Garden 2024

[Mad Trapper]

Getting the topic started.

I'm starting to inventory my seeds. Not sure how soon my friend's greenhouse will get going?

Have lots to do pruning orchard, berries, grapes while still dormant.

[T-Man 1066]

Good deal. I am going to try real hard to get one going this year. Business is still going crazy, but I will somehow squeeze in the time.

[BucketBack]

Ground is thawed, but mostly sand, so I'm digging dirt when I drive the two tracks and filling up planters for the container garden thing

[Slippy]

We have 2 batches of Compost ready to add to the raised beds. Both have been cooking for a while now. I might risk adding some chicken manure to one of the batches and hopefully the chicken shit will have some time to "cool" down before we add it to the raised beds.

In the next couple of weeks we will start some seeds inside and plant some sugar snap pea seeds outside.

[Michael_Js]

Already started my indoor planting last week: 3 different kinds of peppers.
Basil has been slowly growing on the south facing window sill along with cilantro - broke out the plant lights this week.
Also have a volunteer tomato plant growing - no idea what type. It's about 6-7" tall

I follow the Almanac.com planting guide for my zip code...there will be 4-5 more plantings indoors, then prepping the beds for transplanting and outdoor plantings. That won't be for another month+. Today a new, replacement, dwarf peach tree should arrive. Yes, my last died...oh well.

I have plenty of mulch to add when I prep the beds. Next to do is plan out what goes where - other than crops that don't move as well as the garlic I planted last September.

This morning, frost everywhere My reminder it's still winter.

[Mad Trapper]

I got some news today about the greenhouse. 5-year old outer cover is shot and blew off with high winds last week, needs to be replaced before starting up. Plastic is being ordered and I'm on the work crew.....

Good news. Farm feed store has most of bulk vegetable seeds now in stock. Can't get stuff like peppers and tomatoes but lots of other things sold by the oz or pound.

Weather has been real FKed up here. Last week saw teens lows and 50s highs, rain/snow last night, single digits for Sat night, then 50s maybe 60 next week with rain. Hope this does not kill the buds on crop plants and mast trees in the woods (for deer and kritters). If the kritters get hungry they turn to my garden.........

I might put some taps out in the maples, just enough to boil down some sap on the woodstove.

edit:

Since green house may be delayed, I'm getting my grow light setup prepped ( 8 florescent grow lamps X 4' fixture) and seed bed heaters setup. I have plenty of good soil to start flats.

[Inor]

I have spent the last few days burying a new water line out to a pasture behind us for the cattle. It was a bitch of a run but the upside...

When I was digging the trench through our wash, I discovered some great soil. It is in an area that is covered with mesquite trees and hawthorn bushes, so I had never spent much time there. But the soil is GREAT and the mesquites do provide some shade in the summer. So, I think I am going to get rid of the hawthorns and start brush-hogging the area this year and try some raspberries and blueberries there. We have tried raspberries and blueberries in two other spots and they died almost as soon as I planted them. So I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that we cannot have them. But I am going to try them one last time.

[BucketBack]

14 degrees this frozen morning

[Box of frogs]

Going to take the tractor and till up about 300 feet of potato beds.
I think I will make raise rows with the row hipper to plant the spuds in.
The back garden soil is looser and a bit sandy compared with the garden up near the house.
According to the interwebs deer don’t care for potatoes, they eat the hell out of everything thing else I plant back there so maybe this will work out for me.
I have never tried potatoes before. If you have any tips, I’m listening.
BoF

[Mad Trapper]

14 degrees this frozen morning

Thanks for sending it, we get it tonight.