Started planting the garden...

Greg1959 · May 3, 2015

Weather was great and temps look good to our last frost date. I decided to start the garden planting today.

10- 50 foot rows of Honey Select sweet corn
4- 50 foot rows of Half-runner green beans
75- Pablano pepper plants
75- Dulcetta pepper plants
220 Garlic cloves
48- Habernaro pepper plants
1- 50 foot row of Cantaloupes
96- Rutgers tomato plants.

Still have to plant-
96- 'Big Bertha' green bell pepper plants
Watermelon seeds
Cucumber seeds
Zucchini and more sweet corn and beans.

Plan on starting back in the morning to finish planting this batch. I'm plumb wore out.

Spudm · May 3, 2015

Where's the potatoes?

fixerupper · May 3, 2015

It's work when you're out of shape isn't it? LOL. My garden here in NWIA is just coming up. I didn't think the spuds would ever come up. They were planted Easter Sunday and about 30 percent of them are just pushing through now. We don't plant pepper type plants. Neither one of us can handle peppers very well. sweet corn went in on Tuesday. It's kind of a pain in the butt to clean out six boxes of a twelve row, plant a couple hundred feet of seed that doesn't like a vac planter and then clean the boxes out again. Sure will taste good this summer though. The string beans will go in as soon as it dries out from this next round of rain. Don't know when the squash will go in. Squash is pretty darned frost sensitive.

Greg1959 · May 3, 2015

spudm- 'Tater bugs eat me up here!

I've tried picking them off, chickens, turkeys, Guineas, moving potato patches....etc.

Those dang 'tater bugs seem to find them and eat them up.

I would love to grow and harvest them(like Larry on the corner) but it seems I can't get ahead of them. Any suggestions?

BTW, I read somewhere that if you plant potatoes later in the season you can avoid the 'Tater bugs because they have already grown and left.

Anybody ever here or know of this to work?

37chief · May 3, 2015

Do you have a vegetable stand? Stan

Greg1959 · May 3, 2015

37Chief- No sir, don't run a vegetable stand, I'm very rural.

The produce that I don't can or dry is given to the local church food pantry or I take it into the larger town and donate it to 'River Cities Food Harvest'.

1970-1655 · May 3, 2015

Do you start your own plants or buy from a greenhouse? We tried 2 heirloom okra and 2 sunflower seeds for each of the grand-daughters about a month ago. We now have 2 spindly sunflowers and 3 okra plants that have died. The rest never even came up. My wife suggested using her potting soil. We used a gallon ice cream bucket for each and watered lightly every other day. What are we doing wrong?

Greg1959 · May 3, 2015

1970-1655- The Dulcetta and Plabano pepper plants were all started from seed from a pepper that I had bought in the produce section of a store. Who knows what type of fruit they will produce since they are supposed to be a hybrid? The plants look good so we will have to wait and see what fruit they produce. I hope it turns out good!

As for you seedlings "We now have 2 spindly sunflowers and 3 okra plants that have died. The rest never even came up." May I suggest that your soil temp was not kept warm enough for the seed to germinate (75 to 80 degrees soil temp).

Once they sprout, the light you may be using is wrong or too far away from the sprouting plant.

I use T-12 Florescence tubes. The tubes need to be very close to the seedling and you raise it as the seedling grows.

Please feel free to ask any questions, I'll try to post pics in the morning.

Thanks

Greg1959 · May 3, 2015

fixerupper- Yeppers! Sweet corn sure does taste good going down!

Eldon (WA) · May 3, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:59:28 05/03/15) Weather was great and temps look good to our last frost date. I decided to start the garden planting today.

10- 50 foot rows of Honey Select sweet corn
4- 50 foot rows of Half-runner green beans
75- Pablano pepper plants
75- Dulcetta pepper plants
220 Garlic cloves
48- Habernaro pepper plants
1- 50 foot row of Cantaloupes
96- Rutgers tomato plants.

Still have to plant-
96- 'Big Bertha' green bell pepper plants
Watermelon seeds
Cucumber seeds
Zucchini and more sweet corn and beans.

Plan on starting back in the morning to finish planting this batch. I'm plumb wore out.

We plant our garlic in the fall....this year it was up the first week of February and are going to be bulbing up soon...very mild winter this year.

Dick2 · May 4, 2015

How come there aren't any onions in the list?

1970-1655 · May 4, 2015

A little more details on our experiment: We had this all inside, sitting close to the French doors, facing south so plenty of light. We started with the seeds in the bottom of empty buckets on and covered with paper towels and kept moist but not flooded. When they started splitting the seed coat, we put them in the soil. The soil we used has been in the basement (heated, fully finished) since last spring. My wife keeps the house around 72 degrees. We watered them lightly every other day with well water or rain water we caught in a bucket on the back porch.

We planted 6 more okra seeds 10 days ago in red Solo cups, unused. I just looked and 2 of them are coming up.

We planted sunflowers the last 3 years outside and so far, we have had well fed rabbits and deer from that so we decided to give the plants a head start this year.

dahlin · May 4, 2015

Bacillus Thuricide is for potato beetles, if you keep up a regular schedule this will work. If it's important to you it is considered organic.

Greg1959 · May 4, 2015

Dick2- Thanks, I forgot about them. I have a bunch of Walla-Wallas set to plant also.

Greg1959 · May 4, 2015

Eldon (WA)- That is some nice lloking garlic.. This is my first year
growing it.

ed will · May 4, 2015

Hi, the potatoes I planted good Friday are about 4"tall
and I will hill them up a bit today. I get the Colorado
potato beetle (rusty color with beige stripes) here.
as soon as I see one on a plant I dust the whole patch with sevin. I get a plastic container and burn about 30
holes in 1/2 of lid with hot finishing nail. To use as a
shaker. Buy sevin in bulk bag at walmrt. Works for me
ed will. Oliver bc

Eldon (WA) · May 4, 2015

(quoted from post at 04:52:50 05/04/15) Bacillus Thuricide is for potato beetles, if you keep up a regular schedule this will work. If it's important to you it is considered organic.

I believe that is what is in Azitrol (sp)...it is organic and works well but they caution to rotate it with spinosad to fight immunity. Both are expensive!

Nate V. IA · May 4, 2015

1970-1655,
I too have tried starting plants in the house with the same setup as you, I had the same results. I tried using a florescent light and a heating pad under the flats and had the best tomatoes starts ever. Lesson learned I guess, I would give this new way a try and you'll see what I mean. I have the light almost touching the plants, it keeps them short and stout.

Nate

GordoSD · May 4, 2015

35 dozen ears of corn on your FIRST planting? Do you do the same on the next two? Go get em.

Spudm · May 4, 2015

The hard shell bugs are the egg layers, it's the larvae that does the damage to the plants. They run in cycles. Since the bugs crawl in, make a deep furrow around your row(s) planted. They won't be able to reach your plants. It's organic, but works.

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