Planting March 1st, 2023 Planting and Chat Thread

[packyderms_wife]

How is possible that it's March 1st already... time to start some seeds.

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• 1st – 2nd
  Excellent for sowing seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting days for above ground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate permits.
• 3rd – 7th
  A most barren period, best for killing plant pests or doing chores around the farm.
• 8th – 9th
  Fine for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Favorable days for planting root crops.
• 10th – 12th
  Start seedbeds. Good days for transplanting. Excellent time for planting root crops that can be planted now. Also good for leafy vegetables.
• 13th – 14th
  Barren days, do no planting. Second day is a good harvest day.
• 15th – 16th
  Any root crops that can be planted now will do well.
• 17th – 18th
  A barren period, best suited for killing plant pests. Do plowing and cultivating. Good harvest days.
• 19th – 20th
  Good for planting cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, and other vine crops. Set strawberry plants. Good days for transplanting. Favorable days for planting beets, carrots, radishes, salsify, turnips, peanuts, and other root crops.
• 21st – 22nd
  Cultivate and spray, do general farm work, but no planting.
• 23rd – 24th
  Favorable for planting crops bearing yield above the ground.
• 25th – 27th
  Seeds planted now tend to rot in ground.
• 28th – 29th
  Excellent for sowing seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting days for aboveground crops, especially peas, beans, cucumbers, and squash where climate permits.
• 30th – 31st
  A most barren period, best for killing plant pests or doing chores around the farm.

 

[Digger]

We were stopping at Atwoods yesterday. The Bonnie plant truck was just finishing dropping off early garden vegetable starts. I checked the price and about fell over. A 6 pack of plants was $5.99. I think they were $4.65 last year. Thank goodness I start a lot of my own or get them at a local nursery for about $3 for the same size. Bonnie delivers to most of the local stores in Arkansas and several other states.

 

[SousJo]

I swear I haven't been ignoring the board. It's just planting time here. To be honest I'm running a couple weeks behind already.

So far I've got my potatoes and peas planted, and my early tomato starts in the ground. A couple of them look unhappy, and yet it seems they will all make it (possibly even the one the cats SAT ON, the furry little jerks).

Sprouting seed like mad, my kitchen table is covered with seed trays and generally useless for any other purpose. My germination rates were awful last year - this year my garden might fail but it won't be due to not enough sprouting seed if I have any say.

Still trying to get the trellises up, but most of the sweaty work is done. I won't really be satisfied planting is over until the gardens are all well-mulched rows of plants (and I get my kitchen table back).

It would be nice if it rained this year. Let's hope.

 

[Sacajawea]

You must be in a warmer zone; we're getting some kind of wintry yuck today... I've been waiting for the soup in the garden to dry up before tilling. I need to get onions & taters in.... and many other things started.

 

[packyderms_wife]

How does one reuse the soil from previous seedling trays? I have some in a bag from when OC dumped the huge seedling trays and put them to rest out in the garden shed. I have some smaller 6x6 trays, recycled mac n cheese containers from Arby's that I'd like to grow microgreens in! Suggestions?

 

[Digger]

I remember my mom heating dirt in a roasting pan in the oven to use in her trays. I don't know how long or the temperature, but I remember it stank.

 

[packyderms_wife]

I remember my mom heating dirt in a roasting pan in the oven to use in her trays. I don't know how long or the temperature, but I remember it stank.

Yeah I was hoping to avoid doing this, and I don't have one of those counter top composting units to throw it into, I've heard that that works as well.

 

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[packyderms_wife]

I now have four of those plastic mac n cheese containers from Arby's, they're square shaped. I'll be starting microgreens in them this week, staggering each batch by about four days. I'm thinking of starting with radish and beet microgreens, then snow peas, and that spicy mix I bought.

 

[SuElPo]

I have some onion bulbs in a large pot on my porch, and planted some cucumber seed, squash seed, sweet pepper seed, and now have some lettuce seed to plant. I am doing all container gardening, but that is all I can handle. I love being in the dirt.

Susan