I just want to hear what all people are up to. I am in Maryland 7b, my spring garden is going, I am starting a new plot in my community garden, moving a native flower bed to do so, I redid my front yards garden, built a fence, retaining wall, brick pad for a rain barrel coming next Sunday, and I can finally stop shuffling plants in an out, the weather is going to stay about 50F and so yesterday I built a plant table. I only have a few things left to start indoors, then I can be almost exclusively outside with the exception of cannabis and brassica transplants I need to start indoors may, June, and July. My plants can harden off now, some already have been, I am had just been waiting to plant.
Oh and I started collecting Japanese maple seedlings because why not add another thing to the crazy amount of gardening I have going on!
Please share photos and your experiences!
Picture are of plants and some of the gardens I am moving around in my community park and community garden. My front is still very much a work in progress, an azalea I transplanted just blew over two nights ago in a storm, so I get to do that again. God I love it!
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Weird, some pictures got left off
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Another one!
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Love my new plant table!
Running 185 seedlings in and out of the house has me exhausted!
To be honest I’m jealous of that fort in the background and I’m in my 40s….
6b. I’m really, REALLY tired of dealing with my seedlings and they all desperately need to get into the ground. The weather’s been extremely inconsistent, so I’m way behind on prepping all the beds so they can get in the ground. Finally made some progress this weekend, but didn’t make much of a dent in the absurd amount of seedlings I grew. At least now it’s warm enough out and they’re all hardened off, so I can just leave them outside instead of moving them in and out every day. I’m looking forward to being exhausted from dealing with the actual garden.
looks fabulous!
I’m already exhausted too. Because of a surgery scheduled in late February, I started all of my tomatoes/peppers/eggplants inside right before my surgery date. I’m all back to normal now, but I have sooooo many seedlings in my front south facing windows (only two rooms with those; one 8′ table and one 4′ table just packed with plants). 14 varieties of tomatoes, 18 varieties of peppers and 5 varieties of eggplants.
I have 120 coleus plants potted up inside on a rack under lights. I pinched them back this week, so I have many of the tops in jars of water in the kitchen, trying to root those. Because 120 is not enough?
I had a very lovely greenhouse built and they just finished this weekend. I still need to have my husband install the vent screens but then I should be able to move the tables out to the greenhouse. I haven’t plugged in the ceramic heater or the fan but will do that this week. I’m not quite able to assemble the tables that go in the greenhouse on my own, so I’ll need to bug him about it. But it’ll be 20′ x 2′ of table space, plus a sink, with shelves underneath much of it. I plan on spending much of my free time out there.
I just redid my herb plantings yesterday. We redid our backyard last year, so all of herbs were pulled out. I replanted with ones that I either bought or grew from seed, and split them between four planters (each planter is 7’x2′). The two planters that are on the south end of the patio get very warm – they make up the wall for a change in height, so the patio-facing side of the planter is 18″ high but the other side is 3′ high and like I said, faces south. There is so much heat gain with those two planters that I was just battling keeping the herbs alive all summer, meanwhile, the other two beds had thriving plants. So yesterday I just decided to consolidate all the herbs into the two north side planters and will instead plant some seasonal items this summer – probably sweet potatoes on the front 1′ and hot peppers along the back 1′ of the planters – and see how they do. If they still struggle, I may just put succulents in those planters, lol.
I am–but it’s a good kind of exhausted. Mostly because the weather has been either rainy or snowy the past several weekends and I’m behind on prepping the beds for sowing / transplanting. We went from getting 8″ snow last weekend, to 80F one week later. Wild times!
This looks so great! I’m currently feeling very sunburned, very sore, and very satisfied. Happy gardening, y’all!
You might have the same problem I do. I’m looking for a cheap way to keep grass out of my beds. Only the grass I have is much more invasive and sends out runners.
Hardening off is the part that makes me regret the whole season but threat of frost is pretty much over in my area so glad that I don’t have to take over 50 plants up and down the stairs everyday. Now I just have to find a day to plant everything.
Wow look at you! Nice job!!
LOL, just wait until weeding and watering season starts..
This is one of the most demanding times as a gardener. Everything settles down in a few weeks until harvest.
Is that a fig I see?
NEVER!!!! I will never be exhausted from my plants!!!! They don’t talk back, they love me no matter what!!! Sometimes I sit in my greenhouse set up in my garage to get away from humans.
My dad took out a huge section of our yard so there’s a lot more space. Built four new beds already. I’m hardening off my tomatoes and peppers now with the hope that the tomatoes will be good to go in ground by the end of the week. We’re going to grow them in ground, which I’ve never done before. Going to try the Florida weave. Also going to try building a trellis for some grapes, and also plant some raspberries, blackberries, and apple trees, which are going to be new for me. Have to buy some flowers too.
Yeah I’m central Florida and it’s already so hot that I’m done. Ready to throw in the towel. Surprised I made it this far. Gardening is tons of fun from November-march, everything grows so well.
We had one that was doing pretty well last year. Then we got a goat a few months ago. Our fig hasn’t shown any growth at all this year, but the roots are green. I’m hoping it bounces back, but I’m planning on getting a couple new ones soon. Your figs look fantastic
Nah, but I can creep towards exhaustion from the way the rest of life interferes with planting season!
I’m already tired and I just started 😔
It’s the second year I’ve grown tomatoes. last year I did like 8 plants in containers and grow bags. This year, I have 19 in the ground and 5 bags and 2 more starts ready for pots next weekend.
I turned a 5 X 50 foot area of my lawn into a strip of a garden. The idea hit me in February, so a month of prepping the soil with all the weeks of running in and out the seedlings. Planted a ton of flowers as well to make it less monoculture.
The fucking aphids have already started. Most plants are infested. I spray them off, then the ants have them back in an hour. The rabbits are relentless. The deer are waiting.
Gonna let nature do its thing with the aphids. Should have blooms soon to attract the ladybugs and lacewings I hope. Otherwise I fear the plants will meet their maker.
Need to stake these pronto but I’m so gassed from the week. They’re in the garage, just haven’t gotten to it.
(Hope you like the red solo cup as markers while I wait for the next opportunity to label everything 😇)
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I’m a first-time gardener. All I have right now are tomato and pepper seedlings. I don’t think my seedlings are going to make it to ground, and I’m assuming I will end up purchasing tomato and pepper seedlings. Everything else is going to be direct sow anyway.
I’m not quite tired but I’m overwhelmed and frustrated.
It’s exhausting really just trying to maintain my seedlings that have sprouted and trying to figure out why some haven’t.
I have around 30 tomato plants, 10 yellow summer squash, 8 green zucc, 20 snap pea, 8 cayenne, rows of carrots and beets in seed tape, old onion. Trying asparagus for a couple years and planted around 30 strawberry. Not exhausted though. Fairly easy stuff really. I started a bit early with weeding and whatnot. I have a grow tent in my basement for my seedlings works quite well