What's your garden plan this year?
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April 4th, 2015
What are you going to do?
My plan is to start my peppers and basil inside in egg cartons (an idea I got from Fluther several years ago, thank you!). My urban apartment garden is a few 18” clay pots.
Looking at the Burpee and USDA sites, I should wait until mid or late May to plant my vegetables outside.
I’m growing peppers from seeds I saved this winter from grocery-store jalapenos, serranos, and yellow (Hungarian? Banana? Cubanelle?) peppers.
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Well…with the abysmal state of the drought here in Northern CA. we are letting the lawns go, have seeded a ton of low water clover species to bring bees and insects to the ranch here and are hoping our well doesn’t run dry.
We are putting in a few tomatoes, cucumbers and flowers, sunflowers and others in pots to conserve.
The garden has plenty of herbs that are established, but, the veggies are going to be sparse by it’s usual standards. Last year we had squashes, eggplant about 4–5 varieties of tomatoes, carrots, onions, lettuces, kale, icecicle radishes and cantaloupes.
I need to get one! I’m in an apartment, too, and I’m scared that the dirt will attract bugs and I won’t have enough sunlight. My plan was to grow things I can eat, like basil, parsley, and tomatoes. I have some leftover jars/containers that I can put stuff in, I just have to get seeds.
I wish I knew! We’re going into winter and yet again the garden beds we’ve been planning haven’t materialised. I’d love to grow our own veggies. Like @dxs, you’ve reminded me that I need a ‘garden plan’.
We’re going into winter
You’re in the southern hemisphere?
I’m fascinated by winter greenhouses. In warmer months I spend a lot of time in the Michigan U.P. (46 degrees north). I wish I could spend a winter up there and dig a pit greenhouse.
I haven’t gotten that far in my new house, but I really really want to eventually have a lime tree, clementines, poblanos, jalapeños, tomatoes, and cilantro.
3 tomato plants per usual.
I’m fairly sure that @Earthbound_Misfit lives in Australia. However, based on my lack of certainty (Fluther search can’t find any non-user references to Australia for verification), she might live in NZ, or some other country in the southern hemisphere.
Dang, I was going to be happy to see we have two Vietnamese regulars.
Though Oz and NZ are awesome, too!
I understand your disappointment: if only Vietnam would move to the SH. ;-p
^ It’s OZ, for sure – she’s said so :)
@Brian1946 Huh. I did not realize Vietnam was north of the equator, thanks. I suspect they don’t have much of a winter, either.
@jaytkay Mimishu lives in city that’s about 16º N, so I guess Vietnam’s climate is similar to Central America’s. I was in Panama and Guatemala one December, and from my recollection I suspect that your suspicion is accurate.
Yes @jaytkay. I’m in Queensland, Austalia so we don’t need a greenhouse. (Sorry for the delay in posting. I started this yesterday but was looking for a link and then went out). Even in winter here, the days are warm. I grew up in the Northern Hemisphere and my dad had a greenhouse. Not sure what he grew in it during the winter but I do remember it being filled with tomatoes and he grew the BEST tomatoes. What I’d give to be able to taste some of them again. They were full of flavour and so sweet.
That is an amazing greenhouse in your link! That will be quite a feat to build. I hope you’ll complete it and take some photos. Here, the problem is it’s too hot and plants like lettuces just don’t survive. We have created some beds but between the heat and the possums, they didn’t do well. I saw some really excellent shade covering structures on ebay but I can’t find them now (that’s what I was looking for yesterday). Something like this would do the job though. It has to withstand attacks from possums and bandicoots, not to mention the fruit bats. Our critters are cute but can decimate your veggie production.
Sry! I thought I was @mimushu,...who as it turns out, isn’t even on this thread!
I’m in Colorado, jest east of Denver. I have some seeds sprouting from soil-filled eggshells and other containers, but I won’t put them in the ground for until the middle of May. We are experiencing high temperatures in the 70’s (F) but we still have an occasional wave of frost, once or twice a week.
Vietnam has a tropical monsoon climate; the monsoon season occurs May through September, with {relatively) cold nights in December and January.
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