Who Is Planting A Garden In Wv. (Hinton: to buy, organic)

[x1x]

How many of you are planing a garden this year in WV, And what will you be planting? And size of garden?

[MistyVT]

Pleas tell me a bit about the growing season in WV. What grows well and what has trouble thriving? Just trying to obtain knowledge for my future.

[AliceT]

I planted two crabapple trees in the front yard last weekend. I planted gladiola bulbs in a variety of plastic pots on the patio. I always have great luck with gladioli. My favorite flower. They do well just about everywhere from FL to Me and everywhere between. Haven't tried them out west by imagine they would do well there, too.

I bought some banana pepper, birdhouse gourd, tomato, bell pepper and jalepeno pepper seeds through the winter and will be starting them in April. Although most varieties of tomato do very well in the southern part of the state, I like the smaller version, the cherry tomato, grape tomato and roma for an early harvest. I tried peas the year before last and they didn't do well. Not sure what I did wrong/

I prefer to start from seed rather than buy seedlings - a real money saver to buy a packet of seeds for a buck than be taken to the cleaners for several flats of seedlings. I always soak the seeds overnight and plant them while they are still damp into peat or other organic, biodegradable starter pots that I can then plant in it's entirety into the ground once it is warm enough.

I have heard that grapes do well here and will try my hand on that this year.

[Hinton Bound]

With the price of food skyrocketing, I'd expect alot of people will be planting a garden this year!

[x1x]

Originally Posted by Hinton Bound

With the price of food skyrocketing, I'd expect alot of people will be planting a garden this year!

Yes the cost of food is becoming outrageous and I suspect many will be growing something to supplement some of high cost...

[snorpus]

I'm in Western PA, so the weather is similar to West Virginia's. Years ago (early 80s) we were on a self-sufficiency kick, and had a 5000 sqft garden.

With decent soil, water, a bit of fertilizer, and some effort keeping the weeds are varmits away, we grew most anything we wanted. Tomatoes, corn, cukes, beans, snap peas, onions, pumpkins, potatoes, squash, collard greens, brussel sprouts, cabbage, canteloupe, peppers (bell and hot), etc. About the only things we never had any luck with were peas and watermelons.

The one thing we did was to make sure we didn't get the varieties with a real long growing season; we planted 90-100 day corn, instead of 120 day, for example. We usually didn't transplant fragile plants outside till near the end of May, and we'd usually get at least a mild frost by the end of September.

[x1x]

Gee spring is springing i was out looking around my yard and noticed my rose bush is starting to grow new growth already. There just about 1/4 inch now... I had trimed it down in Jan to about 8 inches or so....

[snorpus]

We're just a couple of weeks from the Equinox... the days are noticeably longer, even taking DST into account.

I always heard that peas should be planted on St. Patrick's Day, which is this Monday. Won't be long till you can put out the onion sets.