redkneck Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 Planted some tomatoes Good Friday and a few jalapenos. Weather's been so sporadic, you never know when it's going to frost, but I hope we're finally past that. Didn't plant any potatoes this year, but my broccoli and lettuce is finally taking off (I've never tried to grow either one of those). Hopefully get a row of squash, okra, and cucs planted this weekend if rain holds off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camoman1 Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 A little early for me to be doing any planting yet. But I did break up the soil and went and got some nice fertilizer from my friends barnyard and mixed that in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobbly_Alaska Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 not till Memorial weekend here, got up to 50 yesterday knocked a lot of the snow down, supposed to rain this afternoon... that will make a mess for sure we start real spring here second week of may the leaves will bud and be on the trees by may 15th or so can start the green house about then and into the ground stuff after the last frost,, is normally mem weekend.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 Got the first till on mine the other day. Too early to plant the tenders. Borderline early to plant the taters, peas and brassicas, but soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 Not yet. Last year most of what we planted early got flooded out. Still may get another frost here yet too. Really so far this year been too wrapped up with work on the house to hook up the disc to the tractor and get the ground turned. Probably will try to burn off the dead vegetation on the ground this evening if I can. May end up just using the tiller for a small area to get some pepper and tomato plants in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted April 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 If nothing else get the 'maters in something! Have you seen the prices they're bringing these days?!?! Not to mention store bought ones are CRAP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintail_drake2004 Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 If it would stop raining for a bit it would help. Finally got to till the garden last week. then between the rain, i put some fertilizer on. Now i have 100 maters ready to plant, and my 50 red/50 green bell peppers still havent showed up. Got the sweet taters started, still need to find a couple hundred onions as well (I usually do 100-150 each of green, red, yellow, and white). Since space is an issue for us, we dont do corn in our garden rather we will put in a couple 1/4 mile rows on the farm. I just hope the weather holds out for the rest of the week so I can start planing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted April 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 Welcome to the forums! Where you from pintail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 If nothing else get the 'maters in something! Have you seen the prices they're bringing these days?!?! Not to mention store bought ones are CRAP Yep. Bought the wife some maters for burgers from the store, was around $3 a lb.:jaw: Wanted to at least get some tomatoes, peppers, and a few types of beans in. Don't know at this point what we will get in and looking like we probably will not get to make any salsa this summer. Garden spot still has yellow vegetation in it, lots of crabgrass seed I need to burn it off, was not quite dry enough yesterday afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 Garden spot still has yellow vegetation in it, lots of crabgrass seed I need to burn it off, was not quite dry enough yesterday afternoon. Does burning off a field kill crabgrass seed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 7, 2010 Report Share Posted April 7, 2010 Does burning off a field kill crabgrass seed? Thought it would Chris, but I suppose I could be wrong and maybe someone will tell me if I am wasting my time. By my way of thinking, if the seed that is tasselled gets burned off it won't get turned back into the soil when you till or disc. Roundup and other herbicides kills the plants, not the seeds, burning the dead vegetation I would think would get rid of a lot of that seed still attached to the dead plants, that is if you can get it to burn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintail_drake2004 Posted April 8, 2010 Report Share Posted April 8, 2010 I have a big problem with that crabgrass here. The best way I found, as mentioned above, was to use Roundup then burn off the garden a few days later. Works for about a year, then by time i get around to gardening again the next spring, the crabgrass has come back and I have to do it all over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Interesting. I wish I had the guts to do that, lol. When I first moved to the country, I burned off an overgrown fencerow. Big mistake. I had fire going 2 different ways, I elected to extinguish the one racing towards the house. I got that one out with the hose and shovel, but while I was putting that one out, the other one had raced 30 yards or so completely burning 3 or 4 pine seedlings. Lesson learned. We had a fire warning for our county last week, and I did hear of a few field fires. That's my fear if I burn off my little garden. I'm afraid an ember will get out of the fire break and burn a whole dang field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultradog Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 I'm getting things ready to plow here. Have a new plow this year and need to make a couple of adjustments before I put it in the ground. I plow and disc several gardens for my family and relatives. Will go up to open the camper for the first time since deer hunting and do the plowing. Next weekend or the weekend after. It's still pretty early here. I'm going to open up a new plot this year too. About a half acre out by the lake. Get them moldboards scoured boys. Spring is upon us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Forgot to add, planning on getting my taters and a few other cold crops in today. :yes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Interesting. I wish I had the guts to do that, lol. When I first moved to the country, I burned off an overgrown fencerow. Big mistake. I had fire going 2 different ways, I elected to extinguish the one racing towards the house. I got that one out with the hose and shovel, but while I was putting that one out, the other one had raced 30 yards or so completely burning 3 or 4 pine seedlings. Lesson learned. We had a fire warning for our county last week, and I did hear of a few field fires. That's my fear if I burn off my little garden. I'm afraid an ember will get out of the fire break and burn a whole dang field. LOL. Have learned a lot of lessons over the years bud, some of them the hard way. Have had fires nearly get away from me on a few occasions but always managed to get them under control one way or another without having to get fire rescue involved. Worst was where one of our clover plots is at now. Temp was in the 90's, and no water hose or anything else, just me with a shovel and a hoe and about an acre of area that had been planned to burn that took off with a gust of wind. Still a bit wet around here. Our garden area is within waterhose reach, all of it, can dowse the edges around it prior to burning, also can disc or til the area around the outside for a break prior to burning off if you don't have water available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mallard_drake85 Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 My brother (pintail) and I got part of the garden planted yesterday. 100 tomatoes and 30 something peppers. We still have winter onions left over from last year that we are quickly replacing with new bulbs. Coming to work this morning, I seen that we had a few baby rabbits in the garden munching on the new roughage we planted yesterday!! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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