Out here on the west coast it's time to start a garden. No pickles this year. I usually plant a lot of cucumbers. The wife makes about 80 qts. of dill pickles, to sell at the local craft fair. We are both getting too old for that now. I know some of you are still shoveling snow. When do you plant your garden? Stan
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Out here on the west coast it's time to start a garden. No pickles this year. I usually plant a lot of cucumbers. The wife makes about 80 qts. of dill pickles, to sell at the local craft fair. We are both getting too old for that now. I know some of you are still shoveling snow. When do you plant your garden? Stan
Tgrasher
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We've been blessed with warm dry weather and are catching up with what should have been done weeks ago. Garden has piles of vines and stalks ready to burn. Will put down a good layer of manure and plow under this week. Will put out lettuce, carrots, onions, broccoli, and cabbage as soon as it's worked down.
larry@stinescorner
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We still have some snow and frozen ground here in NJ,,,But tuesday its supposed to get to 63!Our last frost date is around May 15
Geo-TH,In
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Ray,
every year we saw we are downsizing the garden. WE are in no hurry in getting in a too early.
Last year my potatoes got frozen off level with the ground. Cut down on the potatoe crop.
Last year we put some tomatoes out too early. Got frosted off.
One year a light frost at end of May took out my pepper crop.
So I'm in no hurry.
I did use the front bucket, back graded the garden and got rid of weeds.
geo.
every year we saw we are downsizing the garden. WE are in no hurry in getting in a too early.
Last year my potatoes got frozen off level with the ground. Cut down on the potatoe crop.
Last year we put some tomatoes out too early. Got frosted off.
One year a light frost at end of May took out my pepper crop.
So I'm in no hurry.
I did use the front bucket, back graded the garden and got rid of weeds.
geo.
caterpillar guy
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Sweet corn can go in as soon as the ground is dry enough mid april to may. Rest of it probably not till late may or maybe even june for some. Frost can happen till mothers day and after by a bit.
SweetFeet
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Chief,
Black seeded Simpson lettuce and onion sets go in the dirt as soon as the soil is dry enough to plant.
One year I planted onions during an unusually long thaw in February (that was inspired by Larry the Corner Guy. The onions began to grow... then we got a streak of 3 days single digit temps. It killed them ...but when spring truly arrived that year, those onions grew back just fine. They were THE BEST onions I have ever grown.
Everthing else gets planted mid to late May (because we no longer plant sweet corn to feed the darn racoons).
Black seeded Simpson lettuce and onion sets go in the dirt as soon as the soil is dry enough to plant.
One year I planted onions during an unusually long thaw in February (that was inspired by Larry the Corner Guy. The onions began to grow... then we got a streak of 3 days single digit temps. It killed them ...but when spring truly arrived that year, those onions grew back just fine. They were THE BEST onions I have ever grown.
Everthing else gets planted mid to late May (because we no longer plant sweet corn to feed the darn racoons).
Planted some onions garlic and strawberry dry roots in raised beds so far. Should be dry enough to plow the garden middle of the week, then peas and maybe potatoes before it rains next weekend. Lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, and spinach a week or two later. But most of the rest, not until May.
Richard G.
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Collards and taters will go in the ground this week.
Son will plant his field corn as soon as he can now.
Richard in NW SC
Son will plant his field corn as soon as he can now.
Richard in NW SC
john in la
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With a last frost date of 3/21 to 3/31 and usually mild winters we can plant and harvest something almost every day of the year.
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