2022 Garden Thread

Dr. Magill said:
That seems to be the issue
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Been through it with the municpality and the state with my design for the City of Washougal along state hwy 14. Basalt was my choice but instead after a great amount of red tape notched breakaway posts. There were 2 sins i designed and had installed along that hwy and about 6 months after the final install sure as sheet some drunk arse idiot careened 35 feet off the hwy and sheared one off… the signs are 1/2” anodized waterjet cut core ten
steel mounted to 8” stacked logs and ito the ground with 10” x 10 posts - notched in back to break away if impacted. The guy did not die.
 
What a nice day to work in the garden...
 
Mossback said:
What a nice day to work in the garden...
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I was thinking about buying my tomato plants on my way home.
Put them out on nice days and bring them in at night. I’ve done that the past few years with decent success starting in early to mid May.
I’ll pass on buying them today….. ;)
SF
 
Stonedfish said:
I was thinking about buying my tomato plants on my way home.
Put them out on nice days and bring them in at night. I’ve done that the past few years with decent success starting in early to mid May.
I’ll pass on buying them today….. ;)
SF
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I harden off my tomatoes first over the course of a week- out for a few hours and back. We are having on average the chilliest spring since 1979 here in Sw. Wa. I have been gardening only organically since 1979. I always thought of keeping a garden diary. Now I wish I had. But I do remember a lot. I have seen the set out and pull out dates shift later in spring and fall by about 3-4 weeks later of that course of time. Yet I still find here that it is an ideal area to plan and have a vegetable garden year round. I will be starting the harvesting of leeks, and biennial sprouting broccoli very soon. A lot of rain this month. My peas are 5’ tall and yet to blossom.
 
We are going to not grow them at the scale we usually do this year. We'll do a few outside, but the hoop house is taken down and in the barn for the season. We are growing root vegetables in the tomato beds this year, stuff we can leave in the ground into winter.
It's pretty much a rainy shit ass cold day....again.
I'd plant cabbage today, but not going outside anymore today.
;)
 
One thing I have seen more of this spring has been bees, which is good.
They've been kind of absent or not many around this time at my place the past few years.
This year the pollen seems to be epic at my place. Maybe connected to more bees being around?
SF
 
Mossback said:
We are going to not grow them at the scale we usually do this year. We'll do a few outside, but the hoop house is taken down and in the barn for the season. We are growing root vegetables in the tomato beds this year, stuff we can leave in the ground into winter.
It's pretty much a rainy shit ass cold day....again.
I'd plant cabbage today, but not going outside anymore today.
;)
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Yeah nasty day here but I am out there daily. Transplanted sected tomatoes in larger pots in the greenhouse
 
Stonedfish said:
One thing I have seen more of this spring has been bees, which is good.
They've been kind of absent or not many around this time at my place the past few years.
This year the pollen seems to be epic at my place. Maybe connected to more bees being around?
SF
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I have raised mason bees for 25 years - easy to do. They seem to come out of rheir tubes to swarm on the first good warm consecutive days - that was about a month ago. Since then it has been primarily shitty and wet here so the hive mind is collectively thinking “this sucks big time!” And “ well there is always next year as they mud back in for another 9 months
 
It's a balmy 46 degrees and raining hard here...
The slugs are happy, but with soil temps just barely above 51, I'm thinking there's bound to be a better day to plant. Seedhouse is full of stuff ready to go, just hoping I can avoid potting up again before I clear it out.
 
The farmstand is well stocked....with things you can't put outside yet.

😆
 
Mossback said:
It's a balmy 46 degrees and raining hard here...
The slugs are happy, but with soil temps just barely above 51, I'm thinking there's bound to be a better day to plant. Seedhouse is full of stuff ready to go, just hoping I can avoid potting up again before I clear it out.
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I decided the end of May was when they go out here. People on online gardening sites are going nuts with questions but most seem to believe everything on the web, not vetting the right sources. Some new gardeners freak out about having to wait to plant. The annual event. Gardening is about timing, a accrued knowledge through research, understand your soil and watching the weather, flexibility and above all patience. There a “few” other things too I suppose… ;)
 
So I posted the top picture on Monday in this thread. I repaired the corner which had been run over a few times.
My handy work only lasted three days.
You’d think if a tow truck is required to remove the garbage or recycling truck and property is damaged the they would at least leave me a note.
Nope, the only note I got was from my work at home neighbor who just sent me pictures.
SF

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Stonedfish said:
So I posted the top picture on Monday in this thread. I repaired the corner which had been run over a few times.
My handy work only lasted three days.
You’d think if a tow truck is required to remove the garbage or recycling truck and property is damaged the they would at least leave me a note.
Nope, the only note I got was from my work at home neighbor who just sent me pictures.
SF

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You call them or write a letter.
They are going to try to not handle it, but out here the garbage dude did something similar multiple times at one of my sites.
We got the pics, and when they said sorry not us, we sent them copies and cc'd the owners attorney, so they could see we weren't going away easy.
Worked out ok, took like 6 months though.
 
Similar situation... I had a house on a curve in a main road in Portland. The road had the section of grass/dirt/weeds between the road and the sidewalk then the yard. About a 4 foot wide strip. So I did what a lot of others do and decided to make it pretty, dug all the nasty out, replaced with good soil, leveled, planted wildflower seeds then put up short stakes with flagging tape to keep people and dogs off while it sprouted. About a week later a tractor trailer drove right through it.
 
I planted Sorrento broccoli raab about 6 weeks ago. It didn't grow much, then 2 days ago formed flower buds and is on the verge of bolting. I'm gonna harvest and eat it, but there's barely enough for a side to 1 person's dinner. Gonna replant and see how round 2 goes IMG_20220512_194638.jpg
 
Gary Knowels said:
I planted Sorrento broccoli raab about 6 weeks ago. It didn't grow much, then 2 days ago formed flower buds and is on the verge of bolting. I'm gonna harvest and eat it, but there's barely enough for a side to 1 person's dinner. Gonna replant and see how round 2 goes View attachment 14208
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I have 40 biennial purple sprouting broccoli plants. The seed is an heirloom sort and it always excels. I have grown broc raab before which has a slight bitter bite to it compared to my sprouting broc which leans slightly to the sweet side. You might try over wintering the BPSB which i plant in ground in early Sept here. Pickingnow or soon to
 
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