when are you sowing your garden this year?

[rbeau30]

What are you planning to brew once you've harvested? I think a night of homebrew tasting might be in order.

Heck yeah! Depends On how much I get. First year harvest should be very small. I have a good recipe for a Cream Ale that is my everyday brew. If I get a lot I may do a dark IPA. It requires 10 Hop Additions. If i get middle of the road Ill make a Milk Stout that I love.

kale/chard/squash/cucumbers/lettuce planted a week ago, 8 pepper and 22 tomato plants sitting indoors waiting for a few more days...this snow thing is not amusing

In a way I am glad that my seedlings seem to be slow starting. I would be really pissed if I were in your situation.

Pitch some sort of tent over the garden with tarps? The ground should be warm enough to keep them warm-ish.


Next year I an going to do more bucket taters I only did 3 buckets because I am learning. They are easy to bring in the garage on these isolated cold snaps. I have already had to put more dirt in the buckets, and going to add more today.

[cofi]

Great I'm gonna start moving my shit into the garage

[mindfold]

I held off planting anything yet. I am getting ready to till one more time before I get everything planted. Trying the box tatters thing too this year. Will see how the turn out is. Once done snowing I will be posting pics of the garden this year.

[HoneyBadger]

I really wanted to build a 5x8 raised garden bed last weekend, and get it planted, but I'm glad I didn't have time. Hopefully next weekend I can get it built and planted.

[cofi]

I really wanted to build a 5x8 raised garden bed last weekend, and get it planted, but I'm glad I didn't have time. Hopefully next weekend I can get it built and planted.

If you need help lemme know

[HoneyBadger]

If you need help lemme know

Thanks man, I think I'm good. It should be relatively simple, but a few things are going to make it take a lot of time. I'm going to tie it into my sprinkler drip system so I won't have to worry about watering, and that is going to be the biggest PITA.
Still haven't decided what I'm going to grow in it yet though. We wanted to do some peppers and tomatoes for sure, but we haven't decided on anything else.

[Brian]

Thanks man, I think I'm good. It should be relatively simple, but a few things are going to make it take a lot of time. I'm going to tie it into my sprinkler drip system so I won't have to worry about watering, and that is going to be the biggest PITA.
Still haven't decided what I'm going to grow in it yet though. We wanted to do some peppers and tomatoes for sure, but we haven't decided on anything else.

I'm in the same boat, but stuck in HOA land here too. Got my 10'x4' finished last weekend but haven't dug it in, filled it up, or hooked up the drip system yet either. I think I'm going to put a small diagonal trellis on end for pickling cukes, a small vertical trellis setup for pole beans, a couple tomato plants, and then not sure what I'll do with the rest. I'm clueless when it comes to a garden, but hopefully will start learning fast.

I also want to build another smaller raised bed that I'll put between two of the split rail posts for a couple raspberry bushes if I can find the time too. The area right behind our fence is an open-space walking trail. They leave it "natural" which means we get a lot of weeds back there in the summer. I chop or spray the foot or so on the other side of the fence a couple times a year, so it'll be interesting to see how this works out.

Hopefully the added height will help with the rabbits, but I'm told my biggest problem will be when the raccoons find it.

Here's a pic before it got all snowy showing approx. where I plant to sink it in. I need to add probably another layer of side 4' boards though because of the slope.

[newracer]

I'm in the same boat, but stuck in HOA land here too. Got my 10'x4' finished last weekend but haven't dug it in, filled it up, or hooked up the drip system yet either. I think I'm going to put a small diagonal trellis on end for pickling cukes, a small vertical trellis setup for pole beans, a couple tomato plants, and then not sure what I'll do with the rest. I'm clueless when it comes to a garden, but hopefully will start learning fast.

I also want to build another smaller raised bed that I'll put between two of the split rail posts for a couple raspberry bushes if I can find the time too. The area right behind our fence is an open-space walking trail. They leave it "natural" which means we get a lot of weeds back there in the summer. I chop or spray the foot or so on the other side of the fence a couple times a year, so it'll be interesting to see how this works out.

Hopefully the added height will help with the rabbits, but I'm told my biggest problem will be when the raccoons find it.

Here's a pic before it got all snowy showing approx. where I plant to sink it in. I need to add probably another layer of side 4' boards though because of the slope.

Nice, I need to build a raised bed soon. Was trying to put it off until next year but the wife has other ideas.

[rbeau30]

Looks real nice!

[hollohas]

This weekend the 'maters and peppers will get transplanted outside as long as the next couple days stay nice enough to finish hardening them off. Remaining direct sow veggies will also go in. Sugar snap peas, onions, lettuce, strawberries, carrots and mint are all growing strong already. First batch of radishes are almost ready to harvest and I have two strawberries that will be ripe this weekend.

The tomatoes are really ready to go outside. I have been pinching off flower buds for a couple weeks. I don't like them flowering before they get outside and get their roots established. I'll start leaving the flowers in a couple weeks.

I also have a Myer Lemon tree that I have been growing inside for the last 5 months. It has a bunch of small fruit coming in that are the result of hand pollinating it. It will spend the next week or so getting outside during the day and coming inside at night until its ready to spend the rest of the summer outside full time. With any luck I will have fresh lemons by the end of summer.