THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

[raiquee]

May I join the challenge ladies?

I have two small gardens...one is 12x25 foot....the other is...3x25ish? I have things that come back in the 12x25 (raspberries, blueberries, grapes, strawberries, rhubarb, sage, chives, soon to be asparagus...)

I have a lot of goals this year..here they are:
Do 3-season gardening! (spring, summer, fall) rather than plant everything in June and leaving it until it dies with first frost! lol.
Grow from seed (I usually do plant starts, but thats pricey!)
Grow more per sq than last year
Actually keep up with my gardening (I am preggo and due end of April)

I have been mulling over my seed catalog and what i'm growing...I am waiting to hear if I got a job before putting in my seed order I will post that stuff once I get it finalized....

 

[TanksHill]

All heirloom tomatoes this year.


I even have some squash comming up.

 

[raiquee]

Okay, heres my list....

Spring:
Red Butterhead- Skyphos
Carrots- Mokum
Bok Choy- Joi Choi
Radishes- French Breakfast
Spinach- Corvair
Mesculin Mix- Mild
Plant asparagus crowns (6 total)
Strawberry plants (25 plants) adding to my strawberry patch

Summer:
Cucumbers- Pickling- Alibi
Cucumbers- Slicing- Diva
Eggplant- Rosa Bianca
Eggplant- Fairy Tale (I had great luck with these, and they are small and cute!)
Eggplant- Nadia
Leeks- Megaton
Cantalope- Sarah's choice
Sugar Snap Peas- Sugar Ann
Sweet Red Horn Peppers- Carmen
Poblano Peppers
Jalepeno Peppers
Zuchinni- Bush Baby
Tomatoes- San Marzano
Tomatoes- Roma
Tomatoes- Heirloom- Striped German
Tomatoes- Heirloom- Black Krim
Tomatoes- Cherry
Tomatoes- Grape
Tomatoes- Beefsteak
Watermelon- Sugar Baby

Fall:
Brussel Sprouts- Churchill
Broccoli- Arcadia
Rainbow Chard
Bok Choi (Replant from spring)
Mesculin Mix (Replant from spring)
Radishes- Watermelon & easter egg
Carrots- Bolero
Spinach (replant from spring)
Winter Squash- Spaghetti
Garlic

Herbs: (I have a horse trough I plant these in)
Basil-Genovese
Cilantro
Dill
Oregano
Rosemary
thyme
Italian Parsley
Mint
Tarragon
Bay leaf plant
Sage (already in my garden)
Chives (already in my garden)

Things I am unsure about:
Onions
Potatoes

WHEW.

 

[BarredBuff]

May I join the challenge ladies?

Yeah, you can join! BUT me and FarmerJamie are guys

 

[FarmerJamie]

May I join the challenge ladies?

Yeah, you can join! BUT me and FarmerJamie are guys

Thanks, sport!

Cutoff is 9 days and counting...

 

[BarredBuff]

May I join the challenge ladies?

Yeah, you can join! BUT me and FarmerJamie are guys

Thanks, sport!

Cutoff is 9 days and counting...

Yeah thats right I have to get stuff together!

 

[raiquee]

Oh, sorry GUYS.

Here is a picture of my garden plots, during june of last year before we planted.
Here is what I lovingly call the "weed garden" as it was last year...

We put up that lattice, and planted about 6 blueberry and one grape plant against it last year. To the left, there is two raspberry plants, and to the right past the compost bin and out of site is my strawberry patch, sage, chives and the GIGANTIC oak tree that shades most of this "weed garden" lol.

This is my "sun" garden, for the things that demand a lot of sun. Hubby is going to extend it this year, but I am not sure how far. He said its going to make it twice as big, so we will see. This picture was when it was first planted.

I also am doing container planting for herbs and peppers. Possibly also for carrots. I have a horse trough that I am putting all my herbs in (I did a pot last year, and be it small it did really well!), and my peppers NEVER do well, so I am going to try and control their soil this year. Carrots well...I don't feel like having stupid looking ones, so I am going to make a loomy mix We have stairs in our front yard that gets REDICULOUS amounts of sun, so I am going to stagger them on there.

 

[BarredBuff]

Not bad!!!

 

[Wannabefree]

Okay here are my goals for now...subject to minor changes as the season moves along.

10 broccoli plants
100 carrots in containers
sewing leaf lettuce in containers for fresh and chook treats
60 white onions
15 potato plants
4 garlics
sewing turnips for greens broadcast in 10x4 planting area
sewing Spring wheat broadcast 10x10 growing area or more(until I run out of seed)
75 tomatoes Beefsteaks
75 cherry tomatoes
25 Tabasco pepper plants
25 jalapeno plants
10 bell pepper plants
10 strawberry plants
2 blueberry bushes
10 rows of sweet corn
20 rows of feed corn (at neighbors)
100 pole bean plants
20 Moo Cow beans
20 okra plants clemson spineless and cowhorn
10 crookneck squash plants
Basil in containers
20 acorn squash
5 watermelon plants

FORGOT my grapevine! I just got a grapevine I'm going to plant too

That's all I remember right now. I'm sure I have some more seed and family will gift me some other plants, so this is as complete as I can be right now I get to start this week!!!!

 

[BarredBuff]

Hey Cindi

My Goals
175 Sunflower Plants in the old chicken run
(2) 4 by 4 beds with carrots
(12) 45 Ft. Rows of Feed Corn
(12) 45 Ft. Rows of Sweet Corn
(6) 45 Ft. Rows of Potatoes (about 25 lbs of seed)
20 Cabbage Plants
4 by 6 Bed for Cucumbers
100 Heirloom Tomato Plants
6 to 8 Rows of Heirloom Pole Beans
2 45 ft. Rows of Sweet Potatoes
X of Brocoli
8 Okra Plants Clemson Spineless
50 Strawberry Plants
4 by 4 Bed of Lettuce
4 by 6 Bed of Mustard Greens
2 Long Beds of Assorted Bell, Sweet, Bannana, Cayenne, and Jalepeno peppers
4 by 4 Bed of Beets


NOTE: This is subject to change at any time