JW75 Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 5 hours ago, Seeking6 said: That's what I'm thinking. I did the first layer last September but have a few spots I want to clean up for them. Just curious. Thanks all! Do you use a crabgrass preventer in the spring? If so, it may keep your new seed from germinating. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 12 minutes ago, JW75 said: Do you use a crabgrass preventer in the spring? If so, it may keep your new seed from germinating. I'm kind of flying blind. I think I have it figured out. Just want the tenants to be happy is all. Just doing another layer of seed and see what happens in 60 days. Kinda of like our season haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JW75 Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 3 minutes ago, Seeking6 said: I'm kind of flying blind. I think I have it figured out. Just want the tenants to be happy is all. Just doing another layer of seed and see what happens in 60 days. Kinda of like our season haha. Just didn’t want you wasting seed and wondering why it didn’t germinate if a preventer will be used. Tough to get grass mature enough to survive a summer if planted in spring anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Hoopsier Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 16 hours ago, Seeking6 said: Anyone know if it's ok to put grass seed down this time of year in Indy? Mid to end of Feb. You may lose a bit to the birds but as the freeze/ thaw happens and then March rains, it will nicely push the seed in. All of this action not only places the seed, it also "wakes" the seed to start the growing process. Just like farmers planting spring wheat. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted February 26 Report Share Posted February 26 It might burn me this year but I'm starting my seedlings early this year. Sometime in next couple of weeks with hope to transfer to pots by early April. After last year where I led the country in green tomatoes I'm done with that nonsense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted March 8 Report Share Posted March 8 How much soil in raised beds do I need to have? Foot deep for basil, cilantro, thyme,etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritzIam4IU Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 (edited) 20 hours ago, Seeking6 said: How much soil in raised beds do I need to have? Foot deep for basil, cilantro, thyme,etc... I think that is plenty for herbs. I think we only had like 8 inches for our herbs at our old house. Deeper is better for other veggies such as carrots, tomatoes etc. Edited March 9 by FritzIam4IU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted March 13 Report Share Posted March 13 Garden is tilled. Now I got to wait 2 months before I can plant? WTF? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Hoopsier Posted March 13 Report Share Posted March 13 1 hour ago, rico said: Garden is tilled. Now I got to wait 2 months before I can plant? WTF? Potato's go in the ground on good Friday. OH, if you get down to BAMA. 2 weeks ago.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 On 3/13/2024 at 4:29 PM, rico said: Garden is tilled. Now I got to wait 2 months before I can plant? WTF? Started my seeds and am going to transplant to pots and ground sooner this year. IDGAF if I lose a few....my goal is to have Early Girls ready by Father's Day. Not like last year where led the world with Green Tomatoes after August 1st. Good luck to all! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Hoopsier Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 3 hours ago, Seeking6 said: Started my seeds and am going to transplant to pots and ground sooner this year. IDGAF if I lose a few....my goal is to have Early Girls ready by Father's Day. Not like last year where led the world with Green Tomatoes after August 1st. Good luck to all! Um, where are you? It's not usually a "I lose some" issue, it's an all or none thing. If you start early (too early) maybe make a redneck plastic sheeted greenhouse over them until after its not "to early"? One night of unwanted frost, will only move you backwards 4 weeks since the plant has to recover and start again. instead of just going. Ask me why I say this! Mr Miaggie had a saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 Just now, Joe_Hoopsier said: Um, where are you? It's not usually a "I lose some" issue, it's an all or none thing. If you start early (too early) maybe make a redneck plastic sheeted greenhouse over them until after its not "to early"? One night of unwanted frost, will only move you backwards 4 weeks since the plant has to recover and start again. instead of just going. Ask me why I say this! Mr Miaggie had a saying. North Side of Indy. We've been pretty warm honestly this year. Ground is moist and good to go. I'm taking a chance but honestly it worked last year for friends who started pots/soil in early April instead of early May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Hoopsier Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 1 minute ago, Seeking6 said: North Side of Indy. We've been pretty warm honestly this year. Ground is moist and good to go. I'm taking a chance but honestly it worked last year for friends who started pots/soil in early April instead of early May. AHHH ok. Early april, yea you've got decent odds. I was thinking TODAY... I know only a couple weeks, but these are a very important couple weeks to "rush the monkey". I'd still have sheets, plastic sheeting, straw.... available for at least a couple weeks and watch the weather like your plants lives depend on it.... because they do. I've honestly never had better success than waiting a couple days/ weeks when it is "right". Going to fast, even a few days has always (I'm 55) stunted the plant and made a worse yield. 2-3 degrees of ground temp, and the phase of the moon, mean A LOT..... There is a reason they've written about them since Benjamin Franklin....... Maybe before? lol Patience Grasshoppa... Or build a redneck green house! FYI. My granpa, life long farmer, died around 1982ish.. BEST garden I've still ever seen still to this day. (old German eff'er). Had a pit that he dug in the ground. About 2' foot deep, 5' long, 3' wide. The bottom had about 6" of cow crap in it. He had some old, house glass window sashes (oh, this is Bloomington area fyi, Kinser pike and 37) that he would place over the top of the hole in the December time frame. Around the edges of the windows laying on the ground, over this hole, he would matt down some shredded straw to prevent and frosty air from infiltrating this micro in ground enclosure. That is where he would start all of his seeds for the next year growing season. It was an in ground greenhouse/ arboretum . Cost, dig a hole, find some throw away glass window sashes and a $5 bail of straw. He'd start all of his needed seedlings in the december time frame and by 11apr they were healthy, happy and already head and shoulders above any others. They were already "weatherd" from temp changes, so coming out of the in ground set up in april wasn't really a shock. TONS of cow shit to eat.... I'm surprised we didn't have 20# tomato's ! Holy crap... I guess I got caught up, driving down memory lane. Sorry for the long post, but maybe there's a nugget in there that you and other can use? OHH since I can imagine that I am getting a standing ovation, here's the oncore about my granpa (who really wasn't my granpa at all, but he's the guy that helped my single mother grandma, focus my dad to be a better, focused man through farming). Anyway.... I was about 11-12 years old. MAYBE 13?? Just old enough that I thought I needed to carry a wallet like the big boys did. I had nothing it it. Not even a news paper clipping (this would have been 78'-81'ish). Empty freaking wallet, which I would get used to for many years as an adult, BTW. Anyway, it was spring planting season and I got to, for the first time EVER, be assigned a tractor and plow. I was following in behind dad and granpa. Oliver 77 and 3 bottom plow, each 16" wide. weak ass oliver was stock and both Dad's and Granpas' Super M Farmal's had been souped up. Corksuckers!! anyway.. One day that spring, bouncing in the seat I lost my friggin wallet, gone, no where to be found. It'd slipped out of the back pocket of my 79# little ass and was gone. Devastated. You can't lose your wallet.... EVER. That was april'ish that year. But life had to go on. Fast forward, it was nov/ dec time frame, and I was sent with the Farmall H, an upgrade kinda, although built with less power to start with, and a bush hog to "chop" mow corn stalks for easier decomposition and plant food for the next year. After a full day of going back and forth, The mower would have a 3' pile of chaff on top of it. I normally kicked it off in the field, but this one evening, I didn't. I drove back to the barn, parked the tractor and dad and I were ready to go home. and did so. We came back the next morning, bright and early as dad always said. I went to gt my tractor and bushhog, check oil, fuel up, general look over... I'LL BE GOT DAMN. There on top of that 3' pile of corn stalk chaff, on top of "my" brush hog (that should have been cleaned off in the field the night before), was my exact wallet that I had lost the April before during planing season. EXACT same wallet. Perfectly perched right there on top. THe brown'ish leather and tan corn stalks kinda blended, but I SAW IT! While it was out running around the last 8+ months, when I opened it up.... The some bitch also brought a $20 bill home....... (big $ in the late 70's early 80's). I couldn't figure it out and every one (dad, grampa, mom....) was just as surprised as I was. Damndest thing any of use had ever seen. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted Saturday at 02:04 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:04 PM Going to be close tonight for those in Central Indiana. Lows around 38 so cover the stuff up if outside already. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Hoopsier Posted Saturday at 10:43 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 10:43 PM 8 hours ago, Seeking6 said: Going to be close tonight for those in Central Indiana. Lows around 38 so cover the stuff up if outside already. Mother nature seems to always bring the ONE FRiGGIN day in late april/ early May to remind us who is in charge and to have patience, doesn't she. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkroync Posted Saturday at 10:46 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 10:46 PM 2 minutes ago, Joe_Hoopsier said: Mother nature seems to always bring the ONE FRiGGIN day in late april/ early May to remind us who is in charge and to have patience, doesn't she. I call it Mexican Spring 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom White Posted Saturday at 11:03 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 11:03 PM 18 minutes ago, Joe_Hoopsier said: Mother nature seems to always bring the ONE FRiGGIN day in late april/ early May to remind us who is in charge and to have patience, doesn't she. You also always have the times when Mother Nature and Old Man Winter get into domestic spats. That can get ugly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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