Better Be Planting This Year. 2022+ And Up MEGATHREAD

Berrymac65 said:
I ordered 3 shrubs online.

They will arrive next week.

Do I bring them inside ? When can I out them outside?

When do I plant them?
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They should have instructions. If not look online.

I ordered a dwarf nectarine tree. I asked them to ship as late as possible. But they send it the first week of March. Is looking a little droopy. They said I could keep in the in the garage for a few weeks but I'm hoping to plant it this week if this recent snow didn't re freeze the ground.
 
We planted three different types of garlic in October. They are all starting to pop up. Just set up shelving with grow lights for the wife. We have to start almost everything indoors around here. She even got warming pads and a plastic cover for the shelving to trap some humidity. Humidity is one thing we lack out here.
 
peterk123 said:
We planted three different types of garlic in October. They are all starting to pop up. Just set up shelving with grow lights for the wife. We have to start almost everything indoors around here. She even got warming pads and a plastic cover for the shelving to trap some humidity. Humidity is one thing we lack out here.
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I started peppers, herbs and some cold hardy green for early transplant, 2 weeks ago. Next weekend will be tomatoes and some more herbs
 
Yesterday I started hot peppers, sweet peppers, paste tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, broccoli, celery, leeks, and oregano inside. Last year my then five year old helped me with all the seed starts and I let him sell the extras. He ended up making about $350 so this year his little brother (now 4) wants in too. They were incredibly helpful getting everything set up. And they will now help me every day with the plants. And they are excited to do it.

Summer of 2022 this was my oregano harvest. Someone here asked me what I was going to do with all of it. Well it is just about gone now about 1.5 years later. And I ended up having to ration it. I had no idea I loved oregano so much. But it is incredible on pizza, pasta, soup, eggs, and probably lots of other things. I plan to grow double this year.


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Boarder700 said:
Yesterday I started hot peppers, sweet peppers, paste tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, broccoli, celery, leeks, and oregano inside. Last year my then five year old helped me with all the seed starts and I let him sell the extras. He ended up making about $350 so this year his little brother (now 4) wants in too. They were incredibly helpful getting everything set up. And they will now help me every day with the plants. And they are excited to do it.

Summer of 2022 this was my oregano harvest. Someone here asked me what I was going to do with all of it. Well it is just about gone now about 1.5 years later. And I ended up having to ration it. I had no idea I loved oregano so much. But it is incredible on pizza, pasta, soup, eggs, and probably lots of other things. I plan to grow double this year.


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Leave some of that to flower and go to seed and not only will the bees appreciate it, you will never have to worry about planting oregano again.
 
Since it was such a beautiful day, today's chore was replacing the landscape fabric around the boxes. DONE. Photos later: I'm filthy and smell worse than usual (and that includes this morning's ride), so rest and shower before I do anything else.

We're tilling this year, so I have to finish raking and all I'll need to do is move the drip irrigation gear out of the way and it'll be GTG for that.
 
OK, here they are:




The distance between the four-foot boxes and the big boxes is slightly more than three feet, hence the (browner) four-foot fabric. In years past, I've just used three-foot and left that strip by the big boxes bare, and invariably it's become a weedfest.
 
I put the compost on the garden yesterday and tilled it in. I wet it all down and put the silage tarp back on to germinate and suffocate as many weeds as I can. Last year I got the garden tilled too late for that to work. I have peas, lettuce, spinach, and arugula planted at this point. And the seedlings are doing great.

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I'm behind this year. I usually have some plants started by now. I have some cool weather plants going in today. Did some digging in the garden so the chickens could clean up some insects.

I'm still fighting the voles. There seem to be less of them. They don't like the ash from the wood stove. We also re did some drainage and more water is going toward the garden in heavy rain so I think some of them drowned or at least decided to move.

I'm also going to cover some plants this year to try to keep the cabbage worms and squash vine borers off the plants as long as possible.
 
Because of my hatred for weeding, I'm trying something a bit different for me this year. It's all covered! All of it! Well, most of all of it, I do have asparagus coming up that I can't cover. Now I will just cut openings where the plants are going and see if this helps. Already had a bunch of pumpkins coming up from last years jack o lantern scraps that I threw in there and I'm hoping this suffocates them as the pumpkins took over the whole garden last year. Just hoping with the covering and my irrigation drip lines it will make for a better year in the garden.
On another note, while tilling up the soil I had lots of grubs, not good. Is there a good organic way to get rid of them? Will the weed covering help kill them?
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