The Endzone Garden Thread

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Sweet peppers, tomatoes, basil, orange marigolds, green beans, giant zinnias, and a few sunflowers. Yeah, I know that green beans and sunflowers don’t mix. We will see.
 
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We decided to abandon squash and zucchini, going with just cucumbers, and that up a trellis. Squash vines seem to grow a yard overnight, and then comes the powdery mildew. And you miss seeing a zucchini, and suddenly it’s a yard-long marrow the size of a baseball bat. So they’re on the list for what we’ll buy at a farmers market. Let someone else wrestle the fool things, although I will definitely keep buying them. Love squash and zucchini boats.
 
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Also started more herbs and some greens on Sunday. The turnip greens (Seven Tops) were up this morning, 48 hours after planting, crazy things! I’ll have to move them on in a day or two to avoid damping off, which got one of the first flats I planted. (I keep them under humidity domes while they’re germinating.) These are also on heat mats.

Edit to add: the eensie little turnip green sprouts are in the foreground, third group of cells from the right.

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Started the tomatoes 🍅 too early - four of them are two feet tall, and two are flowering!

Peppers are ready.

Will transplant to the garden plot sometime within the next two weeks.
 
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And I direct-planted Little Marvel English peas in the second (new) bed yesterday after soaking overnight. No pic, as it’s just a bunch of dirt. Although I guess the others are too.

The snow peas and sugar snap peas (both vining types) were planted a week or so ago in the first built bed. I cheated and checked, and they’re sprouting, but still not yet above ground.
 
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Tin Man said:
Started the tomatoes 🍅 too early - four of them are two feet tall, and two are flowering!

Peppers are ready.

Will transplant to the garden plot sometime within the next two weeks.
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Wow, what zone are you? We’re 7A. Still a 10% chance of frost on May 16, although I’ll bet that will soon be adjusted. We’re on our way to 7B, I think.

I can transplant the tomatoes and peppers in mid-May, but they’ll just sit there and look at me for a few weeks before starting to grow, so I’ll probably wait until beginning of June and get two more weeks out of the peas first.
 
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VolNExile said:
Wow, what zone are you? We’re 7A. Still a 10% chance of frost on May 16, although I’ll bet that will soon be adjusted. We’re on our way to 7B, I think.

I can transplant the tomatoes and peppers in mid-May, but they’ll just sit there and look at me for a few weeks before starting to grow, so I’ll probably wait until beginning of June and get two more weeks out of the peas first.
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I am at ~1000’ above sea level, on the Southern Piedmont, the rolling foothills of the southern Appalachians.
 
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Tin Man said:
I am at ~1000’ above sea level, on the Southern Piedmont, the rolling foothills of the southern Appalachians.
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So maybe 8A? When is your last expected frost?

The challenge here is waiting on the soil to get warm enough. I might cheat with some black plastic in early May to move things along.

Edit to add: 2150’ ASL, 35.55 degrees N latitude.
 
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VolNExile said:
So started the pepper seeds on Saturday and the tomatoes and tomatillos on Sunday, both on heat. And I’ll keep them on heat even after they germinate and I pot them up, heat-greedy little SOB’s.

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May I ask, what exactly do you do with the tomatillo's? They are regularly available in the stores here. I've tried homemade salsa Verde multiple times with no success.
 
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And here are the seedlings. Sweet peas and two English peas on top, various lettuce, spinach, green onions, turnip greens potted on on the bottom, various herbs, veggies, flowers in the middle. The potted-on ones will probably get planted out Friday or Saturday, depending on the weather.

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tnuhcvols said:
May I ask, what exactly do you do with the tomatillo's? They are regularly available in the stores here. I've tried homemade salsa Verde multiple times with no success.
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We don’t know yet, lol. Last summer we used them for chow chow, because we didn’t have any green tomatoes.

I do hope to use them in salsa verde though. What went wrong with yours?
 
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VolNExile said:
So maybe 8A? When is your last expected frost?

The challenge here is waiting on the soil to get warm enough. I might cheat with some black plastic in early May to move things along.

Edit to add: 2150’ ASL, 35.55 degrees N latitude.
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I’m-1000’ lower in ASL and 1.5 degrees south of you - 7b. I wouldn’t mind adapting to your zone and weather patterns.
 
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VolNExile said:
We don’t know yet, lol. Last summer we used them for chow chow, because we didn’t have any green tomatoes.

I do hope to use them in salsa verde though. What went wrong with yours?
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Not sure what, if anything, went wrong. Just couldn't hit the taste. Tried different recipes. Hadn't thought about chow chow, but "Mrs renfros" hot chow chow fills that need for me
 
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Tin Man said:
I’m-1000’ lower in ASL and 1.5 degrees south of you - 7b. I wouldn’t mind adapting to your zone and weather patterns.
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I’m afraid it’s more likely that we’re moving toward yours. But yes, it is noticeably different here, just from Knoxville. If I can even drag my attention away from the veggies in the back yard to the flowers in front, I’m going for an English garden, complete with delphinium. By golly gosh.

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theFallGuy said:
anyone familiar with building an outside planter box for a raised bed? I'm looking at building one out of cedar
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If I had money to burn, and if I thought that I might ever want to modify or move the bed in the future, I’d be all over these. Quick up, quick down:

Lifetime Raised Bed Corners, Set of 2 - Corners & Connectors - Gardeners

They’ve also got raised planter box kits, as in there’s a gap between the bottom of the box and the ground, if that’s what you meant:

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VolNExile said:
Also started more herbs and some greens on Sunday. The turnip greens (Seven Tops) were up this morning, 48 hours after planting, crazy things! I’ll have to move them on in a day or two to avoid damping off, which got one of the first flats I planted. (I keep them under humidity domes while they’re germinating.) These are also on heat mats.

Edit to add: the eensie little turnip green sprouts are in the foreground, third group of cells from the right.

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Lettuce and some of the Genovese basil up this morning.
 
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VolNExile said:
We decided to abandon squash and zucchini, going with just cucumbers, and that up a trellis. Squash vines seem to grow a yard overnight, and then comes the powdery mildew. And you miss seeing a zucchini, and suddenly it’s a yard-long marrow the size of a baseball bat. So they’re on the list for what we’ll buy at a farmers market. Let someone else wrestle the fool things, although I will definitely keep buying them. Love squash and zucchini boats.
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I'm trying a zucchini this year that is a smaller bush type. Looking for compact yellow as well. If not I may attempt trellising the squash. I had spaghetti squash that ran out 15 feet last year. I'm skipping that one. It ended up being a 1/3 of my garden.
 
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VolNExile said:
— fun fact: apparently the British (including British translators of Scandinavian, Dutch, Belgian, etc novels) call potted plants (like houseplants) “pot plants.”

This is really jarring when reading about arrested drunken suspects in the police station puking into the station “pot plants.”
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(quoted from the other thread)

Many Brits also pronounce "forsythia" with a long i sound because of its namesake.
 
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