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Anybody planted yet? I unleashed the BEAST( 1953 Farmall Cub) yesterday and rowed up and got planted. Planted cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower as well.

uh,no, it's presently below freezing a few degrees with a coupla inches of new snow on top of 2"-3" already there. And more to come until a sunny day Monday, followed by more storms.

No planting taters, or maters, or most anything until May here.

Geno

I'm a little late this year here. We have large potato farms in our area that do chip stock for Lays and has been real wet and they are late as well.

Same here Geno......we still have snow on the ground.....supposed to be +9 Monday night.

The end of April's iffy......usually don't plant anything until May.

This has been first year in several I can remember we have not had a single snowflake to fall. Mild winter and extremely wet.

Yeah, the two feet of snow's gotta melt first....

We grow a few taters around here.... but goodness, we're a couple of months out.

Ya'll guys making me cold. It snows or any weather forecast for snow and people here go NUTS. My Father in law lives in Boone area of NC (Mountains) and he has same planting time your discussing. Usually May 1.

Too wet. Tractor will get stuck in the mud.

Below zero Friday morning, mid 20s today, 6 inches of snow fell today.

Too early to plow- er - dig outdoors - frost probably goes down 4 feet or more.

But I should start tomatoes indoors soon fr the passive greenhouse later.

I have planted them here in late February, but it won't happen this year. It's the wettest here that I've ever seen. It will take 2 weeks of no rain and all sun before it will be dry enough to stir the dirt. I do have a high tunnel, and could plant some in there, but I'd rather grow them in a garden.

Suppose to get a foot of snow sunday night.

But you have a great TV spokeman now! He hides in the veggie cooler at the store.

We've got about a foot and a half of snow on the ground right now. More ice on the lakes than there is snow on the ground. It's probably around 20 inches thick right now. More snow forecast for today. It's gonna be at least another 6 weeks before we can even see the garden.

We got fish to catch before plantin' spuds Jeff!

Years ago I encountered a woman who swore that her father always planted his spuds on Good Friday in the dark of the moon. Well, ok. Since there never in history has been a Good Friday in the dark of the moon, I could only assume that he'd never planted a potato.
A lot of gardeners do plant them on Good Friday but since that can vary by weeks, it's often way too cold here.

Too wet here. As to the moon planting and other signs, My Mother believed in planting watermelons on the first day of May, before sunup. She would have the hills ready and just put the seeds in. That is the only superstition that I recall Her having. Lots of the old timers used the almanac to plant their gardens by. A few to cut calves and hogs by, but most did it when they could. miles

I have been tempted to try planting them in the fall. Just a couple dozen.
Everyone thinks they would rot, possibly so.



But,if taters couldnt lay in the ground overwinter, and grow next year, then
how did they exist before people farmed them? Or have they had that ability
bred out of them in our attempts to enhance other traits?



I'm guessing it would work.
But, you wouldn't get a good percentage of plants coming up.

You would need an ice auger to plant here right now.

For years I worked in R&D for a seed company growing watermelons and squash. We always planted the 1st week of May but only in greenhouses. We'd transplant them outside about Memorial Day. There's just too much chance of frost here before that. FWIW, we planted them in 12oz styrofoam cups. The root balls fit perfectly in the holes cut by bulb planters and gave the plants a lot more room for roots than the smaller cells used by commercial greenhouses.

If it doesn't stop raining, I may plant rice this year.