2025 Garden season

[TNTreeHugger]

Garden is ready - all I need to do is buy several bags of the Miracle Grow garden soil for the beds.
Been working on it the past two days, and today I got the second wire arch put up for the climbers.
I'm thinking of planting April 1 this year. It'll take a few weeks for seeds to sprout and I can still cover everything with plastic when the farmers spray their fields.

 

[sonny580]

Started raking and burning some of the garden. got a couple acres raked, burned, and plowed.
Slow job and slow plowing with only bottom!

 

[diver64]

Got my potatoes in. Strawberries are looking good. Tomorrow I'm planting scallions, radishes, carrots, beets and some other random stuff from the goody box a fine member got to me last year

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Got my potatoes in. Strawberries are looking good. Tomorrow I'm planting scallions, radishes, carrots, beets and some other random stuff from the goody box a fine member got to me last year

I hope they do well.

I saw several large sacks of potatoes in a cart at the hardware store last week... I wondered if they were "seed potatoes?" Is this a good time to plant taters?

 

[diver64]

I hope they do well.

I saw several large sacks of potatoes in a cart at the hardware store last week... I wondered if they were "seed potatoes?" Is this a good time to plant taters?

It is here. Our "seed potatoes" are from some we bought at the supermarket that eyed before we got to them. For us, those bought on sale work just as good as seed potatoes for much less the cost. I have some sweet potatoes we got Thanksgiving left over I'm putting in the sun to work then plant May I think. .29 pound should be enough for the coming year. I bought a bag of reds on sale for $1.00 and got 14 out of it. I planted red and Yukon gold. The bigger ones we cut with an eye or two and plant. The smaller ones we just put into the ground with the shoots upwards.

 

[diver64]

Started raking and burning some of the garden. got a couple acres raked, burned, and plowed.
Slow job and slow plowing with only bottom!

That's a lot of ground, what are you putting in?

 

[TNTreeHugger]

It is here. Our "seed potatoes" are from some we bought at the supermarket that eyed before we got to them. For us, those bought on sale work just as good as seed potatoes for much less the cost. I bought a bag on sale for $1.00 and got 14 out of it. I planted red and Yukon gold. The bigger ones we cut with an eye or two and plant. The smaller ones we just put into the ground with the shoots upwards.

That's what I planted last year - store-bought from Walmart and they did real well.
Going shopping tomorrow - adding taters to my list.

 

[diver64]

That's what I planted last year - store-bought from Walmart and they did real well.
Going shopping tomorrow - adding taters to my list.

We always buy 20lbs of sweet at Thanksgiving when they are on sale and keep them on the cold porch. What's left over we plant and we have good luck with them.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

We always buy 20lbs of sweet at Thanksgiving when they are on sale and keep them on the cold porch. What's left over we plant and we have good luck with them.

I tried that with a few of the Yukon's saved from last year's crop and I found them rotten a few weeks ago. I had them in a small cardboard box. What do you put yours in?