How Does Your Garden Grow??????
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too larry
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I planted Habs, Cayenne, and more bells on 12/26. All saved seeds. I used the last of my bought Cayenne last year. I've been growing off the same hab seeds, all from one pepper, for the last several years.
Also homestead, rainbow heirloom mix and climbing tomatoes.
Also homestead, rainbow heirloom mix and climbing tomatoes.
too larry
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Sand does have it's advantages. But I've already had a couple of cave-ins where I stepped too close to the edge.
xtsho
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There's not much to it. I've been starting onions from seed for the last couple of years. I like to get them started mid summer so they're big enough to plant at the end of summer / fall because I overwinter them. They're pretty hardy once they get around six inches tall. You can start them from seed in the spring as well. I like to overwinter them because I use the tops for green onion all winter long.
I just do a broadcast sowing in a standard nursery tray with a couple inches of soil. Then sprinkle just enough fine soil to cover the seeds. Keep it moist and watch them grow. You don't need any special soil to start them in. I use whatever I have a bag open of and screen it to get the big chunks out.
These are Red Torpedo and Walla Walla Sweet's sown from seed sometime in July and picture taken September 3rd.
Here they are planted and overwintering in the garden. This picture was taken December 24th.
These Walla Walla's harvested last summer were started from seed.
Bareback
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thank you brother. I have a lot trouble with sets . The ground gets so hard that the onions can’t grow so this year I’m going to try a raised bed with some soil that shouldn’t compress but hydration well be the next thing. Maybe I’ll get it figured out.There's not much to it. I've been starting onions from seed for the last couple of years. I like to get them started mid summer so they're big enough to plant at the end of summer / fall because I overwinter them. They're pretty hardy once they get around six inches tall. You can start them from seed in the spring as well. I like to overwinter them because I use the tops for green onion all winter long.
I just do a broadcast sowing in a standard nursery tray with a couple inches of soil. Then sprinkle just enough fine soil to cover the seeds. Keep it moist and watch them grow. You don't need any special soil to start them in. I use whatever I have a bag open of and screen it to get the big chunks out.
These are Red Torpedo and Walla Walla Sweet's sown from seed sometime in July and picture taken September 3rd.
Here they are planted and overwintering in the garden. This picture was taken December 24th.
These Walla Walla's harvested last summer were started from seed.
too larry
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You SoE guys are making me green with envy. I've got pepper and tomato sprouts already. But I had a big white frost this morning. My underground green house is too full already, and I don;t have any peppers cupped up yet. I said I was going to cull about half, but I ended up only culling a few tomato plants.
SPLFreak808
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Zucchini,marigold seedlings,burpee ambrosia cantaloupe & hopefully sweet corn.
First time with zucchini, waiting for some female flowers.
I lost a lot of plants this year, mostly sweet peppers & some eggplants, we have had some crazy rain & wind, its still going & snapped a whole 25ft tree from the stalk, almost cleaned out all my plants lol, just finished cutting that thing into pieces.
First time with zucchini, waiting for some female flowers.
I lost a lot of plants this year, mostly sweet peppers & some eggplants, we have had some crazy rain & wind, its still going & snapped a whole 25ft tree from the stalk, almost cleaned out all my plants lol, just finished cutting that thing into pieces.
Bareback
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Was the tree a mimosa?
SPLFreak808
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It was an eucalyptus tree
xtsho
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The problem I have with sets is that I have a problem with them bolting early. That and the limited varieties available. I only had two or three bolt last summer from onions I started from seed. I get upwards of 25% when I've grown them from sets. But the main reason I like growing from seed is the amount of different varieties available.
Good luck.
Bareback
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Seeds just showed up in stores yesterday, I was picking out more stuff than I can grow as usual, when I hear a lady laughing, she then said I was the first to pic through and I better get what I wanted because it would be bare in a week or so.
