What's in your Garden?

[bob208]

the last three days have been shirtsleeve weather.

[MaryB]

Snow...

but 3 days ago my strawberries were coming up. An alpine variety so I don't think the cold will hurt them much. Tiny berries but a small handful has more flavor than an entire pint of those tasteless store berries.

[Thundarstick]

I’m in the Weed Farming business

Some fellas where in the same business next to my Dad's place several years ago. They spent several growing seasons in the state pen for their gardening skills as well!

[Big Tom]

I got some peppers, Thai basil, cauliflower, chives, zucchini and the wife got a few tomatoe plants ready to go into the raised flower bed (as soon as I put that together and filled with usable soil...)

[bob208]

when I get the weeds cut down and start tilling I will get a nice crop of rocks.

[centershot]

Deer.

[farmerjim]

Deer.

I have to put electric fence string on every row and both sides to keep the deer off my plants (except for eggplant and onions). They even eat jalapeno peepers. I bought an extra 150 of the plastic temp electric fence posts for this years crops. I can surround a 300 foot row with the string in about 30 minutes and hook to the main line that goes down the side of the field. The deer get worse every year.

[jdfoxinc]

Weeds

[Mica_Hiebert]

About 3 inches of standing water

[Iowa Fox]

Rhubarb is up.
Calling for rain & maybe snow 6 out of the next 10 days.
I'll have to keep an eye on the rhubarb.

Rhubarb is peeking thru but the deer are eating it off. Just like everything here.

[gwpercle]

Rhubarb is peeking thru but the deer are eating it off. Just like everything here.

Deer are better eating than rhubarb .... set a trap

[Hickory]

Deer are better eating than rhubarb.

For me, it's a toss up.

[Tripplebeards]

I just shoveled 4” of solid slush. My rhubarb is about 4/5” tall and is sticking out through the snow we got last night. Leaf buds started to open on a crab apple tree I started from an apple seed so we will see if it buds. My peaches, pears, cherry, and apple tree buds haven’t opened yet but are starting to look like they will. Hopefully the **** weather doesn’t kill off the buds like last year. Only time will tell. I won’t be planting anything till mother’s day as usual or what ever I do will die off or stunt like always. I have 6 different kinds of rhubarb growing right now.


I bought some half gallon bottles of vinegar from the $1 store. I’m going to see if spraying it on my fruit and fruit trees will deter the squirrels from eating them up this year. Vs th BB gun and live trap, its a battle every year that I never win.

I wast debating on trying purple ube Hawaii yams in the garden this year but
Looks like the vines grow 20 plus feet high and that will take up a lot of my gardening space. Probably will stick to the usual. Tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, asparagus, and ground cherries...in 5 gal pales. I need something different this year to try like the yam.

[Hickory]

The Beauregard sweet potato grows great for me.

[Chainsaw.]

I just have a hobby garden, I’ll have a bigger one some day. But fer now I’ve got two kind of termaters, two kinds of taters, red onions, garlic, lots of herbs, acorn and yellow squash, ancho peppers, lettuce, BIG pumpkins, cukes, and soon Ill have some tomatillos for verde sauce.

We also grow honey crisp, granny smiths and red delicious apples, along with cherries, a type of pear I’m not sure of the variety but everyone loves em, blue berries, blackberries and raspberries. Hoping for a bumper crop of raspberries to make jam with this year.

[pcolapaddler]

My garden is 4 or 5 pots with peppers - bell, banana and ?, cucumbers and cherry tomatoes.

Sent from the largest mountain range in Florida.

[farmerjim]

My garden is 4 or 5 pots with peppers - bell, banana and ?, cucumbers and cherry tomatoes.

Sent from the largest mountain range in Florida.

Is that the big landfill near Miami ? When I would visit my friends down there they called it Mt. Trashmore.

[762 shooter]

Planted my potted tomatoes in the garden last weekend. Blue lake green beans, crook neck squash, okra and cucumbers.

Tomatoes are Mortgage Lifters, Better Boy, Early Girl, Roma, Top Gun, Heat Wave and Cherokee Purple.

Now if I can get my Dukes mayonnaise plants to come up I'll be ready for a mater sandwich.

762

[KCSO]

14" of snow and ICE.

[MaryB]

8" of wet slop... I had 90mph winds and 1" hail at one point yesterday... wild storm!