2019 Garden

Billy and I got the veggie garden planted last weekend. I look forward to picking out plants and planting each spring. We planted a bit later than in previous years due to the cooler weather and rain in May. We even had a frost warning or two so I’m glad we held off! We planted the usual: carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, hot peppers, cucumbers, and green beans. This year we’re trying two new things – broccoli and brussels sprouts! We’re excited to try them and see how they grow in our garden. What are have you guys planted this year? Feel free to share photos and progress updates!

Just got my salsa garden in as well. 8 Tomatoes and 5 peppers. Several different varieties of each.

I just planted mine yesterday which is a little late, but we use started plants which helps. Went with 4 tomato, 4 jalapeno, 4 sweet peppers, 2 zucchini, 2 cucumbers, snap peas, cilantro and a couple other herbs. And we get a ton of volunteer chives and chocolate mint.

Got mine all planted in the last week finally. 18 tomato, 36 peppers, 5 zucchini, 2 twenty foot rows of peas, broccoli, cucumbers and cauliflower. Also 40 strawberry and 20 raspberry plants at home garden. My country garden at parents farm about 1/4 acre of sweetcorn, 14 pumpkin, 14 watermelon, 7 zucchini, 7 spaghetti squash, 2 rows of cucumbers. Then ran out of beers with a little room to spare but probably enough stuff.

Now reading my own post no wonder that seemed like a lot of work.

We got a herb garden planted on mothers day, followed by some crappy weather so I held off on the serious stuff. We finally got everything transplanted into the ground this weekend, 3 weeks behind normal; 22 types of peppers, 6 tomatoes, two cukes and 3 types of onionza. I’ve got a bunch of seed in the ground too with spinach, golden beets, carrots, lettuce, peas coming up nicely. I just seeded some beans yesterday.

I guess I didn’t get a picture after i finished digging the holes and planting the oversized 5 gallon pepper pots. I was probably too tired..

I put in snap peas, broccoli, and carrots about a month ago. All are doing well. Tomatoes and peppers and beans got put in about a week ago. Beans are sprouting now. Hoping for a good year.

Sharon wrote:

This year we’re trying two new things – broccoli and brussels sprouts!

Do yourself a favor and buy some “BT Thuricide” and regularly spray your broccoli and brussel sprouts as they get bigger. It’ll keep the worms off of it!

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

Do yourself a favor and buy some “BT Thuricide” and regularly spray your broccoli and brussel sprouts as they get bigger. It’ll keep the worms off of it!

Good to know! Thanks, Ryan!

Some of you have quite the operation going when it comes to gardens!

Me thinks that a lot of you guys up “Nort” cheat and plant purchased maders and peppers!
How many of the pics that have been shown so far are starts from your own seeds harvested from last years crop? Just asking for comparison.

My puniey starts from last years seeds I thought were going to be lost after the last months deluge rain (6″) while we were gone to BC CA.

Denny O wrote:

Me thinks that a lot of you guys up “Nort” cheat and plant purchased maders and peppers!
How many of the pics that have been shown so far are starts from your own seeds harvested from last years crop? Just asking for comparison.

My puniey starts from last years seeds I thought were going to be lost after the last months deluge rain (6″) while we were gone to BC CA.

I resemble that comment. I’ve tried and 3 years running had to file crop failure claims!!!!!!!!!

although its only peppers and maters and cabbage!!!!! everything else I start in the ground from seed from the store!!!!!!!

I’m jealous. There’s nothing like food from the garden in the summer.

Every year I tell myself the wife and I are going to get a jump and have a nice garden. Every year, life gets in the way and we decide not to.

Denny O wrote:

Me thinks that a lot of you guys up “Nort” cheat and plant purchased maders and peppers!

My folks start them from seed for me.

I start mine from seed, bigot is store bought. What is the process to start new plants from last years crop? Anything special to it?

Do you guys save leftover seed for use next year? Last year we planted an entire pack of zucchini and yellow squash. We were over run with them! We cut back to about a 1/4 this year.

Denny O wrote:

Me thinks that a lot of you guys up “Nort” cheat and plant purchased maders and peppers!

Guilty as charged, although the greenhouse by the cabin sells them for like $1/piece so the whole garden cost under $20 which is still a pretty good ROI imo.

I used to start my own plants but my only nice sunny warm south facing window is in the living room which is occupied by my one year old dirt loving daughter. Tried to do it in the garage with heat mats and lights but just didn’t work. What I paid for 2 months electricity for that stuff was probably more then what I paid for the plants I bought.

Might want to check on those sprouts. I tried them one year,grew well but waited and waited for the bulbs. Just before the hard frost they started to form. Come to find out they needed 120 growing days to mature.

After being gone all last week I spent the better part of the weekend working on getting the garden back up to speed.

We put our garden in on the 1st of June. Planted Tomatoes, Green Beans, Sweet peppers, Jalapenos, Ghost peppers, Habanero Peppers, Cukes & Strawberries. Also planted 2 pumpkin plants that are supposed to grow MONSTER Pumpkins. Last year we did it all by seed and over planted WAY to much. This year, with the crappy weather and getting the late start, we went and supported the local green house and bought our plants. Everything is looking great so far!

2nd picking. Done with asparagus, no time, and rubarb is all in the freezer.

sji wrote:

Might want to check on those sprouts. I tried them one year,grew well but waited and waited for the bulbs. Just before the hard frost they started to form. Come to find out they needed 120 growing days to mature.

Hmm I think the ones we planted said about 85 days or so. But that’s okay if we get a little later harvest this year. We usually like to try to plant some things in early May, but weather and schedules pushed us back a bit.

I did however manage to get a row of leaf lettuce in earlier than the other plants, and I’ve got a big ol’ handful of lettuce to go with dinner tonight!

I did however manage to get a row of leaf lettuce in earlier than the other plants, and I’ve got a big ol’ handful of lettuce to go with dinner tonight!

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Mmmmmmm good eats Sharon enjoy

We’ve been doing the lettuce for a couple weeks now and have it thinned down nicely. If we get hot it’ll bolt so we are eating about like cattle right now. Shared quite a bit of it too.

I did some weeding yesterday and notice I have several tomato plants with green tomatoes hanging already. Of course the Super sweet 100 is peppered with clumps of tomatoes.

The asparagus has been outstanding this year and the bed I started two years ago will be adding to the established plants next year.

I swore I wasn’t going to put any onion plants in this year but had a change of mind and they are doing super good in a different section of one of the gardens so now I’m glad I did plant them.

We’ve got maybe 8 milkweed that we’ve nurtured over the years in hopes of getting some Monarch caterpillars on them feeding and be darned if we don’t have three of them out there chewing away. I hope they make it to the cocoon stage.

I love this time of year when everything is growing and changes almost daily.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

I love this time of year when everything is growing and changes almost daily.

Definitely! I love running out to the garden every other day or so to see what’s new and what weeds I need to pick out. There’s always a fun chance our friendly wren will flutter by the garden, as her birdhouse is just above the garden on the fence.

Sharon wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Tom Sawvell wrote:</div>
I love this time of year when everything is growing and changes almost daily.

Definitely! I love running out to the garden every other day or so to see what’s new and what weeds I need to pick out. There’s always a fun chance our friendly wren will flutter by the garden, as her birdhouse is just above the garden on the fence.

I have a wren house by the garden also…….there usually chewing my butt for interference though!!

i need to get in the garden tonight if its not raining, its been neglected for over a week!!!!!

This is my first year doing lettuce. There is a lot of it. If I cut a bunch and give it away, does it last a few days in the fridge or best to eat it fresh?

Mine lasts several days in the fridge. What I do is wash and spin the lettuce in a lettuce spinner to get rid of the excess water. Then I lay it out on a couple of paper towels, roll that up and stuff it into a gallon size ziplock, smoosh the air out, and ziplock it shut. If I add lettuce to this or if I notice the paper towels are getting moist I will change them out.

Great! Thanks! The lettuce is growing pretty good after a slow start. Tomatoes, potatoes, cauliflower, onions and Brussels sprouts look great so far. Cucumbers, squash, zucchini and beans are really lagging though.

No problem. Everything is coming in nicely in our garden (including the weeds!), but the carrots are a bit slow so far this year. I cannot wait to start munching on tomatoes!

She’s coming along just fine and weed free.