Anyone have a garden going this year?

Do you heat the greenhouse with wood?

 

I do. Use a barrel stove with a hot water creation in it that works one thermal water flow, which heats up a 400 gallon tank centered in then12x20 foot space, double plastic covering.

 

I'm getting "Live Not Found". :-/

I love gardening and working outside. Have a vineyard, too.

 

@MoonGoddess tomatoes look pretty much the same stage as ours : )

planted sugarsnap peas today and i am so excited for those. i love anything i can just eat raw, immediately.
put them in salads.
my rhubarb from last year, still in a pot, is coming along. i love rhubarb.
food out of the garden in general.. haha.. it fills me with a sense of well-being.

 

Having the same problem here, we had 2-3 inches of snow last week and even though it melted real quick, morning lows in the 30s are hampering my efforts.

I don’t have a greenhouse but I have used a cold-frame in the past with varying degrees of success

 

do you plant tomatoes deep ? I plant them up to the next pair of leaves from the top

 

That what I do each time I transplant them, which is normally 3 before they make their summer spot. The stem turns into root when you do that.

 

We have two large stands of rhubarb that my mom started decades ago. I remember the stuff she made from boiling down the stocks was delicious, but I haven't made any because of the huge amount of sugar it takes.

 

I just roast it with maple syrup drizzled over : ) have yet to eat any grown by me though

 

Really? She would boil it down and mash it with lots of sugar. Turned out consistency like jam. That's all I've seen. Would you be more specific about prep? This stuff is going to be ready to harvest pretty soon.

 

I just eat rhubarb raw... Haven't had it in many years though just because it's not available to me anymore.

 

I wash them, chop into finger length pieces, put in a roasting tray, drizzle with maple syrup, cover with foil.. Oven for fifteen minutes. The recipe I read said regular sugar so I guess any kind of sweetener. It'd probably work with honey too..

The pieces go soft, obviously, but not complete mush.. I'd mostly met people who do the same as you describe and didn't like the texture.

 

Thanks! I'll try experimenting. I grew up with the stuff made like I described but over the years since I've become adverse to copious sugar consumption. My mom was a big time baker, we always had cakes, cookies, brownies,... And now I'm remembering those rice Krispies treats. :-

 

I haven't been exposed to anyone eating it raw. Somewhere in the back of my mind I remember hearing some aspect of it being poisonous in some way. Will have to investigate before trying that.

 

I am too.
Let me know what you think of the roasted method : )

I believe it is the leaves that are poisonous.

 

Will do!

That sounds familiar.

 

I decided to conduct an experiment. I am building 2 small raised beds out of cheap rough cut lumber. I am burning the wood before I build but one I am getting a thick layer of char on and the other a lighter layer and I'm going to see how they do over the next couple years.

Darker board, when I was done with the board I did go back and even it all out so now it is all black.

Lighter board

 

Getting rained out gives me time to organize my seeds and test for germination.

I took Styrofoam coolers that I had saved from ordering meat online and "cut" notches into them with a soldering iron, added cardboard dividers to make spaces for larger seeds that don't sit well in my juice bottle separators.


To separate the layers


Cut down juice bottles are the perfect size to hold my seed packets but they had a bump in the bottom that wouldn't let them sit right so I cut it out and covered the holes with plastic lids cut to size.

All my seeds, some bought, some home grown, collected over the last 8 years. Some are still from 2011, the year I was planning on starting my garden but it didn't happen until 2012.

A few of the germination tests I am running to see what seeds are still viable and which ones need to be replaced.

 

Might want a look at this, can't make promises but I hear ohm's law can come in handy for "stale seeds"

ElectroCulture -- stimulation of plant growth by electricity, magnetism, sound

 

Thanks, I'll have to look into it.