Vegetable Gardening

[spokewench]

This is my second year planting a veggie garden. I have a 4x12 raised bed garden. This year, I planted 3 types of tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, zukes, cukes, cantalope, watermelon, green onions, cilantro and strawberries. I already have a few little tomatoes!

What a difference a few hundred miles makes! I haven't even been able to plant my cold weather crop; might not get it in due to other things in life getting in the way! Tomatoes in March - WOW

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

yeah still freezing cold here- highs only around 40F, lows in the 20's.
Tomatoes...? LOL!!

[abejita]

Yep...gotta love Texas! It is supposed to be 90 on saturday.

[GLC1968]

It was a big adjustment for us coming to the PNW from the south. Not only did we quickly learn that many things that were super easy to grow in the south, won't grow at all here (like okra!)...but I had to learn to plant in an essentially arid environment for the first time in my life. I've never had to use mulch to retain water like I do for the summer months here!

Oh, and we haven't hit 60F yet and it's almost April. That's unheard of around here! Spring? What spring?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Well- finally a gorgeous warm sunny day- Spring has fully arrived!

I chose one of the three long beds in my vegetable garden and dug it deep with a fork, pulled out old roots and dead stubs, and raked out debris. Will save the other beds for another day so I don't kill myself. I guess it's about 3' by 30 feet.
There is something so inspiring and beautiful about a bed of freshly dug bare earth.
Ok, I can't stand it....going down to town to pick up a few packets of early seed! The rest I'll order online to get some special types I like.
I can definitely sow some spinach!

[spokewench]

Well- finally a gorgeous warm sunny day- Spring has fully arrived!

I chose one of the three long beds in my vegetable garden and dug it deep with a fork, pulled out old roots and dead stubs, and raked out debris. Will save the other beds for another day so I don't kill myself. I guess it's about 3' by 30 feet.
There is something so inspiring and beautiful about a bed of freshly dug bare earth.
Ok, I can't stand it....going down to town to pick up a few packets of early seed! The rest I'll order online to get some special types I like.
I can definitely sow some spinach!

That's what I thought a week ago - 70 degrees beautiful; today over 1 foot of snow; just spent about an hour outside digging out the driveway and back deck to the hot tub. One of these days, I WILL GET INTO THE GARDEN!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Yikes, poor Spokewench!

I wound up getting a bunch of seedlings as well as various standard seeds.
I got seedlings of cabbage, bok choy, 3 kinds of onions, red lettuce, and red kale.
I planted several seed rows of spinach and French breakfast radish. More seed to plant over the next few days- romaine, buttercrunch, Swiss chard, and kohlrabi. Do carrot seeds do well in the cool early Spring?
Good to be back in the garden again! We should get some rain by Monday, so the timing is good.