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Growing season hath arrived!

Posted by stuffradio SW 8A BC (My Page) on
Thu, Feb 28, 13 at 19:13

It is now time for planting main crops! I am starting Cubanelle pepper seeds, Broccoli, and I have a bunch of others I'm starting now.
Starting inside:
Lettuce
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Celery

Outside:
Arugula
Fava Beans
Kale
Bok Choi
Radishes
Spinach

There are a bunch more I get to do within two months like:
Tomatoes
Carrots
Parsnips
Eggplant
Turnips
Beets
Kohlrabi
Melons

After that, it's more of the gourds like Squash, Pumpkins, and Cucumbers, Corn, etc.


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RE: Growing season hath arrived!

I started a bunch of seeds too like:
Cilantro
Jalapeno
Sweet bell
Tomato
Basil red and green varieties
Ornamental pepper
Some flowers :)
and I have had started for awhile:
Artichoke
Onions
Parsley
YAY!!


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RE: Growing season hath arrived!

I hope you don't mind me adding my two cents, but I am so excited about getting started, I just want to talk about it and everyone at home is already tired of hearing it.

Started and growing
Asparagus
Leeks
Onions
5 kinds of lettuce
Forget me nots
Snapdragons
Primrose
Cosmos (I think too soon)


Waiting for sprouts
Carrots
Turnips
Peppers
Echinacea
Spinach

Starting soon
Tomatoes (4 kinds)
Lots of things waiting for warmer temps to start outside.

Yayy for spring. Can't come soon enough.

Lynn


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Don't mind. That's what the thread is for. :)

I am excited just like you. :D


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From seed indoors and currently growing:
Early Girl and Better Boy Toms
Genovese Basil
Waltham Broccoli (planted some older seedlings outside!)
Cabbage (first batch planted outside, more growing)
Lettuce (big and fluffy plants in greenhouse hanging pots)
Cilantro
'Black Beauty' Eggplant
Red, Yellow and Green Bell Peppers
Home Hybridized Daylilies

Seeds started indoors waiting on germination:
Pink Petunias
Hollyhocks
Delphinium
True Lavender
More daylilies

Seeds planted outdoors waiting on germination:
Garden King Radishes
Nantes Champion Carrots
Alaska English Peas

Next to plant outdoors:
Onion bunches
Potatoes

Next to start indoors:
Cucumbers
More peppers
Moon Flower
More daylilies
False Indigo

Divided from outdoor plants and potted up for sale:
Over 400 'Anapolis' Strawberries
A couple hundred named daylilies


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I have some peas and radishes sown. After which it started snowing. Also started some eggplant and garden huckleberry - it used to be very slow for me so I thought a bit earlier is OK. Next, peppers and tomatoes.


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I have started
Broccoli waltham
Broccoli romanesco
Tomato Mortgage Lifter
tomato Container hybrid
Artichokes
cauliflower snowball
Marsh mallow
Salad burnet
Scarlet pimpernel.

I put peas in outside, but it is still too cold and I am seeing no germination.
It is great to get started!


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Started indoors a couple weeks ago, growing:
Redwing onion
Picador shallot
King Richard leeks
Space hybrid spinach

Just started this week:
Peppers (2 varieties of bell, 2 non-bell sweet varieties, 1 jalapeno variety)
Assorted annual flowers
Thyme and marjoram

Need to start this week:
Cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi


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I planted a bunch of seeds indoors, too. It's GREAT to get started! BTW, I find that I get great germination by putting a heating pad under my pan containing the seed cups. I keep it the lowest setting so it only gently warms the bottoms but the seeds just POP out, compared to without. They do make official seed warming mats, but this works so well for me and we hardly ever use that pad anyway.

Frank


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This year, I've been putting my seeds on top of the freezer, and when they germinate, I move them to the lights.


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My first year with a serious garden (last year was just a 12x3 plot, this year I have 208 square feet of raised bed, plus an herb garden, raspberry and strawberry patches.)

I started most of my seeds awhile back, started early and hoped for the best and so far so good. It did start to get cold again after I planted, I got worried, but it looks like it's on it's way up again, and my outdoor seeds have sprouted so the cold didn't set me back.

Outdoors already I have:
Ruby Queen corn
Yardlong bean
Kentucky Wonder polebean
Purple polebean (I think it's Purple King?)
Rainbow and Danvers carrot
Evergreen Bunching Onion and some generic red onion
Burgandy and Clemson Spineless okra
Quinault Strawberry
Carroline Raspberry

I'm hardening off (to be planted Sunday):
Yellow summer squash
Roma tomatoes
Tomatillo
Pickling cucumbers
Sugar Baby watermelon
Romaine lettuce

Seedlings (under growlight):
Anaheim
Cayenne
Peperoncini
Serrano
Hungarian Wax
Tomatillo
Hearts of Gold cantaloupe
Early Girl tomato

Started (but not germinated):
Purple Rain eggplant
Orange Bell
Tabasco
Basil
Thyme
Oregano
Sage
Rosemary
Tarragon
Cilantro
Dill
and something I know I'm forgetting.

I still have a few more that I haven't planted yet.

This post was edited by IAmSupernova on Wed, Mar 6, 13 at 14:27


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I started two very early tomatoes, spinach, early and late broccoli, rhubarb from seed, assorted lettuce, brussels sprouts, and soon I will start the warm seasons, like the rest of the tomatoes and green peppers.

I'm just itching to direct seed my carrots and parsnip, and radishes, all the peas..

Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden


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