Spring planting

 

Has anyone in the cooler areas managed to do any spring planting of veg yet,
and if so, how is it going?

 

FarmI wrote:

I am not sure if I am in a cooler area, probably not.  I have four trays of
seeds planted for transplantables and I will put non-transplantables in
ground today.  The latter is taking a chance that there will not be a late
frost to knock the shoots off the taters.  It is 30 degrees here right now
and I am watering gardens already.  There is still quite a lot of moisture
in the subsoil but the top has started to dry out from the hot westerly
winds so a good shower would be handy.

David

 


Bloody heck!  30 degrees!  It got to about 12 here today.

And yes, some rain would be very nice.  I have a couple of lettuces in but
that is all.  The rest are sitting around waiting for some more warmth.

Ah well, ever hopeful for some signs of spring (even though one of the
garden centres already has tomatoes in stock - wonder how many of them will
end up going to God rather than growing to fruition).

 

In article <4a91f237$0$28355$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-
01.iinet.net.au>, ask@itshall said...

I've planted mostly kale, spinach, cabbage and leek about six weeks ago
- I also helped them along by protecting them with plastic covers, which
also deals with the huge winds we get (and are getting) here. Weeks of
rain also means no frosts for quite some time and warmer than usual
temps.

At the moment I'm on a big fruit tree and natives planting spree... only
about another 400 trees and shrubs to go :)

Oh, N.E Tas here, btw.

 


In that case, I'll get my Kale planting into the ground today.

and those winds have been shocking.  I thought they'd take the roof off the
house the other night.

Slow and steady there - no use busting a woofer valve to get them all into
the ground.  Last year Himself planted a long shelter belt with minor
assistance on my part and I can't believe how well they are all doing.  We
had a dry summer last year and so we ripped up a lot of irrigation pipes
we'd put on another shelter belt we put in one  of the paddock about 10
years ago and gave the new trees some minor irrigation over summer.  Even
that minor assitance has them leaping out of their bark.

Aaah!  God's own.