01-11-11, 02:12 PM | #21 |
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Even up here in western canada I'll be starting my tomatoes in about a month. I have the opposite issue. I need the early start to get 1 crop in during the year.
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01-11-11, 03:52 PM | #22 |
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Yeah same. This year I want to do heirloom everything...or at least as much as I can find. then I want to start making my own seeds from that. I really need more garden space though...this 25x12 foot space isn't cutting it for me. Especially the location of the garden. I'll pretty much be doing the same as last year with a few different things thrown in and a few other things taken out.
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01-11-11, 05:47 PM | #23 |
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Until this thread bump, I wouldn't have even thought about my garden. I started experimentally germinating some tomato and catnip in my stairwell where the cat won't sit on it, but it's too cold out there (just over 0°C) for anything to germinate. I'll re-run the test in late March to prove that I don't need to buy tomato sprouts (or catnip!) this year.
I'm also planning to buy bare root blueberries this spring. When should those go in, relative to last frost? |
01-20-11, 02:04 AM | #24 |
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I planted my blueberries in may last year just after the last frost. I remember thinking I was too late but the nursery people said I had to wait due to the weather being too cold anyways. Any good nursery will be able to tell you when the normal dates are.
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01-20-11, 04:04 AM | #25 |
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we have sprouts!!! our beefsteak tomatoes already sprouted. i wasn't expecting them to come up this quickly. we planted 10 and seven of them are peaking out already.
also sprouted--cucumbers, sugar baby watermelon and blue moon pumpkin. |
01-20-11, 09:11 AM | #26 |
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Holy...you got a good crop going already.
Strider, what kind of blueberries did you plant? I so want a blueberry bush in my yard. |
01-20-11, 09:55 AM | #27 |
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2 blue crop 1 elliot if I remember quickly. They went in the small garden beside the drive way mostly just to give the kids something to eat while walking by at times.
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01-20-11, 01:04 PM | #28 |
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You can transplant cold hardy bare root deciduous plants anytime during the winter that you can manage to dig a hole in the ground. If the plant is borderline cold hardy,it is best transplanted in late winter after the worst of the cold snaps are past. When transplanting, be sure to keep it well watered over the first summer if you have any summer droughts. Here in the hot and sometimes droughty south, if possible we try to transplant in the fall to give the transplant all winter and spring to get its roots established before facing any possible summer droughts.
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01-21-11, 08:30 AM | #29 |
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Exactly right. I've had near 100% success with trees and shrubs planted in Sept and Oct, but poor success with spring plantings. I lost 9 of 10 spring-planted trees in last year's extra-dry summer. I knew better, but tried anyway.
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01-25-11, 09:33 AM | #30 |
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Now I can play this game!
In the ground: Peas Carrots Lettuce (and chard and arugula) Radishes Turnips Onions Inside under lights: Tomatoes Peppers Broccoli Onions |
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