GARDENING 2025

[Tony Page]

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this?

Look forward to gardening this year 2025 to add color to some of our beds that got destroyed ( trampled) because of a house fire we had in 2022. I'm very happy that my grandson (10 years old) is taking an interest in gardening this year he'll be a big help.

My tomato seedlings are looking good, some pots have more than one plant, and the excess will be transplanted. I only started 10 pots it's a far cry from the over 400 pots I would start when I was younger. I find it interesting that's some of my seeds were dated 2012 & 2016. They germinated fine.

Some purchased dry rooted plants and bulbs were delivered last week. I potted the Skaugum Begonia this past Saturday. They will stay inside until the weather gets warmer.

My wife found some beautiful hostas online, they were very pretty colors, so I sent away for the seeds, I'm hoping to plant them in pots soon.

I also purchased a raised bed for my vegetable plants. I will assemble it on top of a weed blocker Mat.

 

[Joe Riley]

Great plans for your garden, Tony! Good Luck!

Skaugum Begonia

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Those Hostas are truly beautiful, @Tony Page ! I have some hostas, but mine are just the plain green variety, and I enjoy those, too. I divided one last summer, so I am hoping that I have several more when they come back out this year.

I tried starting the Oregon Grape seeds in the aerogarden, but they are not sprouting in there, so this time, I am going to put them in a planter outside and see if they come up better that way. They are one of the best sources for berberine, so I am hoping to grow some of them this year.

I think that I won’t be planting a regular garden, but you never know. I think that every year, and then the Gardening Bug bites me, and off I go, planting tomatoes and such. But otherwise, we are just going to get them fresh at the farmers market this year.

 

[Don Alaska]

Those Hostas are truly beautiful, @Tony Page ! I have some hostas, but mine are just the plain green variety, and I enjoy those, too. I divided one last summer, so I am hoping that I have several more when they come back out this year.

I tried starting the Oregon Grape seeds in the aerogarden, but they are not sprouting in there, so this time, I am going to put them in a planter outside and see if they come up better that way. They are one of the best sources for berberine, so I am hoping to grow some of them this year.

I think that I won’t be planting a regular garden, but you never know. I think that every year, and then the Gardening Bug bites me, and off I go, planting tomatoes and such. But otherwise, we are just going to get them fresh at the farmers market this year.

Maybe the Aerogarden is too warm @Yvonne Smith. One site I mentioned that they thrive in relatively cool soils--15°C to 20°C (59°F to 68°F)

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Do you look for specific varieties when you purchase plants and seeds? As many of you may know, we sell plants in the spring. It is one of my wife's pet peeves when someone asks for "cauliflower", or "white cauliflower" or "whatever they sell in the grocery store". Why garden if you just want what the grocery offers? We offered purple cauliflower for several years, and almost nobody would buy it until they saw it offered in the grocery store. Now it is one of our biggest sellers. They same goes for tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, and broccoli. We work hard to offer a variety of stuff that will grow in our climate, but5 it is seldom appreciated. Do you try new varieties of vegetables or flowers?

 

[patpat2025]

Beautiful, maybe I should start gardening too

 

[Tony Page]

Maybe the Aerogarden is too warm @Yvonne Smith. One site I mentioned that they thrive in relatively cool soils--15°C to 20°C (59°F to 68°F)

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Do you look for specific varieties when you purchase plants and seeds? As many of you may know, we sell plants in the spring. It is one of my wife's pet peeves when someone asks for "cauliflower", or "white cauliflower" or "whatever they sell in the grocery store". Why garden if you just want what the grocery offers? We offered purple cauliflower for several years, and almost nobody would buy it until they saw it offered in the grocery store. Now it is one of our biggest sellers. They same goes for tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, and broccoli. We work hard to offer a variety of stuff that will grow in our climate, but5 it is seldom appreciated. Do you try new varieties of vegetables or flowers?

When I had the larger garden plot, I used to research every plant I put in. Between December and January, I would get roughly 20 seed catalogs. I would review them for new varieties.
For instance, tomato plants, which I planted between 80 and 100, I would review for taste, size, disease resistance, and time to harvest. Every year, besides my standard variety, there was always a new, highly rated tomato I would try. I would also sequence the harvest time so that some variety of tomato was ready to pick.
Each year, I would try a vegetable I never grew. One year, I grew celery blanched and unbleached, I wanted to see the difference in taste.
Each year, I would extend the variety of vegetables I grew. I tried everything from asparagus ( perennial patch) to zucchini.
For me, two varieties of tomatoes I tried to grow every year are Tiny Tim and Celebrity.
The past few years, my garden has decreased to a few container plants because I can not, for physical reason, get down to plant in the ground. This year, I'm hoping to extend my garden a little by installing a raised bed. Hopefully, that will make planting easier.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I planted a bunch of flowers in some window boxes I bought for Cindy, but since I have no green thumb, they died. The lady at the nursery said I didn't water them enough. Then I watered them too much. So I just put flowers in there that were already grown and let nature water them. (It rains a lot up there...)