Probably my favorite green I have grown so far - Red Kamotsuna
Also can’t wait to get my GreenStalk vertical garden I ordered this week along with a bunch of new veggies and flowers.
Green stalk garden showed up today. Put it together and filled it with good potting soil and compost. Seeds are on the way from Baker Creek. First up is going to be some flowers, Thai basil, beets etc. have Datil and other hot peppers for when it warms up a bit.
Improvised seed starting area:
Reused a full spectrum grow light from a fish tank not currently in use.
I will never question you being an engineer after seeing that European inspired grow light stand. Bonus points for planer in photo. Haha
I still cant get vertical greenhouse out of my mind.
Yeah, I don’t really have a woodworking bench - just a catch all bench. I will admit I spend more time restoring planes than actually using them.
Attempted radishes over the last month plus. Supposed to be 23 day radishes but no bulbs formed even after 40 days or so.
Gave up and turned them under with some bokashi composted kitchen scraps in my raised bed. Time to let it sit for two weeks before planting out hot peppers.
Love growing bush beans … always have great results … a lot of bang for your buck …
Also love pepper plants too … I usually grow cayenne (for powder and hot sauce), jalapenos (for pickled japs and just eating with eggs) and sweet bells … I’m planning on plobanos this year (bc I love stuffed poblanos)
Only thing I’ve started so far is onions (in flats in the cellar right now … have about 50 … 25 red and 25 yellow) and garlic (already in the ground … all looking good).
I have about a couple weeks to a month before I start all my other plants ( lettuce kale tomato squash etc) already got the spacing planned out
I have already been temperatured out of kale and other brassicas. Still trying to hang on to some struggling Merlot lettuce, but I don’t think will go anywhere.
I planted Malabar Spinach, bitter Mellon, ground cherries, and lemon balm too. Most of those are still seedlings except for the lemon balm.
I planted quite a few flowers this year too. Planning to interplant alyssum flowers (dwarf) under those peppers once they grow up a bit.
I’m still in the planning stages this year because, as has been the case lately, the weather is freaking insane. It’s in the 30s today and expected to be in the 60s on Sunday, and we’ve been having wild ups and downs like that for the past month.
Still, I’ve got the bed mapped out for this year and should be getting the seeds started ASAP (a little behind schedule on that). I’m trying the Planter app to help keep track of stuff since I’ve sucked at logging info in a book. It’s free and seems pretty decent, but I might splurge $9.99 for a year’s upgrade to get more use out of it.
One cool resource I did recently find/re-discover is a series of vids from Oregon State University. Back in early 2020, OSU made their Master Gardener course available free to everyone (I think it’s a couple hundred bucks usually) since so many newbies were getting into pandemic gardening.
There are a ton of videos on all sorts of stuff, definitely worth checking out and picking up some refreshers or tips: https://www.youtube.com/c/ClackCoTV/search?query=osu
Given the success of our previous pumpkin patch, the kiddo and I went out in december when the pumpkins had frozen and became mushy and threw them into a few patches of broken ground throughout the yard.
We’re going to do the same with some tomatoes too, because they did surprisingly well despit the tumult of pumpkin vines running them over.
Might need to try that app out … I just have notebooks which I don’t keep organized in any discernable way
Nothing to really speak of in the way of veggies yet. Just a few green beans and some Asian greens.
However; my balsam and nasturtiums are blooming well following all the rain we had here last week.
Looking good man … I revamped one of my raised beds … replaced it with a birdies corrugated metal … looks good but don’t have any veggies in it yet … still too cold to transplant what I have planned in there
But my garlic are looking good and about to transplant onions this weekend … have some strawberries transplanted as well but probably won’t harvest any berries until next year.
About to transplant out some spinach kale and bok choy too …
Started some other seeds this past weekend for my tomatoes peppers and other warm season crops
I have peppers, bitter melon, spinning gourd (for the kiddos), dill, lemon balm, and Malabar spinach all growing right now. Trying to grow out some bee balm too but that is going really slow.
I had some ground cherries that were coming in great but heavy rains flooded the container they were in and killed them 
Planting cowpeas and maybe some okra this weekend after some light soil amending with ferts and worm castings.
My bitter melon plant. This is only about 35 days of growth.
Vines are probably ten feet long already (bamboo stakes are 6’ for reference). Red Malabar spinach on the right.
Now you’re talking! @ChickenLittle ^^^ PS those peas fix nitrogen, so fertilize accordingly.
Purple Hulls are the cow peas I like the best.
It’s great reading the variety of plantings here.
We haven’t had any rain in months. Lots of deer hanging around for water. I am sitting this year out. I am going to plant a few things in containers but that’s it.
Just too dry.
I added some light 3-4-3 mix and some worm castings to my container (I think it’s about 25 gallons) before planting the cowpeas today just to get them off to a good start (container is 2 years old and I have changed out the soil). I ordered a “whippoorwill” cowpea variety from southern exposure seed exchange. Hopefully it does well.
Today I also harvested out a bunch of tatsoi that was hanging on but starting to get bug ate. Froze about 6L for stir fry use (stuff kind of taste like bok Choy).
Was in Bulverde, San Antonio, and Austin this week. It did look dry as a cob, but there was a shower one early morning…
I am container gardening this year also, but parents have about 4 kids pools going.
Wasn’t Freddy eating your crop last year too? He is beautiful though.
