You can borrow mine
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Have done most of what I can do with the Outback, so Iāve got a hire ute lined up for Friday to do the rest.
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If you want a permanent trellis that works well for peas and pole beans, welded wire fencing works great. (Old pic)
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Making a super lazy pea trellis:
But realized I shouldnāt have cut the twine at the bottom so I could loop a stick through to weigh it downā¦ I guess I can tie the cut twine togetherā¦
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Also I made a mistake and didnāt include any spaghetti squash in my garden and now I have to figure out where to put it.
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Cross post from my journal
Turning on the grow lights and checking on my plant babies is quickly becoming one of my favorite parts of my morning routine. Maybe I should grow micro greens and/or fodder to keep this going all year round when I donāt need to start seedlings for outdoors 
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Itās snowing out here. 
Boo I know thatās common there but still.
Weāre having two nights of below freezing temps (last and this) but after that it is smooth sailing. You know, until the forecast changes again. But headās up! Spring, she is aācominā!
(I cannot wait to put all these flower starts in the ground. They are starting to get annoying. Some of them wonāt survive with lows in the 30s.)
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One thing Iām really looking forward to this year is seeing what works planted straight into the ground. I almost certainly have to either start tomatoes & peppers inside or buy seedlings that were started in March, but Iām hoping that almost everything else I strongly want can just be direct seeded. Tending to indoor seedlings, potting them up, trying to figure out what to do when way too many or way too few germinate and survive, is kind of a pain in the ass, and I probably will only do it in the future for varieties I have liked and doubt I can get in the store.
My most successful indoor plant has been arugula, so if eventually I can get away with growing way less starts, Iām just gonna grow a buttload of arugula throughout the winter and just be made entirely of arugula.
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Also you can figure out better timing for indoor starting so you can do zero up-potting. I try to avoid that completely even if that means my transplants are smaller than they could be
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The only (popular) things you really have to start indoors in our climate are tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. Although Iāve totally let volunteer tomatoes grow before and have gotten tomatoes off of them! Cherry tomatoes though, and much later than starts. Generally speaking, the season isnāt long enough for these plants in our climate. (Oh, that also would include very long season things like gourds, loofa, possibly watermelon and cantaloupe for you (except the mini ones, but you wouldnāt start them until probably May anyway.) Sometimes it is advantageous to start other things too, like if you are waiting for the spot in the garden and you want to get a jump on them. I did corn (!!!) this way last year, I wanted to plant a second crop in the same spot as the early corn, but it was still a few weeks away from being ready. I started them in pots and, surprisingly, it turned out fine! Youāll learn that some things really should only be direct seeded anyway too, because they are sensitive to root disturbance. 
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I like potting up peppers and eggplants, it gives me strong sturdy plants when planting out time comes!
Tomatoes, on the other hand, are a giant PITA because they grow so fast. 
One year I started them at the beginning of March and it was a BIG mistake, I had to pot them up twice and it was a huge chose moving them in and out of the back patio to the basement on all the cold nights, because going up and down the stairs sucks and they took up a LOT of room.
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I think if itās safe, mid-may Iām going to go to the garden center just to check out what varieties they have of peppers and tomatoes. Then Iāll only seed the intersection of āI love thisā and āI canāt get this as a starter.ā Like, romas are pretty freaking common, so Iām not sure it will really have been worth it for me to start those myself. Likewise, do I really need to start my own bell peppers? Probably not. But I might have more trouble finding scotch bonnets. But I donāt know for sure!
I also may build a polytunnel this year, so that could make a difference as well.
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Update from me.
https://forum.ohmydollar.com/t/rabbitarian-i-like-big-buns/1669/278?u=rabbitarian
What is the best way to do this? Just copy my journal posts, quote them, or leave most of my garden updates in my journal and only post certain things here?
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Can I plant garlic from a bulb now? The internet tells me itās supposed to be planted in the fall. Will it still grow if I do it now, even if itās not as good as a fall planting?
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It will, it will just be a smaller harvest!
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Generally Iād be planting mine this weekend down here, the first in the second month of autumn.
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