New season prepping and planting

[frustratedearthmother]

Agree with the crazy, negative gardening weather. I can't complain about this week - it's been gorgeous but rain in the forecast starting Monday. I've got tomatoes in big tubs and they're doing ok. I got 3 small "Sweet 100's" in my MOUTH yesterday! Nothing yet from the bigger tomatoes except blooms. And - so far - I'm afraid to say this out loud....no stinkin' stink bugs. Not holding my breath that it'll be that way for long because I did see one a couple weeks ago, but it wasn't flying and it sat very still for me to squish it. Maybe all the rain killed off the eggs? I dunno - but it would be a miracle if they had a bad year. A miracle that I would love!

I had potatoes up and looking good, but they drowned. Green beans drowned. Corn isn't looking real happy, but it's hanging in there. I need to spend a couple days in there doing some more mulching and re-planting. I'm going to get some barn soil and side dress the tomatoes with that. I broke down and bought some pepper plants so I'll be planting those this evening.

I haven't given up...just think I'm going to have to figure out some alternative gardening plans.

 

[sumi]

The weather has been crazy this year? A friend in the States told me a few days ago they had more than an inch of snow

My storage box garden is doing well so far, but I got a bit worried yesterday with the rain, that they may drown, so went and covered them. I'm going to have to keep an eye out for these hail showers we're getting at the moment. Small stones they are, but the carrot seedlings are so tiny, I don't think they'd manage.

 

[MoonShadows]

You'll have to post pics when things get going!

Finally, the sun is coming out after 8 days! I'm heading out so excited I don't know what to do first, but I want to get my tomatoes in the ground. We could still get a frost, but I'll cover them if one threatens in the next couple of weeks.

 

[CJ1]

What region are you in MoonShadows?

I need to get out and weed. But it's raining.

 

[MoonShadows]

I live in Northeast Pennsylvania, just about where PA, NY and NJ come together, and just a few miles from the beautiful Delaware Water Gap. Zone 6a.

We had a good day today outside. Finished screwing in the angle brackets to secure the greenhouse to the timbers, anchored the electric box in the greenhouse, got some grass cut, cleaned the poop board in the chicken coop, got our tomatoes in the ground and planted water melons, cantaloupes, pumpkins and mint. Our lettuce and scallions are sprouting...still waiting to see signs of our basil and parsley.

 

[baymule]

I closed on my land just in the nick of time to start a garden. It's a smaller garden this year. With work and just moving in I simply don't have the time to do a large garden.

But I did manage to get cucumbers, spinach, a few ghost pepper and habanaroe plants as well as a few tomatos and I'll be putting in sweet corn and green beans sometime this month.

I picked up a dozen two year old asparagus roots and put them in their own bed. And planted a couple raspberry bushes as well as strawberries out front.

We moved last February. I put in a garden, but it was a dismal failure. This year is shaping up to be a success. I wish you the best with your new garden!

 

[CJ1]

Moon. I worked around Towanda for a while after high school. Long winters there.

Bay, this garden is turning into a success of sorts. The peppers and everything else in the main garden are doing wonderfully. But the strawberries are heaving instead of taking root.

 

[MoonShadows]

I know Towanda, but it is about 300 miles from where I live. I believe Corning had/has a plant there.

 

[CJ1]

Ok. I was only there for like six months before I started working in WV. So I'm not really familiar with it.

 

[Denim Deb]

My sister worked in Towanda for a few months. She had a co-op job there in '79.