Spring Garden 2019

[skyhightree1]

Has everyone got theres in? What all are you planting? I am trying onions again this year I hope they get bigger than a radish. I used composted chicken litter in the dirt for them hopefully it works. Does anyone know what fertilizer works best for you on onions.

 

[ga.prime]

Except tomatoes and peppers and eggplants which I'm growing from seed and they'll be ready to transplant next month, I got mine planted yesterday. Peas I planted were sadandys, creme 40's, purple hulls and purple knuckle hulls. Those knuckle hulls are a new one I'm trying. I planted butterbeans and butterpeas, silver queen corn, okra, crimson sweet watermelons, Charleston grey watermelons, Congo watermelons, and Iroquois cantaloupes. Also planted 3 kinds of cucumbers that I don't remember the names of and crookneck yellow squash. I grow onions in the wintertime, set out Granex type transplants in November and they reach full maturity in April or early May. The way I fertilize them is start off with just a good dose of 5-10-15 or 10-10-10 and side dress with ammonium or calcium nitrate when they look like they need it. The compost is a great idea but you'll need to supplement with commercial fertilizer also to get the highest yields.

 

[skyhightree1]

Except tomatoes and peppers and eggplants which I'm growing from seed and they'll be ready to transplant next month, I got mine planted yesterday. Peas I planted were sadandys, creme 40's, purple hulls and purple knuckle hulls. Those knuckle hulls are a new one I'm trying. I planted butterbeans and butterpeas, silver queen corn, okra, crimson sweet watermelons, Charleston grey watermelons, Congo watermelons, and Iroquois cantaloupes. Also planted 3 kinds of cucumbers that I don't remember the names of and crookneck yellow squash. I grow onions in the wintertime, set out Granex type transplants in November and they reach full maturity in April or early May. The way I fertilize them is start off with just a good dose of 5-10-15 or 10-10-10 and side dress with ammonium or calcium nitrate when they look like they need it. The compost is a great idea but you'll need to supplement with commercial fertilizer also to get the highest yields.

Thanks for the suggestions I have commercial fertilizers I keep 46-0-0 and triple 19 all the time. I planted sugar snap peas half runner beans lemon boy tomatoes and beef steak tomatoes I think is the name jersey flat dutch cabbages straight 8 cucumbers pickling cucumbers and some variety that's supposed to grow like 16 inches or something. I planted green peppers and yellow and red peppers I am waiting for the okra plants to come in so haven't planted that yet. I planted 2 varieties of corn I will have to check what they are and come back

 

[1982vett]

I’m not planting one this year.... it’s a lot of work pulling water hoses and keeping it from running off in grass for what little we actually eat out of it. I did disc it a couple weeks ago just to keep it clean. Gathering it to give away just make me sweat and ache...

 

[greybeard]

no garden here either. It's turned into a big mudhole every year for the last 3 yrs.

 

[ga.prime]

I planted my garden last Thursday and was going to spray roundup over it yesterday to get early sprouted crabgrass and other assorted but it was too windy all day. Looked at it this morning and too much has already sprouted, so roundup is out and tilling and hoeing is in spread over the next couple or three weeks.

 

[ga.prime]

Picked a half a bucket of squash this morning.

 

[ga.prime]

 

[ohiosteve]

My garden is nothing like y'all's, I have three raised beds now, I have tomatoes, peppers, onions, potatoes and lettuce. A salsa and salad garden basically. It is small but productive. I really enjoy it.

 

[greybeard]

Picked a half a bucket of squash this morning.

Looks great, but there's a fine line between gardening and row cropping. You may have crossed over it.
Those are some healthy looking squash plants and yellow squash. What do you do about the squash vine borers?

 

[ga.prime]

Looks great, but there's a fine line between gardening and row cropping. You may have crossed over it.

Not really, it's only a quarter acre. There's half an acre inside the deer fence but I only planted half of it. There's a large variety of produce in there, three kinds of tomatoes, butterbeans, butterpeas, bell peppers, eggplants, four kinds of field peas, okra, squash, corn, cucumbers, 3 kinds of watermelons, and cantaloupes. I think that's it..

Those are some healthy looking squash plants and yellow squash. What do you do about the squash vine borers?

I never have a problem with borers until over in July. So, I don't do anything except give up on the squash when the borers get bad in July.

 

[Dave]

I did run a plow and a disk over the garden. But I am another week to 10 days before planting.

 

[skyhightree1]

Looking good yall... I would share pics but keeps saying needs to be resized or some crap... Wish it were easier on this site to share without jumping on one leg patting your stomach facing north have a horse shoe over your head and wish for the best

 

[Bcompton53]

Replanted my sweet corn for the 3rd time. Been under water for days, twice.

 

[Ky hills]

Finally got it lined up between being dry enough and having time to do it, to get it worked up and some things planted about 2 weeks ago. Got some Half Runner beans planted in double rows going to try running some strings between the rows for them to grow up on. Have a few rows of Bodacious sweet corn coming up, Some yellow crookneck squash and zucchini, cucumbers, planted but not coming up to good, I reckon though if whats come up grows it should produce enough for us. Planted some bell and jalapeno peppers. We bought out the mark down table supply of seed taters about 60 lbs worth from SS. They had some long sprouts on them but hoping they make some taters.

 

[Chevy]

Grape vines?

 

[Chevy]

Guess our is a mini garden compare to ya'll.

 

[ga.prime]

Grape vines?

That's right, Shell.

 

[Chevy]

Grape vines?

That's right, Shell.

Is grape hard to start?

 

[ga.prime]

Grape vines are not hard to start, Shell. Lay one of the runners across a container of potting mix and cover it with an inch or two more potting soil and put a brick on top of the runner to hold in place and keep it watered. The runner will grow roots and then you can cut it off and plant it or put it in a pot and let it grow more roots before you plant it.