Garden starting!

Mar 07, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 9 Replies

This is from another group where I'm talking about my seeding plans in Virginia Beach (zone 8A).


> I had to look up cucumber raita. Is yours like this?
>
> Sometimes. This one was just yogurt, shredded cucumber, salt,
> and pepper. I'd never add sugar. Shredding the cucumber means
> I don't have to plan in advance.
>
> > Ingredients
> >
> > 2 cups Greek yogurt
> >
> > 2 hot house cucumbers - peeled, seeded, and thinly sliced > >
> > 3 tablespoons lemon juice
> >
> > 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint
> >
> > ½ teaspoon white sugar
> >
> > ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
> >
> > Directions
> >
> > Stir yogurt, cucumber, lemon juice, mint, sugar, and salt
> > together in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, or
> > preferably overnight.

That works! I'm about to start my mint seeds along with parsley, oregano, basil, rosemary and such. We are warm enough for indoor seedlings or green house.


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I have a green house but not yet setup. Someplace next week we get a break from the rain and I can get it going. It will be small enough I can take all seedlings inside at need for any unexpected chills.



Later plans use more seeds in rotation finishing with actual seedlings and lettuce seeds in outdoor containers.



On orger are seed potatoes which will be new for me. Those will go in grow bags.


Putting the green house together today but may not finish. The frame is laid but roof and shelves not built yet. My husband is doing that inside then we take it outside.

Wheelbarrowed compost, spread it, tilled it, raked it and rolled it flat for most of my 2nd 600 sq. ft. veggie bed today. One more to go.

What do you plan to grow for vegetables?

summer squash, winter squash, pea pods, spinach, lettuce, kale, beans, tomatoes, garlic, ... + established apples, prunes, rhubarb, strawberries ...

Greenhouse up. I'll skip on the kale.

Apples! I have a golden delicious and a granny smith. I crop as many as 400 apples most years but last year, no crop. Wind storm hit at just the wrong time and stripped all the golden delicious flowers and most of the granny smith's. I also have 4 cherry trees but the birds get those.

I never count the apples. I measure them in 5 gal. buckets on the way to the cider press. I bought the house from my neighbor, and he threw the press in with the deal since I had been borrowing it each fall anyway.

20 something buckets last year, which was a good crop. Most of them become hard cider. The plums and prunes frequently get dried.

How many apple trees do you have?

2 that produce well, and 2 that give me much less due to less sun. In less productive years, I have little trouble to find people wanting someone to pick their apples and take them away for the cider production. Apple maggots and codling moths are problems here, but don't interfere with cider production. Just a little more protein.

Planted today - spinach, kale, beets, broccoli, sugar snap pea pods.

hmmm... Raita. That would be something nice to make. I have been making yogurt lately, and we wanted to finally tackle our allotment garden to put something in.

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