2023 Gardening Thread

[txtimetravler]

Alright ^^


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[shallowminded14]

Picking cukes already. Have tomatos that will be ready in a few weeks. Green beans have flowers all over them. Best time of the year!

[txtimetravler]

Dang you got started early^


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[SaltwaterSlick]

Earlier this week, we harvested our very first cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage along with 3 different lettuce varieties, spinach, enough blackberries to make a cobbler and our very first strawberry!











We are finally winning the war with the birds on the berries. Just too many getting ripe for the birds to get them all... They actually seem to have slacked off a bit too... We've picked enough by collecting just the black ones and putting them in the refrigerator for the past 4 or 5 days to freeze 4 quarts and they haven't even got started yet...

[shallowminded14]

I transplanted tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers from starts the first week of March. Planted green beans and okra from seeds the first week of March as well. I have succession planted green beans from 03/06-04/01 in hopes to prolong my harvest.

Getting started early definitely worked out in my favor this year. I also don't have a huge garden (100 sf) so if they would have froze it wouldn't have taken much to get them back in the ground. Really excited to see how this year turns out. High hopes fo sho

[Chronotrigger]

Prettiest gosh darn marigolds.

Fox farms strawberry fields is where it's at.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Got 3 more quarts of those blackberries today. Gonna hold ‘em til the weekend and then put them with what we pick Saturday (should get several quarts by then) and cook em down and make jelly.

[BLACKFINTURKEY]

Charlie you have me jealous! I’m always behind but I’m getting fired up got a bunch in the ground the last few weeks. Long was to go.

Charlie what variety of black berry do you have? I’m wanting to add some to my garden.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Hey Chris, we actually have 2 varieties, PrimeArk 45 and PrimeArk Freedom. The 45's are "OK", but the Freedoms blow anything else I ever tried out of the water... They are thronless, primocane fruiting berries, and they're yuuuuge! We tried getting them from 2 or 3 places, but the 1 gallon plants from Stark Brothers have done the best for us. They're pricey, but if you get them, they will give you a harvest the first year. We did bare-root plants once, and didn't like them. That was a couple years ago, and to this day, they just have not caught up with the 1 gallon plants from Stark Bros.

We've tried our hand at propagation with almost no success! However this past Winter when we did our pruning, we did about 100 starts and had them going really well, then we were gone for a week and unfortunately they dried out and we lost all but 4 or 5 of them... I think this year we'll give 'er another whirl.

[Laketex]

Built wicking beds this year. Last two years with the regular raised beds didn’t pan out as we intended. All planted now, just 6 beds and working out the kinks. Limited room where we’re at to do anything big but we’re working with what we have.

[Geezy Rider]

Got my tomatoes in today. The wind has been so bad up here lately that I’ve been afraid to put them out. That and it’s still getting down in the 40’s at night around here. Anyways, I got tired of waiting and they were getting root bound so I just couldn’t wait any longer.
The winds have really beaten up my lettuce and I’ve lost about a third of my plants but if I don’t lose any more I’ll still have plenty.
Question. So while I was planting my tomatoes, I found three of these in the soil. What are they?



I’m assuming some kind of cocoon?
Is this going to be a problem for my garden?
The chickens like them.


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[Chronotrigger]

Couldn't get other pic to load.

*Never mind, I give up.

[Muskles]

Got my tomatoes in today. The wind has been so bad up here lately that I’ve been afraid to put them out. That and it’s still getting down in the 40’s at night around here. Anyways, I got tired of waiting and they were getting root bound so I just couldn’t wait any longer.
The winds have really beaten up my lettuce and I’ve lost about a third of my plants but if I don’t lose any more I’ll still have plenty.
Question. So while I was planting my tomatoes, I found three of these in the soil. What are they?



I’m assuming some kind of cocoon?
Is this going to be a problem for my garden?
The chickens like them.


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Looks like it might be grubs AKA June bug larvae. Hard to tell for sure.

[txtimetravler]

Got my tomatoes in today. The wind has been so bad up here lately that I’ve been afraid to put them out. That and it’s still getting down in the 40’s at night around here. Anyways, I got tired of waiting and they were getting root bound so I just couldn’t wait any longer.
The winds have really beaten up my lettuce and I’ve lost about a third of my plants but if I don’t lose any more I’ll still have plenty.
Question. So while I was planting my tomatoes, I found three of these in the soil. What are they?



I’m assuming some kind of cocoon?
Is this going to be a problem for my garden?
The chickens like them.


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Nighthawk moth
Gypsy moth
Hummingbird moth

….something like that. They are good as far as I know.


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[BLACKFINTURKEY]

Hey Chris, we actually have 2 varieties, PrimeArk 45 and PrimeArk Freedom. The 45's are "OK", but the Freedoms blow anything else I ever tried out of the water... They are thronless, primocane fruiting berries, and they're yuuuuge! We tried getting them from 2 or 3 places, but the 1 gallon plants from Stark Brothers have done the best for us. They're pricey, but if you get them, they will give you a harvest the first year. We did bare-root plants once, and didn't like them. That was a couple years ago, and to this day, they just have not caught up with the 1 gallon plants from Stark Bros.

We've tried our hand at propagation with almost no success! However this past Winter when we did our pruning, we did about 100 starts and had them going really well, then we were gone for a week and unfortunately they dried out and we lost all but 4 or 5 of them... I think this year we'll give 'er another whirl.

I’m going to look into them man they look tasty!