In The Garden 2023

[cudarunner]

Well I don't know if I'm early or late but I've got my tomato sets started from seeds. They are growing by leaps and bounds. I just hope they will make it until the 24th of April. My old neighbor was a really big gardener and he'd said that he'd never put his tomato starts out until the 24th of April as that was the latest recorded killing frost.

I plan on putting them out on the porch here in a couple of weeks and then bring them back in to harden them up.

By the way--I planted more than I need just in case.

[CrescentCityRazors]

I just picked this gnarly beast of a broc about two hours ago. A hair under a foot across, over 2-1/2 lbs. Wife calls it
BROC-ZILLA.

This is the second head, the first one was a couple days ago and was huge, but not as big as this one. Variety is Castle Dome, and I will be planting more of this in the fall. I am very impressed. Compared to the Sun King, this is gargantuan, a veritable Tyrannosaurus of brocs.

[outback]

Broke ground about a week ago, still early here. Mother's day is usually our safe zone.

Just doing some bush type green beans, and a couple bell pepper plants.

[randydance062449]

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Yesterday it was freezing rain. It covered the ground in white.
We plant about May 15th here!

[outback]

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Yesterday it was freezing rain. It covered the ground in white.
We plant about May 15th here!

Yeah, here too. And I was on the lake fishin when it hit.

[cudarunner]

Well I've come to the conclusion that I was too early with my tomato sets. I have 8 that were decent so I planted 4 in the direct sun.



I'll get the cages out tomorrow and have them so I can irrigate them.

[DZEC]

I just picked this gnarly beast of a broc about two hours ago. A hair under a foot across, over 2-1/2 lbs. Wife calls it
BROC-ZILLA.

This is the second head, the first one was a couple days ago and was huge, but not as big as this one. Variety is Castle Dome, and I will be planting more of this in the fall. I am very impressed. Compared to the Sun King, this is gargantuan, a veritable Tyrannosaurus of brocs.

I’ve never had any luck with broccoli. They grow and then go right to seed. Must be something in the soil chemistry.

Planting date in Ontario is May 24 to avoid a late frost.

[CrescentCityRazors]

I’ve never had any luck with broccoli. They grow and then go right to seed. Must be something in the soil chemistry.

Planting date in Ontario is May 24 to avoid a late frost.

Try planting earlier. Broc can tolerate a light frost. BTW, you can eat the leaves and their stems. Cook them like collard greens or bok choy. We start the seeds indoors and transplant at the 50% frost danger date unless the 10 day forecast predicts a freeze. We set backup seedlings just in case the first transplants don't make it, then the backups go in the ground.

[outback]

Planted 3, 8 foot rows of green bean seed last night. A nice light rain, today.

[CrescentCityRazors]

I picked about half the remainder of my tobacco this morning. Above are some nice leaves from the one Monte Calme Yellow that the bugs didn't get. Tape measure in pic, for size. 29" long leaves for the visually unblessed. Also picked Moldova 456, Golden Burley, Yellow Leaf, Big Gem, Piloto Cubano, and CT Broadleaf. The Piloto is a very popular cigar filler. Most of the others I wanted to try, looking for a better wrapper variety that does well in this terroir. Leaning toward the Golden Burley because it matures fast and makes beautiful leaves. The Moldovan was a big experiment. It is a "turkish" or "oriental" variety, often added to cigarette blends or used locally for hookah or pipe, and it cures to a beautiful yellow tan, so I am really looking forward to trying it for a cigar wrapper next year when it is sort of ready. The Yellow Leaf and Big Gem are old school varieties that are no longer popular. Now I know why. Meh. The CT Broadleaf did well for me last year but oddly enough not this year.