What's Growing in the Garden

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Mike Hill said:
Is it spring yet?

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Beautiful daffodils!

Sure seems like it here, although I wish it would cool off a little bit more. We've been at 50-60° for highs for a while, and I always worry about the fruit trees starting too early. Our last average last frost date isn't until April 20, so while I'm enjoying it, I know we've probably got some winter weather yet to come.
 
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Going to be a while until we have anything around here as beautiful as Mike showed, here are a couple pictures of my little flowers.

These are the begonia that I showed earlier. The big leaf on these is about 1/2" diameter. Still another week or two before they get stepped up into cell packs.

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Going to be busy in the next couple of days, everything in this flat is now ready for transplanting.

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Six flats full of stuff so far, will probably be up to 10 by the end of the week.

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And here we are two weeks later. Big rack is full and overflow rack nearly so. Going to have to move several flats out to the cold frame this week to make room for stepping up tomatoes and peppers, and all the cole crops need planting too.

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Here's the overflow rack. Only four flats fit on this one, but they get more light on this rack.

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I put cherry tomatoes, Celebrity tomatoes and 3 kind of cucumbers in my grow pots this last week. Also some dwarf sunflowers
 
trc65 said:
And here we are two weeks later. Big rack is full and overflow rack nearly so. Going to have to move several flats out to the cold frame this week to make room for stepping up tomatoes and peppers, and all the cole crops need planting too.

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Here's the overflow rack. Only four flats fit on this one, but they get more light on this rack.

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Too kewl. Prime wish is a greenhouse but since that won't happen, this is my realistic wish but not so big. I can't grow many veggies and not many annuals. Unfortunately I have to chose - storing wood or growing plants!
 
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Wildthings said:
OH yea I also found some of the spicy oregano that has eluded me for the past few years!
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Mexican oregano?

Several seed companies sell "hot and spicy" oregano which is probably a "Mexican oregano" and not a true oregano at all.

Oregano (greek and turkish) is Origanum onites and closely related to west asian oregano O. syriacum. These all taste similar.

Mexican oregano is Lippia graveolens and should grow as a perennial shrub in your area if you want to grow it that way.
 
The first one I found a few years back was "Hot and Spicy" Oregano sold at Walmart. Really good oregano taste with a bite to it. Great on my eggs. Haven't seen it since and look every time I pass herbs at any nursery. This week the local HEB (grocery) had spicy Oregano plants out front and I grabbed a few.

I always have a few of the common oregano plants growing always along with basil and dill.

edited: just went and looked and it said: spicy Italian oregano

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Thank for the link. I was wrong in my assumption, "hot and spicy" appears to be a cultivar of regular oregano, not mexican oregano. Too late for me to start any from seed, but I'll have to be on the lookout for some in the stores as soon as it warms up a bit more.
 
I love seeing all of these progress pics. I don't have a green thumb but I still try to sometimes.
 
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Beautiful!

We've got nothing that far along yet. Daffodils are about done, tulips just getting started, and the pear and cherry trees just need some sun and warm temps to really pop. We've had over 3" of rain in the last 4 days, so ready for our " May flowers"
 
Ray D said:
Cool pictures in the broccoli patch. Is it possible that the main head has been already harvested and those are secondary heads on side shoots? Can’t really tell from the picture. In Florida, we can actuality get a second smaller harvest and occasionally a third if it doesn’t get too warm. Either way.. cool picture.
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This actually Broccolini, a trendy hybrid that is popular in restaurants these days. Taste just like broccoli to me. It is still there and totally seeded out now, and drying up. so I think Tim was right, it is a seed crop...
 
I envy you folks who can plant an outdoor garden. The deer here pretty much prohibit that. We're restricted to what we can plant in pots on the deck. But that has it's bright side too - means less shovel work for me. We're just coming into spring - the lawn is just coming out of dormancy and the daffodils are starting to bud. The iris leaves are growing longer now too.
 
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We've got lots of deer too, and I need various strategies to keep them at bay. Fencing around tulips, repellent around hosta beds, bird netting over small transplants and electric fence around strawberries and sweet corn. It's a constant battle.

In desperate need of some warmer weather here. Cold frame is full waiting warmer temps, and plants in basement are rapidly outgrowing my setup.

Remember the pic of the tiny begonias in post #5? Here they are 7 weeks later. Ready to be hardened off and planted.

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Here's the whole rack, tomatoes, peppers and petunias on the top, really need to get these outside.

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Close up of the petunias.

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With a planned planting/transplanting time of right after Memorial Day, we started seeds indoors on Saturday. The plan was to get that done the previous weekend, but didn't happen. Tomatoes and peppers were started, as well as some flowers.
 
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