Amish Heart
A True Doomsday Prepper
Potatoes can go in here March 17th, as long as it's not too wet.
Gardens 2021
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It is a freeware program called Planner ( Apps/Planner - GNOME Wiki! ). Note, I run a Linux Mint box, and use a lot of Linux/Freeware programs.
It is loosely based off of Microsoft's Project.
Here are two screen shots:
Take Cabbage1 S-T and Cabbage1 T-H. Cabbage1 is the first planting of cabbage, with Cabbage2 being the planting 2 weeks later (and so on with Cabbage3 etc.). The S-T stands for Seed to Transplant. T-H stands for Transplant to Harvest.
Based off of approximates for most seeds, at a given temperature, moisture, light for seedlings to sprout and for times based off of variety of a given plant/veggie, gives me the on or about dates.
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True Paul. The soil temp needs to be at least in 60's, preferably higher.
Three rows of sweet peas, 1 1/2 rows of onions, half a row of garlic, a row of parsnips, an avocado tree planted. Pruned 2 apple trees, the apricot tree, 6 roses. Bought a rose arch and two climbing roses, got the grapes pruned, buried the drain hose from the washmachine finally in the garden 20 inches deep in rocks and dirt mix. Re-stacked some firewood together for the rest of the cool season, minus temps should not be anymore....hopefully. The wife planted 50 ft of flowers along the driveway, hope they make it.
DirtDiva
A True Doomsday Prepper
Amish Heart I lived next door to Kansas in Northern Missouri for years and always planted potatoes, english peas, cabbage and onions on St. Patrick's Day without issue. It was zone 5A.
Amish Heart
A True Doomsday Prepper
Yep! We are zone 6A, so pretty close. Not sure if I'm going to plant potatoes, though.
Danil54grl
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Arctic, I will be impressed if you can get nectarines to grow in your area. Crossing my fingers for you.
Haven't you heard of snowpeas and antarctic oranges? HA HA
I grow spuds sometimes for practice. They are so cheap here that it's hardly worth the effort.
I can imagine - we benefit from your area's potato farming - gets down to 25c/pound at times - red potatoes for St Pats Day are almost give away >> nobody grows spuds around here
Amish Heart
A True Doomsday Prepper
Sams and our Kroger store still holding at 60 cents a lb, even big bags. But our Aldi and local Amish storage are 30 cents a lb for russet.
I guess we are doing well here with potatos, we got a 30 kg bag for 3000 Hungarian Forinth which works out to 66 lbs for about $8.20...so around
8 cents a pound. We still wanna plant our own and see how it works...
8 cents a pound. We still wanna plant our own and see how it works...
The wifeys flowers survived the minus 5 C° last night!! We planted the climbing roses under the arch and I got the first day of smoking a 4 lb. chunk of bacon ham over with...3 more days of smoking fun ahead. Got a foot long string of braided garlic in the smokehouse next to the bacon too...
They did indeed, but now we have the joy of St.Patricks Day since so many had to leave home and immigrate (legally) to the US and brought us square dancing, tap dancing, river dance, potato recipes, Irish Folk music and the Irish humor...
DirtDiva
A True Doomsday Prepper
I still grow potatoes every other year. I grow small red potatoes to can as new potatoes. I can enough for 2 years. Then I can buy larger potatoes for eating throughout the year cheaper than I can grow them. That saves that space in my garden for something else.
Almost everybody here has a little garden. Many of the widows in our village sell their veggies and fruits, nuts, flowers, eggs, sausages and hand made things every Saturday on the open market. Helena always looks for the oldest and poorest looking people to buy from and we never have been disappointed on the quality or friendliness. We get good food inexpensive and they can supplement their retirement, win-win. Gary
Amish Heart
A True Doomsday Prepper
That is a perfect system, Gary. How it should be.
