Planting time

[douglas]

Yesterday was very warm so I mixed in some compost and gotten a few hills of squash started:

Buttercup
Acorn
Butternut
Pumpkins
Zucchini
White Scallops

still have to put in some

Cukes
Musk melons
Watermelons
Gourds
and some Hubert's

[Pharmer Phil]

Go Doug, Gooo!

[douglas]

I need more garden space but I can only do so much with what I have

[crazy1]

Good goin' Bro! Yesterday we planted:

Cukes
pickles
zuchinni
summer squash
tomatoes (4plants ea 3 kinds)
eggplant
watermelon
cantalope
4 kinds of peppers (4 oph ea)
lettuce
cabbage (2 kinds)
4 rows oph sweet corn

All but the corn were started plants.

[douglas]

I had to reseed some of my corn because we had too much rain last week and it was soggy and rotted

[crazy1]

Thats not a good thing. The feilds round here are full oph yellow corn. I think there will be some replanting round here as well. Too much rain on alot oph it.

[douglas]

Everything is in that I'm going to plant this year now my fingers are crossed for a good summer

[crazy1]

Lucky you! I've got the one here 7/8 planted. Still have to get the one at the new house tilled and planted this weekend. I hope. For some reason my tillers not getting spark
Still have 32 broccolli plants to get in and 32 cauliflower as well. Also 16 more tomatoes and 8 more pepper plants. Alot of cabbage green and red to plant as well.

[Compost Pharmer]

The field corn around here is full grown, 4 - 5 feet tall and tasled out on top. Hope we get rain during the summer so the farmers will have corn to harvest in the fall.

[nvtashak]

I'm pouting. Wanted to put in the remaining 3/4 transplants (tomato, pepper, cukes, squash, melons, etc.) all week but night temps were going down--and now we're looking at night temps of possibly high 30's/low 40's all the way through Tues. and the wind chill effect isn't helping. Spent early evening bringing future transplants back indoors, and covering the in the ground stuff (pumpkin, cuke, hot pepper, tomato, squash) again with inverted flower pots and/or frost netting.
On the good side, I found one of my two lost outside garden gloves so guess I can pull more weeds again.
Maybe I'll plant more radishes and spinach and bok choy etc. and beets if the winds die down Mon.

[kabuti]

I wanted to plant in April & that was late here but not ready till 1st week in May so transplanted tomatoes etc which corresponded to a heat wave upper 90s to over 100 one day. Plants were shocked, suffering. Cuke seeds & okra sprouted in 2 days though but cukes suffered. Compounding problem was thick mulch of stable bedding which was very 'hot' & gave off ammonia fumes in the heat. Simultaneously Bugs attacked. Some plants doing well though, esp. weeds. Now a great windstorm so planting cool weather crops again! You never know with gardening. Hopefull by next spring soil etc. will be more balanced.