Gardening, flowers and veggies: 2015

[Bsuds]

I'm paving over all my gardens to have more parking.

If you use green asphalt no one will ever notice.

[Bpeep]

First lawn mowing of the season today!

[Bpeep]

All my tomatoes are up.
I also have a columbine blooming.
They're such pretty flowers.

[Lady tehMa]

The peas out back are sprouting :) I have buds on my hazelnut trees (bushes at this point). My raspberries are greening up, and my asparagus is sprouting!

That being said, I noticed the light frost last night has a number of my flower plants looking a bit worse for wear :( My delphiniums and rudbeckia, to name a few.

[Lady tehMa]

And I should have left my seedlings indoors. Gone for the weekend, came back to find it had been sunnier than expected or hoped for, because every single plant in my little greenhouse was fried >_<

[Bpeep]

Second asparagus picking today.
Pinot noirs are breaking.
A week of this warm weather and everything will start growing vigorously. My spuds are moments away from poking thru.
The season better hurry. I have 100's of peppers that are almost ready.
I have almost 100 medussas ready for the pots along the drive.
They are such a pretty plant.

[Bpeep]

My early spuds are poking thru!
Had three pickins of asparagus so far.
Small pickins, but pickins nonetheless.

[flamingfingers]

My peas planted first week of March will need string soon and my second planting at end of March are well on their way. Same with the lettuce planted same days. Nite time temps staying well above 0 so time for the spuds, carrots. My indoor seedlings - lobelia, impatiens, petunias, onions etc are shaping up for baskets and planters by May long.

[Bpeep]

My first batch of petunias are starting to bloom.
They're almost fully rooted in 4" pots.
Been a touch too cold for asparagus, I've had 4 or 5 light pickings, but it's slow.
Early spuds popped out then decided to wait.
Looks like I lost a few of the small pinot noirs over winter. That major sucks.
I replaced most of them today.
Garlic leaves are well over a foot.
The old blueberries are in full flower. The new blueberry patch has grown considerably this spring.
All the roots are up. Radishes will be ready soon.
The giant hostas are growing like crazy.
Arborvitae has 2 inches on them so far.
Medusas are just starting to bud.
They'll be blooming when I put them in.
Cold out there.
Almost hard to imagine that corn, beans, peppers and tomatoes are just a few weeks away.

[pbear]

Eating lettuce out of the garden. Radishes aren't fattening so I may pull them and replant. My tomato plants are in their pink cozy coats and doing well. Half the flower beds are mulched with ogogrow but it's been too cold and windy to continue with the other beds. I'm a fair weather gardener.

[whatyouwant]

I have never planted my tomatoes before the full moon in May. A friend told me that she plants them every year at this time. Bedding plants... What do you think? Downtown area

[Bpeep]

Wait a few weeks till it's warm.
Plant when cold, it's extra work protecting them, and the warm planted ones will catch up to the cold planted ones.
Tomato growth is very temperature dependant.
Better to be patient.
Less chance of disease too when they are vigorously growing.

I have tomatoes and peppers ready but they won't go in for at least a couple weeks yet.

It WAS minus 3 just a few nights ago.
It's still only April. Lots of time.
Btw, tomatoes won't set fruit till night time temps are above 50f.

[Bubalouie]

Thinking we may buy our tomatoes now just so we get what we want.......is it best to keep them in the house and as it gets warmer, let them sit outside and still bring at night and on *bleep* days then plant in May ????

[Bpeep]

Yep. Out in the day, in at night.
Put them in direct sun if you can.
When you plant them, bury them right up to their first set of true leaves. - bury the pod leaves. They'll root from the stem.

[pbear]

Or buy the cozy coats from the greenery and put them in now. They act as a mini greenhouse. I leave mine on until the weather is really hot and the plants are bursting out of them. I don't do it to get earlier tomatoes, I do it so that I get the varieties I want. I only have 5 plants so it isn't a really big thing.