X's Gardening Journey

[Ruderunner]

I welcome help from the wife, except weeding. She's not very discerning about what she pulls up.

 

[Xraycer]

Now that the fencing is complete, I was ready to get everything out of the mini greenhouse. However, a cold front is moving through, and overnight temps will be in the low 40's. So, waiting for things to warm up again in 5 days.
Some growth progress:

better boy tomato

Yellow potato

Rainbow carrots

Scallion and bok choy

Corn

Kale

Zucchini and mini sweet peppers

Cucumber and green beans

Swiss chard

 

[Meadowlark]

I find its good to protect tomatoes even in low 40's.

 

[Xraycer]

I find its good to protect tomatoes even in low 40's.

Its not usual, here, for overnight temps to be in the 40's, by this time of the year. Hopefully, starting next Wednesday, the overnight temps will start to stay above 50 for the rest of the warm season.

 

[Ruderunner]

corn is something we've dabbled with and decided it's not worth the effort. You only get a couple ears per plant and we just don't have the room to dedicate to it. Unless we do 1 plot in nothing but corn.

but there's plenty of folks around here that do grow corn so we've decided to just get it from them.

 

[Xraycer]

corn is something we've dabbled with and decided it's not worth the effort. You only get a couple ears per plant and we just don't have the room to dedicate to it. Unless we do 1 plot in nothing but corn.

but there's plenty of folks around here that do grow corn so we've decided to just get it from them.

We have really good local corn that hits the farm stand around August, and very inexpensive. Pretty much everything I'm growing is mostly for "the fun of it". To gain experience.

 

[Ruderunner]

Nothing wrong with that, just realize you might get a dozen ears at best.

 

[Xraycer]

Nothing wrong with that, just realize you might get a dozen ears at best.

I'm excited just to see sprouts from seedlings, so I would be ecstatic if I get a dozen ears

 

[Xraycer]

It's getting very warm here, and looking like overnight temps will stay above 50°F from this point on. So, I finally disassembled the mini greenhouse. Laid down 2 layers of weed barrier on the ground, inside my 10'x10' fenced-in garden.
Next project will be to set up drip irrigation on a timer, and trellis planning.

 

[Xraycer]

Decided to use artificial turf for the garden floor. For $50, I like the esthetics much more than the black weed barrier.
The adjustable trellis system, from Amazon, came last night, so today I put it together for the sun sugar tomato plant, the better boy tomato plant, and the cuke and green beans.
After mowing the lawn, today, I'd filled three 15gal grow bags to transplant a few jalapeño seedlings Ive been growing and to soon direct sow onions, watermelon, and cantaloupe.