How's your veggie garden so far

Mine is coming along nicely. I'm not sure if the peas are going to all come up, we had a nice rain last night so I hope the rest will show themselves. They are very patchy and far between. I don't have time to replant them though, the heat is around the corner, I've replanted a few patchy areas on the giant noble spinach.

But all is looking good and growing nicely, I think I need to do some weeding soon though. And I have some old turnips and kale coming up that didn't get all cut up from the disk.

kathy

here's a different angle a couple weeks later

I have started some seeds and tomorrow is my date to start tomato seeds. Outside fruits are budding or starting growth, but the veggies are on hold..............too early for anything but snap peas and Hoosier rains are ...well wet a lot so far.....seems like wetter than usual which has often been...well wetter than I like.

So far, radish ,lettuce ,and onions. I'm probably a little early for my zone,but nothing ventured nothing gained.And seeds are cheep.

gardengus,
I passed through Flora yesterday, but didn't see your garden from the highway!!! How in the world do you plant anything with the 3 inch rain the other day?

Planted pole beans, turned around and they were 3" tall! Okay, it was really a few days, but it seemed that fast. My gourds finally came up after about ten days, and I have a volunteer summer squash where I had a compost bin (which I scoot over every time I turn it). I can't seem to get the knack of tomatoes from seeds, but got seedlings at the local Ace and they're doing fine. Found a flower on one this morning. Cayenne peppers are thriving, and Hungarian peppers look like they'll make it.

Indy, easy raised beds.

Yeah, you're right about raised beds. The trouble is that I have reserved my raised beds for my favorites....like melons, watermelons, carrots, broccoli, and white potatoes. The peas are down the list and lettuce is just coming up in pots.

I just sowed peas this afternoon, and I put them where I'm later planning to plant out tomato seedlings and cucumbers... I figure by the time those start getting any size to them, the peas will be done.... I did put the peas back a little further to be sure there'd be room in the row for the seedlings.

What a beautiful garden place you have, it is so clean and open.

We are having some pleasant gardening weather here in zone 8a, 70s - 80's day and 60's nites

have tomatoes, peppers and eggplant ready to go into backyard earth boxes this weekend.

Squash has just germinated, now under shop lights, still about 2 weeks until they are ready to go outside.

Cantaloupe and watermelons are about one week away from sprouting, maybe about three weeks until planting out at my parent's place in the country

Need to sow flowers - mostly vinca, morning glory and black-eyed susan. Things are happening too fast all of a sudden.

I know what you mean ''things are happening too fast''. Friday we got 2'' of rain Saturday I took a look around things looked on schedule ,we had three days of record heat , and all of a sudden I'm a week+ behind.

I have tomato blossoms! I hope it doesn't jinx them to mention it!

I wish we'd get some rain. It keeps looking like it wants to, but nothing. My rain barrels are almost empty.

Some days, like TODAY, I sure do miss my old zone 9b... snowed night before last and now the nights are below 28*F again - that's a High Desert zone 6b for ya!

Outside: The garlic planted out last fall is up - mostly in the 3-5 inches tall range. Peas were up about an inch and then we had a wind and sand storm and now they are under 2 inches of sand. Don't know if they will push through or not. I was expecting some spinach, but there under sand now, too. Fruit trees still sleeping.

Indoors: Seedlings are taking over the kitchen (heat lovers on heat mats) and bathroom (those that are well up and want it a little cooler). Tomatoes, 40 or so basil plants (8 varieties) (going to use lemon basil as "decorative" plants around the outside of the dog pen), and bell peppers so far. Garlic used over the winter for greens are about ka-put - time to start some more. Rosemarry from WalMart is starting to get hardened off. Rest of the herb seeds should get put into peat pots this weekend. Everything else is waiting for warmer weather... BUT, I DID get all my seeds inventoried and cataloged this winter - for the first time in my life! I guess that's a good thing about a zone 6b winter, eh?

Last hard frost expected in early MAY... this is really tough on a girl who lived her whole life in zones 8-9 until 18 months ago! ... at least I didn't start my tomato seedlings in JAN this year! I'm slowly aclimating!

I've still got winter veggies in the garden: Lettuce, Kale, Garlic, Onions

I transplanted my okra, tomatoes, and peppers, cilantro, and cukes - and sowed my amaranth and new zealand spinach this past Tuesday.

This weekend I'll be sowing asparagus beans, zucchini, and malabar spinach

After my garlic, onions, and lettuce is pulled out I'll plant purple hull pinkeye beans and soybeans in those places.

I love reading what everyone is doing - very exciting!! :-)

VEGGI, Do you eat the soybeans? Are the same as the farmers plant by the acre here in Indiana?

Haha - yes, I do!

They are edamame soybeans which are plumper than agricultural soybeans and meant to be eaten steamed (or sauteed) just out of the shell (not dried). It was my favorite snack with beer when I lived in Japan :-) I now usually eat them stir-fried with veggies and in soups since I rarely drink anymore.

You all are growing some great veggies! So far I've got: 4 tomatoes in EB's - w/ blossoms (yes let's hope it doesn't jinx them!), one in a huge pot, 3 in the ground and 3 more with me scratching my head about where to put them... Also cukes, bush beans, and beet seedlings coming up, and yellow squash about to go in my remaining EB. Oh and a variety of herbs. It's my first year to get back into vegetable gardening for about 20 years - except to mostly kill tomato plants for years... It will be fun and motivating to keep up with your gardens!
Kmom - my newly married dd is adjusting to a new climate as well - she and her dh have moved to Colorado Springs. She's got things sprouting now in her garage w/ lights. I won't gloat now, though, because they'll get 75 degree days in July/August when I just don't go outside! (a true downside of 9b!)

The poke salet is ready.

Do you grow that ? Is it the same as the weed I pull ?

Yep and if you are pulling American pokeweed http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/576/index.html the same thing. A favorite spring boiling green among antique southerners like myself.

Farmer, And here I thought it was poisonous.

It does need to be parboiled, pretty good laxative if you don't.

Yummy! I love poke salad! We used to use the poke berries as lip & cheek colour when I was a kid.

A big plate of poke salet, flat corn bread, Elvis's "Poke Salet Annie" playing in the background. Doesn't get any better.

Farmerdill,

I thought it was Jerry Reed that sang that song. "Poke Salat Annie, Gator got your Grannie".

I got crazy here in Wisconsin zone 4a last Tuesday when the temp got up to about 70. I planted a four foot double row of peas and about a square foot of mixed lettuce in one of my raised beds. Temps have been mostly in 40's since then. No sprouting yet, but they will probably sprout just in time for the snow we are supposed to get on this coming Wednesday. Oh well, they are snow peas after all.

Oh well, I gotta go to my master garden class this morning. Just two sessions left.

My garden is just a big empty brown rectangle in the yard right now. I helped the babies get the baby garden planted with peas, and the bigger kids to get the kid gardens ready, but my main garden is just waiting for me to dig out the paths and get those peas & potatoes in the ground.

Just to make everyone else feel better. :)

lfwbrdgwm: Several artists recorded that song, I just like Elvis's version. The Willet Wonders trucking a long.

Those peas are lookin' good Farmerdill, way ahead of my peas. No sign of my poke yet. Any day now. But plenty of chickweed if anyone wants any.

Roseone, you keep offering that, one of these days someone's going to take you up on it!

Come on down Zeppy, there's plenty to spare. :-)

Ok I'm up to trying most things once. Do you just boil the poke? dose it taste like spinach? I like spinach.

Boil it for 15 minutes or so (parboil) pour that water off and add fresh water and seasoning. (In the south we use a chunk of salt polk) Boil till done. Taste is in between turnip and spinach. Better texture than spinach and not as stong tasting as turnip greens.

Well, I've got a lot of radishes in my garden at the moment...Starting to get sick of eating them.

Wow, jk, very impressive. Ya dun good! You can always share with your neighbors, too bad it's so far over to Rome from here or I'd be glad to take a few off your hands. :-)
I've heard of the French eating them with sweet unsalted butter and sea salt but I can't imagine too many of us need to add additional butter and salt to our diets.

I made 'radish slaw' out of some of those. Basically coleslaw with radishes added and it's pretty tasty. I've been searching on radish recipes a lot lately lol.

Sounds good, soon enough they will be out of season.

Radishes are quite good as a cooked veg. I have blanced them and finished them in a sautee pan with butter, salt & pepper. Saw the recipe along with cooked boston bibb lettuce in a British mag a few years agon. Tried both and liked the cooked radishes the best. Sort of turnipy.

Hey everyone. Nice to see everyone after a long winter.

I have been tilling up a garden plot on this new property. 35x85 approximately. I am using an area that use to be a garden plot many many years ago. The soil looks pretty good so far. I have not bothered to have the soil tested.
It sure does have alot of healthy grass, GEEE WHIZZZ.
So, what do i do, till and rake it out, till it again and rake it out again? till rake, till rake.
Some one also told me to mow my lawn and use grass clippings as mulch in garden to prevent weeds and it also will make soil rich each year as I till it in butttttttttttttttt what about grass seeds. I know I should mow before the lawn goes to seed, but you know there is goin to be seeds in it somewhere. Anyway, all the grass in a garden can depress you .

I want to grow okra, squash, peppers, cucumbers, carrots, and eggplant in this garden plot. Mostly okra.
Tomatoes----i have a plot for those already and they are in the ground now. 20x96.
There are so many veggies to grow, its hard to pick out which ones to grow in such small space.

I did not grow any cold crop veggies this year. Garden wasnt ready and besides that---we had hot temps early.

Cricket

Looks like a BIG space to me,and wow a hoop house too. '' all the grass in a garden can depress you .'' Wish I had some great wisdom to share( grass makes me crazy) Good luck take lots of pictures and share.

Regular grass is no problem. It's my quack grass that makes me want to run screaming through the streets.

If you're mulching heavily with grass clippings (not close to stems, of course!) you shouldn't have much problem with seeds. They'll be suppressed with the other weeds.