2020 garden thread

Two baby hummingbirds awake and ready to leave the nest soon. I’ll miss them. Mama bird has done well.

 

NIce steady hand.

 

You are all killin' me with all those harvests already! We had such a late season here. Frost right up until early May. I dropped by my plot today and things are at least moving along.

 

By August all of us Texas Gardeners will be bitching about the heat and no rain. And we will still have 2 more months of summer left- possibly 3- we never know. I will say for it being May it has been a mild month.

 

Yes but bees love cilantro.

 

This is great dip/dressing if you don’t know what to do with cilantro:
I don’t use tomatillos

 

Planted impatiens seeds in homemade hanging planter.

Do these look impatiens to you? [emoji2955]

 

Put tomatoes in pots May 13; I'm hoping to plant tomorrow.

I hear you, midwestees - last year I didn't plant til June 9!

Wait all winter for this time of year - shrubs flowering, beautiful birds, warmth!

 

No, those are weeds.

 

They look like tomatoes to me.

 

BL, I have Sun Sugar which are little orange tomatoes, and Jubilee which are medium yellow - both are delicious!

 

Whenever I find a mystery plant, I let it grow and see what happens. Good luck.

One thing we can rule out, those are not Impatiens.

 

but did you plant any catnip for your little orange friend?
I planted some last year and the ferals demolished it in one day.....pulled the whole plant out of the ground.

 

Agreed! We don’t even bother trying to grow anything in July and August - usually the garden is toast by the end of June. On another note, peach tree is almost finished for the season, looks like the damn squirrels now have their sights set on our bumper crop of tomatoes. Getting out the trap today....

 

Since we will not be leaving for LV Tues **sigh** we decided to put the plants in now . We headed out toward the country looking for farms that were selling plants....not much luck ...little stock and high prices. Every farmer we talked said the same thing: They were slow in planting for retail sale, not knowing in mid March what was going to happen, if they would even be able to open plus they were unable to get the crews of migrant workers they normally use. Now everybody is looking to put in gardens so they split up the stock. Rather than selling a box of 6 plants, they are selling the plants as singles for the novice gardner.

We did manage to cobble together enough to start and DH planted seeds for the second crop later in the season. Just one more change this year.

 

Planting day arrived! One of my favorite days of the year. [emoji534][emoji316]


Little orange fellow fertilized it later.. His personal litter box [emoji57][emoji1]

 

Off to a late start this year. Got everything in the ground yesterday. Some direct sow, some started in my he shed six weeks ago and a few garden centre items.

extended main garden by 16 feet and added small garden behind a shed for greens. Herb garden to be complete this week.

min really going to put an effort into succession gardening this year. I have some items started already and some to come to hopefully go to late fall,

sweet peppers
Hot peppers
Beef steaks
Early girls
Roma
Cherry
Cucumbers
Cantaloupe
Watermelon
Garlic
Cauliflower
Brussels
Broccoli
Peas
Beans
Onions
Russets
Reds
Carrots
Beets
Radishes

green garden

spinach
Leaf lettuce
Kale
Head
Lettuc
Cabbage

 

Wow...that is quite a list of crops-----almost professional farmer grade. Good luck and happy eating.

 

beautiful! Is that your windmill out in the field?

 

Quite the opposite! It is a fuel burning fan. We do things a bit backwards in these parts

Up here weather is an issue for the grapes three times a year. Sometimes we get an early frost before the grapes are ready for harvest, sometimes we get a late frost as the vines are budding and sometimes we will get something a little more extreme in the heart of winter that can damage or kill the vines. The fans are used to circulate enough air to bring the temp up a few degrees which can make the difference between having a harvest or not.

They are as loud as freaking helicopters and make it tough to sleep in the middle of January when they go off! I would say since we have been here, the one in our backyard (temp controlled) has gone off 5-10 times a year.

For some reason they bother me more than the bird bangers that go off close to harvest time even though a lot of people hate those.