When are you going to plant this year?

[Gaston]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems that our seasons have rotated forward about a month over the last couple of decades. Years back, English peas were always planted the first week of February, but I doubt you could get a spade in the ground that early now. I started planting in mid-April, but except for a few hardy things I don't dare do it without night covers. Right now I'm trying to figure out when to start the seeds I plant indoors such as tomatoes and eggplant, but if I start too early they'll outgrow the flats before I can set them out. If I start too late the bugs will be in full attack mode by then and the fragile ones will not stand a chance.

When do you plan to start, and what?

[taraburner]

I may not be planting this year since I'll be traveling and have to do container garden on 3rd floor patio and sadly this past summer I lost a lot of what I had grown since I was out of town and person who was to care for 'garden' while I was gone didn't :(
Tara

[lishca]

i'm hoping to plant a lil bit of everything and i'm not sure when to start yet. usually mid-april, but we'll just have to see how the weather treats us. i'm about ready to start tho, lol. i would love for it to be warming up and we could be outside....still too snowy here

[Birdiewi]

I am planning quite a bit as usual. I just ordered my potatoes. I get them from Seed Savers Exchange. Beans, flint corn, tomatoes, garlic, onion, various greens, squash, eggplant, peppers, flowers for the bees.

I have a seed starting chart I could share. You just plug in your last frost date and it calculates different start dates for different plants. When to start indoors, when to start outdoors. I found it useful. It is an Excel file. Not sure how to attach it.

[NCW_Woodnymph]

Gaston we've gone the opposite direction. It use to be you didn't want to plant outside until May but the last couple of years we haven't frozen after mid March. I'm thinking of planting outside the beginning of April, though I'll make sure I can cover the babies if we get a late season frost. We're going to start our first seeds next week and I can't wait! :D

[yugogypsy]

Yes, I too remember putting in broad beans in Feb. with my Dad, but peas in April.
I've heard if you start peas indoors around March 21 you have peas for the table by Victoria Day.

I would have liked to start in the greenhouse two weeks ago, but my roomie who usually helps is in the middle of changing the clutch in his Toyota 4Runner.

But I should get started this week, we have a new neighbour and she's offered to help and when she visited today I sent her home with some seeds to sort.
(My seed collection is a mess)

Put it this way I PLAN to start within a few days. How much I get done depends on what else pops up to be done.

But we plan a huge garden this year now that the roadside stand is finished.

Any other Vancouver Islanders here that know where I can get some chickens???

Lois

[Crochety Carpenter]

I just ran into this site. Anyone ever heared of this?

http://www.fungi.com/mycogrow/index.html

Don't know much myself. :D

[yugogypsy]

Not right now I'm not gardening, the sky just opened up and its POURING buckets.

And Roly is under his truck trying to get the starter out. I don't see the air turning blue yet, but it probably will.

I've got to plant up some hanging baskets and planters for Roly's Mum too as well as doing our normal gardening.

But soon, very soon, I'm going to the nursery and getting some starts.

Lois

[LIBRA]

Got the first round of beets, radishes and spinach seeds all planted.

Tomorrow im planting 10 larch tree's, 10 hemlocks, 10 rasberry and 20 misc elders, witch hazel, american cranberry and ??? cant remember. maybe some dogwoods. I get em from the conservation district so its mixed.

[LIBRA]

Ok I went and picked up my order of tree's and got 40 more trees!! I couldnt resist!!!

10 red buds, 10 blueberry, 10 rasberry, and 10 american filberts!!!!

Im gonna be a busy girl tomorrow...hope it rains after everything is planted!!!!

[Pedata]

Wow, you really are busy, Denise! Can I have some of your energy? lol.

I got some corn planted in tubs. Thor hasn't got the tiller going yet. Whether it gets tilled or not I'm letting the garden go fallow this year. Or rather I'm letting the weeds grow, I'll have a giant salad to pick from for the chickens. I was going to plant millet, in some other tubs, but so far I haven't got around to it. I'm thinking that just buying millet for my keets is cheaper than jacking up the water bill by watering millet. Or am I just getting old and lazy?

-Cass

[yugogypsy]

I'll plant when these f-ing lazy good for nothing shitheads I live with dig the damn garden!:mad::mad::mad::mad

[Pedata]

Thor got that tiller running. I'm going to broadcast plant some millet and cumin. Unless I don't. And let the weeds grow. Maybe part millet and cumin, and part weeds?

[Pedata]

Well, I went and just tossed seeds over the fence, letting them land where they may. The chickens thought I was throwing them food and went insane, since they couldn't get into the garden. Part was tossed with millet, the other with cumin. And what happens will happen.
I may just be developing a natural form of gardening. Call it- Toss and hope. lol.

-Cass

[CowboyHippy]

in the past we had alwas stuck some tomato and pepper plants in the flower beds

this year we are expanding the operation a bit
got some gardening books.

I have 4 beds about 10ftx3 feet each. they are now landscaped in a bit, we didnt have a good spot for one big garden. they got trimmed with rocks and mounded up with 2 year old compost rich and black as coffee. (I have been planning for about that long) double dug and tilled down a couple of feet. ideal conditions established per the books

we'll have peppers, tomatos, onions, potatos and carrots. maybe one other thing.

michigan is supposed to only have 1 year in 20 where it frosts past mothers day. that is the weekend we storm the greenhouses. with the small beds and my building skills i'll be able to cover them easily if we get in danger.