Garden Chat ~ How's your garden growing?

It's been a few weeks, I think, since I started one of these threads.  This site has been so slow that I haven't even bothered trying at times.

Anyway, I am plugging away at my garden.  Been eating lettuce, spinach, radishes, spring onions, and strawberries nearly everyday.  Peas are blooming so I hope to pick those soon.  I've planted some corn, beans, zucchini, yellow & acorn squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, and tomatoes.  Half of the tomatoes I planted died.  I had the same thing happen last year and they were all plants I bought from our local Southern States.  The one's I bought elsewhere are doing fine!

Speaking of tomatoes, DH came home last Friday with 40 tomato plants, 16 pepper plants, and a bunch of marigolds and zinnias.  He works for the school and the AG dept was going to throw these out because it was end of the year and the kids that grew them in the greenhouse didn't want them.  I know there are some celebrity & big boy tomatoes in the bunch but the rest are a surprise since they aren't all labeled.  I'm going to replace the tomatoes that died, add a few extra, and then give the rest to my mom and my neighbors.  There is no way I have room for 40 more tomato plants!!  LOL

I hope to get to my flower beds later this week, when the rain lets up.  They are a sore site to behold!!

So, how are your gardens growing? 

It's too freakin cold for anything to grow, LOL!  I'm sure my pea's must be up by now, they don't mind the cold - but it's too damn cold for me to go out & check! I planted swiss chard, lettuce and beets too.  3 little cantelope plants, I've never grown those before.  So we'll see!

not yet!!  but since the threat of snow has finally passed, i should be able to get everything in my garden here in the next two weeks..... takes me about that long to get all the beds finished and the garden planted.  i'm so excited!!  everything is starting to come together, and it is so rewarding to look back and say "hot damn i did i good job!!"     i have a truck load of bark mulch too this year to put on my beds... so am hoping that cuts back the weeding drastically!

anyhow, they are calling for showers this week, so i have to work fast!    didnt realize there was a garden chat going on, so i'll have to keep an eye out for all y'll and check back in  :)  have a great day!! 

sstetzel:

It's too freakin cold for anything to grow, LOL!  I'm sure my pea's must be up by now, they don't mind the cold - but it's too damn cold for me to go out & check! I planted swiss chard, lettuce and beets too.  3 little cantelope plants, I've never grown those before.  So we'll see!

LOL 

It's been an unusually cool and wet spring here.  Probably not as cold as where you are, but too cold to plant a lot of the warm weather stuff.  I have managed to slip out in between rain storms, when the ground dried enough to work, and plant a little at a time.  There are a lot of people around here that haven't started planting anything yet.  It's supposed to jump way up in the 80's next week so I guess we'll just get hot all at once.  Typical!!  LOL

Cool and wet here too. I put in a few tomato plants so far (about 6) and will wait until this weekend to plant the rest. I planted one  new Rhubarb plant,   and green and red  peppers. Zucchini and cucumber will be planted this weekend.  For Annual  Herbs - I planted  Dill weed and Basil.

I already had lots of Chives and Thyme and Sage.

I  Just planted 6  more of my favorite roses- Flower Carpet. I now have just about every color they come in.

For annuals I planted lots of Bright pink Geraniums, Purple pansies and petunias , Marigolds  and I put out hanging baskets.My perennial Bachelor Buttons are really striking this year.The Garden is really looking pretty at this point.

Hi, smalltowngirl, 

Those tomatoes, peppers and flowers you got from your husband's school sound like a real bargain, and it's good that they won't be wasted. How nice that you are eating from your garden already.

The only veggies we've harvested so far are spring onions. Our lettuce, spinach and kale are growing, but too small to pick. Peas are growing like crazy and have pretty white blooms on them. Bean plants popped up this week, and we have young  tomato plants, peppers, zucchini, and cucmbers growing. Our asparagus patch is full of tall, feathery plants gone to seed or flower. They keep falling over when it rains.

I finally planted my annual flowers last Saturday: impatiens, coleus and a few potted begonias.  And I cleaned up an enormous quantity of silver maple seeds from my driveway, which make good compost. 

My perennial garden is perking up and looking pretty good. It is interesting to see the different plants bloom and then go to seed. 

We've had a cool, wet spring so far this year. Maybe the moisture will help our gardens get a good start. Happy gardening!

Whew!  The Board has been slow from last night until now.

If it stops showering and if the temps can get above the 60s, my mini- garden will take off.  Irises are peaking (town has a famous iris garden here - beautiful) and lavender has sprouted spikes.  With all the rain the season should be good when it warms up.  The tomato plants look healthy as do the herbs.  Easy to weed when the ground is so soft - just scratch a little and the weeds don't have a chance!

We've been eating lettuce, radishes, and spring onions.  The spinach plants never did take off...I think the soil in that raised bed is wrong for them.  I need to change it out before next year.

I picked a few peas the other day & there are blossoms & more baby peas to come.

The grape tomatoes are at the tops of their cages already & have blossoms.  I planted way early, gave them some Miracle Grow, kept my fingers crossed, and nursed the plants through a few near-frost nights. 

Same with the pepper plants.  They aren't very tall, but they are starting to get blooms on them.   

I just bought some little cuke & zuke & yellow squash plants the other day & I need to get them going. Usually I do them from seed but I thought I'd get a jump start this year with seedlings. 

Planted flower seeds in one raised bed that doesn't get enough sun for veggies.  I covered it over with an old window screen to keep the squirrels from digging.  They love that freshly-turned soil. 

i'm finished picking my pea's..i have been picking my indoor cherry tomatoes..i have a few tomatoe plants outside that are blooming..i have a little yellow squash on my plant..few strawberries i've been giving them to my desert tortoise..since the bugs have been nibbling on them..also have pepper's..my basil is beginning to grow..cukes are growing as well..my lettuce green's are just about finished..it's been hot here..zukes are popping up..

c_oo_kie ~ I know what you mean about it being rewarding.  I sometimes just walk out into my garden to look at the things I've grown.  Oh, and I wish I had that truck load of mulch in my yard!  LOL  Whenever I mention a truckload of mulch to DH he looks at me like I want him to work or something!!  LOL

 Alliea ~  I so want a rose bush in my yard!  Right now I don't have any.  I saw a beautiful yellow rose when I was at Lowes a few weeks ago.  I told DH that I was going to plant a rose bush this year if I could.  Hope I don't kill it!!  I think I would cry.

saw-whet ~ I was so excited when DH walked in with all of those plants.  They were just going to throw them in the trash!  Seemed such a shame.  DH thought of me and they let him take them for nothing.  I've been hardening them off since then, I don't know if they were hardened off at the school or not so I don't want to take any chances.  They are really lovely plants.  Sounds like you will be knee deep in veggies before you know it!

JerseyGal ~  I have some beautiful lavender irises in my yard.  They were from some my mom thinned out a few years back.  She just gave me a yellow one about a week ago.  They are so pretty, and actually easy for me to grow.  I love a flower that is low maintenance!

Summer ~  Sounds like you're just gardening away!  Great idea about the screen to keep the squirrels away from the seeds.  I just caught a squirrel in my veggie garden this morning.  I'm sure I looked like a crazy woman running out my back door, waving my arms, screaming BAD SQUIRREL, BAD SQUIRREL!!!  LOL  Thank goodness my back door doesn't face anything but the woods or the neighbors might have been calling someone on me!

Mockingbird ~ I would love to have some cherry tomatoes right about now.  My little 18 inch cherry tomato plant actually has blooms on it.  I wasn't expecting blooms while it was this small so we'll see.  I have blooms on my peas and I spotted a few pods.  I can't wait for them to get ready so I can eat them!  YUM!