mattie g Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 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! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 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. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 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 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldie 22 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Just picked up a bunch of twigs and branches in the backyard. It's pretty warm out in the sun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 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. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 I am planing on taking advantage of this week and doing my winter pruning. Catmint and Liriope need to be cut back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clskinsfan Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 peppers, celery, eggplant and cabbage are all sprouted. Cabbage will go in the ground this weekend. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 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 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 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! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 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! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Hoping for a good bloom of my magnolia tree. It’s extremely sensitive to subfreezing temps once it starts to bloom, but the buds haven’t really even shown a sign yet of getting ready. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Started my tomato and banana pepper seeds this weekend. They're on the heater and under grow lights now. Usually I start them in February but last year was so cold in April I had to delay getting them in the ground and they started getting leggy in the trays, so this year I decided to hold off until March before starting them, anticipating a cool april. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowsonTownT Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 I know fall is a better time, but if I were to overseed my lawn in Towson, when would be the best time to do it this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 1 hour ago, TowsonTownT said: I know fall is a better time, but if I were to overseed my lawn in Towson, when would be the best time to do it this year? Now? I put down a whole bunch of seed in late fall and in the last week it's actually started to germinate and grow. You'll get more crabgrass doing it now but whatever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted Saturday at 04:36 PM Share Posted Saturday at 04:36 PM Warmest spot in my yard plus reflection off the house. Other spots in the yard just have 2” of growth showing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleocene Posted Saturday at 06:55 PM Share Posted Saturday at 06:55 PM Anybody else ever use the service chip drop to get some free wood chips? I got about 15 cubic yards of fresh white pine chips dumped in front of my house couple weeks ago. Just finished spreading it on my quarter acre. I want more LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted Sunday at 03:17 PM Share Posted Sunday at 03:17 PM 20 hours ago, Paleocene said: Anybody else ever use the service chip drop to get some free wood chips? I got about 15 cubic yards of fresh white pine chips dumped in front of my house couple weeks ago. Just finished spreading it on my quarter acre. I want more LOL Just curious, but what are you using it for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleocene Posted Sunday at 08:07 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:07 PM 4 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said: Just curious, but what are you using it for? Mulch. Sticking it to big mulch, done paying for that crap. Bought my house a couple years ago and the previous owner let the yard and garden go ignored, so I have a ton of garden beds that are just weeds. It's going around trees, around azaleas, covering areas around my vegetable garden beds, etc. Burying it all in wood chips. For free! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nw baltimore wx Posted Monday at 01:46 AM Share Posted Monday at 01:46 AM 5 hours ago, Paleocene said: Mulch. Sticking it to big mulch, done paying for that crap. Bought my house a couple years ago and the previous owner let the yard and garden go ignored, so I have a ton of garden beds that are just weeds. It's going around trees, around azaleas, covering areas around my vegetable garden beds, etc. Burying it all in wood chips. For free! Sounds good! The one thing I would be careful of is in the vegetable garden. Fresh wood chips can screw up nitrogen levels. Do a quick search to check to be sure it’s okay. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleocene Posted Monday at 11:43 AM Share Posted Monday at 11:43 AM 9 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said: Sounds good! The one thing I would be careful of is in the vegetable garden. Fresh wood chips can screw up nitrogen levels. Do a quick search to check to be sure it’s okay. Thanks! Should have clarified. I have a garden enclosure that is netted to keep deer and varmints away. The vegetable beds are there, in those big raised steel pre-assembled garden bed things. I was just covering the ground around those beds inside the enclosure with the wood chips, because it was previously scraggly crab grass and creeping vines. Now I won't have to weed whack it. The beds themselves have topsoil and compost. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frd Posted Monday at 11:49 AM Share Posted Monday at 11:49 AM Got some help from a couple University master gardens and suggested blight resistant tomato plants. I pre placed order from Burpee. Hoping for better results this year. Also changing the location as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted Monday at 05:32 PM Share Posted Monday at 05:32 PM My tomatoes and peppers from last weekend have already sprouted and are about an inch tall so all it's going well there. I need to get my oscillating fan wired up on the timer so they don't get too leggy. Just planted my lettuce seeds and first crop of radish seeds. I'll plant the snap peas in another week or two and do subsequent radish crops every week or so. My lemon and lime trees are getting flowers so I gotta pollinate them and for the first time ever I successfully overwintered a mandevilla vine, it's getting tons of buds. They won't go outside til April after all threat of frost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted Monday at 05:34 PM Share Posted Monday at 05:34 PM 15 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said: Sounds good! The one thing I would be careful of is in the vegetable garden. Fresh wood chips can screw up nitrogen levels. Do a quick search to check to be sure it’s okay. +1. Fresh wood chips reduce available nitrogen in the soil as they start to decompose initially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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