Your 2025 Garden

[Nomadicus]

There is power in numbers.
I am pretty much a one woman show.
DH helps with picking and shelling. He still works full time.

You may be a near one woman show but you do more than a lot of families I've seen over the years. It's the bending that gets to us now. Both of us have spinal issues. All the years my wife had to work with way overweight patients (turning them over in bed and such) is reminding her now of those days and a MRI shows it. I did worse. Walking around with 100lb bags of feed and fertilizer on my shoulder... It was a dumb thing to do.

I'm expecting a shipment within days of new muscadine plants to finish the vineyard and I'm not ready. l need a couple of sunny 60+ degree days without these howling winds like today. I want to use the woven weed barrier under the grapes instead of using roundup like big operations do.

Our rows of the grapes are far enough apart we can plant purple hull peas between the rows of grapes for a couple of years.

 

[tripletfeb]

I don't get to plant cold weather crops until May 1.

Well, yeah. You live in the artic tundra. But I'm not much earlier than you, mid April is when we plant those

 

[R2elk]

Well, yeah. You live in the artic tundra. But I'm not much earlier than you, mid April is when we plant those

Nope, not in the arctic nor anywhere near any tundra. Just a mile above sea level.

 

[Nomadicus]

Cabbage seed are sprouting now.

 

[Sally PB]

Was it a woven or more like a black paper fabric?

It was the paper-y kind. It felt sort of like fabric, sort of plastic-y.

We used that black paper type of film in TN a few years back and weeds and grass grew right through it the first season.

Yup. If it didn't grow through, it pushed the fabric up and then everything grew under it.

You need to add gypsum.

Thank you! I will get some.

I don't get to plant cold weather crops until May 1.

I can start stuff in the green house about April 1. I can start hardening stuff off outside around May 20th, but I have to be prepared to take it back inside. I don't put tender plants like peppers and tomatoes in the ground until about Memorial Day weekend.

 

[R2elk]

I can start stuff in the green house about April 1. I can start hardening stuff off outside around May 20th, but I have to be prepared to take it back inside. I don't put tender plants like peppers and tomatoes in the ground until about Memorial Day weekend.

Warm weather plants can't go into the garden until the last weekend of May at the earliest. I have had frost as late as the second week in June.

I do have some tomato and pepper seedlings in the living room right now. I have a celery plant and a tomato plant and a Mango tree in the greenhouse.

 

[Nomadicus]

I bought enough tomato seed today for what we need for our family to have plenty to eat and can. Some early, some mid season, and some a little later. Most from Burpee but none of those $1 per seed kinds. Ordered broccoli that I've been wanting to try that has more green tender stem than most. Several pepper varieties from multiple sources including paprika pepper seed and a mild jalapeno variety too. Some new varieties of beans I've never tried before. I'll get the KY Wonder and a few other seed from our feed and seed supply here in town. I bought 300' of the woven ground cover also. If I like it I will buy several more rolls. This is the stuff that goes down before road gravel is used for driveways out here in the boonies.

 

[Nomadicus]

We can start the tomato seed the 7th of February and the pepper seed the first of Feb. I'm not planting sweet potatoes or Irish potatoes this year. No sense in feeding voles.

 

[R2elk]

No sense in feeding voles.

I feed the voles All Weather Bait Blox. They fit nicely in their holes and tunnels.

 

[Nomadicus]

I feed the voles All Weather Bait Blox. They fit nicely in their holes and tunnels.

I'll look for some. I think they killed a young cherry tree. If I remember correctly they will eat tender roots.