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What's growing on, Beehaw? (Garden Chat) (beehaw.org)

submitted 7 months ago by LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org to c/greenspace@beehaw.org

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Today marks the beginning of the second full week of Spring in the northern hemisphere, even if some of us are stuck in second winter. Share your garden goals, projects, challenges, and successes for this growing season; share your tips, tricks, and garden hacks, or anything else you'd like. Let's all help each other grow something beautiful together!

If folks are into it, I'd like to make this a weekly thread for everyone to share updates and assistance as the year progresses. Please let me know if that's something you'd all like.

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[–] Bilbo_Haggins@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Calendula, bachelor's buttons, and strawflower are all sprouted and looking healthy! For food plants, I've only started greens so far (collard and tatsoi). Soon it'll be time to plant peas outside though and I'm stoked! Also got some potatoes chitting on the windowsill to plant in buckets. Those did really well last year.

Also we have one super collard who overwintered from last year and I'm excited to see what it does.

I'm apprehensive about the bunnies this year but more prepared to do battle. Last year they mowed most of my new plants down to the ground until I put little fences up. This year I'm gonna start with the fences from the get-go and see if I can get more plants past the tender chompable stage and into maturity. The only problem is I tried winter sowing a bunch of natives this year so I'll need to notice when and where they come up and get defenses around them.

Apprehensions aside, though, I'm glad it's spring! Bring on the gardening fun.

[–] xylem@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm worried about bunnies this year as well - how tall were the fences you put in?

[–] Bilbo_Haggins@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Just a foot and a half high, but they were individual for each plant so each fence circle was like 1 foot diameter maximum. I think if you had a bigger fenced area you'd need higher fences.

I made them out of hardware cloth and took them in over the winter and they've held up really well, so at least I don't have to make new ones!