re: 2025 Spring Garden Thread

Burpless

This year just burpless and mini me.

There was frost on at least one roof in my neighborhood this morning. Fingers crossed.

you need iron, sulfur and nitrogen (especially nitrogen). if you want nature to do it for you, seed in white clover after your last harvest in the fall. the clover will fix nitrogen in the soil. legumes will do the same

There are two things I must start from seed, and don't feel like digging out the heat pads and grow lights. Can I get them to germinate in a one of those windows that juts out?

The frost Thu night burned my potatoes pretty good. I think they'll live but they look like hell.

Cuke seeds are popping up on the heat blanket good. Peppers are still a challenge for me for whatever reason.

My tomatoes are doing well and will get transplanted to 3" pots today. Forecast for the week looks good with some rain forecast for tomorrow and again later in the week. I may go ahead and throw some bean and pea seed in the ground.

On another note, I HIGHLY recomment 30% vinegar as a weed killer. I mix it 50/50 with water and add a few tablespoons of Dawn to it and that shite works better than Roundup.

Any kind of vinegar?

built another flowerbed over an ugly burn pile scar; gingers and wildflowers



we need some rain, bad

Little Sausage and I cut down the Tallow tree inside our garden fence this afternoon to make room for a couple of raised beds. We have our first sungold tomato forming and the onions are starting to bulb. May have to hill up the potatoes next weekend. Took a few pics:

I got my tomatoes and peppers planted out today. I started some watermelon, cantaloupe, and trombone squash seeds a couple of weeks ago and will likely transplant those next weekend. I direct sowed some cucumbers, squash, and zucchini today as well. Glad to have that all done.