Your 2024 Garden

[LTAY1946]

Holes for the plants punched with a 7/8" dowel. No bending.

 

[LTAY1946]

Planting started with a little experiment. A tiny fragment of a plant and a normal plant side by side. Will the tiny one flourish and make potatoes? Time will tell.

 

[LTAY1946]

Going down the row with 50 plants moving along on my knees while Ma waters them in as I tuck them in.

 

[LTAY1946]

We were about a third done when it got dark last night. Hoping to be done tonight. We only plant in the cool of the day when it is plants going in the ground. Seed any time we can get them into well prepared soil. At least 2 rows of okra and 2 rows of Roma II beans going in in the next hour. 100' rows. I'll make the furrows to drop the seed in with a push plow and use a gadget I made out of 1/2's PVC pipe to drop the seed down into the furrow with out having to bend. The only bean I'll have to crawl along and plant are the Fordhook Lima beans. They should have the eye facing down to make those big leaves have a better chance of coming up if we get a hard rain before they germinate.

 

[Smokerbill]

Going down the row with 50 plants moving along on my knees while Ma waters them in as I tuck them in.
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Will the sweet potatoes find enough moisture under the plastic, or do you have a watering method in mind?

 

[tripletfeb]

And this is why I can only plant lettuce, spinach, and onions early

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

Forgot I had this on my camera. Here's the raised beds prepped and ready for spring planting (I usually start mid-March).

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Turns out I had a lot more chicken run compost than I thought, I ended up putting 8-9 buckets into each bed and there's still a bit leftover for potted plants or flower beds.

Those beds look glorious

 

[Sally PB]

Same for me, @tripletfeb. I've done all I can to protect/save the blueberry and cherry flowers/buds.

Now it's up to hope and luck.

 

[tripletfeb]

Crap! I didn't think about my blueberry blossoms! Oh man, it's too late now, dark out

 

[LTAY1946]

Will the sweet potatoes find enough moisture under the plastic, or do you have a watering method in mind?

Water is no problem with a 2 gallon per hour drip emitter at each plant. Using the ones that are inserted on top of the poly tubing so any sand coming from the deep well will remain in the bottom of the poly tubing. With these running for half an hour at each station at night virtually no well water wasted.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Orbit-10-Pack-2-GPH-Drip-Spray-Drip-Irrigation-Dripper/3132699 Using the same on tomato plants that really don't like leaves wet if possible. Can't control the rain but sprinklers don't have to wet them.