Warming Up For A New Garden Season.

[jdmidwest]

Took advantage of the nice weekend and started off the 2011 Garden Season. Took some old crating lumber and glass screen door panels to make a raised bed/hot box to jump start a early salad. Filled it with topsoil and compost, seeded it with lettuce and radishes and waiting for it to grow. The glass really raises the temperature in the box, even a few degrees on a cloudy day.

I also made a new strawberry bed, the old one has been used by a stray cat all winter as a litter box. I am gonna miss that cat, yea right, he is in a better place. I could not stand the thought of picking strawberries out of a crap patch, so I made a new one and transplanted some of the plants from around the edge of the old one. First night, seems like there may be another stray cat as I found some fresh diggings and a plant dug up. I covered this one with wire to eliminate the problem till I can take care of the new problem.

Trimmed trees, cleaned off the main garden and other patches. About another month and it will be full steam ahead for a full garden.

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Took advantage of the nice weekend and started off the 2011 Garden Season. Took some old crating lumber and glass screen door panels to make a raised bed/hot box to jump start a early salad. Filled it with topsoil and compost, seeded it with lettuce and radishes and waiting for it to grow. The glass really raises the temperature in the box, even a few degrees on a cloudy day.

I also made a new strawberry bed, the old one has been used by a stray cat all winter as a litter box. I am gonna miss that cat, yea right, he is in a better place. I could not stand the thought of picking strawberries out of a crap patch, so I made a new one and transplanted some of the plants from around the edge of the old one. First night, seems like there may be another stray cat as I found some fresh diggings and a plant dug up. I covered this one with wire to eliminate the problem till I can take care of the new problem.

Trimmed trees, cleaned off the main garden and other patches. About another month and it will be full steam ahead for a full garden.

Do mean to steal you thread, but have you ever tried blueberries in a patio pot?

[Wormser]

Looks good!

I can't wait to start on my pumpkin patch.

[jdmidwest]

Do mean to steal you thread, but have you ever tried blueberries in a patio pot?

No, never really cared for blueberries much. They should do alright, most make a little tree after a few years.

[Outside Bend]

Thanks for that, about a half inch of snow/rain/sleet/ice/slush fell at my house today. I'm ready for spring.

[jdmidwest]

Thanks for that, about a half inch of snow/rain/sleet/ice/slush fell at my house today. I'm ready for spring.

We have gotten a few inches of rain here, may dampen the Sat. yak float on the St. Francois we had planned. It surely changed my plans on tilling the main garden spots this weekend.

[gotmuddy]

I am ready to till up the garden and plant some potatoes.

[markw]

first corn sprouts are up ! I gambled some hoped I did nt get any frost on them -- think its all good now

[jdmidwest]

I have some lettuce about ready to pick with radishes. Strawberry in full bloom, peas are up and coming, a few squash plants. I am going to skip the corn and starve the squirrels this year. Main garden is still a mud pit. Part of it dried out enough for a first tilling last week, but too wet now.

[ness]

I built four raised beds last fall because I was tired of fighting the crappy soil I've got. I'm going back to the square foot method after a hiatus of several years too. Just want to get more out of less space with less work. Put hoops over two of the beds so I could get an earlier start, and keep cool-season crops going longer into the summer and fall. I had everything protected under plastic when we had a pretty good hail storm a few weeks ago.

Started everything indoors from seed again this year, and have lettuce ready to pick now. Peas are off to a great start in the new environment. Garlic, onions, Swiss chard, spinach, radishes, are well on their way. Maters (4 heirlooms, two hybrids), chilies (Ancho, Anaheim) and herbs are in the cold frame and about ready to go in the ground. Strawberries are coming on too. Everything loves the great soil they've got this year in the new beds. It makes a helluva difference -- wish I'd done it years ago.

Built a couple more raised beds on the other side of the yard this spring and put in asparagus and black raspberries. Added a couple more blueberries and another gooseberry to the ones I had.

Bunch of landscape cleanup to do this weekend, then I'm kicking back for a while.

Two small beds and hoops (early April):

Raspberry and asparagus beds:

Can't wait until next year!: