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Where's my cold weather growers at? (self.gardening)

submitted 1 year ago by SchmidtGenetics to c/gardening

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It’s about 2 weeks until I start germinating some of my plants to go outside. They go out the last week of May, there’s usually a frost near the end of May. Squashes and other long plants don’t do so well here.

So what’s in everyone minds to get going this year? I usually try to get some cucumbers if they can finish in time, as well as tomatoes, peppers, peas, carrots and lettuce.

An early unexpected frost took my peppers and tomatoes last year unfortunately.

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[–] aegis_sum 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm making some big changes to the garden this year. Went from several small raised beds adding up to about 70 sqft to two large wood beds with about 110 sqft.

I'm in 6b and started seeds inside a week or so ago, mostly cold resistant stuff like kale and cabbage. I figured it would take a couple weeks for them to germinate, but of course they all sprouted within a few days and now I'm trying to keep them alive until it's warm enough to go outside. I even ended up buying a cheap plastic greenhouse to have enough space.

Generally, I do a lot of tomatoes and peppers, as well as some squashes, onions, carrots, and beans. Grew potatoes last year on a whim in a cloth planter and it worked really well, so I'll be trying that again.

I'm going to try and grow corn this year. I know it's not ideal for such a small garden, but I ordered some seeds that are supposedly good for patio gardening so I hope they'll do ok.

I'm hoping to add a ton of native flowers too, gotta get those pollinators.

[–] SchmidtGenetics 3 points 1 year ago

Nice! I was in the middle of expanding last year and got a hernia in still waiting to get looked at, yay health care, so avoiding extra curricular stuff for right now unfortunately.

3a-4b if I started my stuff now I would have monsters by the end of May, stuff starts getting hardened beginning of May temp depending though. I did start some tomatoes last week to go in my indoor tent though, so it’ll let me know if my timings off since it’s 3 weeks ahead.

All else fails buy some decent established plants from the nursery’s or hardware store.

Ohh potatoes, I did one of those tiered planters, frost got it before they were done -.- but that’s life.

The expansion I am working on is along a E\W fence line on the N side, so I think some corn or some sunflowers will do nicely if they don’t get too leggy first.

[–] ThrowawaySobriquet 2 points 1 year ago

We're gonna try flowers this year, too. Got a good deal on pots and I've marked off an area under a tree in my yard that we're gonna seed and hopefully make a little meadow. What sort of beans do you do?