It sure is great to have a double season! While most are buttoning-up for Ol Man Winter we are going into our preferred season meaning cool and drier weather which makes it terrific for growing all kinds of veggies and that is what I will do and am doing right now. I've always been a tomato farmer only but saw pics of aries44's garden and since we are in the same zone, I'll give it a try.
My tomato seedlings were not to my standards as they grew leggy because I was ill and could not take care of them. I gave them a couple of sprays of Miracle-Gro for Tomatos and they really filled out to the way I like them. They are now ready for my earthboxes but with Wilma aiming at us - I'll wait.
Started peppers from seed about five weeks ago under a gro-lite and heat mat and they are also excellent quality and will be ready for planting but as previously stated it's up to Wilma.....Soon as the weather clears Ill take pictures and will appreciate your comments good or bad but I'm still a" mater man."
We're Just Getting Started
TP - glad to see you're expanding your varieties. Also, glad to hear your maters are doing better. As you said above, our good season is beginning and we should be doing well here for about the next six months. If we can just get rid of these storms....As you know, all of my stuff is in the ground and exposed. Hope this one misses us but it sure looks like it's coming. (I do have reserve plants on the patio and others still inside under the lights, so if I get hit at least I'll have replacements.)
My pole beans have started climbing and the radishes have popped. The maters and peppers are lookin' pretty good, too. So, stay safe and we'' be lookin' forward to some oics.
Flip
i'm jealous. its said to look out my kitchen window and see the outline of where my garden was. waiting for next season
Yeah, Herbie, it's a long time until the first of April.
One fellow at work retired and moved to Florida and brought in pictures of his garden down there. I can't imagine being that mobile. I'm about 200 feet from where I was born.
i've read somewhere that the average person moves 8 times during his lifetime. guess you got a lot of moving to do soon. LOL
i was born in brooklyn, moved to another part of brooklyn then to queens moved to another part of queens and then where i am now in upstate new york. that makes five.
Well, now, I used to live about 100 feet on the other side of me also...and twice in the house where I was born.
Tplant, how do you mix the spray for the tomatoes? Is foliar feeding better than root feeding?
Flip, do you really have six more months of growing? And then Spring starts again? I wonder if it's the same for my area? I think we do get about 6 weeks of cold weather (not enough to frost, though) so I don't know if anything can grow during January.
Indy, your experience with moving is unusual in today's society. You must know just about everybody in your area. I've been where I am now for only 16 years and that's a record for me.
My house [33 yrs. old] is on the home farm which my second cousin and grandsons now farm. The original farmhouse is where I lived from 8 yrs. old to 23 yrs.. Then after a short time in an apartment in town [Small Town USA..designated that by the government in '43] , it was out to the house where I was born for 13 yrs. Yeah, uh, I been around.....in a circle!
I've still got some things going yet out in the garden and yard/orchard. ....like apples, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, and I brought the last watermelon in today. The watermelons have been so good this year...even the late ones as we had warm weather until the latestCanadian cold wave.
Hello, it's been a while since I have posted anything in Daves, but after a very long recovery from having a baby well I can't wait to join again.
I just started some tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers seeds a couple of days ago, and I was just wondering whether or not it would be to late for me to plant them out, I live in Pensacola FL and I believe my zone is 8. The weather has been in the 80's until today, which is 67 degrees out.
congratulations on the birth of your baby -----------. please fill in the blanks.
Hi Herbie:
Here is a photo of my joy and pride. This photo is when he was only 2 days old, his name is Santiago, he is the best.
And here is a photo now, he is 2 months old and growing fast. I guess just like Tplant I will have a helper in the garden in about 2 years, hopefully he will have a better hand at it than his mom.
Well, according my tomatoe, cucumber and pepper seed I have to plant them when temps are more than 55 degrees out, according to the weather we are reaching the 40's at night so I think it will be too cold for me to plant them out, but not to worry I am thinking of starting some sugar snaps, carrots, brussels sprouts, and radishes I think this will do well in the cool weather.
A new baby ? WOW ! Congratulations and now you will have a little helper. Don't profess to know much about growing veggies except for tomatos but from what I've read peas, sprouts, cabbage, broccoli are right for this time of year. Yesterday, I sprayed my peppers and tomato plants with Messenger. I'm always amazed to see the new growth in about three days and after that they really start to fill out. I know that I've been promising pictures but we had a problem finding the connecting wire from camera to computer so there was no sense taking the pics. My grandson hid it. (2yr old) I'll take some today and hopefully post them tonite.
Tplant:
Thanks, I am very happy with my little boy, this was our first thanksgiving together.
Well talking about veggies a couple of days ago I decided to plant some super sugar snap peas in an EB and some brussell sprouts on another container so we'll see how that goes, I am also clearing some of my backyard to plant some maters and other veggies come this spring, that way I can do both.