https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:35:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915314 Wed, 13 May 2020 00:17:38 +0000 theotherstark 2915314@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Love this! We have a bunch of fruit trees (lemon, lime, fig, persimmon), some herbs and blueberry bushes in our back yard. We also have two small raised beds that I grow fruits and veggies in each year.</p> <p>This year, I decided to try direct sowing, since I wasn’t sure about the status of our nursery, etc. It has gone well so far, knock on wood! ha. Darn rolly pollies have gotten to some of the seedlings, but we are fending them off, I’ve resown some things, and most seem to be coming up okay.</p> <p>This year, I’m growing a couple different types of cherry tomatoes, collard greens, sweet peas, snap peas, bell peppers, green pole beans, red Chinese noodle beans, strawberries, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, watermelons, and another type of melon. Excited to see what works! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915300 Tue, 12 May 2020 16:11:43 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2915300@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started hardening off my squash (day 3) :happy: The weather's been wonky this spring -- warm one day, cold and really windy the next. I snagged a pack of garden cloches before the pandemic and so happy I have them, even though I'm not exactly sure what I'm planting in them.</p> <p>No tomatoes this year since I lost my lot to bacterial wilt early on. But fingers crossed, the squash and pumpkins make it OK. </p> <p>I just sowed my sweat peas today and will be working on planting some runner beans and morning glories once I see a clear weather forecast. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915290 Tue, 12 May 2020 13:16:20 +0000 winter_wonder 2915290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@josina: I hear you! Ughhhhh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915273 Tue, 12 May 2020 10:51:00 +0000 josina 2915273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>:sad: Thanks to the frost this weekend I need to replant our tomatoes / cherry tomatoes and most of the peppers. That's the last time I plant before mother's day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915271 Tue, 12 May 2020 10:32:25 +0000 hilary 2915271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did cucumbers, tomatoes and herbs last year. Since that was a success, this year I've added carrots, radishes, lettuce and cabbage. My radishes and carrots and lettuce are all in the ground and doing well. Cucumbers just went in but with the frost might try again if my drop cloth didn't keep them warm enough. Tomatoes I'll wait another week or so since here they don't do great until consistently warm. I'm amazed how much I can put in with a pretty small space. And the kids are loving checking on things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915140 Fri, 08 May 2020 21:53:27 +0000 Grace 2915140@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a garden every year. This year, I worried about being able to get bedding plants, so I started a bunch back in March. Tomatoes, cucumbers, zinnias, cosmos, english daisies. They are almost ready to go out. We’ve got freezing temps at night until Wednesday. The rest of the garden can be direct seeded (peas, carrots, lettuce, potatoes). </p> [attach=1878/20/qa1mp4.337x600.412065C9-EABC-4756-8500-07103076AD1A.jpeg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915137 Fri, 08 May 2020 21:16:03 +0000 lady baltimore 2915137@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are trying out starting some produce from seeds this year. Tomatoes and sugar snap peas have done well and are outside in containers now. We just started cucumbers, and they are sprouting quickly. Our strawberry seedlings are coming along, but so slowly! If we get the plants outside by the 4th of July I will be surprised. :silly: Ah well, I don't know what I'm doing anyway . . . </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915132 Fri, 08 May 2020 18:20:53 +0000 winter_wonder 2915132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have tomato, pepper, cauliflower, broccoli, and cucumber seedlings. I planted carrots already. Will do squash, zucchini, and green beans next week.</p> <p>We also bought 3 raspberry bushes this year! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915118 Fri, 08 May 2020 13:27:53 +0000 gotkimchi 2915118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@josina: oh that’s a smart idea </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915117 Fri, 08 May 2020 13:20:40 +0000 josina 2915117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gotkimchi: Our garden is probably 30 x 12 ft. I use newspaper around each plant to keep the weeds down, and then we use glass clippings as mulch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915112 Fri, 08 May 2020 12:36:36 +0000 gotkimchi 2915112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How does everyone garden? I do a lot in raised beds and the rest in black plastic because we’re always fighting weeds </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915111 Fri, 08 May 2020 12:35:34 +0000 Dahlia 2915111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we always have a garden and this year I COVID-panic planted even more than usual. Still too cold here to move the tomato seedlings, etc. out but we're getting there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915110 Fri, 08 May 2020 12:26:57 +0000 gotkimchi 2915110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Champagne: 5 chickens is perfect for a family of 4. Chickens are so easy. What’s your climate like? We’ve used a dog cage for a coop when they were small and now we converted a small shed into a coop + a small wood coop my uncle built. But yah you just make sure they have food and water and they’re good to go. When they’re babies my kids take care of them. </p> <p>Backyard chickens is a popular site. I don’t actually think we did much research we just went for it lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915107 Fri, 08 May 2020 12:21:56 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2915107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gotkimchi: I have so many questions about egg hens but don’t know where to start. Haha. Do you have a website or book you’d recommend? We are in a small town, not huge huge lot, but our size allows chickens. We can have up to 5, no roosters. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915106 Fri, 08 May 2020 12:12:44 +0000 ALV91711 2915106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are gardening. We garden every year and originally planned to take this year off so we could do some other things this summer. But with the way things are now we decided to do a scaled back garden since we will be home. Our scaled back garden is still a decent size. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915105 Fri, 08 May 2020 12:08:56 +0000 gotkimchi 2915105@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@josina: Sometimes if we need to do a chicken quick we just skin it. Then you don’t need to pluck and if you don’t care about eating the skin it’s perfect. Might be an option if you want to have chicken meat </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915103 Fri, 08 May 2020 11:35:44 +0000 josina 2915103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gotkimchi: Yes, we live in the country and have a small barn. My DH has all the equipment to do our own processing also.<br /> We've done meat chickens in the past - but I can't handle the smell/plucking, so not doing that again, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915100 Fri, 08 May 2020 10:06:07 +0000 gotkimchi 2915100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@josina: yes we have egg chickens too and I LOVE them. It’s nice to feel egg secure lol I didn’t put out any tomatoes or peppers yet thankfully.</p> <p>How do you do your own beef cow? Is it on your property? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915099 Fri, 08 May 2020 09:59:57 +0000 josina 2915099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We planted a week early this year and OF COURSE it's freezing tonight.<br /> We planted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, kale, spinach, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, banana peppers, cucumber, pumpkins, and will plant zucchini and peas once I find some. </p> <p>Its a little more than usual but not overly. We did get some laying hens this year also, we've had them on/off in the past but nice to always have eggs! We also have a beef cow we are raising for meat (we do this yearly but it will be extra nice this year with the meat shortage!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/anyone-gardening-this-year#post-2915098 Fri, 08 May 2020 09:44:22 +0000 gotkimchi 2915098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I’ve got strawberries out, peas, fruit trees and some fruit bushes like raspberry blueberry and blackberry. It’s supposed to freeze tonight 🙄 </p> <p>We also raise our own meat chickens, turkeys and ducks and those will be arriving in a few weeks.</p> <p>Anyone else doing any gardening/homesteading this year? Feels more timely then ever </p>