The annual pre-garden thread ....

Newellknik · #1 05-22-2017, 04:47 PM

I have not seen one on here . Just wondering how the green houses are
doing . took a pic of some of the seedlings from the indoor
gH ....perennials are coming up ...should be interesting .
Got lots of water stored up already

lmtada · #2 05-22-2017, 08:09 PM

Garden all planted today. Corn, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Onions, More Onions, Beets, Carrots many types, Herbs, Blue Berry, strawberry, lettuce, spinach Arugala, kale, Basil, Peppers, peas, beans, cabbage, zucchini, pumpkin, oregano, mint, and thyme. Busy day!!

Big Lou · #3 05-22-2017, 11:29 PM

Peas, onions and potatoes were in the ground 2.5 weeks ago. Well one row of peas was planted then and the second row with the the rest as everything else went in a week ago. Tomatos, cucumbers, peppers and some other tasties are coming up quickly in the greenhouse. I think the wife has a couple other items in the GH as well but they escape me right now. Peas are just starting to climb the fence on the early row.

HowSwedeItIs · #4 05-23-2017, 07:20 PM

Tomatoes, peppers, melons, and most of the pumpkins ready to go. Think I will wait until after this crazy weather system has passed before I put them in

bsmitty27 · #5 05-23-2017, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by HowSwedeItIs

Tomatoes, peppers, melons, and most of the pumpkins ready to go. Think I will wait until after this crazy weather system has passed before I put them in

X2 all ready to go. Seeds are in the ground. Tomato's, pumpkin, melons, will go in after this system passes. 200 Strawberry's and 20 Saskatoon's will arrive on Friday.

Bonescreek · #6 05-23-2017, 08:19 PM

Can't believe with how far north you all are, that your garden season is so much
like mine this spring.

Reading through the posts and replies above it looks like I'm about right where
you all are at.

And you all are north of upstate NY by a stones through at least ?

Right ?

With all the fracking and global warming and plate shifting..
Maybe CA drifted south east 2 degrees ?

hal53 · #7 05-23-2017, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bonescreek

Can't believe with how far north you all are, that your garden season is so much
like mine this spring.

Reading through the posts and replies above it looks like I'm about right where
you all are at.

And you all are north of upstate NY by a stones through at least ?

Right ?

With all the fracking and global warming and plate shifting..
Maybe CA drifted south east 2 degrees ?

Longer days, lots of daylight

Bonescreek · #8 05-23-2017, 08:36 PM

Longer days more sun for you it's true, but it's always been that way.
So why is this spring so much like yours ? At the same time ?
In respect to plant growth for the garden ?

EZM · #9 05-23-2017, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bonescreek

Can't believe with how far north you all are, that your garden season is so much
like mine this spring.

Reading through the posts and replies above it looks like I'm about right where
you all are at.

And you all are north of upstate NY by a stones through at least ?

Right ?

With all the fracking and global warming and plate shifting..
Maybe CA drifted south east 2 degrees ?

With more fracking we will be planting bananas in a few years up here !!!!

Bonescreek · #10 05-23-2017, 08:54 PM

I grew up in northern NJ were in the winter in the months of Jan. and Feb. there
would be 3 to 4 weeks of below 0 temps. and spring would come in May. at best.
We get spring in Apr. here in VA.

NJ is about a good 500 miles north of here, the coldest winter VA may have hit was the mid teens in the last 10 years.

The deer rut in NJ starts in late Oct. Down here it starts the 2nd week of Nov.
NJ gets first frost in last Sept. we get first frost maybe in Dec.

So how can you all possibly be warmer ?

Habfan · #11 05-23-2017, 09:34 PM

80 degrees outside today.

bb356 · #12 05-23-2017, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bonescreek

I grew up in northern NJ were in the winter in the months of Jan. and Feb. there
would be 3 to 4 weeks of below 0 temps. and spring would come in May. at best.
We get spring in Apr. here in VA.

NJ is about a good 500 miles north of here, the coldest winter VA may have hit was the mid teens in the last 10 years.

The deer rut in NJ starts in late Oct. Down here it starts the 2nd week of Nov.
NJ gets first frost in last Sept. we get first frost maybe in Dec.

So how can you all possibly be warmer ?

Our season change is very abrupt ... exactly one month ago we had a 18 inch snow dump ... today I'm watching the dandelion's grow ...

Bonescreek · #13 05-23-2017, 10:12 PM

Wow that is amazing.

Todays high was like 62 F. or 16.7 C.
Cold and raining for the next 5 or 6 days, ground is already soaked.
Little to no wind thank God, some folks will surly feel the effects if the wind
kicks up in the next few days.

bb356 · #14 05-23-2017, 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bonescreek

Wow that is amazing.

Todays high was like 62 F. or 16.7 C.
Cold and raining for the next 5 or 6 days, ground is already soaked.
Little to no wind thank God, some folks will surly feel the effects if the wind
kicks up in the next few days.

Yup ... and in the fall when I was a kid halloween night was a beautiful night with warm wind and you would wake up to the first snow which usually stayed ... last 10 year's has been a crap shoot with all kind's of weather in October or April .

Bonescreek · #15 05-23-2017, 10:33 PM

As a side note in case anyone was wondering, yes in my spare time I compiled a desktop application to covert centimeters to inches and vice versa and ferenheight to centagrade and vice versa, because I'm peavy like that.

This was to make sense of all your "Biggest Fish and Antler" stories you all post up every year.

Gives me a way of "Weighing the Anchor" so to speak.

Also have a pop up spell checker that I forget to use most of the time but the
icon sits right there on my task bar.

Old timers kicks in sometimes. :-)

Bonescreek · #16 05-23-2017, 10:45 PM

bb356, only thing I can remember about Oct. and Halloween when I was a kid was that it was so dang cold, the only thing I wanted was to go home.
1971 ?

Not sure but I think that was the year frost went below 3' in the ground and the
old man burned up the welder trying to defrost other peoples frozen water pipes.
Our own house froze up too along with the rest, think it was 3 weeks before we
had running water that winter.

Wake up in the morning to see your breath from out the covers and time to go
to school.

bb356 · #17 05-23-2017, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bonescreek

bb356, only thing I can remember about Oct. and Halloween when I was a kid was that it was so dang cold, the only thing I wanted was to go home.
1971 ?

Not sure but I think that was the year frost went below 3' in the ground and the
old man burned up the welder trying to defrost other peoples frozen water pipes.
Our own house froze up too along with the rest, think it was 3 weeks before we
had running water that winter.

Wake up in the morning to see your breath from out the covers and time to go
to school.

... humidity mean's alot too ...

Bonescreek · #18 05-23-2017, 11:08 PM

Humility means just as much.
I could write a book am sure you could do the same.

Bonescreek · #19 05-23-2017, 11:24 PM

Funny I talk about the old times like they were golden.
Well yea they were and they will never happen again.
But they were hard times too just the same.

If nothing else I guess I see the accomplishments over the hard
times back then resulting in lasting achievements that stand the test of
time and are based upon real things.

That's what made them good things.

bb356 · #20 05-24-2017, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bonescreek

Funny I talk about the old times like they were golden.
Well yea they were and they will never happen again.
But they were hard times too just the same.

If nothing else I guess I see the accomplishments over the hard
times back then resulting in lasting achievements that stand the test of
time and are based upon real things.

That's what made them good things.

Sundancefisher · #21 05-24-2017, 11:44 AM

Planted on the weekend

Put in...

Potatoes
Snow peas
Homesteader peas
Carrots
Radishes
Cucumbers
Celery
Brussel sprouts
Butternut squash
Yellow beans

recce43 · #22 05-24-2017, 04:41 PM

my greenhouse roof is now in Saskatchewan

Reeves1 · #23 05-24-2017, 05:15 PM

Garden started. Orange fence is around the strawberries year round to protect from Deer. Fence for peas up year round, hard to see. Potatoes are in, the high dirt rows, which is peat moss. They grow well in that stuff & clean when harvest ! Straw between rows. We can get into the garden any time without getting muddy boots and keeps weeds down ! Plus it composts & provides nutrients. 4' centers on rows.

Watered straw down before wind & is staying put.

KegRiver · #24 05-25-2017, 02:24 PM

I started everything indoors, back in March.

Now everything outside and well on it's way. My Cucumbers and Zucchini are blooming, my Tomatoes will soon be.
My Marigolds have a few flowers on them, the rest of the flower plants have no buds yet but are several inches high.

I gambled and moved everything to the garden the first week of May.
I did get a touch of frost one night and it toasted some Cuces but everything else made it through fine and is doing great.

Most years I would not put anything out until after the May long weekend but this year I guessed that we wouldn't get the usual May long weekend cold snap, and we didn't.