2025 Mid-Atlantic Garden, Lawn, and Other Green Stuff Thread

[mattie g]

Getting this started now that March is on the horizon and most folks are ready to move on from a pretty chilly January-February period!

Got my victory garden started last weekend with tomatoes, eggplant (wife’s request), jalapeños, and basil under lights and did the same with some parsley today. My wife also wants zucchini this year, so I’ll get that going indoors in a month or so along with cantaloupe. I’ll direct sow lettuce, spinach, and mache in 3-4 weeks with the hopes they do better than they have the last couple years!

I also need to rebuild my cedar beds. One is really falling apart - especially the 2x4 supports - and I’m not sure it’ll last the season. I built the first one maybe six years ago and I’m surprised they’ve crapped out so quickly. Bit of a bummer, but I guess it’s a fun (if maybe a little pricey) project!

[IronTy]

I ordered my Lola pepper and tomatoes seeds two days ago, gotta start them indoors next weekend.  At DC House I'm thinking I'm going to cut down the large crape myrtle in front of the house and replace it with something native.  I hate crape myrtles, they don't add any wildlife value.  

[dailylurker]

I'm getting that seed popping itch. Ive been doing a high production garden for many years. One of my favorite crops is tomatoes. For the past 3 years I've done heirloom verities. This year im going to rotate back to one verity, Better Boys. My favorite verity. I've grown probably 50 different strains of tomatoes over the past several years. Nothing beats a big, red, juicy tomato. They make a beautiful red sauce. When I throw together 10 different color tomatoes the sauce can be a brown color. 

I've also added the legal limit of cannabis plants. They take up a large area of garden space but we'll worth the harvest. All the old ladies on my street are making their own cookies. You think your neighbors are happy to see a bag of tomatoes. You should see their face when you give em-a- sack-uh-weed lol

I also grown.

Cucumbers 

Zucchini 

Potatoes 

Herbs

Sunflowers

[aldie 22]

Just picked up a bunch of twigs and branches in the backyard. It's pretty warm out in the sun. 

[nw baltimore wx]

I don’t have a big space, but have so much to do in the yard. I want to take some small trees down before they leaf out, take down some really oversized leylands, and remove/replace the front gardens. Looking forward to the longer evenings after the time change to get started.

[Mrs.J]

I am planing on taking advantage of this week and doing my winter pruning. Catmint and Liriope need to be cut back. 

 

[clskinsfan]

peppers, celery, eggplant and cabbage are all sprouted. Cabbage will go in the ground this weekend.

[MillvilleWx]

16 minutes ago, clskinsfan said:

peppers, celery, eggplant and cabbage are all sprouted. Cabbage will go in the ground this weekend.

Hopefully it's a good season for veggies in these parts. We're planning on planting basil, mint, green beans, and tomatoes for the back yard. I might have to come up for the cabbage. I'll bring the corned beef 

[mattie g]

2 hours ago, MillvilleWx said:

Hopefully it's a good season for veggies in these parts. We're planning on planting basil, mint, green beans, and tomatoes for the back yard. I might have to come up for the cabbage. I'll bring the corned beef 

100% on this! I had a tough 2024 because the potting soil I used was utter garbage. All of my seedlings died after potting up from seeding mix and the plants I subsequently bought from the nursery barely grew after replanting in pots. Just pure junk!

I recently repotted a lavender plant my daughter started from seed in 2020. The thing was really struggling but it’s taken off now that I’ve switched out the soil.

Also…with the new pup loving to chase small animals, I’m hoping he helps keep the squirrels from ravaging our tomatoes again this year!

[MillvilleWx]

34 minutes ago, mattie g said:

100% on this! I had a tough 2024 because the potting soil I used was utter garbage. All of my seedlings died after potting up from seeding mix and the plants I subsequently bought from the nursery barely grew after replanting in pots. Just pure junk!

I recently repotted a lavender plant my daughter started from seed in 2020. The thing was really struggling but it’s taken off now that I’ve switched out the soil.

Also…with the new pup loving to chase small animals, I’m hoping he helps keep the squirrels from ravaging our tomatoes again this year!

The potting soil stuff is no joke. Having a junk batch is brutal and just dismantles any effort that you could put to a garden. We have a pretty great nursery here near Edgewater called Homestead Gardens. They are a bit pricey, but the quality of product is unreal. We'll probably get all our soil from there since it worked wonders last year. Hopefully this season is much better with a great haul!