Finally got most of the garden planted. Been fighting a mole since the start this year and finally caught the bastage yesterday evening, biggest I have ever trapped! near 8", didn't know they got that big (thought it was a rat when I 1st saw it LOL.


Still on the fence if they are good or bad, they eat problem bugs but do allot of damage gett'n there.

we got a few tomatoes (celebrity, beef steak, cherry), straight neck squash and acorn squash planted over the weekend. I have a few more sweet cherry tomato plants developing but still a bit young to put out that will go in after a few more weeks inside.

Onions are looking good.

Bluebird babies already.

Yeah, I know. But I don't like chemicals on the food that I eat. Just a personal choice.

Im not big on chemicals in the garden either. The squash bugs usually kill my plants one at a time, but I get plenty of squash before they do them all in. I don't like manually picking squash bugs. We do manually pick and kill the potato bugs.

We have everything planted except for okra. Have some seeds planted but I always like to plant some grown plants as well but haven't seen them available yet.

I also don't think any of our corn is going to come up. Checked the seeds to see if they had sprouted and couldn't find any of them

I get a hand torch and burn the squash beetles, works fast and doesn't hurt the plant, (move quick) Hard to eat your veggies when they don't have legs!

hmmmmm never thought about a torch.

I have a feeling if I tried that, next thing I would be doing would be trying to put out a 6 acre pasture fire

Could be if you let it sit, IDK. I haven't had a problem with mine, even around mulch. Just takes a quick pass or 2.

Pinching is the best way to get rid of them. Slap on a head light & a pair of gloves and stalk through your garden for a night or two. They are attracted to the light & you can see them a lot better than in the day time. Grab them with two fingers & squish them, works well & you'll be surprised how many you can kill & the difference it makes. It's also said that all of the fresh bug guts & bug carcasses helps to attract the good predators.

Looks great CC

What's going on with the lattice?

Two questions:

1. I got a variety of green beans called "garden beans". Do these need a trellis or do they grow in a bush? Doesn't say on the package... Never planted beans.

2. How long after planting onions from seeds with they be baseball sized onions? Do they take longer then anything else? Never tried onions as well.

Trying squash for the first time. I hope it works.

Beans should say pole or bush, so can't answer that one.

You don't plant onions from seeds this time of the year. You'd have to plant them in the fall to get onions this spring. You should plant them from onion sets, which are bare rooted little green onions. They come in bunches of around 75 to the bunch. They should have gone in the ground a little earlier, but they should make onions in your area.

So I can get these onions and plant now and be eating onions by end of summer?

It's still getting really cold here that won't affect it?

no - they're cold tolerant.
I've had some growing in my garden all winter, uncovered, even with the weeks in the 20's.

Just got a pretty good quick rain. Yay for the garden!

Our carrots are just starting to sprout through the dirt(we got them in late). Our potato plants are growing like crazy. Still no okra or corn. Everything else is doing great.

Going to plant my corn tonight and hopefully we will get a good shower

I have corn already up, not many but signs of life! The broccoli that I thought froze out is going nuts now, but doubt it will make before the heat sets in.

Just got some decent rain, missed the bad stuff. Last year some tomato plants got nailed by hail.

Spoke to soon, just got pounded by hail.....garden is toast

May have to forfeit the rest of my garden. Tiller tines quit engaging. Repairman said it would take $600 to fix it. No thanks.

How bad is it? We had one of the worst hail storms here Amarillo had ever seen, totaled every vehicle including my truck that was almost undeliverable, killed trees and 6 dove in our yard. 3/4 the city had to be reroofed and all my plants minus the cilantro pulled thru fine.

Take it to Home Depot tool rental. There labor charge is ridiculously cheap and most the guys are pretty good.

In the past 2 days I have panted 5 rows of corn, 2 rows of red and green bell peppers, 1 row of jalepenos, 5 pobalano pepper plants, 1 row of maters, two packs of sweet baby watermelon seeds, and 2 packs of jubilee watermelon seeds, 2 packs of cantaloupe seeds.

and just got over 1" of rain tonite

I planted all of this in a corner of the coastal bottom...... SOOOOOOO, I am either gonna have about a 1/3 acre garden....... OR a humongos coon/pig feeder... time will tell