2021 Vegetable garden thread
 

I planted tomatoes and peppers last week. They aren't up yet of course.

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That's a failing experiment in growing bunching onions in the background. They are 3 months old. A bunch of onions at the store is 79 cents for half a dozen onions. By the time these are big enough to be edible I would probably have spent more on electricity for the grow lights than I would buying onions at the store. I had no idea they grew so slowly.

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Shallots and winter onions were planted this morning. The garlic is looking great.

We had a sprinkle of snow here a few days ago, wild swings in weather from 20's to 70's.

I hope to grow stuff this year, but it's a bit early yet.

Grass is just starting to turn green though.

Funny...just dismantled our garden spot yesterday. TooK down the fence, pulled up the posts and took up the bed borders. We got tired of weeding....seriously...TIRED of the weeds. I’m sure I will do some raised planters for a few vegetables but I’m not going to have a large garden any time in my foreseeable future.

I started 2 cucumbers and 2 tomatoes a week or so ago from seeds. Sunday I put them outside. Cucumbers about 3 inches tall and tomatoes 1 inch. They actually survived the first night. I know, pretty skimpy garden. Thats the way I roll.:D:D

I planted a couple tomato plants in a raised bed garden this weekend. On the 2nd night, one of the plants--seedlings, really--got eaten overnight. All the leaves, gone! Stupid f'n mice. So I set out some snap traps, and got one each subsequent night.

I planted tomato seeds indoors, they came out nicely and I moved them outside in the green house.
Then there was a frost and almost all of them died. Round 2 is on the way.

Finished our plot on Friday. 22 rows 14 ft long. 4 varieties of tomatoes, Squash, Cauliflower, lettuce, spinach, Purple pole beans, okra, carrots, watermelon and cantaloupe, and sliver queen corn. Hope it all comes up, this years garden took it out of me . Oh, and separate bean patch for the deer and other critters on the other side of the field.

12 snap peas 12 tomato plants 6 jalapeno

Did a few more tomato and a few sweet peppers today

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Finally put this mandarin in the ground, that is the house I am not interested in seeing. Golden nugget, or some such seedless hybrid

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Holy cow! That's a lot of garden.
My parents always put a pound or so of Silver Queen in the corn planter and planted a few rows in the corn field nearest the house so we would have it as sweet corn. I admit I've moved on to sy hybrids because we freeze a lot more than we eat.

I put some tomatoes in the ground already

My Starless tomatoes are going in at the office. We are prepped for a drought big time. Nice to plant some at the office for the water.

Hoping to start sometime within the next week or so. I can't rototill the garden as I'm having a shed brought over from the neighbors yard and they have to drive it over the garden. Soil is already kind of soft from last fall's rototilling.

Turning the soil this weekend. Seeds will go into starter pots as well but too soon to go into the ground.

Got a few wild onions..if nothing else.
Need to buy a dehydrator someday or use the oven.
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Just got the potatoes in last weekend, this week planting corn then all the squash, peppers etc. ground temps are starting to hold around 50

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How to improve soil by making and then activating biochar. (basically wood burned in low oxygen).

Make:
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Snap peas are about wore out. My wife was feeding the hulls to the dogs as she ate the peas. Dogs have figured out they can just pick peas themselves. We also got some tomatillo and butternut squash volunteers. Had first tomato yesterday

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I didn't know Artichokes grew back.
Cut down last years and they came back.
We've ate about two dozen of them so far.

My 2 yr old Asparagus finally started making about 8 gauge wire size shoots.
They say 6 years for a mature plant.

I have limited space so I planted a container garden in my private alley behind my house:

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Our harvest so far from a 4 x 8 raised Garden box:<)http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1623870425.jpg
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A couple days after I put out my plants, critter got them. Started a couple more plants and covered them at night and uncovered them every morninig. After about a week, I uncovered them at 8:30. Went back out at 9 and all gone. Started one tomato plant and bought a cucumber plant and kept them covered. Now the cucumber is 4' tall with a lot of tiny cucumbers and the tomato is 3' tall with a few blooms. I will be a couple weeks late picking but I expect to be ok.