How is everyone's garden coming along? We've had a ton of rain, so things are growing like crazy. I think I'll have my first wax beans to pick later this week.
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I am so jealous! Snow just melted off of my garden. Hoping to start planting in a couple weeks.
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@Lindsay05: Oh goodness. Huge difference in Florida and Canada!
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Um I weeded my flower beds yesterday and just need to till them so I can plant! I'm a little behind I suppose.. This is our first week without rain and it's in the 80's. I'm not doing a whole lot, just zucchini, cucumbers, and tomatoes, maybe some beans if I can find a place for them. My Mom is 2 miles from us and has three 6'x25' raised beds full of veggies, so we go there
Oh and I'm building a very small raised bed for my little herb garden.
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We're still working on weeding! Made a big dent and planning to weed some more this afternoon...
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Looks awesome. I am going to plant this next weekend, we have had several cold snaps and so I think next weekend will finally be out of the woods!
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@StbHisMrs: I don't know much about planting in the rest of the country, but Florida usually plants in March, which I think is really early in comparison. And sweet deal with your parents being close. That's always the best way to do it...none of the work and all of the deliciousness!
@mrbee: What are you going to plant?
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I haven't started mine yet, I have no idea where to start
I have seeds lol
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We just planted yesterday. First time so it should be interesting!
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@Bao: start your seeds inside ASAP!
We don't plant outside until around Memorial Day too much of a chance of a killer frost.
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@MrsH: gah I know I've been so busy!! I need to just hire a gardener
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@BananaPancakes: I had my Mom come over and help me figure out where everything is going to do it's best and she told me usually we plant at the end of May - June (Oregon). This is super early, phew! Now I won't ride sh to till the dirt and bring some compost over! That'll be next weekends agenda
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DH is working on the weeds as I type... After that we are planting tomatoes.
Our lilies that we planted a few years ago are already 12" tall. Can't wait until they bloom!
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I have some herbs, but two of the plants have died off. Some of my new flowers did also. We had horrible heat the past week so it scorched a lot of stuff.
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@BananaPancakes: You are way ahead of us! We were too lazy to start from seed this year so we planted plants and a few seeds on Thursday. Most of our herbs from last year actually came back! The rocks are our attempt at a path dividing the rows.
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@tlcbaby: Oooh, yours is nice and big! We didn't start our peppers from seed because I was lazy since they take so long to germinate. But the beans, melons and carrots are all heirloom seeds, and could be sowed directly, so that was super easy. And I have never had luck with herbs. I think I never water them correctly. Yours look great!
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@BananaPancakes: Ours just take off, it must be the weather here!
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Ha. Just started. I finished weeding the flower beds yesterday-- my tulips are still blooming, and the blue bells are crazy-go-nuts. Lucifers are starting to come up, and my azalea is starting to wake up. I need to plant a new peony plant though because X beheaded the shoots last week while I was weeding. I was crushed by that. (He thought he was helping, I think. Needless to say, I've now given him the job of watering.)
But for veggies-- this is my first year, and I have a busy summer ahead, so I only wanted to plant heirloom tomatoes since I spend way too much on those at the farmer's market, and bell peppers. I started them 3 days ago. I think I'm terribly behind, but mostly I have no idea what I'm doing, not having grown any veggies from seeds before. We haven't even put together raised beds for them yet.
For herbs, the rosemary and oregano are happy. But last year, my basil was destroyed by some horrid brown beetle looking bug. Google says that I need to plant basil in a whole different spot this year since the bugs live in the soil and are awful to get rid of.... but I'm not sure where to plant them. Maybe I'll just have to keep it in a pot on the porch.
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@red_seattle: I actually think basil is a companion plant to tomatoes. You could plant then together. And both tomatoes and peppers like bone meal, so you might want to add some to your soil.
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@BananaPancakes: omg! I'm so jealous! We can't even plant here till Memorial Day!
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Our beds are still untilled, and we're planning to raise them with concrete blocks. Which hasn't been done yet. We did order seeds and soil! Got to go to Lowe's to get a grow light because last year a lot of our seeds didn't germinate. I'm ready to get it all going, but you know... we have a baby.
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@allison: We didn't do anything last year. We didn't even get pruning done on our plants or trees on time. The yard was a disaster for most of the year. Having a baby is a good excuse!
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I have a couple of planters in the backyard and planted cherry tomatoes, green peppers and eggplant this weekend. I really hope the neighbourhood animals don't eat them.
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Oh my gosh, am I ever jealous!! The snow just melted and I'll be lucky to be able to plant by the end if the month. Having said that, there are a few tulips and crocuses coming up.
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My husband just put the seedlings in the ground and mulched this weekend. Our plants are much tinier than yours though. The weeds were out of control so I've been weeding like crazy since we don't use any herbicide on our lawn or garden - but the grass is starting to really fill in though we do have a couple bare spots still. The whole street side of our house is a garden so we have a lot of bushes and perennials that just pop up but I planted some annuals and moved some stuff around a bit.
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I have peas, radishes and lettuce up. I'll be planting May long weekend. That's where we're at in Canada!
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@red_seattle: I'm in Seattle too
Check out Seattle Tilth for good info. Also, Sky Nursery in Shoreline is my favorite. They're great for giving advice too. I'd suggest buying tomato and pepper plants if its your first year, seeds are hard. And you have a few more weeks to put them in the ground. We just put our tomatoes in today, but we covered them with a popup greenhouse. Peppers are still inside for a few weeks. As for basil, its a bit too cold for it outside around here, so I'd suggest putting it in a sunny window inside. We did that for the first time last year and we had way more than we could ever use finally. Hope that helps!Its been a nice and warm in Seattle lately, so our garden is waking up well. Peas are a few inches tall, carrots are almost ready to thin, potatoes are popping up finally. Our cherry tree has some big cherries on the way, and our plum tree has a couple (its young). Its always an exciting time of the year
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I just went out to look at my tomatoes and zucchinis today and they were pretty thirsty looking. We had a huge rain last week and I thought I could get away without watering for a few days, but guess new plants need lots of water!
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Wow that is impressive! Mother's Day weekend is considered safe to plant here-the fear of frost is almost done! DH planted tomatoes and peppers and some flowers-orange quince and a lilac bush. I want to pick out some hanging annuals Saturday and I want to plant some hardy perennials by the mailbox, too. I also need to refresh my herb garden with basil and rosemary and the like
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I think our plants are loving the rain, but the cold snap has kind of stunted our cucumbers a little bit! We got our first strawberries on Friday. The tomatoes are big enough to cage now and are blooming away, so I'm looking forward to lots of tomatoes this summer!
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PS - I'm jealous of all of you with pretty herbs. I suck them up somehow every year! What are your secrets?
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I am so jealous! We just planted out our veggies and will sow the rest outside next week. DH has been obsessed with taking away the stone pathway on the south end and he finally spread some grass seeds yesterday.
I've been obsessed with my new 'cottage garden' patch in the front yard. It's not finished, but I'll take a picture of it later today.
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@red_seattle: @Grace: Can I just say how jealous I am over your tulips and peony growing possibilities? It's too hot in Florida for a lot of bulbs, so we don't even get to grow them.
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@BananaPancakes: Really? I would never have thought of that. Guess there's always a trade-off!
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Snow peas, lettuce and spinach coming up.
Planting basil, cilantro and green beans this weekend. Planting tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapenos, and squash hopefully next weekend.
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Here's pictures of the front yard. I pansies by the walkway are newly planted, as with everything else. It's a late spring so there's supposed to be tulips popping up, but it looks like it'll be awhile longer.
The area with the hydrangea is my new play area. It's my first time constructing a full sun flower garden
The bushes across from it are newly transplanted, that area was completely bare before. The last picture is of our rhubarbs.
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@Crumbs: Love love love hydrangeas! That walkway is just beautiful with all those flowers
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@Grace: Yup, and I just saw @Mrs. Superhero 's daffodils and we can't grow those either. We're basically limited to a few lilies (mainly tropical and day) and some amaryllis varieties. Some people are lucky with gladiolas, but most don't even bother. I guess society garlic is a flowering bulb, but it stinks, so I don't know why anyone uses it. It's not nearly pretty enough to deal with your whole yard smelling like garlic.
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@Crumbs: Love love love the path!! What are the trees along the road that haven't filled in yet? Hydrangeas are a southern staple, so I feel like a loser because I kill them all. I try almost ever year, and they're dead by the end of summer. I make do with Oak Leaf Hydrangea, which are native (so I can't kill it easily), but not the traditional hydrangea.
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@BananaPancakes: Thanks! It was a ton of work because the whole front yard was filled with gravel when we moved in! The tree by the path is a little magnolia that we moved. There's also a plum tree that's newly planted on the other side.
As for the hydrangeas, I can't take credit! I bought it like that! I just planted it yesterday. We planted one (the exact same kind) last autumn and the poor thing barely has any shoots.
Here's a before and after pic both taken on Cinco de Mayo 2011 and yesterday. The hedge is a little sad because we had to dig out 3/4 of it because it was ginormous! DH's researching how to prune it so it doesn't look so bare on one side.
I have seeds lol
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