The Endzone Garden Thread

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Put 3 different sweet peppers on heat mat. Ajvarski, Lesya, and Txorixero (a Basque supposedly sweeter alternative to Nardello).
 
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It’s go time. Garden finally got filled. Tomatoes in. Lettuce and basil in. Corn, green beans, egg plant, cukes, squashes, 4 different sweet melons, butter peas and mammoth sunflowers all in. Got some okra, dwarf tomato, Chinese broccoli, Brussels, and sweet peppers in green house to go in soon. And carrots in. Found a stubby sweet carrot to try that can punch through the soil and doesn’t need the super fluffy soil to grow. See how those work out.
 
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GVF said:
It’s go time. Garden finally got filled. Tomatoes in. Lettuce and basil in. Corn, green beans, egg plant, cukes, squashes, 4 different sweet melons, butter peas and mammoth sunflowers all in. Got some okra, dwarf tomato, Chinese broccoli, Brussels, and sweet peppers in green house to go in soon. And carrots in. Found a stubby sweet carrot to try that can punch through the soil and doesn’t need the super fluffy soil to grow. See how those work out.
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Nice! Which of those did you sow in place, or are they all transplants?
 
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GVF said:
It’s go time. Garden finally got filled. Tomatoes in. Lettuce and basil in. Corn, green beans, egg plant, cukes, squashes, 4 different sweet melons, butter peas and mammoth sunflowers all in. Got some okra, dwarf tomato, Chinese broccoli, Brussels, and sweet peppers in green house to go in soon. And carrots in. Found a stubby sweet carrot to try that can punch through the soil and doesn’t need the super fluffy soil to grow. See how those work out.
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hopin to have all mine (Round 1) finished by Friday
allergies and blocked Eustachian tube on left side have me behind with vertigo and pulsing tinnitus....rain helped a little
 
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already had one good lettuce cutting with more coming....really like that Mesclun mix
zucchini and squash have a few blooms
a couple of cukes about ready to start with the runners, only planted bush types
volunteer dill and cilantro errdamwhere on the side of the garage in the raised beds that get about 5 hours of sun/day....neither transplants particularly well when they reseed like that...they were in containers there last year and reseeded like crazy in the ground
no maters in containers yet
some nasturtiums coming up in the holes in the cinder blocks where I put the seeds after frost...no blooms yet but good foliage
iris here are finished blooming
pink and yellow primrose goin crazy, gonna have to thin, same with lychnis
 
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GordonC said:
already had one good lettuce cutting with more coming....really like that Mesclun mix
zucchini and squash have a few blooms
a couple of cukes about ready to start with the runners, only planted bush types
volunteer dill and cilantro errdamwhere on the side of the garage in the raised beds that get about 5 hours of sun/day....neither transplants particularly well when they reseed like that...they were in containers there last year and reseeded like crazy in the ground
no maters in containers yet
some nasturtiums coming up in the holes in the cinder blocks where I put the seeds after frost...no blooms yet but good foliage
iris here are finished blooming
pink and yellow primrose goin crazy, gonna have to thin, same with lychnis
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I’ve cut lettuce and spinach a dozen times already, and after missing three days due to illness and yesterday’s monsoon, it doesn’t look like they’ve ever been cut!

I keep hoping to pick baby spinach, but I keep winding up with surly teenage instead.
 
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VolNExile said:
I’ve cut lettuce and spinach a dozen times already, and after missing three days due to illness and yesterday’s monsoon, it doesn’t look like they’ve ever been cut!

I keep hoping to pick baby spinach, but I keep winding up with surly teenage instead.
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My spinach didn't do particularly well on the first planting, but I was using old "Bloomsdale" and "Carmel" spinach seeds from like two years ago.
I have new seeds and want to get those in this week, but those two varieties in particular seem to be fussy about the exact planting depth. Usually I mark off 1/4 inch on a craft stick for the holes, but I didn't do that this year. Maybe that's why they didn't do well.
 
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I really like the grow bags a lot, but I will be interested to see how the divided ones work. I plan to use one for basil (Italian, Thai, Sweet, and Purple seeds) and one for cucumbers with a couple of trellises.
They actually feel pretty sturdy.

Edit: This year, I only bought three basil plants. Here the seeds do well if planted directly into the containers. The plants I bought (two sweet and one Thai), I got ones I could get 3-4 cuttings to start in water from each one. I went to Lowe's today, and their basil was flowering, which is crazy to me because the low temps here have been in the 50s.
 
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GordonC said:
already had one good lettuce cutting with more coming....really like that Mesclun mix
zucchini and squash have a few blooms
a couple of cukes about ready to start with the runners, only planted bush types
volunteer dill and cilantro errdamwhere on the side of the garage in the raised beds that get about 5 hours of sun/day....neither transplants particularly well when they reseed like that...they were in containers there last year and reseeded like crazy in the ground
no maters in containers yet
some nasturtiums coming up in the holes in the cinder blocks where I put the seeds after frost...no blooms yet but good foliage
iris here are finished blooming
pink and yellow primrose goin crazy, gonna have to thin, same with lychnis
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wha kind of nasturiums? vine, bush?
 
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