Thread: In the Garden 2017

Saw our first Robin yesterday.

Guess it is time to get serious about the garden and get some seeds planted.

Originally Posted by rolodave

Saw our first Robin yesterday.

Guess it is time to get serious about the garden and get some seeds planted.

Have you started any indoors? If you are still planning on growing "super hots" (as in bhut jolokias, 7-Pots, Reapers, etc.) you might be already cutting it very close. They can take up to a month to germinate but can go faster on a heat mat, even as quickly as 10-14 days. And they are slow growers after that. To be able to move them outside they need nighttime lows above 50 degrees or they risk dropping their flowers and will need even more time to go into a new flowering cycle.

Looking at the temp averages for Racine shows you are safe to move them outside in June, although you might be able to risk sometime in May. Keep an eye on the nighttime lows. Then you want to harvest before October when the average nighttime low gets in the 40's. It means that it's best to have them starting to flower by mid to late May, or beginning of June so you can harvest in time.

These peppers are indigenous to areas like Trinidad & Tobago and northeast India where the temps don't fluctuate very much throughout the whole year. For example in Trinidad & Tobago the average temps for the entire year are low of 70 and highs of 90. As a result, these peppers can get fussy in places like Wisconsin.

All that being said, you can absolutely be successful growing them and I really hope you give it a shot.

Originally Posted by rolodave

Saw our first Robin yesterday.

Guess it is time to get serious about the garden and get some seeds planted.

This weekend will be the third week for them hear.

Haven't seen one yet here.........but waiting to

A couple of gardening catalogs showed up in the bathroom rack at work!

Kitchen Table is covered with empty seed packs.. planted today to get them started

Pumpkins
Corn
Beans
Romas

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Kitchen Table is covered with empty seed packs.. planted today to get them started

Pumpkins
Corn
Beans
Romas

If you want some of the Walla Walla Sweet Onion Sets, let me know! They are available!!!

ours has landed and if the rain stops the wife said they are going in the ground in a couple of days Tc

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

ours has landed and if the rain stops the wife said they are going in the ground in a couple of days Tc

!!!!!!!!!!!

With that said, it figures that you've let me know that the package has landed BEFORE the USPS TRACKING has

I do hope that they well do well for you this year my friend

Wooohoooo

Starting to pop especially the Corn



I am not sure we are going to hit the May 1st target date this year, there is still about a foot of snow on the Garden and Glen's Half Acre