re: 2019 Garden Thread

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I'll be looking to put stuff in the ground in a week or so. I feel the real cold weather is done for the year, not that we had much of it in N.O. this winter. I believe we only got about 3-4 days of night time temps in the upper 30's.

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Put mine in the dirt today, mainly because I was bored. We always have a chance at a March cold snap, but I should be able to cover most of my plants if that happens.

Thanks. Just picked up my new tiller today. Bush Hog RT60

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Now my question : I want to grow peanuts which I never have. I need to know which one and where can I find them? Any peanut tips will be appreciated.

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How are you going to harvest them? Just pull them up?

The sandier the soil, the better luck you’ll have with cleaning after harvest and yield.

Plant them deep... Like 3 inches deep.

When grown commercially, they spray them a lot for diseases and fungus. Don’t know what kind of problem you’d be looking at there.

Bumpity-bump.

Going to start my leaf lettuce, snow peas, and radishes this weekend.

Also building a second 4x8 raised bed. Main lesson learned from last year is that trying to grow peppers too close together does not work. At all.

Tomatoes and squashes are going to the new 4x8 bed by themselves. Those squash plants got HUGE last year, and six foot tall indeterminate maters are fun.

Peppers will go in to the old 4x8 bed along with the lettuces/radishes up front planted staggered.

Small 4x4 bed will still be herbs, beans, cucs, and snow peas since it has the trellis in the back.

USDA zone 9a container garden

Perennial:

Meyer lemon (still waiting on this guy to take off)

Started yesterday:

Blueberry bush
Strawberry plant
Husky cherry tomato

Soon to start:

Jalapeño
Perhaps another blueberry bush
Perhaps a bell pepper or shishito (these things love wet and muggy conditions and bloom like crazy in the summer)
Perhaps a cucumber

Is it consensus around here that you have to have two blueberry plants to really get any sort of production?

We had frost in South La last March. I'm waiting at least 2 more weeks.

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We had frost in South La last March. I'm waiting at least 2 more weeks.

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We had a much colder winter last year.

But I’m still waiting at least a couple more weeks also.

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But I’m still waiting at least a couple more weeks also.

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I'm rolling the dice and planting then mulching. I waited too long last year and all my lettuce bolted with a quickness. Arugula did ok for a bit longer, then bolted too. Radishes also bolted right away.

Doesn’t appear to be getting better anytime soon, either.

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This weather sucks. I wish we could get like 3-4 days of straight sunlight.

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I hear you. I'm in N.O. and have a pretty big back yard vegetable garden and can't get into it yet with the rain being every few days keeping the soil so wet I can't work it.

I need at least a week of no rain and warm temperatures just to be able to pull some rows to plant.