The planted grape vines around 6 weeks ago. They are starting to bud out, so I didn't kill them with the transplanting.



Plum trees are in full bloom around the house. The grass I planted a week and a half ago isn't up yet. Time to get the spuds and beats planted and finish planting carrots. I've fallen a bit behind on my planting because I've been dumping time into getting a buried trampoline set up for the kids.

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Planted some corn last night:



I generally plant a faster maturing, more cold hardy variety first, and then around 2 weeks later I'll plant a variety that takes a bit longer to mature. The idea is to prolong the period where I have perfect, field ripe corn. Yesterday I did Northern and in a few weeks I'll plant Honey and Pearl. The planter makes is so you can get a lot of corn in fast. You just load the hopper and push is over the top of the row.

I also got my spuds in. Reds and yukon gold this year.

I think my plum tree blossoms got nipped by the frost. Not sure I'll get any this year. I don't have any apple trees, but the ones at my parents' house are in full bloom:



The variety for that apple tree is summer red. They are ok to eat, but we really like them in pies, apple sauce, for juicing, and especially for drying. Of all the variety we've tried in the food dryer, summer red has been our favorite.

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Progress pic:



Lower right are peas, upper right is lettuce starting to peek through. Spinach far left and carrots between spinach and peas. It's time to go back through and thin the carrots and spinach.

Finally had a nice day so I planted tomatoes and peppers:



Tires help hold warmth on cool nights. The orange/red plastic things are water walls. I'm trying them out this year. They offer protection against the cold nights. Freezing is probably past for us so I probably don't need them. I'm planting a few weeks later than normal this year. We've had crappy weather every weekend for the past couple months. The milk jugs around the peppers are just to give some wind protection - we get a lot of it.

Planted onions and beets this morning in the square foot garden. Here's a close up of how I plant beets:



In a square foot garden I just decide how much spacing I need between plants and then I'll do a 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5 planting pattern. For beets I usually do 3x3, carrots are 4x4 or 5x5, etc. So for beets I can plant 9 plants per square. I just go through and make an impression with my finger, as shown, and put a pinch of seeds in each impression. Then I cover the seeds with dirt and give them a good watering. Easy-peasy. After they come up I go back and thin the plants so that I only have 1 at each of the 9 spots. Keep them watered at that's pretty much all there is to it, although I do usually add a bit of extra fertilizer to increase yields.

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I grow in lowes buckets.

Bell peppers, tomato’s, jalapeño peppers , Thai peppers, cayenne peppers and Tabasco peppers.




https://imgur.com/a/VxbOYfi

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Originally Posted By Redfish225⏩

I grow in lowes buckets.

Bell peppers, tomato’s, jalapeño peppers , Thai peppers, cayenne peppers and Tabasco peppers.




https://imgur.com/a/VxbOYfi

Nice! You're at least 6 weeks ahead of me. When you grow in plastic buckets do you punch holes in the bottom to allow some drainage, or do you just watch how much you water to make sure the soil isn't too soggy?

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

I love eggs.

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Let's see if this works, I don't upload photos to this potato site often. I attempted to do it and it was massive, I think I over-corrected and now they're tiny. Fuk it.









New backyard, moving there sometime this month. Lots of open space, I've got some ideas peculating with what to do, nothing concrete just yet

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Originally Posted By JUSA⏩

Let's see if this works, I don't upload photos to this potato site often. I attempted to do it and it was massive, I think I over-corrected and now they're tiny. Fuk it.









New backyard, moving there sometime this month. Lots of open space, I've got some ideas peculating with what to do, nothing concrete just yet

Mirin hard.

I love eggs.

Damn

In!

I've added a lot to the gardens on my property so I'll update a few times over the summer.

Best of luck to all of my horticulture boyos ITT

*Look at reflection in car window and flex every time crew*
*Use half the roll to wipe after a poo crew*
*Fart in the gym and blame rotten smell on faulty ventilation crew*
*Fart at home and blame it on the dog crew*
*Watch neutron-star density poop mock me as water flushes around it and it stays put crew*
*Drive 2 minutes in the summer and back of shirt gets completely wet crew*
*Coffee black as midnight on a moonless night crew*
*Fat shame my cat on a daily basis crew*

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Originally Posted By DargeLick⏩

In.

Been growing my own veges and fruit for last 8 years in raised beds.
Made everything myself including the garden beds.
Growing food is life. Best thing you can do to feel good. There is nothing like eating your own produce.

Dawg, this is nice.

I love eggs.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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Thinned lettuce and spinach in the square foot garden, everything is coming along:



Cucumbers are popping up:



Potatoes, too:



and corn:

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Todays harvest.

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Nice Redfish. That's a bunch of peppers. I'd guess bell peppers and jalapenos for two of the varieties, but don't even have a guess for the long skinny ones or the little ones. What kinds of peppers are they? Jealous of you guys that are already to the harvest phase. Here's my progress pic:



I'll update that photo from about the same angle every week.

I am starting to eat greens out of the square foot garden. Still no peas, but they are getting close.

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Peas are on:



Progress pic for the garden:



It's a bit weedy right now. My wife and kids do most of the weeding and we have just been super busy the past week so are a little behind.

Strawberries are starting to ripen:



Progress pic of the square foot garden:



The peas are out of control (but producing well) and the spinach in the back right is going to seed. I've been adding a little to every smoothy for the past week and a half, but it's mostly done now. Most of the lettuce is ready (front right) and we're starting on it now.

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Another update:



Everything is getting bigger, week by week. Starting to get peppers and tomatoes. We got the weeds cleaned up a bit since last time. My kids did pull several cucumber plants while weeding. Cheap labor has its drawbacks, lol. We're getting into the hot part of summer, the corn loves it. It's a bit hot for some of the other plants, but everything is going well.

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Originally Posted By FarmersSon⏩

Another update:



Everything is getting bigger, week by week. Starting to get peppers and tomatoes. We got the weeds cleaned up a bit since last time. My kids did pull several cucumber plants while weeding. Cheap labor has its drawbacks, lol. We're getting into the hot part of summer, the corn loves it. It's a bit hot for some of the other plants, but everything is going well.

Nice little plot man! This pic loaded for me, where the other ones still don't - I don't know whats going on

Still IN for the updates.

Damn