December Dreaming

[treerooted]

Ok, this thread doesn't really have a purpose and should probably go under Random Ramblings...

But I've really been taken over by garden dreams even though it's still months before anything is getting planted.

Seriously, I've found myself going to sleep with visions of raised beds.

What do I want to plant?

Let me count the veggies:

Asparagus
Arugula
Beans (bush and vine)
Broccoli
Brussel Sprouts
Butternut squash
Cabbage
Carrots
Corn
Cucumber
Daikon Radish
Garlic
Kale
Leek
Lettuce
Onion
Peas (snap and mangetout)
Peppers (sweet and hot)
Potato
Pumkins
Rhubarb
Spinach
Squash (summer and winter)
Tomato
Zucchini


Will this be possible? Probably not. But it's December...I can still dream right?

 

[goatgurl]

came wandering over to have a nice quiet afternoon and couldn't do it. all of you, yes all of you are such enablers, such bad influences. I got my bakers creek catalog the other day and placed an order. then read baymules blurb about bountiful seeds and had to order some things from them too. been hauling bunny poo and digging it into the barrel planters I use for raised beds. can't wait to start getting seeds ready and planted. spring will be here before you know it.

 

[tortoise]

Very exciting @Chic Rustler ! What a great price on seeds! I'm planning to start seeds 2 weeks early in jiffy pellets and transplanting because chipmunks have been eating the seed before it germinates. FX

My baker Creek order arrived. I dumped it out on the bed and DH was not impressed. He thinks it is excessive. Well.... mayyyybe? . Maybe not!

 

[baymule]

Aw heck, I'll just copy my order. My garden is 70'x100' and it ain't big enough!

www.bountifulgardens.org is going out of business, so I went shopping!

VPE-4945 | Jimmy Nardello's Italian Frying Sweet Pepper, Organic x 1 = $2.34
GSO-7430 | Dale Sorghum x 1 = $2.55
GBA-7230 | Schrene Hulless Barley x 1 = $2.55
CCL-6990 | White Dutch Clover x 1 = $1.91
VTU-5945 | Purple Top White Globe Turnip, Organic x 1 = $2.13
VTO-5900 | Rutgers Tomato, Organic x 1 = $2.13
VTO-5842 | Mortgage Lifter Tomato x 1 = $2.13
VTO-5800 | Cherokee Purple Tomato x 1 = $2.13
GSU-7453 | Oilseed Sunflower x 1 = $2.13
VSQ-5410 | Black Beauty Zucchini, organic x 1 = $2.34
VSQ-5395 | Golden Patty Pan Squash, Organic x 1 = $2.13
VSQ-5380 | Lebanese Light Green Squash x 1 = $2.13
VSQ-5435 | Buttercup Squash, organic x 1 = $2.13
VSQ-5385 | Jumbo Pink Banana Squash x 1 = $2.13
VSQ-5463 | Lower Salmon River Squash, organic x 1 = $2.13
VON-4550 | Welsh (Scallions) Onion x 1 = $2.13
VPE-4880 | Cayenne Long Slim Hot Pepper x 1 = $2.34
VPE-4900 | Early Jalapeno Hot Pepper, Organic x 1 = $2.34
VPE-4825 | Cascadia Pea x 1 = $2.76
VPE-4802 | Maestro Pea x 1 = $2.55
CFO-7050 | Fodder Radish x 1 = $2.55
HSA-8380 | Summer Savory x 1 = $2.13
HCU-8070 | Cumin x 1 = $2.13
HDI-8090 | Dill, Organic x 2 = $4.25
FCA-8660 | Calendula, Medicinal Strains, Organic x 1 = $2.55
HBA-7940 | Cinnamon Basil, Organic x 1 = $2.13
HBA-7930 | Lettuce-Leaved-Genovese Basil, Organic x 1 = $2.13
HBA-7960 | Tulsi, Holy or Sacred Basil, Organic x 1 = $2.13
VME-4372 | Hearts of Gold Melon x 1 = $2.13
VLE-4263 | Anuenue Summercrisp Lettuce x 1 = $2.21
VLE-4273 | Merlot Looseleaf Lettuce, Organic x 1 = $2.21
VKA-3905 | Dazzling Blue Kale, Organic, OSSI x 1 = $2.13
MKA-6462 | Forage Kale x 1 = $2.13
VKO-3970 | Early White Vienna Kohlrabi x 1 = $2.13
VGR-3670 | Mizuna Asian Greens x 1 = $2.13
VCH-3200 | Radicchio, Early Treviso, organic x 1 = $2.50
VGR-3703 | Chickweed, Stellaria, Organic x 1 = $2.13
VGR-3760 | French Sorrel Greens x 1 = $2.13
HFE-8151 | Wild Fennel x 1 = $2.13
VEG-3510 | Long Purple Eggplant x 1 = $1.70
VCU-3441 | Marketmore 76 Cucumber, Organic x 1 = $2.13
VCO-3315 | Anasazi Sweet Corn, Organic x 1 = $2.98
VCA-2888 | Atomic Red Carrot x 1 = $2.13
VCA-2760 | Red Drumhead Cabbage x 1 = $2.13
VCA-3022 | Violetta Cauliflower x 1 = $2.34
VBE-2500 | Early Yellow Intermediate Mangel Beet x 1 = $2.55
VBE-2450 | Chioggia, Candystripe Beet, Organic x 1 = $2.34
VBR-2560 | Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli x 1 = $2.13
VGR-3740 | Arugula Greens, Organic x 1 = $1.91
HEL-8120 | Elecampane x 1 = $2.55

Baker Creek order

Catskill Brussels Sprouts
Vegetable Spaghetti Squash
Green Globe Artichoke
Rosa Bianca Eggplant
Chinese Pak Choy
Bull's Blood Beet
Old Homestead (green beans)
Philippine Lady Finger Okra
Golden Sweet Snow Pea
Sugar Snap Pea
Blacktail Mountain Watermelon
Georgia Rattlesnake Watermelon


My name is Baymule and I am addicted to gardening

 

[treerooted]

Went through a seed catalog with my Dad at Christmas and circled all the things I wanted!
I originally told him I'd just take one of everything

 

[milkmansdaughter]

I'm already growing celery in my windowsill, I'm too impatient to wait for a garden. Our spring plans include heavily pruning the fruit trees and grape vines and adding at least another apple and peach, and then adding at least one plum tree. We also want to rebuild the old rotting grape trellis, and add a rose trellis. We added blueberry and blackberry bushes this year, and want to add strawberries this next year. My goal this next year is a lot more flowers that will come every year. And I tried rhubarb in AL before with no luck, but I think maybe I can grow it here. I'm further north than before. My summer garden last year was a bust with a foot of rain in three weeks, but I have greenhouses now...

 

[Britesea]

My garden is 30x60, with all raised beds. One bed has asparagus, which hopefully will give us our first decent cuttings this spring, and 2 are planted in strawberries. For the rest, I grow:
Peas-english
favas - Masterpiece
kale- Russian Red
broccoli- Umpqua
cabbage
beets - Cylindra
green beans - Landreth
Winter squash- Delicata (I found a dwarf variety!)
Summer squash- Golden Custard
peppers, sweet - King of the North
peppers, hot - Serrano
Stinging Nettle
Tomato - Roma
Plantain
Radish - Rat Tail and globe
spinach - Galilee
Pulse bean- Cicerchia
Chard - Rainbow

and whatever else I can squeeze in

 

[tortoise]

@Mini Horses - last year I started driving my car to the garden. Easier to tow kids and buckets. It made a huge difference in how often i could get down there. I still struggled with cerebral hypoperfusion/hypoxia while gardening, so I have some more problems to sort out. Maybe 2018 is the year?! I can daydream about a perfectly tended garden, right?

 

[sumi]

Here ya go @Mini Horses

 

[NH Homesteader]

Nah I still like talking about gardens! We have very old apple trees here, but DH was taught how to graft recently and the guy who taught him said we could have some cuttings to graft onto our trees