Time to plan the garden, so what are your plans for your garden this year?  

Don't come to my place, it's sub-zero. Minus 16 yesterday.

Now is when all the gardening magazines come out and when some people up here order things. Not sure where it works where you are.

My Mom used to plant seeds on the window sill in February (Valentines day) or March (ST. Pat's Day) like tomatoes so the plants would be ready.

Take care.

I will, do you have window sills where you could plant a little something like onions or radishes? They don't take much room.

I wish I did have...
We live in a very tiny apartment!

~Heavens~

I wish you had window sills, too. I have aloe vera on mine right now. Hope to have greens and onions soon. My Aunt had a small table up against a window and she grew some neat things by putting plants on the table. My Mom even grew plants on top of her TV set. Just had to be careful, she would water the plants in the bathroom over the bathtub and bring them back so she wouldn't over water and short out the TV. You never know. A friend of mine said he had no room, now part of his kitchen table has one aloe vera and another widow has a table with another aloe vera on it. Our living room has a hook for hanging plants. We just don't get enough sunlight for hanging plants. So you never know, a sudden inspiration may come to you. You may see a place or a spot you can have a plant. Take care.

Thank you, you have no idea how much I appreciate you!

~Heavens~

You're welcome and you made me Smile and chuckle some this early in the AM.

Noticing the sun was a good start. What Ph is your soil? If you don't know that, then you don't know what grows. Mine is acid, so only acid plants will grow. If yours isn't acid, then tomatoes won't grow. There is a Ph range that every plant likes and if you're outside it, then it doesn't grow. From one piece of land to another or from one side of a piece of property to another, the Ph can be different. Tomatoes usually love sun, but they are tricky, many diseases and the amount of water you need is tricky. I always start people off with onions or pumpkins. Nothing eats onions and they let you know right away if you have too much or too little water. As a root crop, they don't need much water. Pumpkins, the shoots coming up can get eaten by pests, but other than that, they grow well, because they're a vine, they need lots of water. Your first crop should be onions. Tomatoes are very, very hard. Every other year we had problems with ours, root rot one year, blight another, spots another. They're the hardest crop to grow. You have to study what the lastest problem is and prepare for it unless you're really, really lucky.

Can you grow a few veggies indoors? Last year, pests killed a lot of my stuff. The stuff I grew indoors did better. Also can control the amount of sunlight with shades and so on better. Onions and garlic can grow in pots indoors, but garlic likes cool weather like 60 degrees to 70. Onions can grow any time. Greens are like garlic, 60 to 70 degrees. Take care and thanks.

Don't know what kind of soil we have. Do know our neighbor was able to grow healthy, tasty tomatoes outside each year. He was a farmer at one point so knew what he was doing. My husband won't eat garlic, onions or anything that tastes really good. He's boring! Therefore I rarely buy onions.

All the more reason to grow them for yourself!

It takes a few years to get the hang of it. There are some fun gardening sites on the net and some wonderful seed/plant sites, too.

Glad to see that getting started late didn't discourage you. We had several "wash outs" litterally last year. Farmers had to replant corn three times because their fields kept flooding out. They still brought in corn, hay and short day crops (onions, radishes, greens), but not much else.

I love the letters b and p for gardening, I just didn't know it. B and P crops are great. I like green beans and green peppers best (I'll have to work on liking other colors). Thank you very much for responding and take care.

Gardening year round. How wonderful! I would think I had gone to heaven if I could garden year round. Thank you very much and happy gardening to you, too.

Manley Joe, You've got the spirit of this winter planning for summer! You go!
I hope you start a compost from your garden this year so you will be able to feed your soil and cut down on Walmart purchases of soil for next year. I made an herb garden just from compost from the previous year once, haven't been able to get back to composting since.

We had a wet year, too. Many were complaining about their tomatoes. But all the vine plants did well up here. The Farmers' Almanac had said wet and vines would work out and it was wet and vines did work for many gardens up here. But people did have to replant three times because the spring was horribly wet. Farmers replanted corn three times. I replanted root crops three times and greens (my earliest stuff). Love all the stuff you grow. Sounds like you do a lot with your 3 x 8.

I've been pawing through my seed catalogs, too. Thank you very much for replying and thanks for joining Mylot (I see by your number, you're relatively new). You keep up these good, quality posts and you should do great here!

I have tried the composting but never had any luck. Guess I just didn't do it right. I have thought of getting one of those barrel type composters but can't seem to get the money together at the present.
I did blow all the leaves that fell from the trees in the yard into the row where the blackberries are, hope that will rot down and help to keep the grass down. I am going to pile the yard waste from mowing and such in one corner of the yard and try to get it to rot down again this year but I don't have much faith cause I have never had any luck before.

I used the pealings from my veggies and they broke down great! Have you tried searching (Googling-whatever) with the words: Cooperative Extention and Composting ? Try it. You will see what you're doing right and what you need to change to make it work. Like sticks and big stuff don't work. But carrot peelings do. Meat products should never be put in it. Etc. We, Americans have paid for these cooperative extention bulletins with our taxes, so I recommend them. Anything you want to know that has to do with gardening, Cooperative Extention plus whatever you want to know. They have great bulletins on blackberries, I haven't tried one for zucchini yet. Take care and good luck!

That sounds great! Let me know how you do with them. Take care and thanks for your response.

Sounds like you've got great plans. I always wonder what people grow in other countries. I see you are in Sweden. That is soo cool. I wish you luck on your fruit trees and your tomatoes. Sounds like you're very proficient on the other stuff. Thanks for responding and take care.