good. They all get planted mid to late April -- providing I can get in the garden. Rain made a mud bowl of things lately.

[shdwlkr]

well just yesterday the kids and I got in asparagus, rhubarb, peas, onions, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, swiss chard and Broccoli not much but a start. Next will be the tomatoes, peppers, corn, squash, cucumbers, melons that will take most of garden space as I don't have a big garden just a lot of different stuff in it.

[MaryB]

Ordered seeds yesterday... $48!! Ouch! But all heirloom!

[farmerjim]

Ordered seeds yesterday... $48!! Ouch! But all heirloom!

I buy a lot of seeds each year. Last year was over $1,000 because I bought some GMO sweet corn. Most of my seeds are hybrid, but I do grow a few Heirloom and open pollinated plants. I try to save some seed from them every few years. There is one green eggplant that I grow that is from seed brought back from Italy about 25 years ago. I save seed from them as it is not available from any seed company. It is the best tasting eggplant I have ever eaten.

[MaryB]

I buy a lot of seeds each year. Last year was over $1,000 because I bought some GMO sweet corn. Most of my seeds are hybrid, but I do grow a few Heirloom and open pollinated plants. I try to save some seed from them every few years. There is one green eggplant that I grow that is from seed brought back from Italy about 25 years ago. I save seed from them as it is not available from any seed company. It is the best tasting eggplant I have ever eaten.

If it is an heirloom rareseeds.com might buy some from you! They are my go to seed source now.

[Echo]

Son got some Heirloom seeds from a neighbor, for - whatever types. Has a nice garden in his back yard...