Plans for the spring?

[gumbogumbo]

What are you all planning for this spring? I'm thinking cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, and strawberries for me. Marigolds to fend away a bug or two. I only container garden, so I have to get myself a decent trellis before the season starts. Maybe this year I'll actually use compost. What about you?

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[sporky_rat]

Well, today was going to be finish with the raised beds, but the incredible amount of rain stopped that plan.

I'm looking at tomatoes (of course), carrots in a month or so getting started (I live in a subtropical area, they don't get much time), melons, and a few small dye plants (safflower and whatnot).

[robby]

I still have tomatoes ripening! We haven't had a freeze.

I plan on planting onions and peas in early March. I plan on sending away for hops rhisomes, so I can make beer later in the year.

[cyprinella]

I have compost! So much compost! I actually have a problem where my compost is too N heavy because it's all poultry manure and straw. I'm really hoping the couple of bags of bone meal I've dumped in there will help balance things out. Last year my tomato plants were huge and leafy and never set any fruit.

But otherwise I haven't looked at my seed spreadsheet yet. I usually wait until I get the seed catalogs after the first of the year.

[slashmarks]

I'm trying to figure out what I can reasonably do indoors with a tree blocking the light from the windows, since I live in an apartment with no balcony. I'm considering shelling out for full spectrum lightbulbs and some extra lamps, though. Anyone have advice for indoor container gardening?

[kailing]

i think we have finally had enough time here that we are going to [budget permitting] rip things out of the back 'garden' and put in some raised beds and grow things again. not looking forward to the work, but def looking forward to homegrown vegs again!

[jottingprosaist]

I'm frustrated and disappointed at the very limited garden space available to me at my rental home. The only "garden" space in the yard is overgrown with bushes and trees. I've done my best to prune them back, even though what I really want to do is rip out half of the young elms that probably sprouted by accident and grew from neglect (Previous tenant AND landlord both didn't give a shit, based on the way I found this place. :/ )

Anyway. I have some bulbs planted in what little dirt remains available, so hopefully spring will bring daffodils! Plus marigolds, herbs, and jalapeno peppers in my pots. Definitely catgrass for the furbaby.

Fingers crossed that I'll be able to convince my landlord to let me rip out a strip of grass beside the driveway for a flowerbed. Then I'll go dig up a few clumps of wildflowers from beside the highway, and voila-- hardy climate-adjusted flowers, for free.

[bridgetmkennitt]

I'm not sure yet, to be honest. I've been thinking of lavender and some herbs, but I haven't narrowed anything down. I'll probably decide after going to a plant sale or two.

[angrboda]

I've got my primula seeds in, because too many primulas are never enough. Last year's primulas all died from the drought and my forgetfulness, with the exception of one tiny and extremely lucky plant that I'm honestly not convinced is 100% out of the woods. So I've bought almost exactly the same seeds as last year, except one that was sold out.

I also want to put some hardy geraniums in somewhere. I discussed it with Husband and he had some suggestions for places they could go. I don't think those will be from seed.

Finally, still dithering on the iris question. I know I'd like some, I just have no idea whether they could actually live in our garden. Husband thinks our soil might be too dry for them, because the ones his parents have like a boggy area. But I know someone who grows them in her garden in Texas, and it's all very confusing. I think if I see some at a reasonable price I'll just try it and see what happens.

[mdehners]

Due to my limited space I've only been Growing culinary Herbs, fragrant flowers and Fruit trees. I don't Cook as much SE Asian cuisine as I used to and have got rid of my Lemon grass plants and are deciding if I'll give my Turmeric and Galangal plants away in Spring totally instead of just starts.
I've added a 'Green Ischia' Fig to my fruit trees. Originally, it was to replace a nonproductive Persimmon but it's so small I'll give the P another yr.
This month I start some of my Annuals and Biannuals like Sweet Sultan, Sweet Williams and for the last attempt, Foxglove. The latter never make it through the 2nd Spring due to our heat and humidity. My two courtyards are basically patterned after the classic English cottage garden...
Cheers,
Pat(not looking forward to clearing all the Freeze-killed vegetation in the yard)

[tielan]

It's summer here, so I'm in the middle of planting.

This week is going to be: tomatoes (wapsipinicon), beans (snake), lettuce, and possibly leeks and carrots.

And, just on the subject of compost: I cannot sing it's praises enough. I had a couple of compost heaps that I made over winter and just left to degrade, and once the weather heated up, the crops growing in there went BOOM.

Corn, about two weeks after I put the seedlings in (grew the seedlings in seedling trays to about 10cm tall, then planted them out): and they're bigger now.



At this point in time, I'm dealing with way more growing things than I know how to deal with, and the usual issues of making sure everything has enough nutrients and water so the heat won't kill it off. Just planted out seedlings of pumpkins/melons, tomatoes, capiscums (bell peppers), and eggplant this morning, and have a bunch more to do in the coming week.

And otherwise I have to start working out how to eat zucchini. We have a lot of it. A LOT OF IT.