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 Post subject: It has begun ...
PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 7:10 pm 
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Now that I can garden, I will:

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Planting this year:

  • Purple orach
  • Snap peas
  • Rainbow chard
  • Sungolds
  • San Marzanos
  • Ten Fingers of Naples
  • Jimmy Nardello peppers
  • stuffing pimentos
  • Flashy butter gems
  • Z'atar
  • Wild thyme
  • Italian oregano
  • Dill
  • Both parsleys
  • Gold beets
  • Emily basil

What's everyone else planting?

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Started a pot of basil last week. Weather is too tricky here to even consider plating until May 1, and even then it can get pretty cold. I go to Planters Seed to get a few herb starts and then I check out their seeds. Hit the City Market for tomato plants. That's about all I plant. Am going to tear out some roses and plant tomatoes in that bed.

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Nothing from seed since I'm a weekender and can't maintain the seeds. Our frost date is Mothers day so will wait for main planting until then. Tried to buy mulch this weekend but it was still frozen. Hopefully the warm temps this week will assist.


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Here is my back yard this morning:

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I'm having a hard time thinking through planting :)


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Gods, the weather is messed up. Here, everything started blooming around Feb 15th, because we already have spring temperatures. I'd had to rush to get the leafy greens into the ground because it seems likely it'll be hot by early May.

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Paul Kierstead wrote:
Here is my back yard this morning:

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I'm having a hard time thinking through planting :)


I'm with Paul on this. I do know that we are making the veggie garden much smaller (again) this year. Mostly I buy plants. I do basil and parsley (Italian) from seed.


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Everything seem to sprout up last week, hopefully it did not get destroyed by the storm we are having this week. The best news though is that the rhubarb we thought might be dead is huge now. We need to cut it back. So sad I have to go find some strawberries so I can make strawberry rhubarb hand pies.

We are going to Costco this week to see if they have their trees in yet. We want to replace our mandarin tree (it will get planted in the ground somewhere probably).

Now we have red lettuce, leeks, fennel, green onions, regular and longevity spinach, chard, kale and mustard greens and of course sage, rosemary and thyme which seem impossible to kill.

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Great first year list, Fuzzy! It will grow exponentially. :o

Here are some of what I have this year (I'm sure I forgot some!). I have cut back on some of the new ones, though the tomatoes are more new than old. I had a bunch of trades I could not resist!

# means at least one of these will be in an Earthbox
PEPPERS

OLD:

Ancho
Big Jim Numex
Bulgarian Carrot
Fresno
Hanoi Market
Jalafuego Jalapeño
Lombak#
Maui Purple
Red Savina Habanero#
Superchili
Superthai
Thai Nippon Taka
Thai Red Vesuvius

NEW:

Ancho Tiburon hybrid
Costeño Amarillo#
Craig's Deluxe Trinidad Scorpion#
Craig's Super Chocolate Habanero#
Criolla Sella
Gold Bullet Tall Habanero#
Mohini

TOMATOES

OLD:

Amish Gold Slicer#
Big Beef#
Bumblebee Purple#
Bumblebee Sunrise#
Green Tiger#
Pink Tiger (didn't germinate last season, but will try again, given how good green tiger was)
Sunsugar#
Sweet Carneros Pink#

NEW:

Believe It Or Not#
Black Beauty#
Chestnut Chocolate#
Creole#
Crimson Crush#
Large Barred Boar
Louisiana Gulf State#
Lucid Gem
Maglia Rosa
Manalucie#
Premio (maybe - free seeds I got. Anyone ever grow these?)
Royal Hillbilly
Tres Cantos


MISC. VEGETABLES

*= new

BEANS

Blauhilde purple pole
Blue Lake Pole


CUCUMBERS

County Fair#
Indian Gherkin*#

EGGPLANT

Hari F1#
Hari F2 (to compare to the F1)#
Ichiban#
Ma Zu Purple*#
Neon #

GREENS

Bok Choy Win Win
Chard - El Dorado
Huauzontli*
Komatsuna - new variety*
Mizuna
Senposai

MELONS

Ananas D'Amerique a Chair Vert*
Minnesota Midget*
Sugar Cube*

Bitter Melon - Shanghai*#

OKRA

Emerald#

PEAS

Super Sugar Snap

WINTER SQUASH

Canada Crookneck Butternut*
Polaris hybrid

OTHER MISC.

Cardoon*

HERBS

OLD:

Serrata Basil
Thai Basil
Chives
Dill
Epazote
Garlic Chives
Curry leaves
Kaffir Lime leaves
Lemongrass
Marjoram
Mints - spearmint and peppermint
Parsleys
Rosemary
Sage
Thyme

NEW

Hoja Santa (actually grew once, but not from seed)
Red Epazote (already sprouted in hydroponics)



Then there are some things like the shallots, garlic, scallions, and leeks I didn't have in the lists.

I know, I know, how am I going to have time to cook all of these things????? :shock:

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 12:53 am 
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Fitzie,

Should I be starting basil now? I was planning to wait a couple weeks.

Dave,

As always, you ARE the garden state. And as every year, I'll happily swap Oregon wine/hooch for some dried peppers when the time comes.

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Dave (or anyone else with EarthBox knowledge). I don't have a spigot on my condo balconies so I use 50 gallon water barrels that are elevated for watering my EarthBoxes. Do you think there would be enough pressure to use the automatic watering system? TIA. Deb


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