re: 2019 Garden Thread

Dang, that looks really good, Pillage.

Any recommendations for shade tolerant vegetables? A small garden about 5x10 in part shade.

I am done until it is time to plant.

It’s time to go fishing.

I potted up all of my seedlings today and pulled my broccoli plants. Also planted some new herbs, and I bought a celebrity plant from the co-op and planted it in a bag. I figure if it makes it, I’ll have a head start, and if not, I’ve got all my other seedlings still anyway.

Next weekend I’m adding compost to my beds and getting the soil ready.

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.

My biggest problem is the ground is so wet, and has been for weeks now. Every time it starts to dry out, it rains again, and that makes it not ideal to till since tilling wet soil just makes mud balls instead of breaking it up.

Then pulling rows with wet soil is a PITA. It rained again last night and the ground is so wet it will take at least 4-5 days of no rain to be able to work it.

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Pillage did you put your lattice fencing on the ouside of the row to protect if from spreading to the other rows?

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It just makes it easier for me to walk in the middle of it. Works great. I can pick from the outside or from inside the trellis.

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My biggest problem is the ground is so wet, and has been for weeks now. Every time it starts to dry out, it rains again, and that makes it not ideal to till since tilling wet soil just makes mud balls instead of breaking it up.

Then pulling rows with wet soil is a PITA. It rained again last night and the ground is so wet it will take at least 4-5 days of no rain to be able to work it.

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That's exactly why I busted arse this weekend to get it all done. It was finally dry enough. Then, looking at the forecast, it was my best shot to get it done before it was time to plant.

Sweet million has been the most productive cherry tomato in my garden for years. Try a few different varieties each year, but nothing comes close to sweet million.

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What is a great eating cucumber? I selected the wrong variety I wasn't happy with my yield. This will be my second season and I would like a great cucumber that produces a lot.

Also, what's the correct cherry tomato? The ones I planted last year were more orange in color and not red.

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I'm a Sweet Success fan. They're crazy prolific and don't require pollination, which is nice. Not the best with disease resistance, but just plant a lot of them or succession plant them. I fed mine almost weekly with liquid fertilizer last year and I was picking 3-4 cucumbers a day from 6 plants for awhile.

I second the sweet million rec. I tried Sweet 100's and Sweet millions, and for a standard red cherry tomato, I like the sweet millions the best. They're also a bit bigger. The sweet 100's were kinda hard to eat in salads because they were tough to fork .