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Post by daylilydude on Apr 23, 2018 10:44:59 GMT -5
With this really crazy weather that's happening everywhere are you behind in the gardening?
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Apr 23, 2018 11:24:34 GMT -5
A little bit but not seriously. If I can get sweet potatoes planted this weekend I'll be caught up.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 23, 2018 12:04:18 GMT -5
Not too much. We had a couple of warm days and I got some seeds planted for things like spinach, lettuce, Swiss chard and radishes. My peas got planted at the end of March and seem to be patchy so I am not sure if some of them rotted or they will come up as it gets warmer. The ones that did come up are still pretty small.
My pea crop seems to be the only thing that is really behind.
Seeds planted indoors for tomatoes and peppers are right on schedule.
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Post by meandtk on Apr 23, 2018 13:09:55 GMT -5
Yes I still need to plant beans, peas, and cukes
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Post by ladymarmalade on Apr 23, 2018 13:11:17 GMT -5
For sure. I started tomato seeds on Saturday. I don't think I've ever been this late at getting them in the dirt!
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Post by meandtk on Apr 23, 2018 13:18:36 GMT -5
And more corn.
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Post by paulf on Apr 23, 2018 13:53:48 GMT -5
We shall see. Tomatoes usually around May 10 if the weather and soil temps are OK. Today the soil temp is 46 degrees and needs to be 65. All the other crops I plant go in the same time as tomatoes except for peppers and they get planted about a week later than everything else.
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Post by whistech on Apr 23, 2018 14:09:18 GMT -5
Yes, I'm definitely behind. Normally, I would tomatoes beginning to blush, green beans blooming and cucumbers starting to vine. It will be another month before I pick any tomatoes. I have planted green beans for the third time trying to get a good stand, if they don't make it this time I will try again in the fall. I will be digging fingerling potatoes within the next week to 10 days and then will plant melons and okra where the potatoes grew.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Apr 23, 2018 15:19:01 GMT -5
I'm so far behind, not sure how it's going to work.
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Post by spike on Apr 23, 2018 16:25:48 GMT -5
Nope! Right on schedule! I have my seeds started inside and that is all I can really do until about the end of May/beginning of June anyway.
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Post by bestofour on Apr 23, 2018 18:16:26 GMT -5
So far so good here.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 23, 2018 18:16:42 GMT -5
I had to skip my cold weather crops this spring, but everything else is pretty much on time. Except for the peppers that were no-shows, but that always happens with something, and I'll still have extras, as always, of something that I can always use more of!
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Apr 23, 2018 18:31:44 GMT -5
I stopped by Lowe’s today to look for dill plants. I couldn’t find them and had to settle for seed . I did notice that they had more variety in plants than ever before. They even had Armenian Snake melon/cucumber.
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Post by september on Apr 24, 2018 10:09:13 GMT -5
I'm behind, but I'm always behind, so maybe I am not really behind, just normal? The snow came last fall before I finished clearing the garden, so I have that extra work, worst is I didn't get a chance to dig up the invasive tree roots in a couple of the front beds and ground is not yet thawed fully.
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Post by spacecase0 on Apr 24, 2018 10:20:28 GMT -5
california weather does have its advantages I am pretty much on schedule, all I have left to plant is the popcorn and the sweet corn, and that should be finished today. now if I can just keep the slugs and birds from eating everything...
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Post by paquebot on Apr 24, 2018 17:33:09 GMT -5
Yes, and definitely due to weather. Had it been a nice day on 9 Feb instead of 6" of fresh snow, I would not have stopped to stand up my tall boots and missed a step. That's why my tomatoes were not started until 2 days and peppers yesterday. But it's turned around completely here and plan to have friends here to plant popatoes Saturday. That's also late by my standards as mid-March is what I like for early ones.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by carolyn on Apr 24, 2018 21:38:38 GMT -5
I think we are a growing season behind where we should be. the peas have been in the garden for a month and are an inch tall. there is nothing in leaf here yet. the daffodils are just popping out. yeah. we are behind. I just today planted up the tomatoes in the high tunnel. this is even a gamble. close to freezing the next two nights. the grass is green. thats about it.
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Post by octave1 on Apr 25, 2018 7:33:59 GMT -5
Yes but not really. I don't plant many of cold weather veggies anyway because this climate can go from cold and damp to hot and humid in 24 hours. Too often my cold weather veggies ended up bolting overnight. I have better luck with winter greens planted in the fall, if they manage to survive the winter. As far as summer vegetables, nothing goes out until mid-May, or later. And for what I can tell, I am totally on time.
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Post by brownrexx on Apr 25, 2018 8:00:36 GMT -5
the peas have been in the garden for a month and are an inch tall. mine too!
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Post by guruofgardens on Apr 26, 2018 19:19:01 GMT -5
I planted hot peppers a few weeks earlier than usual and they are huge! I planted tomatoes 3 weeks later than last year because they got too tall. Right now they are tiny and will be transplanted in a few days.
The weather has been so erratic that I plan on planting near Memorial Day. Last year we got hail on May 8 and snow on May 20. So we are much later than the usual Mother's Day plant out.
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