Time to start

[G-man]

Any one else thinking about starting your garden or starting plants? i usually buy pepper and tomato plants  as well as lettuce as they are pain to grow from seed for me and i can get large plants in expensively

 

[mowin]

I'm not a big veggie eater, but my wife loves veggies.  I'm thinking about making some raised beds and growing some stuff this yr.  

[corydd7]

Yup starting seeds next Monday. Garlic and shallots planted in early November look good so far. 

[LET EM GROW]

No, But now I am! lol. Would like to start lettuce and tomatoes early and have them ripen throughout the  grow season

[mowin]

22 minutes ago, corydd7 said:

Yup starting seeds next Monday. Garlic and shallots planted in early November look good so far. 

Garlic.  That will take up one complete raised bed, lol.  My dad grew garlic and had 3 different varieties.  

[G-man]

41 minutes ago, LET EM GROW said:

No, But now I am! lol. Would like to start lettuce and tomatoes early and have them ripen throughout the  grow season

I find the local greenhouse does a much better  job at growing those than myself. I buy tomato that already have tomato and blossoms on them in april .. 

Edited February 28, 2023 by G-man

[corydd7]

32 minutes ago, mowin said:

Garlic.  That will take up one complete raised bed, lol.  My dad grew garlic and had 3 different varieties.  

I planted 275 cloves of garlic. German Xtrhardy gives me the best bulbs. Music City has the best taste. I replant some of my bigger cloves, buy the rest from Johnny Seeds and Hudson Valley Seeds. I get better results from Johnny's.

[2BuckBizCT]

never tried seeds. i go to local farms late May for small plants.

[mowin]

21 minutes ago, corydd7 said:

I planted 275 cloves of garlic. German Xtrhardy gives me the best bulbs. Music City has the best taste. I replant some of my bigger cloves, buy the rest from Johnny Seeds and Hudson Valley Seeds. I get better results from Johnny's.

275....Good lord, that's a lot of garlic. 

[corydd7]

I make jars of garlic confit it's my favorite.  Garlic stores very well for me. I have about 20 bulbs in my back shed from July. 

Shallots are new to me, I'm excited for them.

[G-man]

1 hour ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

never tried seeds. i go to local farms late May for small plants.

Late may is too late.. lol

[Cabin Fever]

I just buy plants.

[2BuckBizCT]

23 minutes ago, G-man said:

Late may is too late.. lol

sometimes mid-may. depends on the weather. too many frosts in early May in prior years

[crappyice]

I will start some jalapeño and cherry peppers soon as well as some seeds I kept from plum tomatoes from Italy.

Normally I do tomatoes but end up with too many of the same variety- how many cherry tomatoes can I eat? I will buy a few varieties from a local shop instead. Cucumbers I'll start as well but not as early as the pepppers

[Robhuntandfish]

I'm just happy to be to talking about planting and spring. 

I buy tomato plants and pepper plants as they just seem to do better than me doing seeds.  And I only plant about 3-4 of each and for the amount of money it's worth it. If I was doing a larger garden then maybe. 

But I did buy swiss chard and green onion seeds already.  

Edited March 1, 2023 by Robhuntandfish