Anyone Growing a Garden This Year?

They say CA has one year of water left. Some farmers are selling there share of water instead of growing crops. I have read that the crops could be cut by 1/3. This will send the prices up, so good time to grow..

I always grow a garden.

I would love to... if only this snow melts by Memorial day

I had at least 60 bushel of tomatoes hailed out with all the plants last year. Gone in one minute. Im taking a year off except what I want to eat myself. I have several fruit trees too, and grapes, and strawberries. I'll plant potatoes, beans, and beets. Maybe sweetcorn. An easy year for me.

Is it too soon to start tomato plants indoor's ?

I would have to say so. We usually start ours indoors around May, and they're all too big before Memorial Day - I like to plant after Memorial Day, so they don't freeze to death. One year we started them in March. Big mistake. Every single one croaked. Learning curve ...

Still 2' of snow on our garden, but at least I can see the wooden stakes for the fence now. Before, the tops of those were buried under 4" of snow - they stand over 3' high!

We never have time for a garden, but we still do it anyway. Laid plastic down a couple years ago - best thing we ever did. Cuts down on the maintenance big time. It tends to get very neglected here.

Gotta do my cukes, swiss chard (favorite!), radishes, tomatoes, and either summer squash or zucchini. Sometimes by the time I get around to the garden, there's 5 lb. Zukes out there ... HAHAHA!

Yeah, I miss squash and suddenly find whales on my plants... I think this year I will plant a lot less squash. I love greens and they tend to be so easy: collards, mustard, kale, chard. I am fed up with tomatoes; so much work, so much space, so unreliable. Might try some corn. We live in the city and don't have a lot of space, a few years ago I bedded out the entire front yard with peppers, eggplants, greens, and tomatoes. Let everything grow quite lush. My neighbors thought I was nuts. Surprisingly, not much was stolen.

This will be out second year here and our second garden, plus a pumpkin patch I think.

We will definitely be gardening again,it's a must for us.

For all who love to garden please read the benefits of Epsom salts in the garden. If you're not convinced do an experiment with a few pepper plants and watch the dramatic difference in color, flavor, plant health and yield...truly amazing

How about road salt? We've got an abundance of that *censored* around here this year ...

SMITTY wrote:How about road salt? We've got an abundance of that *censored* around here this year ...

LMAO

I started my tomato seed 5 weeks before planting and wish I'd went 6 weeks or longer last year. I transplant them 1 or 2 times before planting though. it really doesnt matter a super lot how big they get, to a point, before planting as long as they are healthy. Its always a crap shoot regardless of how you do it. whatever works, works. Everyone does it different, just like our stoves.

Garden for Shure, garlic been in and sprouted since fall, just bought (shipped from maine) potatoes, maze, pumpkins, some seeds saved from last years plants, kale tomatoes, etc. do not have the time as well but it seems to get done.

been buyin seeds and plottin layout of garden already bout an acres worth !!!!!!!!!!!