2026 Garden

[JShane]

Thought i would kick us off this year with a winter garden update.

Several different varieties of lettuce going with succession planting as well, lacinato Kale is starting to mature, Savoy cabbage got bit a little by a short freeze, brussel sprouts I just thinned out today for some more elbow room, a row of carrots, and finally some brocolli.

Running out of time before spring and summer plants need to stsrt going in the ground. I just need more room is all.

 

[Keep on]

I just need more room is all.

Couple of truths I've discovered over the years.
1. Burning wood leads to hoarding, always looking for the the next score.
2. Gardening leads to tilling some more ground each year.

Right now all I'm doing in the garden is spreading wood ash.

 

[buckbull]

I need to move my garden. Need a new septic system. I'm going with septic chambers and don't want to run over them with my tractor. Plenty of room to move but I have a high fence to take down.

 

[np307]

Looking good. I still have 3 cabbages I haven't cut and the current warm spell has some more broccoli trying to fill out. It might last long enough to get a few decent heads. Starting to look toward spring and make a game plan.

 

[jryoung]

Our greens are off to a good start..... The thing that sucks about having now be the best time for lettuces and such is that I never want to eat lettuces and such in January and February.

 

[BigHornRam]

Going to start a garden this year. Put some extra topsoil and grass mulch on a 36' x 48' area last year. Will need to fence it this spring to keep the deer out. Snow peas, lettuce, carrots, parsnips, tomatoes, chard, squash, and maybe corn for first year.

 

[beagle001]

Been thinking about adding a larger greenhouse this year… our gardening doesn’t start for 5 months yet…

 

[IDFireLass]

Already looking at seed catalogs. Need to change up planting houses this year. Things will get moved around big time.

 

[INMT]

Since a lot of us on here live in northern climates with winter, curious if anyone grows indoors?

If so what. Even if it’s just herbs or salad mix, etc. I’ve been thinking of trying so it’d be nice to hear if folks have success doing it.

 

[IDFireLass]

I don't have the room in the house to keep an indoor garden type going. I actually like a break from the garden. Garden season is coming soon enough.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Been thinking about adding a larger greenhouse this year… our gardening doesn’t start for 5 months yet…

Maybe dumb question, but I’m intrigued but clueless about greenhouses. I see quite a few of them in yards around here but they always look pretty defunct. What can you realistically do with a greenhouse in our frigid northern climate? Like what is the practical use? Just starting seeds earlier?

 

[beagle001]

Maybe dumb question, but I’m intrigued but clueless about greenhouses. I see quite a few of them in yards around here but they always look pretty defunct. What can you realistically do with a greenhouse in our frigid northern climate? Like what is the practical use? Just starting seeds earlier?

And expedite and protect some of the more vulnerable plants.
Last year was the first year we used one- just a little 6x6 pop up thing, but it worked nice for green onions, lettuce, kept some pumpkins in their longer and transplanted and they did much better than the ones I planted out in the garden off the bat.

 

[Hunting Wife]

And expedite and protect some of the more vulnerable plants.
Last year was the first year we used one- just a little 6x6 pop up thing, but it worked nice for green onions, lettuce, kept some pumpkins in their longer and transplanted and they did much better than the ones I planted out in the garden off the bat.

Is it enough protection to start something like tomatillos that have such a long growing season? Would love to grow some but can’t get enough growing time for them to produce anything up here.

 

[Caseknife]

Going to start a garden this year. Put some extra topsoil and grass mulch on a 36' x 48' area last year. Will need to fence it this spring to keep the deer out. Snow peas, lettuce, carrots, parsnips, tomatoes, chard, squash, and maybe corn for first year.
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Are the sheds for decorating the new garden?

 

[Caseknife]

I have a greenhouse, but need to add grow lights and maybe a heat source to make it more usable. The trick I find with starting early is the timing. Maybe I will figure it out now that I am retired and can spend more time doing it. I use it primarily for propagation of shrubs and starting flowers from seed. I do grow my basil in the gh, transplanted it to the garden this year and it seemed to do good, gets kind of yellow and spindly staying in the gh.

 

[BigHornRam]

Are the sheds for decorating the new garden?

Slow release calcium .

 

[beagle001]

Is it enough protection to start something like tomatillos that have such a long growing season? Would love to grow some but can’t get enough growing time for them to produce anything up here.

I think so.
Ours is similar to this and I just built some heavier duty shelving for it
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hastings-H...RGzxDu9dmltMdrmcfRhe6FmiLTXn8t-xoCwTQQAvD_BwE

 

[Straight Arrow]

Is it enough protection to start something like tomatillos that have such a long growing season? Would love to grow some but can’t get enough growing time for them to produce anything up here.

Here in the Gallatin Valley my wife would start tomatillos under grow lights in the mudroom in March, then replant outside under a visqueen conastoga shaped tent starting in June. She said they even came up as volunteer plants the following summer. The tomatillos were plentiful and relatively easy to grow here with that method.

 

[IDFireLass]

I have 6 greenhouse varying in size. It's mainly for the wind here in the summer. I have two of the bigger ones with propane heaters in them for spring and fall when trying to keep things going a little longer. Mostly for tomatoes. peppers and anything else I can think of.
Once the heat get here I grow onions, carrots, corn, potatoes, cucumbers and cilantro outside. I have one small house with asparagus growing in it.
If you can think of it you can grow it in them.