Gardens---2016

• HitsRus

  

  Anybody cranking up their garden yet?
  
  I'll be turning it over and cleaning it out next weekend and hope to get my snow peas in early this year if the milder temps continue.
  
  This is the first year that I've started some plants indoors from seed...tomatoes, peppers and cukes.
  
  In previous years, I've always just bought my plants, but I'm tired of bringing home tomato plants that harbor that yellow/black fungus that saps the energy from the plant. For the past two years my tomatoes have been terrible because of that, and I've been told that once that fungus gets in the soil it will infect any tomato plant you plant there. So, I've decided to make a small, separate area about 40 yards away from my original garden just for my tomatoes....and I'm going to use tomatoes that I've grown from seed. I'll plant the other stuff in the 'old' garden.
  
  Anybody have any suggestions on seed starting...or on my idea?
  
  Also...I saw an article on the internet about planting in a bale of hay....anybody try this?
• mcburg93

  

  I start all my plants from seed. Just use paper cups to start the seeds off. I use soil from my garden to start all my plants. I do have a compost pile with all my food scraps, grass clippings, leaves, and all the fruit that fall from the trees that I keep turning and put on the garden every year. I rotate all my plants in my garden not planting the same plants in the same area two years in a row. I have done nothing with the garden itself but will be burning it off as soon as its dry enough to do so. I do that to kill off any seeds from weeds that may have ended up in my garden. I keep everything in rows and in between I keep about 30" of grass so I can run my push mower down. Cuts down on how much tilling I have to do every year.
  
  I did read about that bale of hay. I think that would be a good Idea if you did not have much room.
• iclfan2

  

  I am starting my first raised garden ever this year. I started tomatoes, jalapeños, and green onions indoors. I started some green peppers but they didn't take. Might be too late to start again so might just buy those. Basically just want a salsa garden and stuff to make pickles and pickled okra. Our last frost date is in a few weeks down here, so I need to get started.
  
  Any tips on raised beds?
  
  
  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
• Belly35

  

  Black Fungus, mold whatever .. I use Copper powder on my tomatoes, melons, zucchini, beans and corn.
  I take a plastic jar, poke holes in the lid and powder my plants early getting under the leafs, about ever two weeks ... I should get a powder sprayer but the jar works good..
  
  i stopped starting plants inside ... I plant seeds and or small plants from the same greenhouse ever years... Makes life simple and planting easy..
  
  If you live in the Canton area Holmes Heirloom seeds ... I find to be the best
  
  i was just thinking about starting next week with some tilling and fence building (electric) ... Deer, groundhog problem ..
• BRF

  

  I am giving up on my garden plot and going with pots and a raised box that I got for my birthday from my kids by Gro-nomics. I had good success last year experimenting with pots.
  
  On the bales, I read in Birds and Blooms a complaint that they tend to get filled with weeds that are hard to remove.