Posted: 2/4/2013 2:29:20 PM EDT
| Snow peas are in the ground. Carrots, beets and taters are next in 3-4 weeks. Starting a new asparagus patch this year, the old patch is not doing good. |
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Yep I am getting ready by planning to expand my garden this year. last year it started out at 25'x20'.
It ended up being about 25'x50' and a separate 15'x50'fruit garden was added. I already know that my main garden is going to have to be expanded by about 25' this year. Hopefully everyone has a good growing season. |
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800 onions planted, 1.25 pounds of garlic bulbs. Fall plants of garlic are already 1-2 feet tall.
Mustard is going to seed. Planted more collard seed and cabbage. I plan to till the watermelon and corn patches (rye and wheat cover crops) in about two weeks in preparation for a Mid-March planting of all the 'serious' parts of the garden. I have 6 sweet potato plants in glass jars in my window sill. They have been there for two weeks. No sign of sprouts though. Wondering why they are not sprouting yet. Morning sun, but, maybe that windowsill is still too cool... TRG |
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800 onions planted, That's a lot of onions even by my standards. 
We're nowhere close to planting here. I'm still holding my breath to see if our seasoned firewood holds out. 
Well, they were cheap. Last year I planted at least as many, and the floods washed away some, drowned others, and I got a late start. We ran out of onions to eat, can, pickle before summer was even over. REF |
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We ran out of onions to eat, can, pickle before summer was even over. We usually do 2 to 3 hundred of the Candy onions. They aren't great storage onions but they're my favorite tasty everyday onion. If I get hardcore and store them in wood chips in the basement I can keep them viable until right about now. This year I was lazy with their storage and they failed around Jan 1. |
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We ran out of onions to eat, can, pickle before summer was even over. We usually do 2 to 3 hundred of the Candy onions. They aren't great storage onions but they're my favorite tasty everyday onion. If I get hardcore and store them in wood chips in the basement I can keep them viable until right about now. This year I was lazy with their storage and they failed around Jan 1. We used alot of the green tops last year, and I dehydrated some for winter storage. I did not get them dry enough and had to throw out two full (packed) quarts of the tops. TRG |
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Got carrots in the ground yesterday, taters in two weeks, beets in four weeks.
Chicken Lady wants some strawberry pyramids built. The design actually doesn't look that bad and I've got some junk wood laying around. Takes up a lot less space than ground planting and is probably less work in weeding and mulching. Of course I've already thought about ways to make improvements LOL...... 
http://www.havenscourthomestead.com/2012/04/strawberry-pyramids.html |
| Started my peppers last week. Trinidads, Ghosts, Chocolate and Caribbean Habs, Serranos, Cayennes, Tabascos, and some japanese pepper whose name escapes me. Getting some dirt delivered in the next couple days to get my beds ready. Then garlic, onions, herbs, carrots, radishes, lettuce, spinach, etc, will go in. Tomatoes, melons, and few others are too follow shortly there after. |
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Applied commercial pellet 10-20-10 to the upper garden areas when I plan to put my corn this year, then tilled under the manure crops of rye and wheat. Added more Cottonseed Meal to the watermelon patch prior to tilling under the cover of rye.
Added fertilizer to the onion patches with some of the leftover from the bags of fertilizer. Also ordered a copy of a gardening book.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0882663194/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00 Found a copy at a friend's house, and just by thumbing through it found lots of good tips that I am already applying to this year's plans. TRG |