Spring has sprung. Anyone growing anything?

[Ishikawa]

Growing season & my seedlings are starting to grow faster (I start growing them under a light in late winter)

I grow extremely hot exotic hot peppers from India & Trinidad.

Anyone else here grow stuff?

 

[Nebulous]

Nope, but I do have space to do so, just enough to make a small garden if I wanted.

 

[Ishikawa]

I have to plant in pots. Limits the plants. I'd kill to have a back yard. Growing in the ground lets the plant grow to its full potential. Only downside to that is you can't bring the plants under cover when your occasional hail storm or derecho roars through. Still, the plants get much bigger. Here's a pic of my oldest pepper plant, that is extremely hot; a scorpion variety, that I started growing over the winter:

We have a local farmers market this year just 2 blocks from my apt this year. Going to go there tomorrow.

 

[DrLeftover]

We've got a medium sized vegetable garden, and some plants in pots, and several flower beds.

Fortunately, we have a large yard, that gets good sun, and have the time (when the phone doesn't ring with a sudden change of plans for us) to get out and work it.

 

[Jazzy]

I'm growing three varieties of tomatoes in container pots. I have a large yard but the soil is very sandy. Plus, the local wildlife love to eat my plants. I've been doing the container method for a few years now and it's working out great. The pots are on my deck so they are safe from the plant munching animals.

 

[Nebulous]

I actually did some pretty extensive yard work in my back yard. I borrowed some equipment from work and chopped down a tree, cut all the branches off two other trees and chopped down a wild pesky / pain of a grapevine (still need to dig out the stump). My backyard is pretty much empty now and I can plant back there whatever I want. I need to start watering it so the grass comes back. It seems so much bigger back there after I removed some large trees/plants.

 

[DrLeftover]

The baby bunny rabbits had a feast on our zucchini and tomatoes. But the plants that survived their feeding frenzy are doing good.

 

[Nebulous]

I kinda wanna get a above ground pool to lay in, should put a tarp down under it because it's pretty dryed out and pointy back there right now.

 

[Jazzy]

I kinda wanna get a above ground pool to lay in, should put a tarp down under it because it's pretty dryed out and pointy back there right now.

Wouldn't it be a heck of a lot cheaper to go lay in your bath tub?

 

[Nebulous]

I kinda wanna get a above ground pool to lay in, should put a tarp down under it because it's pretty dryed out and pointy back there right now.

Wouldn't it be a heck of a lot cheaper to go lay in your bath tub?

That's not the same.

 

[Ishikawa]

just put the last of my plants outdoors. They do best out there in Mother Nature. I start them indoors, in the early part of the season when its too cold to germinate, then move them outdoors after they branch a couple of times.

 

[Ishikawa]

my plants have been fully acclimated ("hardened-off" as they say in gardening parlance) for a month or so now. Here's a family portrait:

on Flickr

 

[Icetex]

"My new Red Rose Bush"
and breaking off old dead branches of my yellow rose bush
For new growth
so far successful
also i had replant yearly plant because weeds over growing this new garden spot
also last year almost accidentally kill off my mint plant because grow like a weed
strange tho
lucky still some left
My pink rose bush on another hand has new growth and broke off some old branches
from last winter that killed the branches
still have cut back bushes tho

 

[Ishikawa]

pruning seemed harsh to me until I saw the new growth appear where the plants were pruned. It helps them spread out laterally.

 

[Nebulous]

I actually did some pretty extensive yard work in my back yard. I borrowed some equipment from work and chopped down a tree, cut all the branches off two other trees and chopped down a wild pesky / pain of a grapevine (still need to dig out the stump). My backyard is pretty much empty now and I can plant back there whatever I want. I need to start watering it so the grass comes back. It seems so much bigger back there after I removed some large trees/plants.

Dug out that pesky grapevine stump.

I've also been watering the backyard regularly since then and now I have a nice green lawn once again!

 

[Ishikawa]

been lucky these last few days. Haven't had any prolonged storms or heat waves.