Anyone Doing Any Gardening Work Yet?

[skid]

So far this year I have applied calcium/magnesium to my orchard grass, fertilized my fruit/nut trees, and spread manure and humic acid in my garden. I also applied horticultural vinegar to the grass and weeds directly around my fruit trees and blueberries to prevent competition for nutrients. I have all my seeds ready, even my seed potatoes. Now if only the fricken rain would stop I would till and plant the garden...

[basplaer]

Heck, in southern Nevada I've already been eating greens and baby carrots (great backyard value!) and there are tiny lil tomatoes starting. I'm so excited about this season its the largest garden I've started since I was a kid.

[osoab]

Started first plants outside on March 6 with the aid of some cold frame boxes and some plastic hoop houses.

Have about 500 onions, 500 carrots, 60 shallot, 60 garlic, 60 leek, 100 lettuce, 48 Broccoli, 32 cabbage, and a few cauliflower too. One row of snow peas and a few beets. I think that is it for now.


Just up potted 45 or so tomato plants last night.

[Kali]

I just started planting fruit trees...about 18 of them. Should have fruit all year long with the mix I got.

[Cobalt]

I just started planting fruit trees...about 18 of them. Should have fruit all year long with the mix I got.


Don't know where you are located but look up "Shiro Plum" if it will grow in your area you have to get one, it produces bright yellow plums the size and shape of an extra large egg and it is known to be one of the highest sugar content plums.
You need to hold a towel under your chin when you bite into one because they are so juicy.
Here in WA state they ripen mid August and all my neighbors start asking around June if the plums are ready yet :D

[skid]

I just started planting fruit trees...about 18 of them. Should have fruit all year long with the mix I got.


Don't know where you are located but look up "Shiro Plum" if it will grow in your area you have to get one, it produces bright yellow plums the size and shape of an extra large egg and it is known to be one of the highest sugar content plums.
You need to hold a towel under your chin when you bite into one because they are so juicy.
Here in WA state they ripen mid August and all my neighbors start asking around June if the plums are ready yet :D


I love plums, I'll have to see if I can find that variety. I have some prune varieties that are super sweet. The bears come from miles around....

[Cobalt]

I just started planting fruit trees...about 18 of them. Should have fruit all year long with the mix I got.


Don't know where you are located but look up "Shiro Plum" if it will grow in your area you have to get one, it produces bright yellow plums the size and shape of an extra large egg and it is known to be one of the highest sugar content plums.
You need to hold a towel under your chin when you bite into one because they are so juicy.
Here in WA state they ripen mid August and all my neighbors start asking around June if the plums are ready yet :D


I love plums, I'll have to see if I can find that variety. I have some prune varieties that are super sweet. The bears come from miles around....


Yeah I have to run a hot fence wire around my plum trees because the coons and possums go crazy over them.

I also grow Methley plums, they are the earliest plum here in WA, the tree is just finishing up blooming and the Shiro just started, the Italian Prunes won't start blooming for a couple more weeks which is about the same time as the cherries here.

Now if we can just get 2 days in a row without rain it might be a good spring :D

[Road Runner]

Got all the vines left from last fall taken out and waiting for it to dry out enough to work up. Won't plant potatoes until about another week or so. Mid- end of May is big planting time around here.

[zap]

I cut a peach tree down today, nobody could tell me what was wrong with it, spray it with this, and spray it with that. I did and nothing worked and I didn't want it to infect the other 2 peach trees I have, either a peach borer or the oriental fruit moth, Makes me mad ! >:(

[MNeagle]

Was going to rake out the front beds, but then I heard it may snow this weekend!

Good excuse to not rake. Gotta protect those little shoots you know!

[Cobalt]

I cut a peach tree down today, nobody could tell me what was wrong with it, spray it with this, and spray it with that. I did and nothing worked and I didn't want it to infect the other 2 peach trees I have, either a peach borer or the oriental fruit moth, Makes me mad ! >:(


Yeah I cut my peach down this winter also, it had borers move onto the trunk last summer, they don't seem to be after any of my plums, cherries, or apples so I am keeping my fingers crossed

[Mouse]

We have seedlings going and many of them are already in the ground. I think about 24 different pepper plants in, beets, carrots, radishes, broccoli, lettuce, spinach, cabbage, onions. Our strawberry patch from last year is now 4' *6' and sprouting all over the place, doing nicely. We have I think 24 various tomatoes plants and a bunch of different herbs and stuff seedling.

We also had a baby chick hatch today! That was awesome. May have two or three more in the next couple weeks.

I had been wanting to expand out of the beds and into some ground rows this year but I don't have a rototiller. We have been looking and they are hard to find and expensive. The neighbors to the rescue, my neighbor had a tiller that's a zillion years old that he hasn't used in like 7 years and gave it to me for "community use" which is pretty much forever but you need to loan it if someone needs it. Unfortunately the motor was pretty toasted on it, but I had sitting in the garage doing nothing a broken pressure washer with a good engine. And a perfect and easy swap that took just over an hour.

When in doubt, swap it out.
I go me a rototiller now, it's a free for all.

Going tilling as soon as I spruce up the oil change on the new motor and service the gear oil for the tiller!

Happiness is an almost free solution to an expensive problem.

[Cobalt]

That Hen looks like she is just waiting for a finger to get close enough :D

[po boy]

I wanted to expand my small garden space but need fencing to keep out my dogs and being a cheap ass finally found some free pallets and ripped them length wise.I dog eared the top for a privacy look,dug up some stain from a trailer load of stuff from my friends at the paint store.

I dismantled some of the pallets to make raised beds which I'm still doing today.

So far this project has cost me 1.5 gallons of gas to get the pallets. 30 cents for stain.

The biggest cost will be for soil if the county's free site for compost is empty.

In my other garden there are tomatoes(beefsteak,Cherokee purple,and Florida 47),eggplant,peppers,some onion,chard,mint,oregano,basil and that is about it for now and very small in size compared to the other posters.

Just for kick I'm trying some upside down tomatoes this year so far they seem to be doing ok.

Harvested cauliflower,broccoli,romaine,red cabbage and will put in cantaloupe, cukes hopefully the aphids won't be as bad this year.

In the new beds going to plant radish, spinach(way late for here but going to try) more peppers and comfrey (sp).

This is done on a residential lot some in ground and some raised bed and no commercial ferts or pesticides.It's tough going as the fill used on the lot had little to no organic material but with free compost and horse manure and miloganite grass clippings the results are getting better each year.I also have seen an increase in bees as well so I take it as a good sign.
Now if the city would just come off it's chicken policy I'd have some great free ferts. Thought about rabbits but not so sure the misses wouldn't grow attached to them. ;D

[beefsteak]

Po boy,
there you go again, hiding behind your wife where those bunnies are concerned. :D

Many more pellets to you, my friend.

Beefsteak

[po boy]

Po boy,
there you go again, hiding behind your wife where those bunnies are concerned. :D

Many more pellets to you, my friend.

Beefsteak

Ya caught me Beef, damn things are just to cute, and my hound would most likely make a friend of it! ;D

Pellets indeed.

Take care.

[Guilder]

I planted a few apple trees today, still waiting for the nice Weather in Ontario for the veggies to go in, need to build some damn cold frames.

[skid]

I hired a gardener today. I need some help around my place...

[po boy]

I hired a gardener today. I need some help around my place...

Payable in food?Just curious.

[Olmstein]

When in doubt, swap it out.
I go me a rototiller now, it's a free for all.



LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2OM7HEfrs

[skid]

I hired a gardener today. I need some help around my place...

Payable in food?Just curious.


Nope, Cash, although food may be an option later in the year..

[keehah]

Getting a new bed ready. Started soaking some seeds.

We may need to reduce our carbon taxes...... ::)

VANCOUVER -- If Vancouver's cold temperatures continue through next week, the city could be on track to its coldest April on record.

The mean temperature was only 6.9 C for the first 18 days of the month, whereas normal for the month of April is 9.2 C, said David Jones, meteorologist for Environment Canada.

"If that kept up at that pace we would set a record for the coldest April in 74 years at Vancouver International Airport," Jones said. "It has been extremely cold, but so far we haven't broken any records."

...A brief respite is in store for the upcoming Easter weekend, but the weather will turn cold and wet again by Sunday, Jones said.
http://www.vancouversun.com/Vancouver+track+coldest+April+record/4649389/story.html#ixzz1K6QpPTt6

[Road Runner]

Finally the weather co-operated so that the garden could get worked up! So far 7 big rows of potatoes planted. Grandkids helped so hopefully the rows come up in rows. ;D I have some seeds soaking for planting today. I suppose most of you are already reaping the benefits of your gardens. Hope you all have a bountiful year.

[gunDriller]

i've got pinto beans & fava beans started.

in the vegetable department, broccoli spinach carrots.

in the grain department, white wheat and red wheat.

[Grog]

We are in Texas, time to plant was a few months ago for us. ;D

I planted 8 trees this year, some plums, citrus, figs, pomegranate.

We have a modest garden. The peas did good in the spring. We have already harvested tomatoes. Large tomatoes don't do well but cherry varieties do. All of our peppers are doing great and our herbs are too.

The challenge was with the trees, deer love to kill fruit trees so I had to put fencing around each one of them. The one un-fenced plum is now just a stick in the ground. Not a single leaf was left. :(

Of all of the stuff we've planted I have high hopes and wishes for the figs. I love figs.

[SLV^GLD]

Budget has been tight lately so I dug out some old seeds from 2008 and popped them into some seedling pots I saved to see what germinates.

The herb garden is underway but no veggies in the ground yet.