Yes, this is a great time of the year! Crappie are starting to spawn, morels and asparagus are coming up here too. I just wish it would drag on longer. It's getting too hot too soon and everything happens at once. Did have my fish/morels/asparagus/beer dinner last Friday. Yum!
What's Growing in the Garden
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Things are thawing out and there's only a few patches of snow left in shady spots. I bought a diesel heater for the greenhouse and hung a couple of grow lights out there too. My over wintered spinach looks like it may have survived. I planted leaf lettuce and radishes in the greenhouse. Maybe we can have a green salad in a few weeks.
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Those are good looking tomatoes. I'm late on everything, only about 4" tall tomatoes under my lights.
I wish I had started them a week later, I think I will have to use a post hole digger to set them out. We have around 5 weeks before we are safe from frost. They were under light until I moved them to the greenhouse this morning.
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Took a pic before cooking them tonight.
I love asparagus, we had a small bed many years ago.
Last night was night three in a row for spring peepers. So 6 weeks out is May 25th. We should be safe after that date.....
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Dang strawberries have started blooming as have the sour cherries.
Wife was raking up some rotted leaves and found blooming strawberries underneath. I never saw that before, this time of year for us.
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Any chance you can keep them from frost/freeze long enough to harvest?
I just took the mulch off mine, I may have rushed it but it's a small reaised bed so they are easy to cover if the blossoms are in danger of freezing.
Got a couple of spears off my asparagus - only 2nd year. They did not make it to the house. About 3/4 of the garlic planted in the fall look good - some look great. But 1/4 of what I planted seemed to have sprouted, then rotted over winter. Maybe not hardy? Figs had surprisingly minor amount of dieback - even have some breba crop this year. With a couple bouts of pretty cold temps for us - had expected more die back. Had a lilac flower - so finally got to smell a lilac. Pear has set fruit and is growing. Pawpaw is flowering and appears to be setting some fruit. Hopefully they won't drop this year. Amazing the number of perennials that I lost this year.
Otherwise, I'm almost overwhelmed. Don't know whether to plant, transplant, water, fertilize, seed, weed, etc... first. With all the trees gone, and all the damage the tree removal equipment did - I'm having to redo half my back yard. I did dig up a bunch of plants prior to the removal operations. Everytime I start redoing, something happens. Last week, I got to replanting some 40 yo azaleas that had been uprooted when a big hackberry fell. I rescued them and had them in big pots. When digging the last hole, a tree root was in the way and in the process of moving it, a sharp/quick movement because it broke, made me pull something in the hip/back area. Was out for 4 days, but back at it now. Having to rethink where things can go. Where once I had tall shade and lots of azaleas, hostas, ferns, hellebores, and wildflowers planted, I now have blaring midday sun - early morning and late afternoon are shaded. Will get more shade as the trees leaf out fully - but may be too much for my hosta babies and definitely too much for this one trillium volunteer that has sprouted and bloomed. Will have to transplant it. Weather is not cooperating either. We have only had one rather moderate rain in a month with higher temps. Totally unusual - and have had to water already. When I first moved here our historic has frost date was 4/15. This year, I could have tomatoes producing already if I had planted any. Did receive an order of Japanese mums, and an order of dahlia tubers. They are already in the ground.
Otherwise, I'm almost overwhelmed. Don't know whether to plant, transplant, water, fertilize, seed, weed, etc... first. With all the trees gone, and all the damage the tree removal equipment did - I'm having to redo half my back yard. I did dig up a bunch of plants prior to the removal operations. Everytime I start redoing, something happens. Last week, I got to replanting some 40 yo azaleas that had been uprooted when a big hackberry fell. I rescued them and had them in big pots. When digging the last hole, a tree root was in the way and in the process of moving it, a sharp/quick movement because it broke, made me pull something in the hip/back area. Was out for 4 days, but back at it now. Having to rethink where things can go. Where once I had tall shade and lots of azaleas, hostas, ferns, hellebores, and wildflowers planted, I now have blaring midday sun - early morning and late afternoon are shaded. Will get more shade as the trees leaf out fully - but may be too much for my hosta babies and definitely too much for this one trillium volunteer that has sprouted and bloomed. Will have to transplant it. Weather is not cooperating either. We have only had one rather moderate rain in a month with higher temps. Totally unusual - and have had to water already. When I first moved here our historic has frost date was 4/15. This year, I could have tomatoes producing already if I had planted any. Did receive an order of Japanese mums, and an order of dahlia tubers. They are already in the ground.
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Cherry is starting to look nice.
Apple trees are starting too.
Apple trees are starting too.
It was on a job site, growing in a gravel walkway. Assume volunteer from the adjacent parking area. Calling for low 20's Sunday, so not much chance.
40+ tomato plants up to about mid thigh high. Started them in the greenhouse and transplanted up to gallon containers. They’re all in the ground now. 12 various pepper plants. Got the first batch of green beans, new potatoes, yellow squash, onions, all of which were on the dinner plate this evening. We’ve got more carrots than we have recipes for, had carrot salad tonight. I put in six 40’ rows of purple hull peas and another row of green beans today, along with some more yellow squash and cushaw.
This year I planted four 40’ rows of my “3 sisters” experiment. The corn and beans came up but it’s kinda spotty. Only three of the cusahw squash came up in there. I think the Indians must have just been lazy gardeners. The pole beans in there have no beans on them but they are climbing the corn stalks.
I had a bunch of volunteer tomato plants last fall that I put in two gallon containers in the greenhouse. They grew like crazy over the winter but didn’t start putting on tomatoes until February. They’ve made enough to give us a taste of tomatoes in early Spring. They were almost all yellow pear variety. They’re still making but the heat is going to get them soon even with the fan going. I water every day and they still wilt in the afternoon.
But everything is planted now and I can rest……. hahahahahahahaha…..
I have to tend to a live oak log sitting on the mill, its sister and three mesquite logs out in the lots… Then I can clean out the shop, make a bird feeder for my granddaughter, and start mowing the grass after all the rain we’re going to get tonight and tomorrow…… we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, ….
If I say it enough times it’s bound to be true….
Then I can rest….. hahahahahahhaahahah
Alan
This year I planted four 40’ rows of my “3 sisters” experiment. The corn and beans came up but it’s kinda spotty. Only three of the cusahw squash came up in there. I think the Indians must have just been lazy gardeners. The pole beans in there have no beans on them but they are climbing the corn stalks.
I had a bunch of volunteer tomato plants last fall that I put in two gallon containers in the greenhouse. They grew like crazy over the winter but didn’t start putting on tomatoes until February. They’ve made enough to give us a taste of tomatoes in early Spring. They were almost all yellow pear variety. They’re still making but the heat is going to get them soon even with the fan going. I water every day and they still wilt in the afternoon.
But everything is planted now and I can rest……. hahahahahahahaha…..
I have to tend to a live oak log sitting on the mill, its sister and three mesquite logs out in the lots… Then I can clean out the shop, make a bird feeder for my granddaughter, and start mowing the grass after all the rain we’re going to get tonight and tomorrow…… we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, we are goin to get rain, ….
If I say it enough times it’s bound to be true….
Then I can rest….. hahahahahahhaahahah
Alan
Today our 2 pear trees and only peach tree reached full bloom. Freezing nights start Sunday. Yesterday there was no sign of bloom. Another odd year for sure. Last year we had 12 blossoms on the peach but very strangely ended up with 200 peaches from the tree....
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We are sitting in a similar situation. Apples are just past full bloom, cherries are in full, and strawberries are blooming. Based on critical temp data, we will probably loose a little bit when temps hit forecast of 29° tomorrow night. All depends on how high off the ground the frost gets. Just got in from covering the strawberries.
I wasn't sure where to post this; thought about Random Picture thread, but the pic may be a little gross. And since things are 'sprouting' the Garden section seemed more appropriate.
I harvested a turkey Friday morning and upon cleaning found this in it's crop.
Looks to be soy beans that had started to sprout, either before eating or in the crop? Kind of unusual; I don't thing farmers around here have started planted beans. Not sure. Maybe it was a bag of bean seed that had gone bad and the farmer tossed? Weird just the same.
I harvested a turkey Friday morning and upon cleaning found this in it's crop.
Looks to be soy beans that had started to sprout, either before eating or in the crop? Kind of unusual; I don't thing farmers around here have started planted beans. Not sure. Maybe it was a bag of bean seed that had gone bad and the farmer tossed? Weird just the same.
Not sure either. Had to call it something. Regardless, the contents surprised me being this time of the year.