Thread: In the Garden 2017

Originally Posted by Utopian

What is a Start?

A North Idaho "Seedling"

I don't know why

Maybe the same reason this "St Maries" is called "St Mary's" or "Moscow" is called "Mosko"

I just do not know these things

Originally Posted by gssixgun

A North Idaho "Seedling"

I don't know why

Maybe the same reason this "St Maries" is called "St Mary's" or "Moscow" is called "Mosko"

I just do not know these things

Speaking of Starts, will you be wanting some WW Sweet Starts this year? Just let me know and when they are ready I'll send some to the boonies.

I swear that Texas stole north Idaho's slogan ("It's a whole 'nother country!").

I put up an inexpensive security camera facing the garden to catch critters and kids. Not one catch which is good. Then I got the idea of making a time lapse film of garden over the season. The camera lost sync a couple times requiring moving camera to re-sync. So the frame moves a couple times. This next year I'm going to try and get closer to the same time of day, so you can see the shadows slowly grow longer, as the sun gets lower in sky through the season up here in Washington. I'll add the rain days this season so plants grow linear.

Wife is the garden Master this year. It starts with garlic middle left. Herbs are top right. Beans & pea top left. Corn top middle. Potatoes then pumpkins at bottom. Lettuce middle. Some inedible junk not work mentioning. It ends with this years garlic on middle left.

http://www.jamercer.com/images/garden2016.gif (80 second/22MB ani-gif)

onions are in , along with potatoes and carrots. also started our asparagus( almost 3 years to see the profit) but well worth it in the end. blueberries are already starting to flower, and first row of lettuce goes in this week
next week we,ll see what else is ready Tc

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

onions are in , along with potatoes and carrots. also started our asparagus( almost 3 years to see the profit) but well worth it in the end. blueberries are already starting to flower, and first row of lettuce goes in this week
next week we,ll see what else is ready Tc

Meanwhile I raked about 8 inches of snow off my roof a couple days ago.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

A North Idaho "Seedling"

I don't know why

Maybe the same reason this "St Maries" is called "St Mary's" or "Moscow" is called "Mosko"

I just do not know these things

By context I thought I knew what a start was, but by practicality, I could not imagine transplanting corn plants.

Originally Posted by Utopian

By context I thought I knew what a start was, but by practicality, I could not imagine transplanting corn plants.

I agree. If you can't get by with 60 day corn I wouldn't bother to grow it.

One of the more liked varieties that I remember being grown around Rochester for a factory is Jubilee and if I remember right is in the mid 80 day range.

For a farmers market the trick that I see in MN is having a field that can be planted a couple of weeks earlier than the competition so when it ripens earlier it is worth much more.

As I said before in a smaller home garden in my opinion sweet corn is a waste of space in comparison to what else you can grow.

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.