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    Ok I,ll get it going, today potatoes, garlic and some shallots went into the beds today.

    Will get onions going as soon as I get some from the great northwest, and probably some Bermuda I onions to.

    My asparagus may be ready to harvest this year and the blueberries are n their third year.

    Tomatoes are started along with beans and peas, hope to have them planted by the end of March.

    So here's to all our gardens as the spring is almost upon us. Tc
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    I was wondering who was going to open the thread this year

    Yep snowing here

    an "Italian Sauce Garden" here for the smaller one

    Going to try corn again in the big one
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    Good to see the new garden thread up, thanks TC.

    I've got this year's hot peppers started indoors under lights. Germinated the seeds in damp paper towels in a ziplocs on a heat mat. Got very good germination with that method, transferred to solo cups after they hatched. They're on their third or fourth set of true leaves and I'm starting to introduce light nutrients. Lights are plain ol' florescent tubes on a 18 on 6 off cycle with a couple old computer fans rigged up for circulation. I have several varieties going, super hots like Bih Jolokia, Trinidad Scorpion, 7-Pot, CP115, and some that are seeds from open pollinated hot pepper plants so we'll see what they turn out to be. As they get a little bigger I will be pruning the tops off to make them grow more "leaders", develop thicker sturdier stems, and produce more pods.
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    Still WAY TO COLD to even think about getting anything going here at the Boars Nest. With my little area I can have a tomato plant or maybe a rosemary plant but I don't think that I'll mess with either since I've been gone on my bike rides when tomatoes are coming on and the kids don't seem to want to bother with them.

    Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll be helping a friend out with some sets--Hopefully!
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    We got a foot of wet snow here yesterday so the garden is a ways off.

    Still have purple seed potatoes sitting in a container in the fridge waiting to go in the ground - eventually.
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    I'm about to start some romaine lettuce, from seed, since it likes the cold, but I won't be able to get it in the ground till I'm clear of frost. In the mean time, I'll get some bell pepper seeds started. Cherry tomatoes will come in on their own. Haven't had to plant a tomato plant, since the first one. I just rotate last year's plant into the ground, and thin out the ones I don't want, after the thirty or so come up the next season.

    My garden is only 13' X 15', and last year's tomato plant took over a third of the garden, with fruit the size of golf balls.

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    Hopefully I don't break my ankle again, ended up giving away most of my peppers, they were well into maturity once I got back on my feet again.

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    Just had to post some garden porn, can't wait to see how this years garden is going to do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
    I was wondering who was going to open the thread this year

    Yep snowing here

    an "Italian Sauce Garden" here for the smaller one

    Going to try corn again in the big one
    To me corn is not worth growing in a garden. For that you need a field with the time and area needed and the price you can buy it for. The same with potatoes.

    The "Italian sauce garden" is more my style.

    Not trying to argue I just needed to post to subscribe to this thread!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 32t View Post
    To me corn is not worth growing in a garden. For that you need a field with the time and area needed and the price you can buy it for. The same with potatoes.

    The "Italian sauce garden" is more my style.

    Not trying to argue I just needed to post to subscribe to this thread!


    hehehe Well we all know that using a SR saves money in the long run too I was thinking of the Cast Iron Dutch Oven bread too "Look honey I baked a loaf of bread, cost me $3 for a loaf i could have bought at WalMart for a buck"


    I actually do have the room "Glen's Half Acre" is almost One Acre now so I am going to put in a few rows and see what happens this will be by the 2nd attempt, we didn't do a Garden last year
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