Gardens

jgibv said:

WaterNerd said:

@jgibv Great set-up. I put my peppers in the garage too. I also use a heat mat and it makes a world of difference

thanks @WaterNerd !yeah it works pretty good, this shelf is 1000x better than the old ones i had.

i use heat mats for starting seeds.....but hadn't considered putting them under these large pepper pots. 
do you that adding heat mats would benefit these larger (12-18 inch) pots?

(also, FWIW if you need a sturdy wire shelf, the best deal i found was at target. 
5-tier, 18x48x72, $60)

@jgibv I use a heat mat for my pepper plants I overwinter that are in 15-gallon containers (also for seedlings). Works for me and my second-year pepper plants give me a great harvest in early July compared to first-year plants. That's what I love about gardening. Experimenting and try out new things

Finally got some rain this week and the weather is cooler. Ghost pepper plants are loving it and so are my strawberry plants 

'bout time to resurrect this thread.
Perhaps the warmest February ever here, though it is supposed to get chilly later this week. Even the late fall planting of lettuce survived over winter. Put yellow snow peas in the ground today and sowed some more spinach.

We are planting spinach also. We have a small pond liner in our garden and we got frog eggs in it. According to our garden journal the eggs are two weeks early. I've got to get down to the sawmill and get 12 rough sawn Hemlock 1x6x10' to rebuild some of our raised beds. Pear trees were flowering when I went to the Asheville VA last week.  The seed order is going in this week. Can't wait to dig in the dirt.

I need to get the garden planted for this year, its covered in weeds. We had a huge destructive record rains in Texas last year and a lot of weed seed got washed in, just used herbicide on the whole yard and laid 6 pallets of new sod (st. augustine raleigh), need to pick up loral oak leafs today(I just love how it drops them in Spring/Summer) respray the damn loral oak for borers then put down spring fertilizer and pre emergent herbicide. It gets so hot here almost everyone in the garden will die except for peppers, green beans, and some other stuff almost need misters on it during the day to keep it cool so the sun doesn't fry it all (except for the peppers). Almost everything is already green here already all trees pollenating like crazy except for the pecans and hickories.    

New pepper seeds arrived yesterday.... from sustainable seed co in CA.

Used up the last of my potting soil mix to start 2 flats of the new peppers & a few more tobacco seeds too.

Looks good Rodger @First_Warrior !!! 

Instead of taking it apart to move it ..... why not throw some wheels on the bottom so you can scoot it around!

Wait, you guys purposely plant raspberries?
Don't they overtake everything there?

We don't dare plant blackberries, raspberries, loganberries, salmonberries or spearmint, without having some way to contain it. 
Otherwise it takes over everything like a weed.

Harvested some garlic from the garden today 

Another freakin raised garden.
If I get enough of them, there won't be a lot of grass to deal with.
Blueberries, strawberries and grapes. The trellis is for the grapes.