Nice. Funny when I bought my house 25 years ago I covered most of the gardens with sod. Now I’m removing sod lol.Broke out the old kitchen rack and veg lights, the wife did the rest of the work. So far peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and sunflowers. Love gardening and love it more this year since I can garden wherever we choose in "Our" yard!
Things change over time.
Low 30's snow/rain here. LOL. Another week at least before no more 20F nights.I'm making progress.
Planted some more strawberries and some lettuce starts yesterday.
I took the plastic off the peas a few days back and they're doing fine.
I seeded the south side of the house with a row of peas, turnips, broccoli raab, and radishes. Everything is coming up. I have to do some thinning. The seeds were so small, my back was hurting, and my knees were on the brick walkway when I planted so I just sprinkled heavily down the row to get it done. Seeds were only $1.99 a pack and I still didn't use them all. I thinned the radishes so far but I'm going to wait for the rest to get bigger.
The Fava beans are starting to bloom.
The peach tree is blooming as well and I saw a bunch of pollinators out yesterday. Thankfully we got some dry days during bloom. If I get a box of peaches I'll be happy. If I get peach leaf curl again this year I'm cutting the tree down. I sprayed all winter long so if that doesn't work I'm throwing in the towel and I'll plant something else. Maybe currants or gooseberries. Some kiwi's would be nice too. But hopefully my spraying regimen will have prevented another recurrence of the dreaded peach leaf curl.
Overall the garden looks rather rough but it won't be long before it will be lush and full of veggies.
I'm no pepper expert but what really improved my peppers last year was not planting my starts in the ground too early. You really got to wait for the soil to warm up. They don't like cold feet. If you put them in too soon they can get stunted and never recover. That's probably the cause of many gardeners problems with growing peppers in some climate zones.
Well peppers are perennial plants but are mostly grown as annuals. But you have me thinking. I think I'm going to do a couple in pots and overwinter them inside this year.
I didn't start any cayenne from seed but plan on buying one at a local nursery and is what I am also considering overwintering along with a Thai pepper. Although the Thai seeds I started came from a plant growing next to bells, jalapeno, and habanero so it's possible I end up with something else due to cross pollination. In fact I'm hoping for a surprise or two. We'll find out this summer.
A few years back one of the wife's friends gave us a bunch of peaches. The old stock from around here, not the big Georgia peaches you see in the stores. I planted all the pits and got lots of sprouts. I planted 6-7 at the pond camp, a like amount at the river camp and a few here on the sandhill. Also gave 5-6 to the BIL. The hurricane got all the ones at the river camp but one. The pond came up and killed all the ones down there. We had a drought and I forgot to water the ones here, so while they didn't die, they almost did. They are from waist to chest high. And the BIL being a chicken man, planted his beside his roster pens. Before he cut them back, they were 15-20 foot tall. So the moral of the story, a little bit of chicken shit is good for peach trees. The BIL's trees produced fruit this year, and I planted a few of those pits, so maybe I'll do better with the f2's.
