NFR 2025 Gardening Growing Thread

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Capt Insano Emeritis

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Yeah overdue starting a new thread. Not much news other than i have dug up all our begonia bulb and put in the greenhouse . Raked swept the balance of leaves . Digging another yard of my compost tomorrow and planning greenhouse starting dates . Still have a lot of parsley and oregano growing and shallots , winter stuff all growing swiftly. Favas and biennial broccoli from Sept planting about 30” tall. Temps very very mild . Lowest temp here so far since winter began is about 38-40 degrees. Garlic is taller than usual for January. Narcissus , and other bulbs on there way. Have made a soil amendment list. Will get it in the ground/ raised beds in the next month- 50 lbs cottonseed meal, 25lbs kelp meal, 12 lbs bonemeal , some worm castings(12. Lg bags) maybe ght grab 30 lbs of alfafa pellets. Happy gardening!
 
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Matt B said:
Very nice! Neither my great camas (Camassia leichtlinii) nor my common camas (Camassia quamash) blooms have opened yet, but the biggest great camas' lead stalk is very very close.

There's no scale in your photo but with the apparent size of the inflorescence I would've guessed that is great camas. But, hard to tell from here!

I stumbled on a camas patch (also great camas) in a local park this weekend. I've been going to this park for over 10 years and never noticed them before. I think they must've been planted a year or two ago...which reminds me of a time about a year or two ago when I was playing with the kids at that park, was chasing them and ran full speed down a hillside that now has camas blooming, I hit some kind of hidden hole and rolled my ankle, went down HARD, it was a whole thing with getting the kids (and myself) home etc. I wonder if I stepped in somebody's poorly re-filled camas bulb hole! Anyway, here are some photos of their patch.

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Paging plant nerds...

Can anyone ID these white, lily-like perennials growing next to an old logging road? Can't find them on inaturalist and are far enough from the nearest house makes me suspect they aren't a native.

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I’ve been doing a lot of yard work recently and it’s nice to see a lot more bees around this year. Maybe it’s the nice weather, but there are significantly more at this time of the year at my place than there has been in the past few years.
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I plan to buy my tomato starts tonight. I’ll transplant them into bigger pots and get them going over the next month. Set them out during the day and bring them in at night. They’ll go into the big pots around the first of June.
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Matt B said:
Looks good. Whatcha gonna do for herbivore management?
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Well, I will be building a mini smokehouse, just say'n ;).

I dunno actually. Permanent fence will have to wait. Deer are definitely present but have been wary so far. I'm sure that will change. Have yet to see a rabbit, but not sure if they are hiding, or the omni-present raptors are keeping them in check. At this point squirrels are my main worry.
 
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Stonedfish said:
I plan to buy my tomato starts tonight. I’ll transplant them into bigger pots and get them going over the next month. Set them out during the day and bring them in at night. They’ll go into the big pots around the first of June.
SF
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Just picked up my 3 Sun Gold tomatoes at Fred Meyer today. Only tomato I ever grow, for the past 15 years. (Except last year I also tried SunSugar, but I don't plan to repeat that one again.)
 
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SilverFly said:
Cobbled together a red-neck rock rake to tackle the Missoula Flood deposits that we're living on. Works pretty good once the ground is softened a bit with a pick axe. That's turned out to be the most essential yard tool by far. That and a rock screen using 1/2" hardware cloth. View attachment 151885View attachment 151886
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Good thinking” this -while yard of ours is clay and rock so a lot of screening and raking happens here too
 
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Just helped redo my mother's garden boxes, the 2x12s finally rotted out after 15+ years so now its freshly done and ready for planting, the first round of peas are coming up, need to get the trellis frames back up soon
 
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