garden fever!

swindave · Mar 25, 2022

know this board covers all over north America and more,
and I'm probably a month away from planting my garden, but who has some garden planted, whose getting ready,
and who has a wait yet?

im looking forward to it!

how about you? or is it just another chore for you?

Charlie M · Mar 25, 2022

It will be almost a couple of months for most of gardens around here but I have some seeds started already. I've got 3 kinds of peppers, 2 kinds of tomatoes and early cabbage started. I always look forward to gardening. I've always liked the idea of sticking a seed in the ground, taking care of it and getting something good to eat in the end. I think with the abundance of relatively cheap food in this country if anyone things of gardening as just a chore then they shouldn't do it. Do something else with your time.

Geo-TH,In · Mar 25, 2022

Planted straw potatoes and turnips.
Planted other seeds in our hot box.

Around April 20 is our frost date in Indiana.

So sometime in a month we will plant the garden from the hot box, If they frost off, no big deal. We will have extra plants in the hot box. Started zucchini and cucumbers in the hot box.

Already disked the garden. Will disk it just before planting..

Loosehandle · Mar 25, 2022

Have seeds started just like charlie and same time to plant, going to be 20 next couple nights. I dream of being half the gardener Larry on the corner is.

old · Mar 25, 2022

Have potato's, lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, radishes and onions, planted. None have come up as of yet bu they have only been in the ground since around the 17th

Steve in VA · Mar 25, 2022

I have the garden plowed and tiller but the potatoes are still above ground. We'll have temps down below freezing next week. The orchard grass looks good in the hay field though.

paul · Mar 25, 2022

We had a very sloppy wet couple days with an inch of rain and inch of snow on ground that is only partially thawed out here in MN. It is very muddy wet, as the snow melt hadnt soaked away yet before the rain.

Thats not abnormal here this time of year.

We did have one nice sunny day at 60 degrees a week ago. That got us all excited and wanting spring.

Its in the 30s outside now, with an all day 30+ mph wind today, very cold, blustery, miserable, muddy.

Not a nice day.

And no garden or field work!

Oh, the crazy extreme weather forecast site has 12-30 inches of snow forcast for MN next week. Ugh! That site never is accurate tho so it should be ok.

Paul

37 chief · Mar 25, 2022

I have my cucumbers just poking up. The dill for pickles has been up about a month my beets are probably a month above ground. I may have planted my beans too early not many survivors. I will have to replant them. Out here on the west coast it's hot during the day, but still cold at night. Stan

Crazy Horse · Mar 25, 2022

Up here north of the 49th in central Alberta, gardens traditionally are planted the third week of May. You can cheat a bit and get seeds in earlier but it usually doesn't end up being an advantage come fall time. Things like tomatoes and for some people cucumbers should be started early in cold frames and transplanted out. Same for most annual flowers. For the transplants, I always err on the safe side and wait till the end of May, killer frosts are always lurking.

parisspringstom · Mar 25, 2022

Plants in trays tomato's and such. Will probably direct seed lettuce and spinach next week late. Southwest Mo.

neverfear · Mar 25, 2022

I'm about 40 miles north of paul and it's about the same here. Got out on Monday and dug the perimeter of a new garden and could only get 6 down with a shovel. We have had rain since that I'm sure took out the frost but it has been otherwise so miserable and windy! I'm in no hurry to go out in it much less plant anything. Couple weeks yet.

SweetFeet · Mar 25, 2022

Larry@theCorner has some planted in NJ!

I have to wait awhile yet in MN.

Archie G · Mar 25, 2022

Southeast Texas.... set out tomatoes, planted cucumbers, yeller crookneck squash and a small patch of sweet corn. I usually wait until Easter week but I got antsy! Gonna plant about a quarter acre of purple hulls and crowder Easter week plus some okra.

Tractorcedric · Mar 25, 2022

Warm here in Northern Utah, We raked some of the yard. I just took my shower for bedtime and noticed that my arms were sunburned on the underside. I just love to hear my welder lug when I burn 7018's. The fertilizer spreaders are out on the fields.

SVcummins · Mar 26, 2022

Will be a month at least

Hobo,NC · Mar 26, 2022

Centrial NC in clay.

I plant once if I plant early I get to do it 3 times so I wait at least till mid April for some and may 1st for most. Okra June 1st. I am on the edge of the sandhills some that are on the eastern side can be weeks ahead of me you cannot go by what they are doing 2 miles to the east. My neighbor across the street plants all mid may she will catch you and pass you. Clay is a different animal its like a bowl when it gets wet it stays wet when it gets cold it stays cold.

rossow (mn) · Mar 26, 2022

Last year at this time I was tilling my gardens. This year, the frost isn't even out of the garden ground. It was 20 degrees at 7 a.m. here in south-central MN.

garden fever!

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