Started my seeds today

[MissMillie]

I'm probably a couple of weeks late.

They'll stay inside until the threat of frost has passed, and until Al takes the roto-tiller to the garden.

Black Beauty Eggplant
Little Finger Eggplant
beefsteak tomatoes
bell peppers (the package had all colors on it, so I don't know what I'll get)
zucchini
yellow squash
basil
cilantro

The basil and cilantro will probably stay in the large pots I started them in. However, when I transfer the tomatoes to the garden, I'll plant some basil seeds near the tomatoes (I hear it's a natural insecticide).

May look for some jalepano while we're out shopping next week. It'd be cool to make my own salsa since I use so much of it.

[Tetrachloride]

1. I am a fan of underground veggies: potatoes, beets, carrots

and recently am buying a small watermelon wedge for hydration and more.

Sounds like you have all the basics of the early season.

I learned to like radishes if i cook in stir fry or soups.

[MissMillie]

2. thanks for the reminder!

I want to get some beets. Al and I both LOVE them.

I understand that they typically produce later in the year. Maybe something I can put in after the tomato plants stop producing.

Oh, and when the seedlings go in the garden, I'll be planting some potatoes too.

We might need to expand the garden a bit with all this!

[doc03]

8. Here is a tip on potatoes, wrap them in a newspaper

before you plant them.----------


It keeps the dirt out of their eyes.

[Emile]

3. I been in the garden all day. Tilled the whole

garden, spreading old cow manure and did some planting.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Good luck, MissMillie, I hope your efforts pay off!

We just put our sprouted seeds in the cold frame today. We had planted Red Romaine lettuce in the garden already and had to cover it up 3 nights in a row due to frost. 😡

I’m looking forward to Black Beauty eggplant, 3 kinds of tomatoes (Brandywines, Beefsteak, and Moby Grape) Desperado green beans, Italian parsley, and Straight Eight cukes.

Unless my hubby decides to come home with something else in addition…

[Tetrachloride]

5. Beets are around mid summer.

Pick out the big ones so the little ones got room at their harvest time.

Spinach is no fail early crop as well as late season. However, eat carefully. Oxalates are one cause of kidney stones.

Watermelon are said to be good for kidneys and reduced risk of stones.

Carrots have lower risk of rodent damage.

Broccoli is fairly easy and regrows.

Cabbage. I found cauliflower to be more problematic a bit. Just a bit.

Marigolds to keep some insects away.

A variety of bell peppers is nice because I am told that the sugars are not the same inside. So, more than 1 color in a stir fry is more rounded flavor

One tomato plant per person was my estimate, plus 1 to spare. If more, get ready for big pots of tomato sauce.

[MissMillie]

6. lol... 2 people in my home. I planted 5 tomato plants

I'll share w/ Dad & Sis, and with the neighbors.

[Tetrachloride]

7. Raspberries are of 2 groups. Long story but recommended.

High antioxidants.

Feeling brave ? Kale and swiss chard.

I don’t know much on southern greens but why not.

[Tetrachloride]

9. Big Tomato sauce, possible ingredients

Tomatoes
garlic
Zukes
half a baby beet for experimenting
cilantro
basil
oregano
bell peppers
chutney spoonful if not sweet enough
chunks of potatoes or squash
carrots

Don’t make every batch the same.

so, quite a bit can go in sauces.

Freeze in tupperware

[Autumn]

10. Save some basil for planting with the jalapenos. You will be delighted

[bucolic_frolic]

11. So far I have green beans in containers

and 1 eggplant and 3 peppers. My radishes never radish. They're 2 feet tall with flowers. I have a garden, but it needs a new fence. TOo much work. My green beans love gallon paint containers with big holes in the bottoms. I want a tomato plant, but i always start late.

Oh yeah I have oregano in pots too. Third season. I never knew they were a perennial. I almost tossed them 2 years ago.

[onethatcares]

12. one of the good things about living on

the west central coastal area of Florida is 2 gardens a year.

Planted the spring garden in January and February. Three types of tomatos, beefsteak, skyreacher, sno-globe, 6 patio eggplant plants, a lot of carrots, gourmet mix of lettuce, three curly kale plants, three sweet pepper plants, three jalapeno plants, along with 25 sweet onion sets, 10 garlic cloves, brown potatos.

those are the plants that are producing as I type this. Don't know how the potatos are doing underground but the vines are looking real good.

Downy mildew got my cukes and squash. Yanked and tossed into the trash. Hope solarizing kills the mildew this year.

Planted sweet baby watermelon two weeks ago and have flowers and small melons already.. Will be container planting shishito pepper seeds today along with oregano/cilantro/misc herb seeds in containers.

I have three fig trees in 5 gallon containers with new growth, Brown Turkeys. They should produce this year along with 6 pineapple plants with good sized fruit on them (I luv the taste of skillet pineapple upside down cake)

this is third year in this garden and the soil is looking very good. I will pull the spring garden in June, solarize the beds and replant my winter crops in September to start harvest in November.

good thing I'm retired. I'd never have time to tend to this otherwise.