Baymule's 2018 Garden

[baymule]

I couldn't stand it, I planted 5 flats of seeds. I used the Jiffy peat pellets, just add water and they grow! Each flat holds 65 Jiffy pellets.

Ready to plant.

A little friend looking for spring.

1 flat Yellow Pod Sweet peas, 1 flat Sugar Snap peas, 1 flat Tendril Snow peas, 1 flat Cherokee Purple tomatoes, 30 Motrgage Lifter tomatoes, 10 Artichoke seeds, 80 Broccoli, and a few other things including 30 Passion Flower seeds.

 

[sumi]

Wow, you've been busy! I think with your mild weather (apart from that snowy bit!), you should be o.k. with planting seeds this early.

 

[Chic Rustler]

I looked at those rigs the other day. I wasn't sure how the work so I didn't buy any.

Do peas transplant well?

 

[Mini Horses]

WOW! 5X65 is 325 plants -- I'd say you are an over achiever

100 tomato plants?

Ok, peas I can see, takes a whole lot of those to shell out and make a meal -- almost too many. Generally those go direct but with your reported soil issues, I can see why you might start. It appears you needed something to do

Where's peppers & cabbage? I see more peat pots coming.

 

[Britesea]

I use peat pots all the time. One thing I have learned with them- when you transplant everything, gently peel away the net that holds the peat together; it can hamper the roots growing out. If the roots are already growing through, you can still try if the net will pull away- but don't try so hard that you tear the roots. Also, depending on the weather, you might have to transplant them into bigger pots before they are ready for the garden- there's not much soil there and the plants will outgrow them quickly. I always add a bit of half-strength liquid fertilizer too-- not many nutrients in them.

 

[baymule]

I love these peat pellets. I don't know if it because they work so well or because I love watching them expand. Thanks Britesea I always tear the netting off. @Chic Rustler I don't know if they transplant well or not. I haven't planted these type peas since moving here in 2015. In Livingston, I could plant them in January. Here, February is usually the coldest month and we still have to get through February. So I thought I'd try getting a head start. I'm going to plant them on the tomato trellis, they will be heat killed before the tomatoes need the trellis. So we'll see if this works.

@Mini Horses I still have a lot more seeds to plant......and more tomatoes. I dehydrate tomatoes and we use them in our salads. We refuse to eat a store bought red baseball. I also give dehydrated tomatoes to my daughter and son in law. Neither one will eat a fresh tomato.....

 

[Bear_hunter]

How do you like the purple cherokees ? I was thinking about planting some this year

 

[baymule]

How do you like the purple cherokees ? I was thinking about planting some this year

They are on my plant forever list. I am always trying new (to me) varieties, but when I find a keeper, I keep seed and plant it again and again. I can and dehydrate the Cherokee Purple tomatoes. We refuse to buy store bought tomatoes, so I crumble the dehydrated Cherokee Purple tomato slices over our salads. YUM!

 

[baymule]

My LED grow lights were delivered last night at 7:48!! I looked on the computer, then walked to the front gate and got them. Today I'm going to be rigging up my greenhouse.

It is a high of 74F today, going to carry out my seedlings and set them in the sun in a little while. Going to a low of 35F tonight!

Yesterday, DH and I raised all the cow panel tomato trellis up to the top of the T-posts, which made them a foot off the ground. I need more cow panels....... I'm going to plant my snow peas and sugar snaps on the tomato trellis. B the time the tomatoes need the trellis, the peas will be gone.

I planted two bundles of yellow onion sets yesterday evening, still have a bundle of white onions and a bundle of red onions to plant.

I got my green house cover on. Sitting on the floor to wrap the bottom, I had Snoopervisors!

Lots of licky-face!

 

[baymule]

I made wood shelves from 2 strips of scrap OSB leftover from building the porch. I painted them with a bottom of the bucket ceiling paint leftover from when I painted the house. The LED light strips had little mounting clips. I screwed the clips on the boards and zip tied them to the wire shelves. I got to the top and needed a way to mount the top 3, so I got another board and painted it. I’ll finish up tomorrow.