What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

Wednesday I planted my regular peas and snow peas (only about a month late, but they should be fine) and my tomato seedlings are doing well inside and as soon as it warms up again I need to start harding them off.

Today we planted, herbs turnip collards lettuce cabbage okra brussel sprouts

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Ah-h-h! As of today I am free!

I have been retired for the past 8 years, but continue to keep my fingers in the educational pool by 'guest' teaching when the regular classroom teacher is gone. In the past I have worked from Nov. 1 through March 31 so that I have time in the yard and gardens, but this year I have been working much more than I want and during wonderfully sunny days.

Today I officially re-retired for the summer.

Now I should have time to clean the flower beds -- something that I've not kept up with for several years -- and finish planting the veggie beds.

Linn, that sounds great! I re-retire from gardening along about the 1st of November every year !

I don't know if I've ever waited so late in the present gardens to set out peppers & melons. They will have to wait a little longer because I missed my chance yesterday. It wasn't a very nice day mostly because it started off so cool and breezy. By afternoon, it looked like there was a possibility and the forecast for the weekend & next week is excellent! After the tow truck got there and hauled the pickup off to the garage, yesterday afternoon was pretty well shot, also :/!

So, looking back on a better recent day: I got quite a few sunflowers out in the garden. There are still a few more. Some of the special ornamental sunflowers have very expensive seed. The plants actually transplant quite well and the greenhouse here at home is a better place for them to get a start than out in the open garden. They are only in their little cellpacks until those true leaves are just beginning to make an appearance - then, out they go!

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Steve

I was lucky enough to have company come help me in the garden last night and this morning. She helped me move tomatoes & peppers that were doing poorly in another location. Then we planted about 100 more seeds of corn for a second round at the end of summer (we planted 100 a month ago, only 40 germinated).

We also pulled the last 50 bulbs of garlic that are out sun curing today, and I'm moving those to the front porch tonight to begin the slow cure process on a screen.

Hubby is going out to help me move the meat bird tractor coop one more time to keep them working on my garden for 1 more day. Tomorrow night, long as my chest is doing good, we'll be cleaning meat birds

Planted last 4 rows of sweet corn, transplanted 16 cabbage plants and 14 romaine lettuce plants. Moved 2 okra plants. Also found 3 volunteer pepper plants, so moved them. Had-key word had-beautiful pepper plants till chickens decided to eat them instead of roaming yard. So banished to their pen......

Planted some tomato seeds and I think they split into 4's as I have too many for me. Still have a bunch of cabbage plants started from seed.

pulled a few more onions. I've got about a dozen left to 'fall over'. threw away the squash plants since the bugs had ruined them. in the next few days I will be pulling garlic. sure hope I've got a decent crop this year. watching the tomatoes with a careful eye. they're looking very good so far.

I was over in the garden running sprinklers today and I'm having a dickens of a time remembering to take some seeds with me!

This is the 2nd week I've forgotten and it was a late remembering to begin with!

I've got Perpetual Spinach seed, Touchstone Gold beet seed, Senposai seed, and Maruba Santoh seed! All of these should be spring crops and it looks like there will be a string of 80 weather soon! I could have planted this seed 6 - 8 weeks ago!

Oh, I think it will be alright. . . Tomorrow is a little less hurried day and I've now put it down in writing . Additionally, I've saved some space in the garden so that dirt is calling for me and that seed!

Steve

I got some pictures of the veggie garden today. I'm expecting company from Washington tomorrow so I doubt I will get the pics posted until some time Monday. Right now I should be cleaning up Gypsy's (10 YO) bedroom for a guest room, but decided to take a break after finding half a cookie under her pillow. Phooey!

I got my leftover-from-last-year garlic cloves planted as well as my three varieties of tiny garlic bulblets transplanted into the garden. My muncher cukes are up and in need of a bit of thinning before they start climbing. I must have left the gate open as I saw a few chicken tracks in the beds, but this time there seems to be little to no damage.

With all the rain we've had recently, the weeds have been having a field day! My BFF was complaining about how far behind she was getting with weeding her garden. "I bet your garden is all weedy too," she mused.

"Nope!" says I, "You would have to look long and hard to see anything bigger than a one day old weed." With those wonderful raised beds, it is so easy to keep the beds weeded, especially between or right after rain showers. Now the flower beds are another story entirely.

I spent most of Friday working on the semi-shade end of my shade garden. DH was impressed with how much I did get done, but just that one bed will take another 3-4 days to get to the point where the individual plants can be seen -- and that's a long way from weed-free. I think I once counted just under 30 individual flower beds tucked here and there on the property. A few of those have been kept cleaned or were already weeded this spring, but the majority are shamefully neglected. Yup! I see lots of work in my future.