2016 Garden Thread

[JestersHK]

Apparently diet sodas can help with water absorption... according to the google that is, but check this out.  Both planted on the same day and watered every day.  One with Sprite Zero and one with water.  Sprite Zero has electrolytes!  Its what plants crave! (a line from idiocracy for those that have not seen that movie)

 

[jpb2187]

43 minutes ago, JestersHK said:

 One with Sprite Zero and one with water.

You mean the stuff from the toilet?

[JestersHK]

5 minutes ago, jpb2187 said:

You mean the stuff from the toilet?

HAHAHA! Movies a documentary before the events have actually happened...  Very rare that someone can pull that off.

Wanna go to Starbucks?

[ness]

I'm like a little kid -- when the seeds start to pop, I get a little excited:

Perennial herbs coming back -- oregano, sage, chives, thyme:

 

Garlic planted last fall:

Almost there:

Planted some more gooseberry and some currant last year. They didn't look like they'd make it. Looks like I'll get one of each:

 

 

Got all the bigger stuff moved into 4-inch pots. Not sure the height of the tallest maters, but about a foot I guess. I just brought these in from a little hardening off:

 

Miscellaneous other stuff -- herbs, Alpine strawberry, onions. Lettuce didn't like being outdoors very much:

Planted spinach, carrot, lettuce (seed), radish, beet the last few days. It's gotten cold and windy!

 

[ness]

... and last, but not least, I received a package from gardener extraordinaire, Sir BilletHead, with horseradish roots in it! I've got a large pot with some pretty good oil in it -- just looking for something to grow. So, here we go:

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Thanks, Marty!

 

[BilletHead]

  Ha!

Just got your text John. Variety of root? I have slept since I bought them. Something we got four years back. Gurneys stuff. Your plants look good. Pat ordered me a couple of Red Hinnomaki gooseberries. Got them into the ground but I think I want a couple more plants of that variety. 

Jesters the way my tomatoes are growing you would of thought I was using sprite too. Lettuce made it through last night. 25 when we got up. Beds were covered and then threw a tarp on too. Tarp was frozen to the plexaglas covers where we had snow showers yesterday afternoon. 

BilletHead

[ness]

You may know it, but I've got a Hinnomaki Red. I really like the berries. Here's some from a couple years ago:

Anxious to get some currants. 

[BilletHead]

    Lookie here boys! Ate a fresh garden salad today. Just snipped some leaves. Four varieties in the mix. Tasty and was ready for the beginning harvest. Peppers doing well in the four inch pots. Some six inches tall. Darned tomatoes getting taller by the day. Some plants close to twenty inches. Never, never will I follow Ness's lead and plant early. I think he is trimming his plants. Took a couple of cherry tomato plants to the Doc she is working with. Let ourselves into her house while she was delivering babies at the hospital. We potted her the plants in large pots, she has a sun room. Later we will get a two wheeler and put them outside for her after the last frost. Speaking of the cold. We had a couple of nights of 25 degrees. We threw a tarp over the lettuce patch covers at night. Pulling it off in the mornings it was froze to the covers. Ice on the underside of the covers but plants did well,

BilletHead

[ness]

I think if you'd quite feeding Sprite to your maters you'd be able to manage.

Mine are too big too. Up into the lights. To infinity and beyond! I transferred them to 4-inch pots and they look a little better, but they're still up into the lights and I've only got so much room between the shelves. I'm not breaking that all down and coming up with something different. These are the suburbs! We have limits! 

Somebody please remind me of this pickle next January, please!

 

 

[BilletHead]

       My bride and her lettuce bouquet of ruby glow and red mist. We had a red salad this evening   . Then to the growing plants. Peppers blooming Then found some blooms in this mess of maters too. Two foot tall now. Got my table light now on buckets . I am so ready to get them outside. I may try next week and few plants. Have lots of buckets to cover up if it gets cold again. If they go south I have back up plants.

BilletHead