2024 garden season

[sonny580]

Time to think about this year and what you would like to plant or do different, etc. Jump in and talk to us!! New year, new garden!!! LOL!

 

[Mad Professor]

Time to inventory seeds.

 

[kyle1!]

This is the year of getting things off the ground to lessen bending over

 

[Mad Professor]

My 9N needed a lot of work, I just got a TO30 Fergy going to do the snow. We'll see how it does with the plow and harrow this spring.

I started asparagus from seed first time last spring. Plants stayed in pots until fall, then got temporary homes in the garden until the new bed gets prepped this spring.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

new thread, just in time! 2024 Gardens.

it happened like the suddenness of a broken shoelace... one day, no spuds shoots (yet) then yesterday, first day in the new year... new discoveries. first sightings - spud sprouts. put in 2/3 weeks ago. 8! some with green on them, shoot starts. all 'seed spuds' about size of tennis ball.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

right there at the back edge of my brussels patch. they are doing well. no doubt will get nice plants. always do. but 'sprouts? prob not, never do! but that is no reason not to try!!

repotted 3 to take up to the farm, to see how they mite do bit further N and in colder weather...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My 9N needed a lot of work, I just got a TO30 Fergy going to do the snow. We'll see how it does with the plow and harrow this spring.

I started asparagus from seed first time last spring. Plants stayed in pots until fall, then got temporary homes in the garden until the new bed gets prepped this spring.

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hi - hope your baby crowns continue to do well for you!

 

[Mad Professor]

new thread, just in time! 2024 Gardens.

it happened like the suddenness of a broken shoelace... one day, no spuds shoots (yet) then yesterday, first day in the new year... new discoveries. first sightings - spud sprouts. put in 2/3 weeks ago. 8! some with green on them, shoot starts. all 'seed spuds' about size of tennis ball.
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We usually have frost in the soil until April here. Won't see spud sprouts until May

I had a revelation when I hurt my leg and couldn't dig all my spuds last fall. They usually go into a root cellar here for winter, and I save the best for spring planting.

Last winter the basturd voles didn't get them overwinter, and all the ones I left sprouted in spring. I'm trying a fall planting again this year, intended.

 

[Lionsfan]

Afternoon fellas, I hope the new year is treating everyone well. Had a few extra days off for the holidays and spent some time doing an inventory for this year. Ordered a few more flat trays and some more containers, some of which are back-ordered til' who knows when. garlic is in the ground, onions are ordered, all seeds are on hand with the exception of Little Marvel Peas, which i can usually pick up local.
I have been in the process of converting more and more of my garden to containers, so I'm on the hunt for more plastic 55 gallon barrels.

 

[Lightning Performance]

Firing back up my garden this year and adding a hoop house. Now with the new zone changes for my area and hoop house, I should, be able to grow stuff people have going on in Georgia and Florida.

 

[sonny580]

I think I have enough materials now to build a 6' x 12' x (not sure on width yet) greenhouse just to start my own plants in and do it sooner than I can do it outside in pots.
The panels I have are from a commercial greenhouse building so they should stand the wind we have here.

 

[farmer steve]

My 9N needed a lot of work, I just got a TO30 Fergy going to do the snow. We'll see how it does with the plow and harrow this spring.

I started asparagus from seed first time last spring. Plants stayed in pots until fall, then got temporary homes in the garden until the new bed gets prepped this spring.

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What variety of asparagus MP?

 

[Mad Professor]

What variety of asparagus MP?

Not sure? From a patch my parents started before I was born, an heirloom? It has huge thick spears the size of your thumb but still tender at picking size.

I had good germination even though the seeds were two years old. I'll plant most of the remaining ones to see if they still germinate. I saved new seeds from this fall.

Picture of some of the stalks this fall with red seeds/berries. The other "weed" in the picture is a mint plant that shares some of the space with the asparagus. Not a great picture but was just trying to show the berries.

 

[farmer steve]

Not sure? From a patch my parents started before I was born, an heirloom? It has huge thick spears the size of your thumb but still tender at picking size.

I had good germination even though the seeds were two years old. I'll plant most of the remaining ones to see if they still germinate. I saved new seeds from this fall.

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More than likely Mary Washington type. Been around for over a century. Most of the newer varieties are the allmale type and don't produce seeds.(berries). There is a plant growing at dad's farm that he says has been there since he was a kid and he's 93.

 

[Lightning Performance]

More than likely Mary Washington type. Been around for over a century. Most of the newer varieties are the allmale type and don't produce seeds.(berries). There is a plant growing at dad's farm that he says has been there since he was a kid and he's 93.

Why don't you guys just transplant the old original strain?
This is the way to go on mushroom mycelium, apple tree cuttings and so much more. I understand many other plants improve generations by going to seed in your local environment and soil. Is this like that?

 

[Mad Professor]

Why don't you guys just transplant the old original strain?
This is the way to go on mushroom mycelium, apple tree cuttings and so much more. I understand many other plants improve generations by going to seed in your local environment and soil. Is this like that?

This part of the old patch has survived and still produces with virtually no upkeep/attention. I really don't want to disturb the intertwined root system.

I have enough saved seed to plant a whole garden. Plan is to establish a new large patch and/or add to the existing ones (other varieties) which need some rehab. I'll be putting the beds in with lots of rotted manure, saved hardwood ash to raise pH (they like slightly alkaline >7.0) and add potassium (K), and bone char for phosphorous (P). Asparagus likes P and it needs to be incorporated during bed prep.

More than likely Mary Washington type. Been around for over a century. Most of the newer varieties are the allmale type and don't produce seeds.(berries). There is a plant growing at dad's farm that he says has been there since he was a kid and he's 93.

The fields here have several wild plants that always reappear in spring. I know their spots and always mow around them.

 

[jollygreengiant]

Time to inventory seeds.

Yep, gotta do that myself.

May have to look at my seed starting setup too. It was getting tight for space last year and this spring I want to try starting brussels sprouts too.

Hoping to make some big changes in the garden this year. Last year was a year of construction, this year is going to be a year of planting.

 

[user 188535]

Time to think about this year and what you would like to plant or do different, etc. Jump in and talk to us!! New year, new garden!!! LOL!

Punkans and botaders.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

i was wrong about my seed spuds. not 8, but 10! all doing well.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

brussles, too. hope the incoming cold temps drop not too hard on all. prob loose some stuff....