did y'all remember that last friday was twelve weeks to average last frost?! that's the start of the season imho! has everybody who's doing onions got their onions going?!
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jan 7, 2025, 4:01 am • 1 0 • view
here's what i'm gonna do: 12 weeks: leeks celery peas 10 weeks: parsley flowers 8 weeks: peppers tomatoes okra 6 weeks: chervil dill 4 weeks: (out) peas potatoes onion sets (in) cucumbers basil melon 2 weeks: (out) carrots beets etc 0 and on: (out) beans squash sunflowers
jan 7, 2025, 4:17 am • 30 2 • view
have you done okra before? I ax because I had disastrous results starting indoors
jan 7, 2025, 5:04 am • 1 0 • view
i have! i started it in the greenhouse and just kept it in there, same as i'm doing again. maybe yours really hated being transplanted?
jan 7, 2025, 5:13 am • 1 0 • view
it got eaten from the roots up through the stems by fungus gnat larvae! they LOVED it
jan 7, 2025, 5:17 am • 2 0 • view
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jan 7, 2025, 4:51 am • 1 0 • view
fwiw I'm moving the whole vegetable plot 90° southeast in a defiant act of climate resilience. your schedule provides objective framework for evaluating the success of said move, thanks for sharing
jan 7, 2025, 4:54 am • 1 0 • view
oh tell me more about how this shift is about climate resilience!
jan 7, 2025, 5:06 am • 2 0 • view
extreme weather is burning things to a crisp on the westside, mostly. I need more moderate late afternoon temps. portland feels like Zone 11 in the summers anymore
jan 7, 2025, 5:10 am • 2 0 • view
ah, yeah, totally. My house faces west and it took me like seven years to figure out what to plant by the front door that wouldn’t just die of blast furnace afternoon temps. definitely almost all veg crops need relief from that
jan 7, 2025, 5:14 am • 1 0 • view
rosemary i bet
jan 7, 2025, 5:15 am • 1 0 • view
Or 🌶 or 🍅
jan 7, 2025, 5:16 am • 1 0 • view
my tomatoes did horribly on the west side last two years - I swear they were too cold in am, too hot in pm. gonna see if the south side gives them more constant heat ... ?
jan 7, 2025, 5:30 am • 3 0 • view
mine are on the south side and they always do great. i bet that's the right move
jan 7, 2025, 5:33 am • 3 0 • view
manzanita! but yeah rosemary could have handled it too
jan 7, 2025, 5:16 am • 2 0 • view
I planted a manzanita on the westside last year, too... and some rockweed - both thrived. Also the roses are thriving in the west, so transitioning the old veg beds for more roses.
jan 7, 2025, 5:27 am • 1 0 • view
hell, I even had an Agave near my west-facing front door that would suffer leaf scorch! I ended up planting a tree for (eventual, hopefully) afternoon shade on that area
jan 7, 2025, 5:15 am • 1 0 • view
Do you always start peas indoors? I made quite a tall trellis, so maybe giving them a head start may work
jan 7, 2025, 4:52 am • 1 0 • view
yes but just the first round because the birds are so hungry that time of year they'll rip them up out of the ground! after there's other stuff for the birds to eat i can direct sow later rounds
jan 7, 2025, 4:54 am • 1 0 • view
Hmmm this does have me wondering if I should try sowing my shallots as well. They were very small last year (my first ever attempt). I love this for me. Garden brain activate!
jan 7, 2025, 5:13 am • 1 0 • view
I'm lazy and usually buy starters from the nursery.
jan 7, 2025, 5:34 am • 1 0 • view
if i bought enough starts for how many things i want to grow it would cost like $1000+! plus i like goofing around with the seeds, it gives me something to do in early spring before anything else fun is happening
jan 7, 2025, 5:36 am • 2 0 • view
Small yard, small house. My kid did sprout some cantaloupes last year, though, and they turned out delicious.
jan 7, 2025, 5:48 am • 2 0 • view
Some flowers starting in my Xmas present indoor greenhouse shelves.
jan 7, 2025, 3:57 am • 3 0 • view
i don't think i'm doing any flowers that need that big of a head start this year. what have you got going there? last year i did some lisianthus and that practically needed to get going by the previous halloween
jan 7, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
Snapdragons, gomphrena, bachelor's buttons, etc.
jan 7, 2025, 3:59 am • 1 0 • view
oh god yeah snapdragons take forever!
jan 7, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
I have onions and cauliflower already started (long story) peppers should be next then more alliums might direct sow favas now (should have done this weeks/months ago)
jan 7, 2025, 5:07 am • 1 0 • view
I’m not doing any edibles this year because when we get back into our house is a giant shrug emoji, but I’m doing the HELL out of some flowers. By which I mean I’m shaking wildflower pollinator mix everywhere & hoping for the best.
jan 7, 2025, 4:22 am • 3 0 • view
Crap, forgot to put in the garlic last fall.
jan 7, 2025, 4:52 am • 2 0 • view
Garlic chives count? If so, then yes
jan 7, 2025, 4:20 am • 2 0 • view