[canadmos]

What's going on this year?

For those that do their thing in planters/pots, what do you add (if anything) to them, to bring up any missing nutrients from pasts grows in that soil? Just mix in some fresh soil and plant food later? Nothing?

My chives are coming up already and hopefully will see the green onions doing something soon...

I will not make the mistake this year of getting roped in by the nice weather, only to have everything get frosted.

I will also not attempt to grow any sort of bell pepper this year. They take too long and the squirrels love to come and bite them, not worth the effort.

 

[sunringlerider]

Will have sweet corn, tomatoes and various pepper varieties. Unless I fence off the area much else just become deer and rabbit food.

 

[boostindoubles]

Picking up 30 raspberry plants, 2 sea berries, and some hardy kiwi vines today.

 

[jonKranked]

tomatoes and peppers. lots of tomatoes and peppers.

 

[CBJ]

I have some liquid feed for pots. Plus I use soil compost mix.

almost no rain in March so I have had to water the new plants.

 

[6thElement]

Probably another couple of weeks until we bother starting with the small pots inside. There's a foot of snow on our raised beds still. Each year I stick a fresh bag of compost on to each of the raised beds - they're each ~6ft square.

 

[Westy]

well now that I have 100 square feed of elevated garden I guess I should plant something. Of course they are next to the sidewalk so any passers by can pick anything, which is fine by me. Also why the first thing going in is a bunch of habeneros, then some peas, sunflowers and strawberries.

 

[Jozz]

landscaping is not done yet, but we'll plant some small fruit bushes here and there.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Garlic has been up for a while...

 

[jdcamb]

Not much happening here. I am waiting for my Ginseng patch to pop. I noticed a few other patches cleared. My Patch is out of the way and never has been touched. Ramps haven't popped yet. Were supposed to have a hard freeze next Sunday. I am hoping everything holds off until after that. I have wild raspberries and blackberries coming too. I don't do anything for them until May.

 

[eric strt6]

and the first peppers of the year have been planted. 2 Trinidad Scorpion pepper plants between 1.4 million and 2.0 million scoville units. for reference a Habanero is between 350,000 and 500,000 sc

oville units. Still hunting for some Habanero's and ghost peppers

 

[dump]

Nothing special this year I don't think. Maybe some cucumbers and tomatoes again. The bulk of the garden is perennial, so whatever comes back. Most looking forward to the blueberries and service berries. I might also rip up some more lawn. We will see, but we're a couple months away, so there's time

 

[eric strt6]

ok now my pepper selection for the season is complete. But I may get two more Habanero plants for volumes sake
Trinidad Scorpion Pepper: really stupid hot
Ghost Pepper: Really Hot
Habanero Pepper: Hot

 

[eric strt6]

we added Bradywine Heirloom Tomatos, and a dwarf Nectarine tree to the garden today and I ordered 2 Chocolate Habanero plants ( shipping April 4)

 

[eric strt6]

I know it's a sickness but I just have to grow this

 

[SkaredShtles]

Soon...

 

[canadmos]

Shit keeps freezing here still, so have basically nothing going yet, other than the chives from last year.

Had to reseed the green bunching onions, not sure what happened to those, but only 2-3 stalks didn't die.

Also seeded a bunch of dill recently, which I have in a tiny greenhouse. We'll see if it survives.

Girlfriend tossed her little herb planter into the compost area last fall, which I found the thyme and garlic chives sprouting again, so garbage picked those and replanted.

 

[canadmos]

ok now my pepper selection for the season is complete. But I may get two more Habanero plants for volumes sake
Trinidad Scorpion Pepper: really stupid hot
Ghost Pepper: Really Hot
Habanero Pepper: Hot

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You don't find those are too close together? I accidentally too many pepper plants last year and doubled some up in the planters - those ones grew slower and thinner than the others.. And I had to water them a lot more.

 

[eric strt6]

I get more peppers than I can possibly use. I gave away over 100 last year and that was with 4 plants. I have 12 this year. Those big double pots take over a large bag of potting soil each

 

[canadmos]

Chives are sprouting flowers already.

Bunch of green onions on the way. Need to do more research on how to get these to survive winter. 2 or 3 of them did, hence those big guys, but the rest seem to have died.

And got tempted and planted the first mater. This can o ly mean frost is on its way.

 

[eric strt6]

raspberry

Clementines

nectarine

Lemons

Navel Orange

Cherry trees

 

[eric strt6]

my peppers

 

[canadmos]

OG Cheese sprouting. Taking the offensive against the squirrels.

 

[eric strt6]

now that the weather has gotten hot my pepper plants are really starting to take off

 

[Poops McDougal]

now that the weather has gotten hot my pepper plants are really starting to take off

If you don't mind me asking, where did you get your pepper plants? Locally or mail order?

 

[eric strt6]

If you don't mind me asking, where did you get your pepper plants? Locally or mail order?

Locally at Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore CA. Still waiting on a shipment of Chocolate Habaneros from Pepper Joes in Iowa (supposed to ship this week).

 

[Poops McDougal]

Locally at Alden Lane Nursery in Livermore CA. Still waiting on a shipment of Chocolate Habaneros from Pepper Joes in Iowa (supposed to ship this week).

We didn't plant a garden this year, but your pepper pics made me instantly regret that. I mean that in teh most heterosexual way. Not sure I'd have any luck finding something like a Carolina Reaper or Scorpion Pepper locally, although jalapenos and habaneros are easy enough to find.

I was looking at Pepper Joes yesterday; have you bought from there before, and if so, how'd they do?

 

[eric strt6]

We didn't plant a garden this year, but your pepper pics made me instantly regret that. I mean that in teh most heterosexual way. Not sure I'd have any luck finding something like a Carolina Reaper or Scorpion Pepper locally, although jalapenos and habaneros are easy enough to find.

I was looking at Pepper Joes yesterday; have you bought from there before, and if so, how'd they do?

Still waiting on my first shipment from them. It was supposed to ship 6 weeks ago but they got hit by a cold snap. According to them the other peppers came through fine but the chocolate habaneros seemed stunted and they would not ship until they were big enough and strong enough to survive the shipping. I was able to source all the other peppers I wanted locally except for the chocolate habaneros so I will wait and see.

 

[boostindoubles]

The raspberries I planted are doing ok... It appears to be too early to tell how many didn't survive. It appears I am 5/5 on thornless blackberry transplants. The currant bushes I planted are thriving, including producing berries already. I'm not surprised since there's native currants growing all over the place.

I've got the wild blackberry bramble also. The plan is to get some leather gloves on and go in, prune out all the willows growing in there and make a lane to walk and mow. If the bramble is pruned out into 3 rows I'll have better access to more berries.

Next up is the blueberry patch. There's too many berries to choose from. They all have different characteristics and just because Duke is popular doesn't mean it's the best berry. I've tried different kinds in test plots and then forget what I tried and what I liked. If I can find cheap plants it would be fun to get enough varieties to be eating some blueberries from June into September.

 

[CBJ]

All soil in my garden is basically not usable for growing food due to city pollution especially from led based fuel. I do have herbs, pear, apple and nuts. Also trying a few strawberries just to see how they do different places in the garden but most of my focus is planting all kinds of interesting plants like special rhododendrons, conifers, perennials and just shaping the garden into a nice place to be. My biggest project is actually making a new patio and walkway leading into the front door.

 

[jonKranked]

already harvesting lettuce, had some on my burger last night. a few tomatoes are already forming.

 

[sunringlerider]

The big ass garden is coming up.

 

[6thElement]

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The big ass garden is coming up.

No till ftw.

 

[eric strt6]

No till ftw.

great this just became an earworm because of you

 

[DaveW]

The big ass garden is coming up.

Interesting, I didn't know you could grow big ass in a garden?
Do those big asses taste good, or are those big asses more of an ornamental thing?

 

[slyfink]

Interesting, I didn't know you could grow big ass in a garden?
Do those big asses taste good, or are those big asses more of an ornamental thing?

Gotta assume it's more of a whimsical thing...

 

[sunringlerider]

Interesting, I didn't know you could grow big ass in a garden?
Do those big asses taste good, or are those big asses more of an ornamental thing?

Big asses, small asses it really depends on the field. Some asses have a very different taste. Really have to get all up in the ass to really tell.

 

[eric strt6]

and the Ghost Peppers are the first to start to flower

 

[CBJ]

Its almost 3pm and I have been pulling up Spanish Blue Bells all morning. They are invasive and completely take over. I wish I had know before they were this bad.

 

[sunringlerider]

No till ftw.

Was having a discussion about this just yesterday with an other local farmer that farms around the same acres as my dad and I. They fall plow, disk, then hit with a field cultivator in the spring. They were burning around 300 gallons of fuel a day. Lol
We used 156 gallons total. That’s two tractors running for 100-110 hours. But ya I’m the silly one round here for no-til.