Thread: In the Garden 2017

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

With nighttime lows near 40 this week, the only action in the garden right now is that the chives came up. My friend gave me a few pepper plants that he started a few weeks back and I've been taking them outside during the day and bringing them in at night. They're about 2 inches too!

I love that chives keep coming back year after year/that is as long as you let them go to seed!

Many a year ago I was at my dad's older sister who had a HUGE Garden and commented on how good her dill was doing and she said; "I only planted seeds once, since then they've come back better and better every year since".

I will tell you from experience that if you want to grow sage to plant it in a container as it will spread like wild fire! The last home I bought had it growing EVERYWHERE!

No big hurry on the plants. Hard frost the last two mornings

Yeah, I'm expecting we're not done with frost here either. Last average frost date is May 20 and first average frost date is Sept. 21 here. Gives me about 124 days of frost free growing season.

My ghost, habanero and jalapeno seeds have sprouted but the chilitepins have not.

I will give them a few more days and then reseed. I plan on keeping this plant indoors. While it may survive the Wisconsin winter I would rather not take a chance. The one I had in Texas lived for several years.

We moved the container garden yesterday. This evening I planted Swiss chard, lettuce, spinach, and carrots. My wife transplanted a pea plant growing on last year's spot. I don't know if it will take. I planted lavender, chives, nasturtium, and cayenne pepper seeds in pots around the patio.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

My wife transplanted a pea plant growing on last year's spot. I don't know if it will take.

'IF' that pea plant came from seed from last years plant and that plant was a hybrid, I 'believe' that one of two things will happen.

1. It won't bear fruit
2, If it bears fruit that fruit will be from one of the past 'parent' plants.

I do hope it makes it so you can find out. My brother retired from a company call McGreagor's and he had a degree in 'agriculture' and he was the first one to tell me about this as I'd had some green leaf lettuce 'bolt' and I just mowed it down and then tilled the remains into the soil . A few weeks later some green started showing and by God it made the winter, Snow and All!

The 'new' lettuce was much darker and had a much stronger flavor but it was good eats!

Keep us posted!

You're spot on with that Roy. Just about 100% of the time when you get seeds from a hybrid, the fruit will be one of the parent plants genetics

Originally Posted by rolodave

My ghost, habanero and jalapeno seeds have sprouted but the chilitepins have not.

I will give them a few more days and then reseed. I plan on keeping this plant indoors. While it may survive the Wisconsin winter I would rather not take a chance. The one I had in Texas lived for several years.

That's terrific you have some peppers coming up, the ghost peppers can sometimes take forever to sprout! Yes, I've heard peppers can live up to five or six years in the right conditions and even be better producers as time goes by.

Planted Gourmandine and Sevilla potatoes a couple of weeks ago.
Will be trying some courgettes again this year. Finally solved the problem of fruitlet rot late last year, too late for a decent crop though. Tomatoes and cucumbers will fill our greenhouse as well this year.

I just found this thread. We bought a new place a couple of years ago and have had a garden since we moved in. The soil is great and we've always had awesome yields with everything we put in. Last year, I bought a tiller to pull behind the tractor so this year's garden is a "little" bigger than previous years (man, that thing is fun to operate!). In this year's garden we planted 2 rows of Silver Queen corn, two rows of okra, two rows of pink-eye purple hulls, two rows of zipper peas and two rows of cream 50. Also planted a row of cucumbers, a row of onions (Georgia Sweet), a row of white squash and a row of yellow crook neck squash. Set out 24 tomato plants (various species), six pepper plants (jalapeno, bell, and banana). Also, six watermelon plants.
I also found an excellent deal on fruit trees on my way back from Louisiana so i bought and set out three Satsumas and two lemon trees.
Hopefully, this year will be just as bountiful. SWMBO loves canning and with this much garden, she should have plenty to keep her busy.