2022 Spring Garden Thread

Trying to decide on which tomatoes to sow. Which ones are you starting? I'm the same zone/area.

I ordered and received all my seeds a few weeks back. Was going to get them started tomorrow, but I tested positive for Covid yesterday.

I want to plant more Black Tomatoes this year. I bought several varieties.

I've got some music and purple garlic going right now.

For fun I went ahead and sowed some kale, lettuce, spinach, onion, beets, and broccoli seeds. I had them for a while and didn't want to hold them another year. The freeze we had last week killed all the lettuce and half the kale but everything else surprisingly did well.

I really need to start a compost pile and get the rolling. I'm just too damn busy (even to busy to pull up the dead arse okra sticks still in the ground ).

I’m glad you started this thread. I was thinking about it last week, and then ever since New Year’s Eve life has been a little hectic.

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Anyone start any seeds indoors yet?

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I actually just stopped at the orange store for some seed starter potting mix. I need to look at my seed cache and see what I have available. I honestly haven’t done much planning yet.

I did, however, start working on a little garden expansion project. I finally got my fence up a couple of months ago. So I added border all the way to the fence. I’m going to build three 4’x10’ raised boxes and fill the rest of the area in with some type of rock or gravel.



I sprayed all of the grass with roundup and letting it die. One of my concerns was being able to control the weeds along the fence behind the border. A coworker of mine suggested to use roof shingles to prevent the weeds. My parents just finished their post Ida roof replacement and had some leftover. Good timing.


Strawberries are coming in still, and I’m about to be drowning in cabbage.

I’ve had such mixed results, that I may give up. Blight gives me the blues, man.

I am going to go a slightly different route than last season. I am going to dedicate one whole bed to beets and carrots until its too late in the season. I want to supplement our horse's diet with some fresh grown items. Then switch the bed over to all hot peppers. I think I will be cutting way back on potatoes as well. We always have too many or wind up going back to low carb. I will still have three beds for jimmy nardellos, tomatoes, beans and cucumbers. I just can't bring myself to set up for another failure with yellow squash. I may try the hard varieties instead though.
I lost 200 strawberry plants when the parish nuked the ditches behind our privacy fence. All of them gone in a couple days.

I slacked off with my fall garden hence my lack of thread participation. My raised bed is overgrown with weeds and needs some wood siding replacement. I will probably handle that over the next couple of months.

We are halfway through building a house and will probably be moving sometime in August, so this will be my last garden in this house. I'll probably keep it relatively small and plan to start pepper seeds within the next week or so and tomatoes a week or so after that.

Anyone have recommendations for indoor grow lights? Want to try starting my own seedlings this year

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Anyone have recommendations for indoor grow lights? Want to try starting my own seedlings this year

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I went to Lowes and bought the regular 4' 2 bulb florescent light fixture. I bought the T8 bulbs. I have 4 shelves with
with 4 bulbs per shelf and start 64 plants per shelf. I have never had any problems.

Also, since the weather is so warm, I think it's better to place them outside once they start to germinate. They grow better and there is no need to harden them off.