Your 2024 Garden

[NanaK]

Purple hull peas, bell peppers and a few more marigolds are planted.
Still got to plant the cayenne.

Green pea pods are swelling with peas. No sign of mildew yet. I know it's coming always does as the humidity starts to get bad. Hope I can get a few pickings before it gets them.

I still need to plant some mellons and winter squash. I also want to plant some zinnias and sunflowers.

We need some rain so today I have to water. Then I need to run errands. I'd rather be in the garden!

 

[fuzzi]

Still no rain, so I watered.

Something ate the first leaves off a few of the beans...

 

[Smokerbill]

Still no rain, so I watered.
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Something ate the first leaves off a few of the beans...

Lookin' Good!

 

[Sally PB]

Some of the plants in the green house would like to move outside, but they need to hang tight for another 3-4 weeks.

Like the luffas. I planted 21 seeds, 3 to a pot, and dang it! they ALL came up! This never happens! I was expecting one or two per pot, with some zilchos in there. Last year, I got 4, count 'em, FOUR! out of a packet of 20ish seeds.


I know y'all feel sorry for me, right?

 

[tripletfeb]

We put two trailer loads of dirt into the new garden space. Holy crap, my back is sore!

 

[LTAY1946]

It was very hot today in the 90's already. I did get almost done thinning the first planting of sweet corn and did some research on things to order for the fall garden. Here we don't plant some normal spring crops until late summer so they don't mature in excess heat. Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, etc.

 

[fuzzi]

Lookin' Good!

Thank you!

I still have not planted my melons, partly because I don't have a spare trellis until the peas are done.

And it was 90° here, the heat got to me today, I could only putter around the gardens. I have to slowly acclimate to the summer heat, can't rush it or I get heat exhaustion.

I'm going to go water in a few, it's not as bad as the evening rolls in.

 

[LTAY1946]

Nearly 90 again here today. I didn't go out after early morning chores until after 6 this evening. Then I finished thinning the sweet corn and took care of chickens that needed something. I did order tomato seed to day for some paste tomatoes and some for an improved Celebrity that can be used for BLT's or canning. Never have grown them before so it is an experiment. The paste tomato is from here:
https://growhoss.com/products/invincible-tomato?variant=47689314074934
They are supposed to be resistant to a key disease found here in the Southeastern States.

 

[LTAY1946]

I've up and done it. I ordered a pound of King of the Garden pole Lima beans along with a reusable trellis netting. Lima Beans are so expensive and never taste like home grown. Bush Lima beans can be so hard on the back to pick. I'll have one row of them and then the pole Lima beans too.