2025 Garden season

[sonny580]

Been workin on seed savin from the canners. have a lot of seed clean/dry now. Going to keep these going for as long as I am able.
Best food grade pumpkin around!

 

[Stonesforbrains]

Sinahuisa Pepper, Zapotec Jalapeno, ***** De Valle Pepper, Targu Mures Paprika, Dieghito Jalapeno Pepper, Thai Dragon Pepper, Pasilla Bajio-Chilaca Pepper, Red Savina Hot Pepper, Snow White Habanero, Hawaiian chili pepper, and Datil pepper is what I’m going to try and grow this year. I am sure my brother in law will give me a few varieties as well like he always does.​

 

[Country bumpkin]

Leftover from the 2024 garden thread. Picked this guy around Thanksgiving? Pure green. Put it on the counter in the kitchen and it was either ripen or rot. Ripened nicely and was stihl firm when I sliced it. Flavor was actually pretty good. Red Duece was the variety.
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I haven’t seen that variety here. Where do you get the seeds from? Fairly disease resistant?

 

[farmer steve]

I haven’t seen that variety here. Where do you get the seeds from? Fairly disease resistant?

I just buy plants from my greenhouse guy. It's one of the favorites of the big tomato growers around here. I did look and they are available online from various sources.

 

[sand sock]

Found this on marketplace yesterday and picked it up last evening. The guy bought it a few years ago for planting raspberries but didn't like how it worked. Looked them up and basic price i found is about $2,200. Not bad for $300.
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that would be really nice for hilling up rows to plant sweet potatoes in.

 

[djg james]

I just dumped ashes from the stove on the 2025 tomato patch.

Tomatoes like high pH? Add just a little?

 

[djg james]

I went over this with the springer harrow after the killing frost last month,

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2nd/3rd/4th is springtime pictures before planting. Topsoil is feet deep.


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I have most of my seeds, need to inventory and see what I might need?

I'd love to had topsoil that deep. I have a clay base with about 6"-12" topsoil.

 

[farmer steve]

@sand sock. My buddy just bought one of these and we're planning on using it for sweet potatoes. Makes a raised bed,lays drip and plastic all in one pass.

 

[djg james]

I found these in a box in the corner. What should I do with them? Place whole in water or pluck off the sprouts and put in water?

 

[farmer steve]

Tomatoes like high pH? Add just a little?

They like a target PH of about 6.5. They like the potash in the wood ashes.. I'm experimenting this year to see how they grow.

 

[djg james]

I started working on next years garden this past Fall. Early this Spring, I'll finish the 'tote' raised beds for the sweet potatoes.

Last year I planted replacement asparagus plants only to have them flood out. The trenches half-filled with water and due to my clay base, didn't drain.
I trenched in a drain pipe perpendicular and sloped it down hill. The I backfilled. The buckets are surrounding the places to plant the new plants, acting as dikes, so I can backfill the rest with compost/topsoil. New plants coming next month.



My garden is stair stepped so I rebuilt the retaining wall along my deer cage. Will finish backfilling this Spring with compost/topsoil, giving me another row to plant trellising crops.



It was nice to have a dry Fall so I could get a lot done.

I've also got Heritage Raspberry plant coming. Looking to buy two Montmorency Cherry trees too.

 

[sand sock]

I found these in a box in the corner. What should I do with them? Place whole in water or pluck off the sprouts and put in water?
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my brother usually starts ours, he drops them in a glass ina windowsill. after they leaf out, he snaps it off and puts it in dirt. i wish i had a hiller for sweet potatoes. teh higher and wider you can hill up the soil. the better S/P do in heavy soil. if you can work with the natural slope of the terrain. you can capture alot of runoff.