Baymule’s 2019 Garden

canesisters said:

WOW!!! Your seedlings look Fantastic!!!

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@Rammy thinks this comes easy, little does she know of all the miserable failures I have had! I have murdered more than my share of innocent little seedlings! Thanks Canesisters, this year is looking good so far!

Maybe I can have some nice looking plants like that, after awhile . The day is sunny and there is a chance that the afternoon high will be above freezing ...

What has happened to our southern hemisphere gardener, @Hal ? He never really shared planting pictures and this would be his harvest season. Maybe he would have that 2nd annual garden that our Deep South has with gardeners sowing and setting out plants in September only his 2nd garden would be started about now ...

I know that Hal had some problems with Australia's recent hot summers.

Steve

Heres my pitiful seedstarting.

Go ahead and laugh.

Not laughing. BTDT. It seems like every year I have spectacular success and miserable failures. Last year I put together what I thought was the perfect greenhouse, complete with LED full spectrum lights. My seedlings got leggy, fell over and died. Some thrived and were transplanted out to the garden.

This year I started the cool season plants inn the closet under shop lights. They thrived. I moved them to the little greenhouse on the porch with NO heat and NO heatmats. They are still thriving. Even with temps a little below freezing, the greenhouse retains enough heat from the lights to not freeze. Meanwhile, I am starting tomatoes, corn, eggplant and I forget in the closet. They are coming up. So far, so good.

@Rammy it is all a learning experience. You just happened to catch me on a good start to the growing season. LOL LOL

Bay: what is BTDT?

Rhodie Ranch said:

Bay: what is BTDT?

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Been there, done that.

Wow Bay looking good, your way ahead of the game. We're still tromping in mud puddles here, but they say we have some sunshine coming this week so maybe some garden work will get done.

Lickbranchfarm said:

Wow Bay looking good, your way ahead of the game. We're still tromping in mud puddles here, but they say we have some sunshine coming this week so maybe some garden work will get done.

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Thanks, we need to get back in the garden and finish laying those pumpkin boxes! Rain, hard rain, drizzly rain and plain rain, cold, chilled, wind, have conspired to keep us out of the garden. We had sunshine yesterday and today, had grand babies yesterday and today we hired a friend to take down dead trees. 3 pine trees were right next to our portable building, so they were a little tricky. They we hauled the branches and logs to the burn pile. Hoping we can get in the garden this week!

Bay, did your hugelkulture bed produce anything?
I was thinking about that method the other day. Remember Boggy [Boggybranch maybe?] from years ago? He was experimenting with it, but he hasn't been on for a very long time.