Whatcha Up To???

[majorcatfish]

each pellet is one seed.....

heres johnnys line up of pelleted seeds
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/v-16-pelleted-seeds.aspx?pagesize=15&list=1&pagenum=1

stokes and territorial do not seem to have a pelleted seed page you have to dig for them.

 

[Mr_Yan]

@ErnieCopp Johnnys has pelleted beet seeds but makes no mention of them being seperated down to a single plant start. They're about $4 a package. The beets mention nothing about less thinning required but the lettuce does mention the less thinning feature. The beet pellets do mention them being a large size. My thoughts are these are standard beet seeds coated to a uniform size and shape to better pass through mechanical seeders. From my reading most of the pellets include standard moldicide / fungicides along with some fertilizer but not all pellets contain this.

I have also bought packets of pelleted seeds for peppers and tomatoes off the cardboard racks at big box stores.

 

[Mr_Yan]

I wound up pouring some seed in the palm of my hand and using the tip of my pocket knife blade to lift a couple of seeds at a time and put in each seed depression.

Another idea I have seen and used is a wet tip of a sharpened pencil. Dip the pencil tip in water then touch the pile of seeds and one, maybe two, seeds stick to the tip but easily knock off in the soil.

 

[majorcatfish]

planted these beets last fall one pelleted seed per hole and more planted 2 weeks later in the fore ground


heres what we harvested dec 1

 

[45 ACP]

Very nice

 

[w_r_ranch]

As it is chilly & raining here, I can't do what I want to do so I have to do 'little things'...

I would normally have my potatoes in during the 3rd week of February, that wasn't the case this year for a number of reasons... mostly because I was not able to have their spot ready & to some degree, the extended freezing weather. But they are going in ASAP. I have had them 'chitting' since the day I bought them (no, I am not swearing, LOL!!!). This afternoon I got them all cut & coated them in powdered sulfur (keeps them from rotting) in preparation for planting. They will be the first thing planted, as soon as I can get in there. With 96 plants, planted in a double row, I expect around 250-300 lbs at harvest time.

 

[majorcatfish]

still have another week or so till my 15 lbs of bintje potatoes from potato garden show up. will be in the same boat as you
expect 10-15 lbs per every pound that is planted. any way you look at it thats a lot of baked,mash,pan,fried.soup.dried.

this is the first year i have ordered from them.
http://www.potatogarden.com/

 

[w_r_ranch]

I had to google what a 'bintje' potato was... I grew 'Yukon Gold' one year (which is comparable per what I read), & while they were not as prolific, they were HUGE!!! I would say that a good 30% of them were 10" long & fat... imagine one person eating a whole 'fully dressed' baked potato that size by themselves!!! Lord knows, I tried!!!

 

[whistech]

Mr. Ranch, do you break any of the sprouts off the potato before planting or just plant as is in the picture?

 

[w_r_ranch]

I leave them on, as this is where the potatoes will actually form. This year they are a lot longer than usual because of my delayed planting. We'll see how they do...

 

[whistech]

I leave them on, as this is where the potatoes will actually form. This year they are a lot longer than usual because of my delayed planting. We'll see how they do...

Thank you sir. I enjoy learning from you.

 

[majorcatfish]

beside the sulfur helps out on the soil ph as well

 

[w_r_ranch]

Yep. Potatoes like a slightly acidic soil.

 

[Mike]

still have another week or so till my 15 lbs of bintje potatoes from potato garden show up. will be in the same boat as you
expect 10-15 lbs per every pound that is planted. any way you look at it thats a lot of baked,mash,pan,fried.soup.dried.

this is the first year i have ordered from them.
http://www.potatogarden.com/

Interested to see how this garden works out for you. I'm actually planning on ordering some burlap potato bags next week.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Still too wet to form rows... so my morning coffee went like this:

Mrs Ranch: "Are you going to work in the garden today???"
Me: "No, it's too wet."
Mrs Ranch: "Good. Then you can work on my front flower beds."
Me: "What's in it for me?"
Mrs Ranch: "I'll squeeze the limes for your margarita."
Me: "Good deal!!!"

I did what she wanted... plus I mulched them, 16 trees & her back porch pots. I also applied Ironite to everything. I write this as I suck down a frozen margarita... I'll see if I can cut the same deal tomorrow for the back flowerbeds, LOL!!!

 

[majorcatfish]

the wife and i have a understanding, she does not mess with the garden and i don't mess with the flowers works well.
by the way sam thanks for mentioning sulphur, checked the bucket this morning slap empty so it was added for todays shopping list
starter soil
sulphur
greensand
plastic netting

 

[Mr_Yan]

The last weekend in March and first warmish weekend of the year. I pruned a bunch of things:

• the peach tree and tied some more branches down in hopes of training the shape
• grape vine
• privet hedge - I again managed this without cutting the extension cord
• maple tree out front under the power lines

I now have four large bundles of sticks for when the yard waste pick up starts again.

 

[ErnieCopp]

Pruned my Mexican Lime tree, with the new electric hedge trimmer. I think the growth this year wil finally cover all the Frost damage from two winters ago.
Tip layered a Concord Grape. Just delighted with the growth already of some vines i tiplayered last year, but a cuttinng from last year did real well too. Looks like a million grapes this year but too tiny now to count so maybe only a thousand.
Will get my melons planted tomorrow when my helper is here, That one rain we had three weeks ago has just done wonders for everything. It was a pretty sorry looking outfit until that happened. God's water does about 4 times as much good as what we get from the Local Water District.

Ernie

 

[w_r_ranch]

Unloaded all the mushroom compost & got it distributed. Still have to till it in & form the rows & it's off to the races!!!

 

[majorcatfish]

sam before you do any planting would like to see inside your greenhouse, looking for ideas to incorporate into next years greenhouse.

 

[w_r_ranch]

I posted a few in the greenhouse forum under a thread titled: Here's ours.

I'll post a few more detailed pics as I have time...

 

[w_r_ranch]

Easy day today... just watered the flats in the greenhouse, all the hanging baskets & pots on the porches. Also put the greenhouse furnace away & 'opened' the louvers & top vents. Trying to take it easy as I want to actually work in the garden tomorrow...

 

[45 ACP]

What I nice weekend it was! We were busy with my son's Little League most of the weekend, but I did manage to mulch the garden. That was about it.

 

[majorcatfish]

after getting home took the girls for their walk my lab ava tracked down a black snake sunning itself< now that was entertaining> nola boxer/border collie was more interested in clearing the lawn of rabbit treats. put them back in the house went to the well removed the insulation hooked up the hose and watered all the seeds that was planted friday. got that done mixed up some herbicide and sprayed
around the fence line along the raised beds, asparagus bed,garlic beds the main garden, plus did the potato bed have a good crop of wild onions growing in there.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Tilled for the last time (YEAAAAH!!!!) & then formed the rows in the garden (everything except the 'Melon Patch'). If the weather cooperates, I will start planting tomorrow...





If you wondered why I tilled 12 times, it was to kill any seeds & insects that may have been in the soil. Here is one of the 'volunteers' that my wife said to leave. The State Flower of Texas.