The annual gardening thread

[Jack]

I haven't planted anything yet this year (maybe this week), but the rhubarb is coming up nicely



How about you guys, what are you planting / planning to plant?

[Pilgermann]

I've planted some grass seed in some dead patches of my yard and uh, that's about it.  I always think about how I'd like to start gardening but I just never do it for some reason.

[LilCerberus]

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First year in my new place, I've mostly been clearing...

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[El Misfit]

Hungarian Hot Wax peppers, arugula

[LilCerberus]

Is lime supposed to kill stuff, or nurture stuff?

[bob]

I helped my mom do gardening today 

[Mr. DS]

Currently in the planning process.  I probably am going to go way overboard this year, even more than previous years.  My partner has already bought about a dozen cabbage and broccoli plants along with various other items.  However, we are going to add a lot more to that list. 

I have luckily acquired a ton of onions to plant.  The land I'm on is more than adequate for growing softball sized onions so I look forward to that.  However, they should be a b!tch to plant seeing its 1 every 2 inches. 

I helped my sister in law plant her garden over the weekend.  If all goes well she should have a good bounty.

[The Burgomaster]

I avoid gardening at all costs.

[LilCerberus]

Three or four more stumps. They're not really bothering anybody, just a couple along the fence where I want to install a gate, the other two, I can't decide if I should dig them up, whittle them down, or just leave them be.

Other than some poison ivy, I'm still trying to decide what I want to keep, & what I want to get rid of.

[Killer Bees]

My guy Sean gave me a pot with a few plants in it at xmas time.  I've only just gotten around to repotting them all.  I ended up with 5 separate plants plus 8 new ones that have budded on their own.  I'm not sure what they're called - just your standard indoor pot plants, but they are lovely.

I had a chilli plant as well and put it on the verandah but the possums ate all the chillis!!!   I don't know how they aren't dead!

I also planted curley parsley, flat leaved parsley and chives.  They should come up in about 6 weeks

[Jack]

I had a chilli plant as well and put it on the verandah but the possums ate all the chillis!!!   I don't know how they aren't dead!

My uncle and aunt are always having problems with animals eating their garden.  One year a bunny, or maybe a woodchuck went through their whole strawberry patch and took one big bite out of each and every berry   

[Silverlady]

A few days ago something (deer, groundhog, rabbbit)came either late at night or early in the morning and pulled my recently planted flowers out of the ground and just left them there. I replanted them and the next night it came back and bit all the flowers off. 

I replanted them and decided to declare WAR!  In a gallon water container I mixed up some chili powder, garlic powder, and black pepper with a little dish soap and left it on the porch to ferment for the day. Early that evening I heavily wet down my plants with the stuff. Geez, what a stink! But the next morning not a single plant had been touched! 

I've been putting the stinky stuff on my plants everyday since and the critter hasn't been back! 

[Mr. DS]

I give you guys credit for handling the pests civilly.  I would have gotten out a club and waited for them to arrive.

[Raffine]

I had a chilli plant as well and put it on the verandah but the possums ate all the chillis!!!   I don't know how they aren't dead!

My uncle and aunt are always having problems with animals eating their garden.  One year a bunny, or maybe a woodchuck went through their whole strawberry patch and took one big bite out of each and every berry   

One of the hardest fruits to actually get to enjoy are figs. My grandfather had a huge fig tree and some years he'd only get a handful. Even though he went through some pretty elaborate methods to protect them, the birds/squirrels would make it their mission to take at least one big bite out of each one.

[Newt]

Picked our first asparagus of the season yesterday.    For once, the weather cooperated and I managed to get the fruit trees sprayed a week or two back.  Now they are all blooming - cherries, apples, pears.  They will need a heavy pruning in the fall, I did not do it this spring.  I hope to plant a pair of peach trees soon, in place of the plums we took out.

The red and black currants are coming on well, as are the gooseberries.  So are the currant/gooseberry hybrids.  The raspberries have 'escaped' their beds - I will be rounding them up and re-planting them in there today.  They're worth the work.  I have some strawberries in big pots.  I re-potted them earlier this spring and they look happy: hard to beat our 'home-grown' well-rotted horse manure!

Haven't tilled the garden patch yet: it is still too wet.  We've had a record wet spring thus far.  I hope it dries soon enough to get our 'longer' crops in: we like several varieties of sweet corn that need a longer season, as do the broccoli and cauliflower.

Sunny and summer-like today; I am about to head out and get some yardwork done.  The asparagus patch needs tidying and I have four young grapefruit trees to set out for the summer, in larger pots.  A few cooler nights might help them set fruit, I am told.  We'll see.

I hope to plant white popcorn again this year.  That was good stuff.