How are your gardens coming along?

**Mom23boys** · 04-05-2008, 08:52 AM

Ours is doing great......so far! DH planted okra, onions, tomatoes, corn, squash, cucumbers, watermelon, and canteloupe. So far, the onions and corn have sprouted. (The tomatoes were already plants when we purchased them; everything else was a seed.) I love seeing the plants "pop up" from the ground! I can't wait to finally walk out to the garden and "pluck" the fruits of our labor and have them for dinner.

So, how are your gardens coming along?

**tbs727** · 04-05-2008, 08:56 AM

I started the seeds inside and will be buying plants after the last frost ( which is hopefully today!). I have everything planned out and have 4 pole beans and 8 flowers growing ready to be planted soon. Next year I will start earlier and start everything with seeds.

**FrugalMomof3** · 04-05-2008, 09:02 AM

Garden? What is a garden? lol Just Kidding! I dont have a garden so to speak just some flowers and a tulips plant I got from my mom for Easter and so far so good. It managed to stay alive since then (can you tell I am not a good gardener?)

**YankeeMom** · 04-05-2008, 09:05 AM

My seeds are only *just* planted inside. The ground is still mostly frozen here and it still gets too cold at night. They probably won't go in the ground until May sometime.

**Pianolady** · 04-05-2008, 09:15 AM

My spring bulbs are starting to break ground, but it'll be mid May before I can plant any annuals or the vegetable garden. In the meantime, I can clean up from the winter.

**Ceashels** · 04-05-2008, 09:21 AM

I bought lettuce and spinache seeds which I hope to get into the ground this weekend.

**nessarowdy** · 04-05-2008, 11:12 AM

I started seeds indoors around Easter thinking that they would take forever to sprout like they did last year. I was wrong. WOW! I now have to repot them into bigger pots, which is okay! I'm just SO excited for spring to get here so I can plant all of my goodies! The food just tastes better knowing you grew it yourself, doesn't it?? All of the flowers I put in last year were trampled by someone's roaming cows. Yay. So it will be interesting to see what come back up this spring. Stupid cows...

**BetterLateThanNever** · 04-05-2008, 04:06 PM

well gettting the landscape fabric down and getting my containers ready.. It's still too early to plant most things in North East Ohio. traditionally my family plants on Memorial Day.. Did plant Spinach and going to get my pease in this weekend.

also managed to fix my garlic bed and thanks MY4Little Buffaloes. I put mulch on my garlic bed and now most is doing much better and the critters have stayed away

**Hannahs mom** · 04-05-2008, 05:42 PM

DH went and bought the supplies for my taised garden this morning!! The high school green houses start opening next Sat., so I'll go buy some plants then and just keep them inside until time to plant. If I waited until time to plant to buy then, they'd be gone. For those of you that read my other post about Gurney's - I think I'm going to look locally first. With the prices listed above, I think I might come out better by getting my stuff here,

**Michelle** · 04-05-2008, 06:21 PM

Originally Posted by YankeeMom

My seeds are only *just* planted inside. The ground is still mostly frozen here and it still gets too cold at night. They probably won't go in the ground until May sometime.

I really wish we could start sooner. I think we planted outside either the last weekend in May or first weekend in June last year.

**Mom23boys** · 04-05-2008, 07:07 PM

I guess I need to be thankful for living in sunny Texas so I can get my garden planted in the ground already. I just hope that the Texas heat doesn't 'burn' it.

Originally Posted by Hannah's mom

DH went and bought the supplies for my raised garden this morning!! The high school green houses start opening next Sat., so I'll go buy some plants then and just keep them inside until time to plant. If I waited until time to plant to buy then, they'd be gone.

I wish we did a raised garden. I think it would be less work for DH, but he likes being out on the tractor. As for buying plants from the high school, that is a great idea! I wish our high school ag dept. did that. That would be a great project for them. I might pass that along to them for next year.

**DixieJ** · 04-06-2008, 02:09 PM

I've got radishes and lettuce coming up. Green onions will be ready to eat in about a week. I'll probably get my tomato and pepper plants next weekend.

**Labontet** · 04-06-2008, 09:21 PM

I have some tomato bushes growing in a Topsy Turvy (plants grow upside down) planter. They are doing great. Now to figure out how to keep the squirrels out of them. Need to find some netting or something else to use to cover them.

I am getting ready to fix a 10'x10' area in my back yard into an area to plant some vegetables for this fall. It is just about too late for planting these things now because summer will be here in Fla very soon and things are just too hard to keep up with. The heat can be very tough.

**suki** · 04-07-2008, 08:10 AM

Hubby says there should be one more hard frost in mid-April. So, not much in the ground, but he has started a lot of seedlings. He has over 140 tomato plants started (we'll sell some and give some away) and all sorts of other stuff... I'm not even sure what.

Out in the garden I believe he has sugar snap peas, potatoes and leeks going at the moment.

**Hannahs mom** · 04-07-2008, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Labontet

I have some tomato bushes growing in a Topsy Turvy (plants grow upside down) planter. They are doing great. Now to figure out how to keep the squirrels out of them. Need to find some netting or something else to use to cover them.

A friend of mine uses cayenne pepper in her hanging flower pots to keep the squirrels out of them. She puts more in the pot each time she waters them, and hasn't had any trouble with the little critters yet.