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pepperhead212
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Post subject: 2018 Gardening...almost time! Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 12:37 am |
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Anybody have any new items this season? I have a few new varieties, but I think only one actually new thing that I'm planting - Radish Pods, which are what they sound like, radishes gone to seed! Something used in Indian (and probably other) cooking, and it sounds like something to try.
I have a lot of new tomato varieties - about the same number as old types:
Barossa Fest Dwarf Burracker's Favorite Coorong Pink Kelly Green Dwarf Kelloggs Breakfast Pink Oxheart Summer Sunrise Dwarf Sunset Falls Sweet Sue Dwarf
And the old faithfuls, and some old ones I will try again, in earthboxes:
Amish Gold Slicer Arkansas Traveler (grew years ago) Big Beef Green Zebra KBX (grew years ago) Sweet Carneros Pink
Cherries
Green Tiger Porter (sort of a large cherry) Sunsugar Sweet Treats
Only 5 new peppers this year - I'm up to 13 that I simply have to grow every season!
Aji Dulce Black Pearl Jyoti Ristra cayenne White Habanero
Oldies
Aleppo Big Jim Chocolate Habanero Fresno Gold Bullet Hanoi Market Jalafuega Lombak Superchili Superthai Thai Dragon Thai Nippon Taka Thai Vesuvius And one new eggplant - Shiva - with 4 oldies - Neon, Ichiban, Hari, and Green Beauty.
More new beans this season, to add to Blauhilde and Blue Lake pole: Carminat Monte Gusto Whitner White Edamame - Beer Friend
And to try next to my favorite okra - Emerald - I have Gold Coast and Jing Orange. I'll see how they compare.
For Sweet melons, which usually don't do well here, I have Athena and Hale's Best. I'll find out...
Bitter Melon - Green Giant I had to try a rough variety, as the ones from the Northern regions stop in the middle of summer.
No new herbs, so far, but it's still early! And no new greens, either.
Anybody else have their gardens mapped out yet, and have anything new they are trying?
And here's a trade list I posted on some gardening forums I frequent. If anyone sees anything they would like, let me know.
Peppers
Ancho Mexican - many Ancho Masquetero - 8 Aurora - 10 Bueno Mulato Purple - 10 Bulgarian Carrot - 10 Costeno Amarillo - 10+ Fish Pepper, super variegated - 8 (2014) Fresno - many Gold Bullet Bush habanero - 10+ Habanada - 10 Jalapeño Craig's Grande - 10+ Kashmiri - many (2014) Korean 4" - 10 Maui Purple - many (saved in 2013) Orozco Orange - 10+ Phuljadi - 10+ Prik Chi Fa - many Puya - 10+ Ring of Fire - 10 Sandia - 10+ Santa Fe Grande - many Thai Dragon OP - 10+ Thai Nippon Taka - many (saved 2015) Trinidad Scorpion - many White Bullet - many
Tomatoes
Black Beauty - 6 Black Cherry - saved - many (2013) BKX Black Krim Potato leaf - 14 Black Vernisage - 10+ Chocolate Chestnut - 8 Creole - 9 Gary O'sena - 10 (2011) LA Gulf State - 4 Large Barred Boar - 6 Maglia Rosa - 10+ Pink Tiger - 10+ Premo - 8 Porter - 10+ (2014) Purple Bumblebee - 10
Brassicas
Cauliflower - Amazing Taste Cabbage - Mix Cabbage - Savoy, January King 3 Kohlrabi - Azure Star Komatsuna - Natsu Rakuten Komatsuna - from Sample Seed Minutina Misome Mizuna Shogoin Tatsoi
Other greens
Lettuce - Black Seeded Simpson Swiss Chard - Perpetual Spinach Swiss Chard - El Dorado Swiss Chard - Pot of Gold Swiss Chard - Rainbow
Herbs
Basils: Aromata Blue Spice Dolce Fresco Hoary Holy Kaprao
Misc. Herbs:
Chervil Cilantro - several sources Epazote, Green Epazote, Red (saved) Moroccan Coriander Parsley, Flat-leaf Perilla, Green Perilla, Red
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Post subject: Re: 2018 Gardening...almost time! Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:33 pm |
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Well, given that we got snow on Tuesday, I'm not planting anything soon.
This year, we're going to plant a new large grow box in the backyard, which seems to actually be better for heat-loving plants. We don't get quite as much sun back there, but the plants are protected from cold winds at night, and that seems to make a huge difference. Plus I can set up a plastic dropcloth greenhouse back there. I'm going to try putting the peppers in the driveway, in hopes that they actually fruit this year (last year, I got a total of 5 peppers across 6 plants).
We're also rototilling the strawberry beds, so we should have strawberries this year.
BTW, I planted "blue-gold berries" cherry tomatoes last year, and they were huge (if late) producers. I think we picked four baskets off of one plant, stretched out from August through October.
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Post subject: Re: 2018 Gardening...almost time! Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 2:32 pm |
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Good luck with the grow box, Fuzzy. Those cold nights are probably the reason for your pepper problems.
I'm not going to be planting early, despite the fact that this winter, esp. the February, has been very warm. 70° and 78° two days this last week, and, though it got lower, it was still higher than normal.
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Post subject: Re: 2018 Gardening...almost time! Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 8:12 pm |
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Joined: Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:41 pm Posts: 1884 Location: Near Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I am debating on a garden. Didn't look at it at all last year and it was a total mess all summer. This summer we're away 2.5 weeks in July so not sure if it will be worth it. So might just be living vicariously through you guys.
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Post subject: Re: 2018 Gardening...almost time! Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 7:07 pm |
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Joined: Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:03 am Posts: 5280 Location: Portland, OR
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Dave:
Any recommendations on building/filling raised garden beds?
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Post subject: Re: 2018 Gardening...almost time! Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 2:28 pm |
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Funny you should ask that now, Fuzzy, as a gardening forum I am on recently started a thread about raised beds. I think you can go on this w/o joining, as guests are listed at the bottom, in the "on forum" list. http://organicgroup.freeforums.net/thre ... ng-tendingWhat size are you thinking of? Just 10 or 12 inches deep, or will you have to more than one strip of wood for all of the sides? What kinds of tools do you have access to? Sounds like a strange question, but even this simple project can be made easier with a bunch of tools, esp. if you are making some deep beds Not sure what you will want to fill them with. Depends on what you will be planting, of course, and what you have access to. And if you will be filling a lot, maybe get a load of topsoil delivered, mix with a little peat in each bed, and stir some perlite into the upper 6 or 8" of the beds, for drainage. One thing you will want to do with all of them is to line them with hardware cloth - 1/4 - 3/8", to prevent critters from burrowing in. This will allow the beneficial insects and worms through, and allow drainage. I'm going up to fill some pots for my early peppers, then putting them to soak tonight. All the reast waits until 4-1, but it will be here before we know it!
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Post subject: Re: 2018 Gardening...almost time! Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:15 pm |
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Dave,
Based on experience, it needs to be at least 14" deep. I have access to a tablesaw and various hand tools. I've been thinking of going with cedar boards; I looked into cinderblocks and pressure-treated wood, and there's toxics concerns in both cases. I need to measure again how much space I want to use.
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Post subject: Re: 2018 Gardening...almost time! Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 6:26 pm |
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Pressure treated wood is not as bad as it used to be, as the chromium and arsenic are gone - only a copper compound, so some people use it, but I haven't.
One relatively inexpensive jig that will help when connecting boards side to side, to make wider ones, is a doweling jig. And use some Gorilla Glue, as it is waterproof, and has a long open time.
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