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05-03-2020, 03:19 PM | #1 |
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Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
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05-04-2020, 05:23 AM | #2 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
I'm so excited for gardening season!!! This spring dh and I revamped my raised beds -- we took down the old ones, and made two new higher ones. Brought in gardening soil and fertilizer and now they're all filled up and ready to plant!
I won't be planting until after Memorial Day (I'm in Michigan, and that's pretty much the earliest I can safely plant without risk of freeze), but I'm excited the beds are ready!
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05-04-2020, 06:40 AM | #3 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
I am excited. I have garden failed twice now due to the my large population of trees over my entire property.
I am doing spinach and snow peas this year based on gcm advice. They are already planted and I have 7 spinach and 4 snow pea plants coming up. Normally I wouldn't plant until after Mother's Day (Central Indiana) but since they are spinach and peas already in the ground. We have them in boxes surrounded by wire and watching the sun all day and I think we have moved them to the sunniest square of the back yard. My dd did all the planting and helped make the chicken wire cages with dh and waters most days, though I do occasionally as well. If this is successful I may expand. QUESTION - at some point it'll be too warm for the spinach and peas. What should I plant in the boxes next for the summer (ie only tomatoes and a variety of peppers but the lack of sun I didn't get a lot). I used to avoid plants rabbits want to eat but now I have the boxes and wire so it's all ready to go. TIA!
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05-04-2020, 08:43 AM | #4 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
Do you have room for other things now? In shade, your can usually have decent success with plants where you don't need the fruit. Potatoes, onions, garlic, cabbage, celery, carrots etc but you'd want to start them soon. Your could try broccoli and cauliflower, too. Also herbs.
---------- Post added at 08:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:27 AM ---------- Should add that I've never tried to grow potatoes or onions in shade. I'm thinking they might turn out ok, though. Also, if you have a spot for rhubarb, that should do ok in shade. Rabbits don't eat it so it could go anywhere. Do you have sun in your front yard? Also, not sure how interested you are in growing vegetables but some heavy pruning of a few trees would help. |
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05-04-2020, 08:57 AM | #5 | |
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We do have chives going in a pot as well. I could do more herbs. We don't eat rhubarb. We do not have ANY sun in the front yard. Right by the mailbox at the street gets some. And I have another small patch on the side of the garage. I have my raspberries bushes there though. Heavy pruning of trees would be fruitless - 1. these are HUGE TALL TREES so the cost would be outrageous I assume. We would have to remove most of our trees and we have very low summer cost in terms of running the AC. We did remove 7 trees.The 7 Trees because of the Ash Borer and I thought - oh look at all the sunny spots in the yard but the remaining trees (15 in the back yard alone) just filled out and no more sunny spots. And when those were removed they had to come in with a bucket truck to lop off the tops. I mean TALL - the branches don't even start for 30-40 feet up.
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05-04-2020, 10:59 AM | #6 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
You could try planting more greens all summer long since they'll be kept relatively cool. Also, many stores get rid of their vegetable seeds toward late summer. I always buy extra now for fall planting.
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05-10-2020, 11:18 PM | #7 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
Our garden is really kicking off! It is going to be a big one. I'm really, really excited.
DH just finished making me my first permanent raised bed today. I had put in some "well these will do for now" beds several years ago, and then a tree fell on the whole garden two years ago and I gave up gardening. I'm back at it now and bigger, better than ever. The permanent beds are 4'x12' cedar, 22 inches tall so it is easier to work with, and a wide top edge to sit on. We are planning on making 5 this year, and 2 more next year, plus there is room for one more 4x4 too, we will see if we get that one built this year or next or put something else there. And I'm so excited for proper trellises for everything. Woohoo! I have 3 of my old "good for now" beds full of veggies. Already planted: bush beans, tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, spinach, lettuce, mustard greens, arugula, basil, cilantro, cucumbers, peppers, and a few new perennial herbs in my herb beds right outside the front of the garden. Oh, and I have a few zucchini and one pumpkin planted just straight in the ground - hopefully the voles don't get them! Plus our wild blackberries all over the unusable parts of the yard (hillside, under redwood trees) are growing quite a bit this year. I have two asparagus and one rhubarb starts to get in still. I'm trying to decide where I want them permanently since they are perennial. I am pretty sure I want to plant them with strawberries as well. So maybe one bed will be a perennial bed. Maybe that 4x4? As soon as we finish filling this new bed with dirt I have a lot of new seeds to get going. The next rounds of leafy greens, some pole beans (I KY blue pole beans), more tomatoes, and a few annual herbs are all definitely going in. I'm going to try a bit of root veggies, but I'm worried it might be too hot. I do have some shade cloth, I might try it over the greens and root crops. But I do know once we get to August/September I can plant a bunch of those root crops and get a good bumper to put in the cellar. We can grow through November here, it frosts in early December. Zone 9, so a very big growing season. We will be able to grow a bunch of the things I missed out on in the early spring later this year. In many ways, if we make a hot house over one bed we can grow year round. Wishlist: Some more medicinal herbs are on my list and as I see them I'll get them for my cottage garden nearer the house. I also am looking at getting avocado trees and blueberry bushes. I'm not sure I'm ready for them yet - labor wise, plus I'm not 100% on where to put them yet - our lot is so weird. But it takes several years to get them established well enough to get good fruit so I'm antsy to get started. I'm also trying to figure out garlic, turmeric, and ginger planting. I am not sure how/where I want to do it, or if I've missed the window already - I need to research. I live 20 minutes away from the garlic capitol of the world. I should be able to grow garlic! I'm hoping to move towards having all our fruits/veggies except apples grown here. Maybe eventually I can get apple trees, but I think it is too shady in the flat spots I have left. I've also thought about a kiwi or grape arbor. I love kiwis but I'm the only one. Grapes however are a fave in season. |
05-12-2020, 06:32 PM | #8 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
This year I tried planting my peppers, squash, and cucumbers in pots and then I planted the pots. Last year I lost several plants to pocket gophers and voles. This year they'll bump into plastic.
I have rhubarb stuck in random places. It doesn't need great soil. I started with two plants and now I have 9 from splitting. I bought half my tomato plants and those are in. I'm hoping to buy the other half at the farmer's market this Saturday. And I'll see what else they have . . . I cannot find the seeds I know I bought for bush beans. I may just buy starts, instead. |
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05-13-2020, 09:01 AM | #9 | |
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05-13-2020, 10:04 AM | #10 |
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I planted carrots, beets, green beans, cucumber, lettuce and spinach from seeds, but they didn't come up so I bought new seeds and replanted lettuce, green beans, cucumbers, and spinach and now they haven't come up! What is up with that? I had one zucchini seedling come up from seed and now it seems to be gone, so I'll try to replant that. The only things doing halfway well in my garden are the plants I bought at the nursery - tomatoes, jalapeno, watermelon plus the onions that I planted that had sprouted from my last grocery order.
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05-13-2020, 09:18 PM | #11 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
That permanent bed is filled and ready to plant. It was a LOT of hard work and digging to get it full, but it's finished and I can plant tomorrow!
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05-14-2020, 12:58 AM | #12 | |
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05-15-2020, 06:12 AM | #13 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
I need to get some fuel for our rototiller so we can plant next week. The starts I tried all failed miserably - of 36 squares in the seed tray only 4 sprouted and they nearly all died. I will have to get some starts from the store at least for tomatoes, and some pea packets so we can at least plant those.
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05-15-2020, 08:05 PM | #14 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
I bought more tomato plants today. The second batch of peas I planted are starting to come up. I found the packet of bush beans. In the garden. Damp from the rain. I'll plant them anyway, they're probably fine.
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05-16-2020, 01:54 PM | #15 |
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Re: Vegetable/Fruit Gardening 2020
I'm not a great gardener, and our soil here is tricky. We also may be pulling down our fence this summer to replace it, which is leaving a lot of stuff kind of (gestures vaguely at the backyard)...yeah.
I put 6 tomato plants along the house today, with a celery plant (never done celery before!). Also, basil in a pot. In our backyard, we have a semi-raised bed. I'm hoping to coax the rhubarb in there to produce more. I'm also putting in a couple zucchini and a pumpkin later today. I also have a strawberry planter that I'm going to fill. At the greenhouse today, I picked up some enriched soil that might help our clay-heavy yard dirt out. Hoping for something to grow! |
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