Gardening: (2016– )

[Shelby]

  On 4/11/2025 at 8:50 PM, MaryIsobel said:

My camelia is late blooming this year. I was laid up last fall so it didn't get trimmed but she perserveres!

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Beautiful!

[Shelby]

Ronnie has tons going in the greenhouse.  60 tomatoes are up and I don't know how many peppers.  Hopefully not as many jalapeños as last year.  I still have a lot in the freezer.  

 

Yesterday I planted 300 onion sets--100 each of yellow, white and red.  And 3 rows of radishes.  

 

I did very little today.  I am sore lol.

[gfweb]

  On 4/11/2025 at 9:12 PM, Shelby said:

Ronnie has tons going in the greenhouse.  60 tomatoes are up and I don't know how many peppers.  Hopefully not as many jalapeños as last year.  I still have a lot in the freezer.  

 

Yesterday I planted 300 onion sets--100 each of yellow, white and red.  And 3 rows of radishes.  

 

I did very little today.  I am sore lol.

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Holy cow!

I could never use that many tomatoes and one radish would be a year's consumption for us

 

I figure to plant one or two Celebrity tomatoes and a Sweet 100.  Basil, parsley, dill, rosemary and thyme.

[Shelby]

  On 4/11/2025 at 9:26 PM, gfweb said:

 

Holy cow!

I could never use that many tomatoes and one radish would be a year's consumption for us

 

I figure to plant one or two Celebrity tomatoes and a Sweet 100.  Basil, parsley, dill, rosemary and thyme.

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Right???!!  It gives him something to do in the cold months before fishing .....I think he worries that some won't come up.  We can give some away to family members.  And there are years that we don't get a ton of tomatoes no matter how many we plant.  We so enjoy fresh tomatoes.  I dunno.  I'm scared lol.  

[gfweb]

  On 4/11/2025 at 11:51 PM, Shelby said:

Right???!!  It gives him something to do in the cold months before fishing .....I think he worries that some won't come up.  We can give some away to family members.  And there are years that we don't get a ton of tomatoes no matter how many we plant.  We so enjoy fresh tomatoes.  I dunno.  I'm scared lol.  

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I completely understand the fear. I have a little too.

[FauxPas]

  On 4/11/2025 at 9:12 PM, Shelby said:

Ronnie has tons going in the greenhouse.  60 tomatoes are up and I don't know how many peppers.  Hopefully not as many jalapeños as last year.  I still have a lot in the freezer.  

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My dental hygienist was telling me that her husband planted at least 65 tomato plants last year and she was freezing, canning and dehydrating them up until November. She said she BEGGED him to plant less this year, she took a peek and he's started about 60. So I guess that is less, but still....   🙂

 

 

[gfweb]

  On 4/12/2025 at 1:08 AM, FauxPas said:

 

My dental hygienist was telling me that her husband planted at least 65 tomato plants last year and she was freezing, canning and dehydrating them up until November. She said she BEGGED him to plant less this year, she took a peek and he's started about 60. So I guess that is less, but still....   🙂

 

 

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He'll always have something to do.  Screw around in the garden until the ball game comes on.😃

 

[KennethT]

 

 

I planted some seeds of some dried chillies I brought back from Malaysia recently. These are locally called cabe keriting - which means curly chilli - they're long and skinny and medium heat. I have no idea what they'd be called here. Every seed I tried germinated! I picked the two best ones and set them here. Hopefully it'll be warm enough inside that I get fruit set. If not, I'm thinking about putting a heat mat under it.

 

On the right is a rhizome - sand ginger, or kencur in Indonesian. I harvested all of my previous crop and then replanted just one of the rhizomes.

[chromedome]

Ate the last of the beans and kale from last year's garden last night, unless there's an overlooked bag of tomatoes lurking in the freezer somewhere. Getting to mid-April isn't bad at all. We were able to have at least some of our own homegrown vegetables on the table most nights, to complement the store-bought.

[Shelby]

Took a couple pictures of Ronnie's hard work.  These are out to harden off.  I hope they don't blow away--I've never seen it so consistently windy around here.  I mean it's Kansas.  It's always windy but this is ridiculous.

 

 

These are the little guys still inside