Vegetable gardening this growing season?

[1861navy]

Pulled snakeberry away from the Lamb's quarters and chickweed. Thinned the garlic mustard too.
Shaded and thinned some dandelions too. Had a tremendous salad with garlic mustard leaves, buds, violet leaves, flowers, chickweed tops, baby lambs quarters leaves, celery heart, onion, pepper, and sweet garlic mustard dressing.

 

[nate77]

Fresh asparagus just up here also! I expect to have a lot this year, both regular and purple. I'm going to try covering 1 area and go for some white as well.

Wanted some mushrooms with it, but came back with an empty bag

I love morels sauteed with asparagus in butter.

Everybody in my family breads and fries morels, which I think is almost a sin to cover up that great morel flavor with breading and grease.

 

[nate77]

Got my peas, potatoes, onions, and cole crops in the ground.

I also put a 12volt electric fence around my garden to protect it from my dogs, and other garden pests.

 

[teddy12b]

Have any of you planted jerusalem artichokes or sunchokes?

I'm hearing good things about how much food they produce and if you've got the space why not? I'm still relatively new to successful gardening so anyone with real life experience? I hear they get invasive and take over quickly, but I can put them in a field and mow them down if I choose to.

 

[dusty88]

Have any of you planted jerusalem artichokes or sunchokes?

I'm hearing good things about how much food they produce and if you've got the space why not? I'm still relatively new to successful gardening so anyone with real life experience? I hear they get invasive and take over quickly, but I can put them in a field and mow them down if I choose to.

I just picked up a bunch of these bulbs to plant. Hoping they go crazy!

 

[spencer rifle]

I just picked up a bunch of these bulbs to plant. Hoping they go crazy!

No, you don't. They will take over your whole garden. Even a fragment of root will resprout. Putting mats of old carpet over them did not kill them. Containment is difficult, control nearly impossible. And eating them? Meh.

Our rhubarb is up, broccoli and peas are in, potatoes planted, other plants in the starting trays. We are barely tilling this year and planting directly in the old leaf mulch from dumping last year's maple leaves in the garden. We'll see how that works. We also save cardboard to lay between the rows to keep weeds down.

 

[bwframe]

No, you don't. The will take over your whole garden. Even a fragment of root will resprout. Putting mats of old carpet over them did not kill them. Containment is difficult, control nearly impossible...

I planted tansy one year along the edge of potato plants, reportedly a natural way to ward off potato beetles. Big mistake. This self seeding weed went nuts in the preceding years. Everything that wasn't tilled or mowed with regularity was awash with 5 foot tall tansy clumps for +/-100 yards. The yard, the bean field, everything.
(FYI- tansy did not work as suggested on beetles, eggs or larvae. Didn't even slow them down.)

Eventually, I killed off the most of the tansy on my property with persistence and tools and chemicals and fire. My poor neighbors ended up with the results of my mistake though. Years later, I'm sure they still have "wild" tansy replenishing in their the fence rows and creek banks.

Years and a couple moves later this has returned to haunt me. My current neighbors have a live privacy fence between their front yard and mine, tansy of course.

 

[Leadeye]

Raccoon was after my asparagus, that was a new one for me.

 

[bwframe]

Raccoon was after my asparagus, that was a new one for me.

Looks like he was pretty slow with that scattergun too. What did you shoot him with?

 

[teddy12b]

I planted a 5 gallon bucket in my raised bed and put the Jerusalem artichoke in that bucket. The rest of the stuff will be getting planted out back.

 

[Zoub]

Accidental test results today. We have a huge chest freezer in the basement that is dead. Before I went on a trip I cleaned it out and tossed in a single heat mat used for seed germination and a thermometer. This was about 20 days ago. So today I saw it and opened it up. Perfect 78 degrees inside. Now, this is going to be used for controlled temp environment for beer fermenting BUT some seeds are going in this weekend, while I drink an ice cold home brewed Stout. No I don't really like beer and I didn't brew it, but I like good beer and my wife brews it. Our version of a Beer Garden.

 

[dusty88]

No, you don't. They will take over your whole garden. Even a fragment of root will resprout. Putting mats of old carpet over them did not kill them. Containment is difficult, control nearly impossible. And eating them? Meh.

Oh I'm not putting them in the garden

Some will go on a hillside and some will go between fruit trees to see how they work with the rest of the guild/combination I have going. We have ducks and chickens to help eat them also.

I know what you mean though. I have horseradish in my garden. It does possibly help prevent potato pests, but it can take over.

I had my mint plant contained with a bucket (bottom cut out) but after 2 years it "escaped".

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I have mint and garlic chives "on the loose" in my raised beds. I pull up most of the mint each spring when I get the beds ready for planting, but I always miss a few here and there and I let them go until the next spring. The garlic chives were in one clump, and I try to cut off the seed heads before they open, but a few get loose every season.

 

[nate77]

Just planted 4 100' rows of sweet corn tonight, hopefully the ground is warm enough for good germination. I plan on planting 4 more rows in a few weeks to stagger the harvest.

 

[bwframe]

Are you guys getting any rain this, advertised as rainy, weekend? My soil is dry as a bone, cracked and hard as brick.

 

[pudly]

Getting it on-and-off in southern Indy.

 

[mom45]

We've gotten quite a bit in the northern part of the state. Mosquitoes are biting!

 

[SchwansManDan]

Too much other crap going on right now for me to do my regular garden, not the least of which is the county taking over the empty lot next to my house & turning it into a parking lot.

Sooo ... Tomatoes. Peppers. Chives & other herbs. Keep it simple this year & work on a new square foot garden for next season.

 

[bwframe]

Snuck out a few reds this evening, just before dark:

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Nice, BW. I tried the tater condo last year with terrible results. Kept adding stories and compost/peat/soil mix up until it reached 5 feet. Harvested 2 potatoes at the very bottom story. Decided not to try again.