Seems in the past we were posting garden pictures, questions and answers by this time of the year. Up here in the Panhandle we're just getting started, in fact it was 40 degrees this morning, the soil temperature is high enough but small plants would take a beatin' with this northwest wind gusting to 20 mph.
Last year I was unable to play in the garden but I'm able this season so far!
Planted some red corn a week ago and it is coming up, also some yellow straight-neck squash, they are just now cracking the soil. Probably by Monday they'll be up, hoping the cold don't get no worse.
Planted a couple of rows of Roma bush beans for Miss Joy and 14 rows of Zipper cream peas. Zippers are in very short supply, can't find them in the local feed store. A guy gave me a 50# bag, unopened, that had a low germination percentage and they were tested in 2012. They were treated seed and have no bug damage, just low germ. rate. So I put the soybean plates in the old planters and drilled them in pretty thick. I used about 7 1/2 ponds on 14 rows a 100' long. If they are too close we can thin them with a hoe. If they don't come up we'll replant with another variety of peas.
Going to wait till after Easter to plant the Silver Queen as our 2 grandsons will be here for their spring break and that will be a "farm project" they can help with.
Added new compost to top off the 5 raised beds, peppers, 'maters and such planted in them.
Can't wait for a big pot of them big ol' yellow straight neck squash with a couple of onions sliced up and seasoned with a lot of black pepper!
What y'all got growing in the garden?
Treefarmer
I have had so many "little" projects to do with all these critters I have here, that my spring garden has taken a back seat. I have eaten so many collards till I am tired of looking at them. I have 3 rows still and am using them as animal fodder.. I do have a row of beefsteak maters and a row of cherry tomatoes planted, plus sweet peppers and assorted jalapenos, etc. I did get cucumber seeds planted yesterday and hope to get squash and eggplants done tomorrow.
I planted some Datil pepper seeds back in January, and finally got them out of the seed starter trays into individual 4" pots yesterday
One thing is for certain, with all the compost from my animals I have added(chicken bedding, rabbit poop and hay, etc), I will never have to buy fishing worms again. One pull of the rake uncovers at least 10-12
Just tilled my garden under yesterday, still have collards and cabbage producing and the asparagus is beginning to throw off new shoots. I transplanted a couple of habaneros that made it through the winter and will be trimming back the raspberries later today. Hope to have everything in the ground no later than next weekend if I don't get out to camp for my 1st turkey hunt of the season.
I have been working on mine. Finally got some seed in the ground today. So far I have corn, okra, egg plant, blue lake beans, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, couple kinds tomatoes, sun flowers and a bunch of iris from my grandfathers garden.
I took the easy route and bought some bonnie plants. We just planted them in our earth boxes and I just built 2 more. We've got 3 different cherry tomatoes in one box. White and purple eggplants in another. A hab pepper plant, a cayenne, a tabasco in another. Cukes and okra in the ground. This year we plan on making some bread and butter pickles, pickled mixed veggies and I'm going to try my hand at some homemade hot sauce...
