2025 Garden

Anyone planting yet? With the forecast im gonna start sticking some plants in the ground. Got plenty of backup if ma nature goes haywire again.

My garden was completely planted by Sunday afternoon. Everything from radishes to peppers and tomatoes

A few years back it was in the 90s a week or so before Memorial Day, thought we were in the clear. Planted everything.

A few days after Memorial Day got down below 30 degrees one night and lost most of everything.

Will never plant before Memorial Day again…

After a 2 year wait we were able to get a plot in the local community Garden this year. My yard will not work well for a garden due to sun light limitations. Its only a 25X25 area but it should be enough to grow a few fresh vegetables. They till the plot both spring and fall and provide all the tools and water. Due to warmer temps it should be open in a week or so. The wife and I are just starting to think of the things we want to plant. So far the must have’s are : Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Green beans, and Leaf lettuce. I’m thinking of using a trellis for the Cucumbers to save some space and keep the plant under control some. As for beans I have not decided on Pole or Bush beans. Anyone care to share their thoughts on either the trellis idea for the cucumbers or the better choice for beans? This post should help me with my choice of Tomatoes

We did Pole beans last year and will switch back to bush this year. Growing Cucs on An A frame is great as it keeps them off the ground and mice from eating them. Plant some Marigolds through out the garden it keeps bugs and critters away.

fishthumper wrote:

I’m thinking of using a trellis for the Cucumbers to save some space and keep the plant under control some. As for beans I have not decided on Pole or Bush beans. Anyone care to share their thoughts on either the trellis idea for the cucumbers or the better choice for beans? This post should help me with my choice of Tomatoes

A-frame trellis for the cukes. The vines crawl up to the peak, the cukes hang down and are easy to find before they turn in to logs.

Strawberries, rubarb, tomatoes, a few peppers are all about we do in our garden. We had a fantastic asparagus stand years ago and am tempted to try restart that. I would say tomatoes and strawberries are the top picks and take up about 90% of our garden space.

Was going to plant some lettuce, but temps now ?

I have found that green beans, sweet corn, smaller pickling cucumbers, onions, and jalapenos are pretty easily found at farmers markets around us and I can get fresh when I want them and not when the garden says they are ready. Pricing bumped a bit last summer, but when the harvest is peak the prices get competitive around here. Even found a couple broccoli stands … End of season tomatoes are a bargain, and I am often go into a second salsa batch production mode with low-cost tomatoes, onions, and jalapenos readily available.

I planted our first sweet corn on Saturday.

I have learned the longer I wait to plant the better produce I end up with. Never have I once ran out of growing season. May 15 is last frost were I live. Usually plant my peppers and tomatoes late may to first week of June. Mother is retired and first warm weather shes out planting and here plants always get stunted. I think it’s a retired person thing nothing better to do so might as well plant the garden.

Justin Paulsen wrote:

I planted our first sweet corn on Saturday.

where at!!

We are just east of Mille Lacs and are usually selling the month of August.

Justin Paulsen wrote:

We are just east of Mille Lacs and are usually selling the month of August.

well if I get that way I’ll have get some!!!

nice JD too!!

well if I get that way I’ll have get some!!!

nice JD too!!
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Awesome! And thanks!

Everytime I plant sweetcorn this early it struggles. Seems if I wait about 2 weeks it finishes about the same time.

With the forecast im getting the itch though.

Everytime I plant sweetcorn this early it struggles. Seems if I wait about 2 weeks it finishes about the same time.

I found a variety that does fairly well early and that is important to try and have some of the first corn ready in the area. My later variety doesn’t do near as well if I put it in early.

Justin Paulsen wrote:

Everytime I plant sweetcorn this early it struggles. Seems if I wait about 2 weeks it finishes about the same time.

I found a variety that does fairly well early and that is important to try and have some of the first corn ready in the area. My later variety doesn’t do near as well if I put it in early.

Our leaser runs about 30 acres of sweet corn on our land and sells from pickups and to area grocery stores in SE MN. It’s staggered plantings, but he has 5 acres that’s been in the ground awhile and already poking through…with another 5 acres that should be poking through in the next day. It’s not unheard of to be eating good mature sweet corn on the 4th of July with the right weather. People pay an excessive amount if you’re the first to market too. I told him I’d meet him down by that pivot this weekend to be sure everything is up to snuff as it’s the safety net if temps get a little cold with the early corn and will keep it from freezing. Given the forecast, I imagine he’s kicking himself for not getting in even more real early stuff though

First year in a loooooong time I won’t have a Mastiff to garden with. They loved eating green beans and carrots. Most of em would dig them out of the ground once they knew where they were planted.
Now I have Chihuahua’s so I’ll probably need to plant pinto beans.
The Belle can’t believe we can grow maters here (wtf) so I showed her and tomato sammy’s are now ne of her go to’s when in season.

Our leaser runs about 30 acres of sweet corn on our land and sells from pickups and to area grocery stores in SE MN. It’s staggered plantings, but he has 5 acres that’s been in the ground awhile and already poking through…with another 5 acres that should be poking through in the next day. It’s not unheard of to be eating good mature sweet corn on the 4th of July with the right weather. People pay an excessive amount if you’re the first to market too. I told him I’d meet him down by that pivot this weekend to be sure everything is up to snuff as it’s the safety net if temps get a little cold with the early corn and will keep it from freezing. Given the forecast, I imagine he’s kicking himself for not getting in even more real early stuff though

Yeah that sounds about right. You guys are usually 3 weeks ahead of us. When my in laws lived in Lewiston they would have stuff way before this area.

The variety I plant says it needs ovn ground temps like 67 degrees. I know in the past a few cold nights really screwed up germination or growth if slightly up. You are correct if you are first the have it you can sell it for pretty much what ever you want.

i just came in from putting some water on the garden. te radishes and kalarabi i planted saturday are mostly out of the ground!!!!!

starting to see a few onions too!!!!

I tilled today. We have only got 1/4″of rain all spring. I would like to wait until there might be some rain in the forecast before I plant. I replanted a big area of grass that I’m watering all ready.

Going to start potatoes in the grow bags this week. The forecast looks good but it’s too early to trust the weather up here in the land of rocks and cows just yet so I’m holding off on the rest.