Yes, the other plants generally do well. The sweet marjoram plants just look sickly and then wither away.
That’s what I was told and why I had 2 of them! Even D, who doesn’t a green tip to her thumb, has managed to keep hers alive. 
I’ve gone through all the things I’m doing and nothing seems off — no big or sudden changes to the routine.
I’m going to try a sunnier location to see if that helps the few remaining plants I have.
Tomatoes are in the ground! (And dwarf tomatoes are in pots!) The local weather has finally gotten past the likelihood of frost, so my tomatoes have gone into the ground. The dwarf tomatoes in the pots are Maralingas; the tomatoes in my regular garden are (L-R) Oxheart and Black Prince; Tidwell German; and Mortgage Lifter. The plants in the background with the yellow flowers are Yellow Cabbage Collards, going to seed; behind them are Marfax bush beans (planted but not yet sprouted). It’s such a relief each year to get the tomatoes transplanted!
Very nice! I love the look of freshly planted plants, all in a row. (and then how it can all look pretty wild in a couple months!!!)
I’m going to plant some kale seedlings, radish, lettuce seed later this week - yay!!!
This thread will be great this year because we can post PICTURES!
There’s just never enough space to plant everything that you might want!
Wow, you are all so much more knowledgeable than I could ever hope to be.
This is our first full spring in our new house. Last year we concentrated on just getting the sod to grow in clay!!
This weekend we put in a few annuals to tide me over until we can get a real landscaper to build some beds and plant some real trees that aren’t awful builder’s grade.
I put in:
That’s it. We’ll hire someone to tackle the rest of it this fall or early spring. I really want alot of flowering native trees/bushes that are low maintenance.
We have a shady front lawn with lots of dogwood trees that give cover to Lenten roses, maypops, and tulips; the other shady parts of our yard have lots of bluebells and crocuses; and my wife puts seasonal flowers in our window boxes. (I handle the vegetables, she does all good looking stuff!)
Sun, sun, and more sun! We’re in new build, so there’s no shade at all. And we need some sort of privacy hedge at the back.
My first choices would be red buds, dogwoods, double peach, and magnolias. Gardenias are another favorite. No roses!! I’d be ok w/ some heat tolerant annuals as long as I had some beds made. I could plant them myself easily, but digging out that clay put DH and I down for a day… not fun at all!!
This weekend I planted some early seeds “just for fun”. Beets, radish, onion sets. I’m never fully confident in seed planting!
My daughter in law is venturing into raised bed gardening and my husband and son helped her set up a raised bed. Because there are TWO gardens in the family now, both raised bed and easily square foot gardening, I splurged and bought this handy tool. It really works as described!
It’s great for those wanting a start to a “neat” garden and great for beginners. It comes with a plant guide (1 sheet, front and back) that I immediately copied and laminated. It’s such a simple concept but effective.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00US8ESWK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I should add that the “seedling square” above can be used for seeds or to mark your planting holes for seedlings (plants).
Looks like a great tool for a beginner (or even a pro)!
A PSA: do not waste your $$ on peat moss starters or seed starter trays for seeds that need to be started indoors. I use egg crates for this. Cut the top off the carton and use as a bottom tray to catch any water drips. Poke holes in the wells and fill with planting soil. Seed and water. Cover loosely with film wrap to create a mini greenhouse and place in a nice warm spot (I keep mine in the kitchen). Monitor soil and water as needed. When the seedlings begin to emerge, remove the film and let the plants grow a bit. Thin to 1 per well. As soon as the plants fill the well with roots, you can easily transplant them into your garden or bigger pots. The rootball will hold the dirt leaving a clean well behind.
We’ve got container lettuce and spinach going right outside the kitchen door.
Prepped our potato beds last weekend and will plant this week.
Everything else we do (tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, eggplant and basil) will wait a few more weeks until the risk of frost is really gone. The eggplant will go in the ground, but everything else goes in containers on the deck as otherwise the deer just devour them.
My permaculture guy uses toilet paper rolls to start some of his new seeds, filling them with soil and using a bin to put them in to catch the water/soil that comes out the bottom. Since they’re decomposable he can either plant the whole thing or cut it off and bury it when he plants the plant.
We simply save them up throughout the year. Since he doesn’t have enough, he reuses containers we got from nurseries in previous years.
Lately we’ve been eating asparagus, some herbs, garlic chives, and having fresh mint tea from the great outdoors. The lad also eats a ton of other wild plants I’m not as fond of like redbud blooms, dandelion, daylilies, and others I can’t think of at the moment. He often adds fruit and turns them into smoothies.
I did spend all of $5 for some mini peet pots. But also had egg cartons suggested to me (the cardboard ones I think you can directly plant into a bigger pot or garden?) and will do that next year.
Your plants look great!! (are they yours?)
That’s a photo of my starter pack! The cucumbers will go into the dirt soon, but tomatoes will have to wait a bit. It can be too cold at night for them still.
Bumping up! Most areas of the country should be in or entering planting season! (unless you’re in a really hot climate maybe you’re ENDING garden season!)
Yesterday I planted most of my raised bed at our community garden. Still have room for a couple plants I’ll need to secure. I’m liking the layout! Here’s a picture with most things labeled - a few are not.
I have a few varieties of tomatoes (heirloom, better boy, sun sugar) and peppers (poblano, hot banana, jalapeño, orange and purple peppers).
Excited that I found some “dinosaur” kale to plant.
At home I have more flower beds but have leaned to stick in random kale, jalapeño plants and I have my herb garden.
We planted our veggie/herb garden this weekend too…and finally the annuals!
I am so far behind on my garden this year.
I was out of town from early Nov thru mid-April. (Helping D1 with my new grand baby twins!) I hadn’t cleaned out the raised beds before I left so I was left with that chore when I got home, but that was complicated by the fact that I have developed joint inflammation/severe knee pain/swelling/restricted range of motion as result of my Shingrix vaccination in late October. I can’t kneel at all and even walking can be problematic some days. (I’ve seen a doctor-- seen several doctors in fact–and am currently doing PT.)
It’s too late to start my garden plants indoors–which I had planned on doing. I had my seeds, pots, and grow lights all ready. But I got back too late.
Due to all the circumstances, I’ve had to downsize my garden. I bought and planted 6 tomatoes (typically I do 12+), planted 3 hills of zucchini and 4 hills of cucumbers (2 slicers, 2 pickling) and a couple of short rows of bush beans. (I usually grow pole beans because it’s more space efficient, but I had a packet of bush beans left over from a year or 2 ago.)
Glad to hear that Black Prince are tasty. That was one of the varieties I bought. I usually grow Black Krims and love them. (My other favorite is Brandywine Pink–great taste!) I also planted a Better Boy, 2 Cherokee Purples and a HeatMaster (in hope that that variety will deal better with the hot temperatures here during July and set fruit).
@WayOutWestMom that sounds like a nice garden and maybe more manageable for you this year with some physical limitations! It’s still a nice amount of plants! (all relative, I know…)
First fruits from the tomato patch: a Tidwell German pink tomato. In a perfect world I would have left it on the vine for a few more days, but the squirrels are starting to take bites out of my low-hanging tomatoes; so this will have to finish ripening on my kitchen windowsill.
It’s a week or so before outdoor tomatoes usually ripen here in East Tennessee; perhaps starting it inside a little earlier than usual had something to do with that.
