How does Your Garden Grow 2024?

[rareboy]

Some of you will be way ahead of us here in Ontario...but this is now the beginning of gardening season.

The daffodils and narcissus seem to be at their peak and all the tulips we planted last year are starting to come into full force now.

And time to start prepping the vegetable bed for another year!

What are your plans?

 

[NotHardUp1]

How do you keep the pigeons from your parapets?

And how much is Grey Poupon where you live?

 

[jjonn3]

This is as close as I get to a garden...

 

[NotHardUp1]

I finally ran to the nursery to buy annuals and perennials for patio containers.

Been putting it off due to late cold and the effect stunting and slowing young plants.

Even now, I threw a sheet over them since the temps will dip tonight to 50, and one is tropical.

 

[rareboy]

Well...off to the vegetable patch to do some cleaning up.

 

[Alistair]

I need to do some work in the front yard but I’m not motivated enough

 

[rareboy]

There. 90% dug over and weeded. It isn't huge...only abut 25' x 50'...but I have lost 75% of my puff since Covid and pneumonia.

I was almost gleeful when the storm clouds started to roll over and I could call it a morning.

 

[Alistair]

It’s odd that your daffodils are still in bloom. Mine were here and gone in March. The summer perennials are already blooming

 

[me203]

My only gardening involves large flower pots, although I didn't bother with even that for several years. I think I might grow a tomato plant. Indeed, I was half thinking of getting one in April. April can be iffy for survival, since it can drop to freezing at night, but one plus to a flower pot is that it can be moved into a covered porch on cold nights.

I'm also toying with herbs, which would be one of the few things that might be cost effective. Fresh herbs are $$$$ in the grocery store. But I don't use them much,either. Then, again, I might use them more if I had them growing.

Given how crazy this world is, and how grocery prices are out of control (and I'm hearing speculation that will get a lot worse), I'm wishing I could actually have a real garden.

 

[rareboy]

I was amazed that the kale had overwintered and we are going to get a few feeds in until the new kale is ready.

There were a few potatoes that survived and will be used for seed, but I think it was actually not cold enough over the winter to kill off some of the things that attack potatoes.

The only thing that worries me a bit is seeing that our wild turkey has made a 'nest' spot in the one corner...hopefully she has moved on to find a better spot in the field.

 

[Kahaih]

I've decided that if I don't plant a few things I'm letting the deer and bugs win, and I'm okay with that.

 

[rareboy]

Well, except for planting out the beets and the leeks...everything is now in.

It was just too hot and dry this weekend to try to plant these...I am going to need a cooler day with rain in the forecast.

 

[Alistair]

Cute idea for a farmer house

 

[72-Jay]

I've got some various veggie plants inside that I started from seed.
A couple more weeks & it should be warm enough to plant them out in the garden. (currently setting some of them outside for day & bringing them in at night)