re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread

It was 38 here this morning. I have had all my plants in the ground for 2 weeks. I covered them for the past couple of days. This afternoon it was in the upper 70's. When I uncovered my plants, they all looked fabulous. My green beans are starting to climb the trellis and my cucumbers are putting out their grabber vines. Everything is just happy.

I am going to plant watermelons and cantaloupe next weekend (23rd and 24th).

Don't any of you save seeds from your peppers and tomatoes. I have cantaloupe and acorn squash coming up in the compost pile.

This is starting to sound like last year. Good luck everyone that plants

I brought this up before but now I have more details and specifics for the options. I’m topping off my raised beds this weekend before I plant out, so I went to the local nursery to see what’s available.

As a reference, my soil was “very low” in every good metric and had a very high ph. It was actually tested as “a non soil test” because there wasn’t enough actual soil (too much organics) to do a traditional soil test.

I already added sulphur and 13-13-13 a while back. I need to add a total of about 15 cu ft of media. My options are,

1) Top it off with Black Kow Potting/Raised bed Soil Mix and call it a day

2) Put in a combination of peat, vermiculite, cow manure compost, chicken manure compost, and worm castings.

I have no idea what the best option is… or if there’s a better option I’m overlooking. Thoughts?

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Find out what he puts in his tomato hole.

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Will do

Went ahead and planted/seeded yesterday. I figure with the weather still chilly it will take a bit for my squash/zucchini/melons/cucumbers to germinate. Will cover next week if the forecast deteriorates.

Peppers (cucumbers and cantaloupes in the non-mulched area):



Tomatoes:



Garden and heathen:



The back right box has squash, zucchini, watermelon, tromboncino squash, and cantaloupe. All direct seeded.


All I've got left to do is get my irrigation set up and add stakes/top cages to the tomatoes, which I'll do when they get bigger.

Looks great

I'm going to train them up the trellis. Or at least that's the plan. I've never grown them before .

My dad used to do this too. But not necessarily a sacalait.

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soil health is a process. Just keep building it season after season.

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Bro this is a 10/10 gardening quote just want to highlight it for anyone who missed it the first time.

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Planted sweet corn too.

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I have given up on trying to grow sweet corn. I just go buy it by the croker sack from a guy that has a low boy trailer full in East Bernard at the main intersection.