Thus begins the season.

Post Reply
User avatar
Harry Cabluck
Reactions:
Posts: 155
Joined: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:40 pm
Location: Austin, Texas

Thus begins the season.

#1

Post: # 86675Unread post Harry Cabluck
Wed Jan 11, 2023 5:41 pm

Seed start.jpg
Here's what was sown this day, Jan. 11, 2023 for the small garden in south Austin, Texas. Three seeds in each pot. Heirlooms and a few hybrids. Started now because about 18 of them will be grafted to Maxifort rootstock. The grafting sets the plants back by about two weeks. Any leftover plants from this sowing will be gifted to friends and neighbors. Wishing everyone a productive 2023 season.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Refrain from calculating the total number of poultry...before the process of incubation has fully materialized.

User avatar
bower
Reactions:
Posts: 5475
Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 12:44 pm
Location: Newfoundland, Canada

Re: Thus begins the season.

#2

Post: # 86709Unread post bower
Thu Jan 12, 2023 7:44 am

Wishing you a great season too, Harry.
I have some pepper seedlings already wanting to be potted up, so I'm off to an early start! :)
AgCan Zone 5a/USDA zone 4
temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm

User avatar
Spike
Reactions:
Posts: 391
Joined: Tue Dec 10, 2019 9:26 pm
Location: NE Ohio

Re: Thus begins the season.

#3

Post: # 86714Unread post Spike
Thu Jan 12, 2023 8:50 am

SO jealous! Hope you have the best growing season ever!
There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask 'What if I fall?' Oh but my darling, What if you fly?

User avatar
karstopography
Reactions:
Posts: 6750
Joined: Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:15 am
Location: Southeast Texas

Re: Thus begins the season.

#4

Post: # 86715Unread post karstopography
Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:01 am

Good luck. Why are you doing the grafting? Is it for Disease and or nematode prevention or just for the fun of it?
Zone 9b, located in the Columbia bottomlands, annual rainfall 46”

User avatar
Harry Cabluck
Reactions:
Posts: 155
Joined: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:40 pm
Location: Austin, Texas

Re: Thus begins the season.

#5

Post: # 86724Unread post Harry Cabluck
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:43 pm

Rototilled center plot.jpg
Karstop!! Thanks for asking. The hardy rootstock is used as an attempt to thwart rootknot nematodes and soil-borne diseases. This garden in south Austin, Texas, holds three plots, each about 100-sq-ft. Crop-rotation is seldom done because of limited area and desire for tasty tomatoes. Only four or five plants per plot are put out, usually about 36-inches apart. Sowing different varieties and grafting proves to be a heckuva lot of work just to put out a dozen plants, but it keeps the gardener off the streets.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Refrain from calculating the total number of poultry...before the process of incubation has fully materialized.

User avatar
Harry Cabluck
Reactions:
Posts: 155
Joined: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:40 pm
Location: Austin, Texas

Re: Thus begins the season.

#6

Post: # 86725Unread post Harry Cabluck
Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:45 pm

Spike!! Don't be jealous. The garden is finished by July 4. The heat is a killer. We had much better tomato success when we gardened in Columbus, Ohio.
Refrain from calculating the total number of poultry...before the process of incubation has fully materialized.

rxkeith
Reactions:
Posts: 1193
Joined: Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:57 pm
Location: keweenaw peninsula

Re: Thus begins the season.

#7

Post: # 86734Unread post rxkeith
Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:40 pm

very modest start here.

i have one baby micro tomato just hanging on from last year.
i picked tomatoes off of it to ferment seeds. some of them had been on the plant
a long time. a few seeds were sprouting so i put some of them in the pot with the old
plant. one seedling is up. some of the seeds that were in the ferment started to sprout,
so they plus a few others are planted.
also have five rosemary cuttings going. four are rooted so far.


keith

User avatar
Harry Cabluck
Reactions:
Posts: 155
Joined: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:40 pm
Location: Austin, Texas

Re: Thus begins the season.

#8

Post: # 88383Unread post Harry Cabluck
Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:49 pm

Did not lose power in this Austin neighborhood during the recent Texas ice storm. Tomato seedlings are doing well, so far. Hybrids and heirlooms, sown Jan. 11 are in the background. Maxifort rootstock, sown two weeks later are in the foreground.
Tomato seedlings.jpg
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Refrain from calculating the total number of poultry...before the process of incubation has fully materialized.

User avatar
Harry Cabluck
Reactions:
Posts: 155
Joined: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:40 pm
Location: Austin, Texas

Re: Thus begins the season.

#9

Post: # 89205Unread post Harry Cabluck
Thu Feb 16, 2023 3:28 pm

Seedlings progressing! Here's a Feb. 16 look at heirloom and hybrids sown Jan. 11. Disappointing that only eight rootstock, out of the 18 sown two weeks later, were deemed good enough to accept grafting. Those grafted are under cover and not shown here. This was the first time that Maxifort rootstock, displayed galling...similar experience with Estamino rootstock a few years ago. Here's hoping that grafts take place. Heirlooms are: Mr. Blackstone's Cherokee, Limbaugh, Sioux, Super Sioux, Charley's June Bug, J.D.'s Super C-Tex, Black Krim and Porter. Hybrids are Heatmaster, Black Cherry and Celebrity. Only 12 will go into the garden here. Most plants are gifted to friends and neighbors.
Tomato plantlets.jpg
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Refrain from calculating the total number of poultry...before the process of incubation has fully materialized.

User avatar
AKgardener
Reactions:
Posts: 1111
Joined: Fri May 22, 2020 1:28 pm
Location: Alaska

Re: Thus begins the season.

#10

Post: # 90527Unread post AKgardener
Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:04 pm

C7897094-6E5A-4E29-B49F-E6B1150EE224.jpeg
I was woundering if anyone else started maters these are my siletz I was going to do siberian but none of them came up so I found a new one off of burpee called atlas that I couldn’t resist it’s go big or go home this year best of luck, still waiting for the seeds to show up so I can plant them
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

Post Reply

Return to “Seed Starting”