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Will have to plant things in pots this year and hope for a friendlier environment in the future. I'm thinking the soil will need too much enrichment and I will have to do it every year because of the leaves and tannins released by the acorns into the soil. It will be too much work and money.
Plus, now it is just too hot for stuff to keep growing or to set fruit. it has been near 100 off and on the past couple of days and will hit that or higher this coming week and it isn't even June.
Good luck with your gardens, everyone. I shall remain fruitless. lol
 
Today I'm planting gherkin cucumber seeds because it's at the right moon phase for planting things that bear fruit.

I got a variety that makes good pickles when small and good salad cucumbers when bigger so I'm very happy to have found
a duel purpose variety.
If I can get my dill seeds to actually germinate I'll be a happy lass.
 
I've been out in the front garden since sun up shifting mulch and dirt with a mattock, shovel, garbage bin and a wheel trolley, using a mattock to dig out thick woody weeds, double forking with my pitch fork and raking the beds clean and flat with a metal rake.
Dug holes for 27 determinate KY1 tomatoes and put a mix of complete blood and bone fertiliser, epsom salts and hydrated lime in the bottom and blended it with the native dirt.
Planted the tomatoes and watered them in well.
Then I did the clean up.

I am beat.

Time for breakfast and a large drink of water.
 
Today I'm planting Walla Walla onions.. already planted, Tomatoes, yellow crook neck and zucchini squash, green beans, strawberries, eggplant, winter squash, transplanted some Rhubarb, lettuce, Kale, Parsley,Basil, Cilantro, .. I have a large Herb bed that needs thinning, The Rosemary has gone nuts & taking over ,so am taking it out to put in a pot.... and have planted Sunflowers and Geraniums, snapdragons around the yard,.. We have a Patriotic Flower garden by our Flag Pole, where I have just planted Red Petunias, Blue Love in a Mist, Blue Monkey Pods, and White Daisy's,, I usually plant Black Petunia or Pansy's in honor of POW but could not find either of those this year.. might have to plant Purple Heliotrope, Things are looking good here!
 
Maxine in Oregon said:
Today I'm planting Walla Walla onions.. already planted, Tomatoes, yellow crook neck and zucchini squash, green beans, strawberries, eggplant, winter squash, transplanted some Rhubarb, lettuce, Kale, Parsley,Basil, Cilantro, .. I have a large Herb bed that needs thinning, The Rosemary has gone nuts & taking over ,so am taking it out to put in a pot.... and have planted Sunflowers and Geraniums, snapdragons around the yard,.. We have a Patriotic Flower garden by our Flag Pole, where I have just planted Red Petunias, Blue Love in a Mist, Blue Monkey Pods, and White Daisy's,, I usually plant Black Petunia or Pansy's in honor of POW but could not find either of those this year.. might have to plant Purple Heliotrope, Things are looking good here!
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I'd find a spot in the ground for that rosemary. I don't know about in your climate, but here it will grow into a 4ft high by 6ft wide perinneal bush.
 
@Tank-Girl you have done a lot of work and it is even harder when you are doing it all manually :eek: . Hope all of the tomatoes sprout and do fantastically well for you :) .

@Maxine in Oregon go girl you are powering and the bees will love all the flowers and help pollinate all your vegetables hopefully. You will need a large pot for the rosemary but it would make a nice feature on a porch not to mention the lovely smell it gives off.
 
They're actually seedlings I managed to germinate myself and grow out until they were larger enough to plant out into the garden.

I planted 8 gold zucchini plants this morning. I've kept the gold and black zucchini plants in separate parts of the property because I want to seed save.
I've had it with buying old dead seed.

All up I have 16 zucchini plants..oh, wait......I have 6 tromboncino zucchini on the muscadine grape trellis.

Well, I said I wanted zucchini and if all these plants survive I'm going to be hip deep in them.
I actually like zucchini. This will really test that.

I really appreciate the encouragement.

Thank you.
 
I've got strawberry, cucumber,tomato,squash and watermelon in. I forgot I planted 4 cayenne pepper plants for my neighbor because I don't like them
 

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I potted on 25 1 inch tall capsicums that escaped the sparrow carnage into drink cups very similar to your American Solo (?) cups.

I'll grow these out until they get big enough to plant out into the garden that I've prepared for them.

I've got sugar cabbage, Spanish collards, butter swedes and the last of my herbs to plant out from flats.
It now suddenly way too hot to have this sized plants in such tiny cells as they dry out too quickly.

The weather here has menopause. Cold one second and hot flushes the next.
 
Of the four Blueberry seeds planted outside only one is growing. So I started some indoor seeds and I now have nine plants that will likely be ready to transplant in a few weeks. I may continue to grow them indoors until just before fall so they don't get shocked by the warm weather. I only need three bushes so I may end up giving some away to my son and brother. I will have to find a good way to keep the birds away once they start producing berries but that won't be a concern this year at all. I also have some lettuce that is ready to start picking. I grow leaf lettuce so I have fresh lettuce for as long as possible. I found out birds like the young sprouts so I have a wire roof over them now. Everything in the garden is doing well and we are going to be very busy when harvest goes crazy. We will be getting another canner and an outdoor stove to help with the load.
 
Well played. I don't like peppers. I like my neighbor as he returned my craftsmen mechanics set tonight. But hey the guy was working on his ex wife's car so that's pretty legit. He's got a nice floor jack I borrow from him from time to time. He also has been loaning me his mower as I just don't have the time this year to rebell against fuel tax and use my old school reel mower for my 1/3 acree lol
 
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You are all doing really well with your planting everyone and I hope you all have abundant crops.

:eek: not menopause weather @Tank-Girl the human female side effects are bad enough and oh yes I remember.

@BioBacon we also are fortunate to have good neighbours where if our machinery breaks down we can and do borrow from each other and repair things together if one is better at some things than the other.
 
Hubby went down to turn the water on for the garden at the old place...he said a tiny hummingbird just kept hovering above the water spray....getting a bird bath....LOL....he said he kept thinking it would get water logged but it did not....he had planted several long rows of squash...NONE of it came up, he had about six seeds left in the envelope and threw them on the coffee table...I took them outside and put them in a container....and all of them came up.....LOL
 
GrannyG said:
Hubby went down to turn the water on for the garden at the old place...he said a tiny hummingbird just kept hovering above the water spray....getting a bird bath....LOL....he said he kept thinking it would get water logged but it did not....he had planted several long rows of squash...NONE of it came up, he had about six seeds left in the envelope and threw them on the coffee table...I took them outside and put them in a container....and all of them came up.....LOL
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Maybe the birds ate the squash seeds. We have a hummingbird that watches us when we work on the other place. Of we leave the doors open it will come right in the house.
 
Today I was out at dawn withe the mattock, pitch fork and my garbage bin clearing another bed to plant my gherkin cucumbers.
All 24 of them against the new trellis I built for them.

Yeah.
24.
*sigh*

I found out that dill and cucumbers like being planted together so I'll make a 4th attempt to get dill seeds started.
I really only need a couple of plants and I'll have seed forever.

I NEED dill to make pickled gherkins and I'm going to have A LOT of gherkins to pickle.
 
I'm going to do some planting this weekend. I'm thinking I'm going to get Eggplant, Amaranth, Sorghum and some Mammoth Sunflowers in. None of them are more than 120 days to harvest. I'm wondering though if that is from Seed in the ground or from actually germination time when you have a seedling growing?
 
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