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2019 Gardening Thread
abasket
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Our yearly garden thread!! Woo!!
Still early here in Ohio. Potentially could plant a few cool crops in a couple weeks if it warms up.
After the new year I grew some microgreens inside - sunflower shoots and pea shoots - it was SO fun to have something green growing and they were tasty!
Feel free to post at anytime and on vegetables or flowers. Here's hoping for a long productive gardening season!
210 replies Still early here in Ohio. Potentially could plant a few cool crops in a couple weeks if it warms up.
After the new year I grew some microgreens inside - sunflower shoots and pea shoots - it was SO fun to have something green growing and they were tasty!
Feel free to post at anytime and on vegetables or flowers. Here's hoping for a long productive gardening season!
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I still have a couple of stalks of kale which is about two yers old, I just strip the leaves from it as I need it.
Lemons are ripening - and very juicy! Pomegranate tree is budding.
I'm having cervical spine fusion surgery end of May. Our last frost date is May 10. Going to be a mad dash to plant all the annuals and get the perennials going. I'm at a new location that needs a lot of TLC and I'm getting bummed it isn't going to happen this year.
Definitely jealous of those who can plant in early spring and/or grow fruit!
Or ask a friend to come and do the hard labor while you direct what to plant!
I tried garlic a couple of years ago and it didn't come out well. But three of my house garlics sprouted vigorously so I planted them in pots and they're looking good so far.
We had 270 satsumas this year that I picked, vastly different from the year before when we got 0. I think it was a big year for acorns, and the squirrels and bluejays were all too stuffed to bother the satsumas. Our tiny meyer lemon tree only gave us one lemon, but it was good. They are both blooming now.
ETA - I planted some sprouting potatoes last fall but I never saw them grow so they must have rotted. I found seed potatoes at Home Depot, of all places, and I'm going to plant them tomorrow. HD also had asparagus and other cool weather starts.
I do garlic every year now in my raised bed. I'm at a community garden with the raised bed and then do an herb garden at home - not much sun area at home.
Yikes! I have 15 lbs of carrots!
Kidlets suggested making carrot cake, but they are the ones who like carrot cake, not me. And they don't live here anymore.
So any other ideas?
I've planted: snap peas, potatoes, onions, lettuce, and chard. I put out 2 ancho chile plants inside protective water walls yesterday. (It may say spring on the calendar, but I don't trust the weather.) Already in because I planted them last fall cauliflower and brussel sprouts.
Once the wind stops howling (40 mph gusts w/ hail this morning) I'll plant carrots and pak choi.
I'm thinking of trying to grow artichokes this year as my annual experiment in vegetable gardening. I figure since I can grow a great crop of thistles on the hillside, artichokes ought to do fine. Anyone have any helpful pointers?
I had arugula in MD once and we got hit with 2+ feet of snow. When it melted, the arugula looked like it had been ironed flat against the ground. I wish I had gone out every day and snapped a photo. It slowly bounced back and grew just fine. Not as sharp as hot weather would have made it, but still plenty sharp and tasty!
If you had a baby I'd support making homemade carrot baby food and freezing it.
Roasted carrots. Grate, freeze and drop in soups/marinara to sweeten them slightly.
Someone at our community garden (northern Ohio!) trialed an artichoke plant a couple summers ago - I was shocked when I saw an artichoke nearing maturity!
No spring flowers here yet, but I'm READY.
My first thought is a hosta garden. They come in SO many colors and sizes (leaf size, height, etc. ) .
Here are some good pictures of different types in actual settings. The first picture shows a straight bed with a smaller variety of hosta lining the front of the bed and then larger varieties behind that row. You can see that they can be a foot tall or 3 or 4 feet tall! https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ideas/grow-lush-shade-garden-hostas
The leaves just die off in the fall. The plant stays in the ground. Hearty for cold regions. Little maintenance and even in shade can provide a variety of color in the green family from very light to very dark and also variegated. Most have a mid-summer stem that flowers white or light purple.
@abasket - Wow! That was an amazing variety of hostas. I have a lot of shade - in addition to ferns and hostas I like bleeding hearts and Solomon's Seal. I think my new garden plan includes a bunch of Lilyturf.