Spring Planting

[Shuckins]

Welp...time to start the ole garden again!  Midday temperature is around 65 or so...gorgeous sun-shiney day!

Already started work on our flower-beds.  Our soil is so poor in this hilly area about half the roses and shrubs we plant die.  The wife and I are going to try another tactic this year.  Just purchased some large outdoor containers, and half a whiskey-barrel, and filled em with a mixture of humus, topsoil, and potting soil and placed on our two decks...might make it easier to keep them alive.

For the vegetable garden...we usually have to add compost, chicken chit, and nitrogen pellets to build it up for planting.  We don't fool with planting a lot of different types of vegetables...cucumbers for salads and pickles...tomatoes...okra...c orn (haven't had much luck with it)...little garlic and onion...squash.  Mixed in with the rows are a few wild flowers like goatsbeard, along with orange, red, and yellow cannaes.

What about you folks?  What are your gardens like?

Regards, Shuckins/Leggern

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by Shuckins


What about you folks?  What are your gardens like?

Regards, Shuckins/Leggern [/QUOTE


Well....in my garden the snow is doing really well.  ]

[indy007]

Mostly 'Roma' tomatos. Best for sauces. I wanna try some Beefsteak tomatos this year though, they get pretty big & the summers are long enough. I really wanna try some melons or giant pumpkin, but I don't think I've got the time. Houston soil (read: clay) kinda sucks to work with too. Need to get one of those small, popup greenhouses.

[Frodo]

Peas are up and lettuce and spinach should be up any day if it stays warm.  Dry here this winter and got an early start.  

A favorite seed source: http://www.rareseeds.com/


Frodo

[Jackal1]

I am a tomatoe freak. Love the things.
I`ve had my first ones set out since the first of the month and had them under cut off plastic milk jugs for warmth and protection up until the last week. I like the  high acid tomatoes the best. Some of the old heirlooms are really great. I had 32 plants last year. Don`t know what I will end up with this year.
 I don`t have a lot of room that gets the right amount of sunshine so I have to be intensive.
I`ll probably have some cukes and squash, etc.
Oh....I`m also going to plant some hops rhyzomes very shortly.

[OneWordAnswer]

Originally posted by Jackal1
I am a tomatoe freak.  

Quayle?

[Jackal1]

Heh! Can be spelled either way.
Here it`s usualy just "Hand me a slice of that mater."

[Lizking]

Other than decorative stuff, I only grow herbs and peppers.

I have 4 or 5 hardy herbs and I plant 2 or 3 more for the summer.  This weekend I will plant my peppers; this year I am doing just Japs, Habeneros and Chillie Piquins.  And maybe a couple 'maters, I like Cherry types.

Decorative-wise, I planted a dozen cannas, weeded my blue pansy bed (which did flowered all winter, and will soon be subsumedby the wildflowers I planted last year), and planted some salvia.  My Banana tree looks like it didn't make the winter, but it is early.

[Lizking]

A couple of years ago, on a thread at AGW, I posted pics of my peppers as I picked them.  Here are some pics of the 2002 pepper crop at Ranchero Lizking:

[Hawklore]

Sometimes the acid level matters too, I've heard pissing in it is one way to raise it..

Gotta be straight though, no putting it in a container..

[Frodo]

Liz nice peppers.  My wife has grown the green ones in your pic.  I don't care for hot peppers but my wife and son love them.  I like melons.  Of all kinds.

Frodo

[airbumba]

if ya put anything in a container, remember to place some drainage at the bottom, rocks, pearlite, pea stone, something to let the roots breath and not rot.

Placing a bit of landcsaping cloth between the two layers will keep your soil from washing thru.