re: 2025 Spring Garden Thread

I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it's seriously affecting water retention and/or drainage.

It doesn’t bother me at all that it’s not level - more worried about the plants, but if the plants don’t care…

Good to know - thanks. I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I’ve got a decent size lot (acre or so) but just very unfortunate topography when it comes to laying out a garden bed - the large hill that runs the length of the property gets full sun but the flat areas are more shaded.

My garden is not enjoying these high temps or wind. These days in the mid to high 80s are hitting the broccoli, cauliflower, and br. sprouts hard. Strawberries are steadily getting smaller. Still picking almost a gallon jug daily though. We're running out of freezer space, so my daughter better start making smoothies.

When its not close to 90, the wind is blowing its arse off. Green beans, squash, and tomatoes all show wind damaged leaves. About 3 more weeks til potato harvest around Mother's Day. Hopefully the forecast of some rain next week will help everything pep up.

Garden in, finally. Tomatoes (Celebrity, Sun Gold, Grape and Roma), pole beans (Kenttucy Wonder), Cucumbers (munchers and burpless), Yellow squash, two jalapeno plants, and two fancy peppers of some sort I wll grow and never eat. Also pitched a few okra seeds among the beans, so maybe can get some to produce some later season okra.

Just finished this morning.
Two types of cherry tomato
Peppers: Poblano, bell and Shishito
Cucumbers: mini me and burpless
Zucchini
Potatoes

If I add anything else it will just be suckers from the tomato plants. I have done well with those in the past.

I'll defer on this one. I am not the fertilizer person here.

I've been planted for two weeks or so. My yellow cherry tomatoes and my big brother already have some tomatoes on them. Plants are still small obviously. I was debating on cutting those tomatoes off because I thought being this young they might be putting too much nutrients into those and hurt the growth on the rest of the plant.

Let em grow or cut em?

Tomatoes in the ground and mulched. I'll cage them and get the drip tape on them in a week or so.

Squash/Zuke in the ground last night. We'll see which ones survive the transplant then mulch and put down irrigation.

My cuke seedlings died on me, and the second batch looks like shite. May have to direct sow those. I'm struggling with seedlings this year for whatever reason.

I have 7 rows of peas/beans, two of them didn't come up at all and three of the others have bare spots. I'll replant the bare spots and the two dead rows. I also have to get my pole beans out. I plan to let those run on metal cattle panels. Beans just get too heavy for my nylon trellis netting I use on my cukes.

Trying to let my peppers get a little more hardened before I put those out. I have some neat varieties I want to try this year for making pepper sauce/hot sauce.

These late cool snaps are giving us fits this year. I'll try to post some pics later for tips and suggestions. Some of you boys have some nice set ups.

Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant finally in the ground a month late. If we can get a rainy not-so-hot June, I might actually get a harvest.

Onions look good, nice bulbs, but none are leaning over yet. Maybe 2 more weeks?

Pumpkins, cucumbers, and squash really taking off, starting to flower. But of course they're all vining in the opposite direction of my trellis, so i had to manually weave them through. Assholes And all this wind is ripping some leaves apart.

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Makes me irrationally angry