Gardeners, what are you planting this year?
 

We've been in our home a bit over two years now and are finally tackling some of our garden areas.

Last year, we planted some sage, oregano, and rosemary... the rosemary really took off, and I think the sage and oregano will do fine.

This year, we've added a couple blueberry and raspberry bushes. In a couple stone planters (because they wouldn't survive the harsh winters of Alabama), I've got a new Meyer lemon tree and I'll be adding a Kaffir lime tree next week.

The wife wants to add some strawberries in the back, and this fall I'll add some bay laurel and probably some garlic.

I'm also trying to decide if I want to remove the solo fig tree (I think they're kinda ugly) or add another one (I do like me some fresh figs, but they're not self pollinating).

Home gardeners, what's on your to-do list?

Marijuana

Seeds of bitter disappointment./ Reid and Dorsey

just some mators this year .. ole-woman claims ima killin her .....

-3 Birch
-5 Aspen
-2 Maples
-6 Arborvitae
-1 Spruce

Corn
Tomatoes
Cuckes
Pole Beans
Radishes
Squash
Beets

Wife will have potted herbs on the front porch again this year too.

Just 'maters and peppers. I had jalapenos and a habanero last year, may add a couple more varieties.

I planted cherry trees
To keep the birds out of the cherries I planted mulberry and service berry trees
I planted Fig trees
To keep the squirrels out of the Figs I planted a Peach tree
Planted apple trees and so far so good
In the garden I have tomatoes, peppers, watermelon, pumpkin, chives, lettuce, carrots
To keep the rabbits out of the garden thankfully there is a hawks nest above and a cat below
I also have grapes, persimmon tree and black berries

I'm thinking strongly about a pecan tree, herb garden and a lot more berries

Little of everything. Only going to garden one spot this year.

a burning aids tree

You're planting 17 trees in a garden?

Hmmm. I always thought to get a burning AIDS tree you'd just set a regular AIDS tree on fire. I had no idea there was such a varietal as a burning AIDS tree.

Couple of years ago I had a jalapeno plant in a pot next to a Thai chilli pepper plant in a pot. They cross polinated each other and I got red jalapenos. Interesting to say the least.

It's not a flaming fire aids tree but the sap burns like the clap

Yes.

It's one bed/berm that I've built along the back end of my property. Spent last year hauling in the fill...finall get to plant it this year.

You CAN do that, but if you plant the burning variety is much more flammable. Try putting some dry unmixed miracle gro on the flames to enhance the burning aids effect.

Jalapenos will turn red.

ROFL, rep to you, sir.

I put in 120 onion sets Saturday, along with several rows of bush beans.

Already got four blueberries, and added two more Saturday.
Already have blackberries and raspberries, and grapes
Already have garlic and chives
Will plant maters, jalapenos, okra, tomatillos, and some zuchini

booby flowers

Are those flowers shaped like them, or the actual things? Because you may be on to something.

i plant some Brandon Flowers

Patio tomatoes and basil so far. Should be great for caprese and paninis.

Planted the following this year:
Zuchinni - stuffed zuchinni yum
Beets
Radishes
Eggplant
Artichoke plants
Lettuce varieties
Cilantro
Tomatoes
Sunflowers
Basil
Lemon balm for tea
Chives
Oregano
Mint in its own pot
Multiple varieties of sage
Parsley
Lemon grass
Also have the following trees in the yard:
Pomegranate
Fig
Nectarine
Valencia orange

My understanding was that aids trees started out as HIV saplings and progressed from there.

I , too, am perplexed at this new revelation.

Gonna try sum punkins this here year.

Huh? Don't you have a woman to do that stuff?

Anyways, I live in a apartment complex, so the Mexxican landscapers take care of all of that stuff.

I'm not surprised by this

Asking for it mods..................

I'm going to finish adding some berry bushes. I've got about another 3 blackberry to plant, and I might have to replace 1-2 blueberry bushes from last year. I'll be adding another 2 cherry bushes, as well.

After that, it's going to be a full slate of herbs, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant and the like. I keep going back and forth on grapes, so I'm still not sure if I'll add them this year.

How the **** is he "asking" for it.

It takes a good 3-4 years on the grapes to start getting some decent crop. If you are thinking about it, I'd get started sooner rather than later.

Must have been sign language.

Thanks for the advice. The back and forth is because of space limitations. I'm just not sure if we've really got the space for doing grapes on the scale we were thinking. I think I'll talk to my brother about using part of his place for the grapes. He's got land that he'll probably never use.

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I planted 60 black raspberry plants last week. Hope I like em.

Sweet corn, green peppers, banana peppers, tomatoes, grape tomatoes, radishes, beans, and some leaf lettuce and onions is always more work than I'll want.

I'm hoping the 2 year old blackberry patch produces this year, the heat and drought really held it back last summer.

I've wanted to add some Cherry trees to the already established apple, pear, plumb, & persimmons but I need to wipe out an old strawberry bed to make the mowing easier and I highly doubt I get around to it this spring.

I cuss the work every summer, but it's rewarding and somewhat of a stress reliever.

Half mile of red and white potatoes yesterday. A couple strawberry plants, carrots, spring greens, few rows of garlic ( last fall), herbs, and some other shit. ****in plowed a good chunk for this year already. Split time last week between live stock and garden and that's tough when you have hundreds of animals. 3000 sq ft green house we put in is gonna be a hoot.

Lol

That's not a garden... That's a slave labor camp!

I've always thought a greenhouse would own shit, but I can't think of an economical way to make it withstand the wind.

I have a family member with several in Oklahoma and they can't either. You should see the pics they text every few months when a storm blows the shit into the fan. Once the plastic goes it throws their special little herbs and seasonal flowers all over the place. ROFL

A couple years ago a wealthy farmer in South Dakota set his 17 year old daughter up with one of the first large scale pole barn type of greenhouses I'd seen. The clear plastic panels looked exactly like the skylights on our Morton buildings, but thicker and obviously clearer. The university of Missouri used the same style of building, but much smaller, to do some research in too. I'd hate to see the initial investment cost though.

Not technically gardening more landscaping but I'm putting in some ornamental pear trees and a locust, they always look good and don't have terribly invasive root systems

I planted 8, 4x4 posts in concrete yesterday two foot deep. They're already 8 feet tall.

Just curious, but how do you keep the squirrels out of all of your berry bushes? I've tried spray, chicken wire and BB gun (and they destroy my tomatoes also).

dog does it

Dude I want to go eat at MO's place. Fresh veggies and fresh meat abound. I hope someone there is a good cook.

So far the wife and I have planeted:
Lettuce
Spinach
onions
potatoes
10 pepper plants
broccoli
artichoke
a few herbs

Going to wait a week or two, then will finish up with tomatoes

My garden as of Sunday:
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...24918478_n.jpg

My woman is the cook. I wouldn't have married her if she couldn't cook. We put up a shit load of food for us and our clients every week. This really is the land of milk and honey. You just have to be willing to work 90 hours a week from march through November.
Springtime boot camp is tough but it gets the body ready for hay season and tempers the mind for summer.
Next year ill have to take on a hand for the season.

Even workin that many hours we have a hard time keeping up.

Red Potatoes and White Potatoes, probably 30 or so Tomatoes, Herbs, lettuce, carrots, Brussels sprouts, collards, pumpkins, summer squash, winter squash, cantaloupe, asparagus, blueberries, okra, sweet corn...probably some others I just forgot to list. Fall tilled, need to get a few dry days then Ill spring till and get busy planting

I love collards but have never grown them. Still wet in your area?

Picked up some onion sets at hummerts in st joe.

Poppies. I'm going to need a lot of tea to make it through this ****ing regime.
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I'd like to plant some Basil, Rosemary, Tomatoes, and some other things.

It's 25. Wind blowing 40 sustained. Going to be 14 tonight. Not going to grow much today.

46 degrees, moderate breeze. All is well in the ABQ.
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Neighbor tilled yesterday. Two days after after it rained an inch.

:spock:

Is he planting into pure sand?

Tree of anguish.

40 acres and a fool, dude.

Made a nice pond today though.

Sunny side of life and all....

Dude has a 40 acre garden? Either way I'm surprised he could till.

Is this a critter watering pond or a fufu fish pond?

Del McCoury song. Might give you a chuckle.

He churned a shit load of mud.

LOL. I'll check it out.

I imagine the hardpan under that would be astronomical.

Dude it was killing him.

two more gladiola shoots popped up today.
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One of my neighbors did too... It looked like a garden full of baseballs and golf balls.

It's probably totally screwed for the season. It has a fairly high clay content and this mornings rain didn't even begin to help it mellow. LMAO

I can't imagine how he even got through it.

I felt bad for the guy but just for a sec. His wife was yelling at him. She's kinda fruity. All my greens germinated today.

Here's the one I added to the garden last year.

http://www.henryfields.com/product/C.../bush_cherries

I've got a cat who loves to kill little critters, and a dog who loves to kill big critters. They keep most of the animals away.

I likey

I find if you grow the aids first on its own and then let it mature in flames while you grow the tree into it over a great number of years, you get the type of perfection in your flaming aids tree that really only Matthew Cassel deserves to be anally raped with.

LMAO. ****ing awesome. You know what would be cool? A short film of the PBS "happy tree" atrist with the huge white-fro painting Cassel being raped by said tree and providing commentary.
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1800 red onion sets. 1800 yellows to go.

More damn cold weather coming this week. Can't put out my flowers

I am trying my hand at growing grass.

Literally.

My yard had been run to dirt by 4 dogs, and I want to get out of this place so I am forced to grow grass.

It's a lot harder than you (and I) might think. At least I am too the point after 3 weeks to where the yard looks more like scrub desert than the surface of the moon~

Planted my pepper seeds in jiffy pots today. It's kind of late but the way the weather has been I don't think I'm too late. 8 kinds with Moruga Trinidad Scorpion being the hottest to Corno Di Toro as the mildest with Peter Pepper as the most visually appealing.