Is anyone else growing a garden?

liftingandlipstick

I ate my first garden strawberry last night! There were two, but the squirrels got to one of them first I'm also growing several lettuces, spinach and arugula, peppers and tomatoes, celery, beans and peas, cucumbers and various herbs (off the top of my head: anise, dill, cilantro, mint and orange thyme?)

kmsoucy457

So far i've only harvested from the herbs: basil, rosemary, spearmint and parsley.
On the way:
four types of tomatoes, two starting to flower
yellow and habanero peppers
cucumbers
kale
spinach
Tonight I'm picking up lavender for the patio planter, and might buy a Brussels sprout plant to fill the hole created when one of the dogs nabbed two of the kale babies...

Need2Exerc1se

I'm trying to remember what all we have planted for later harvest.

corn (have a garden just for corn now)
beans (bush and pole)
squash - zucchini, straightneck (yellow), spaghetti, butternut
pumpkin - cooking and large for decoration
watermelon
beets
garlic
peppers - 2 mild, 6 (I think) hot varieties
tomatoes (grape, 2 types of slicer, roma, yellow)
cantelope
cucumber

We will be planting parsnips, carrots, brussel sprouts and more sugar snap peas in late summer and replanting radishes, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower in fall

We also have pecan, walnut, hickory nut, apple plum, pear and cherry trees, as well as filbert (hazelnut), raspberry, blueberry, blackberry and gooseberry bushes scattered about our property.

460mustang

Yes, just a small one. Tomatoes, peppers, herbs. Also have fruit trees, orange, grapefruit, lemon, olives, and pomegranate

jsbodnaryk

I just planted my garden last weekend. Up until a week before we were having hard frosts (below -2) almost every night. It will be a while before I am actually able to harvest anything! My seedlings aren't up yet, but the plants that I started in my greenhouse are doing well. I live on a farm, and have a very large garden, so I grow probably 75% of the produce we eat. I freeze and can a lot so that we have plenty of veggies to last us the winter. We're out of pretty much everything now, so I've had to buy all our produce for the past few weeks. I can't wait until my garden starts producing again!

I have corn, spinach, peas, green and yellow beans, three types of lettuce (which I replant periodically), green and yellow zucchini, spaghetti squash, three types of carrots, beets, onions, garlic, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, three types of cucumbers, many types of tomatoes, a few hills of potatoes for my husband, and some dry beans. I started a couple of watermelons and planted them as well, but chances are slim that I'll actually get an edible watermelon. Even with the shortest season watermelons I can find I've never had any luck. They are usually about the size of a baseball by October, and then end up frozen, despite my best efforts to protect them. I'm also experimenting with a little patch of quinoa, I'm not sure if we have a long enough season for it here, but we'll see. And I also have a little orchard, with apples, crabapples, sour cherries, raspberries and strawberries. I'm hoping also to plant some blueberries, and maybe some cold hardy pears and sweet cherries. Saskatoon berries grow wild all over in the treed areas of our farm. I plant my herbs in my wildflower garden, right now I have dill, thyme, lavender, chamomile, basil, chives and rosemary.

Alluminati

I'm growing a bush.

mojohowitz

OdesAngel wrote: »

I'm growing a bush.

Giggle.

mojohowitz

Tomatoes, onions, peppers, jalapenos, cucumbers, basil and cilantro.

nicfitnesszone

Veggie and herb garden. Have dill, basil, parsley, tarragon, cilantro. Peppers are growing.. gardening is very therapeutic!

amphilion

We have a balcony garden, we have fresh herbs (two types of parsly, dill, basil, rosemary) Three types of tomatoes, earth cherries, cucumber!

bago08

Tomatos, herbs, cucumbers, beans, carrots and romaine

460mustang

OdesAngel wrote: »

I'm growing a bush.

LOL, This is why I love reading these blogs, I get my USDA recommended daily laughter

xcalygrl

Tomatoes
Green beans
Okra
Rosemary
Peppers
Basil
Mint
Aloe Vera
Thyme
Lavendar

FitStrongHealthy

My husband and I have a few gardens growing this year. We have our herb garden with sage, rosemary, basil, thyme, a bay tree, and oregano. Then we have two separate vegetable gardens with carrots, corn, yellow squash, zucchini, eggplant, peas, tomatoes (cherries, big boy, and one other type I can't remember what it is), potatoes, cucumbers, jalapeno peppers, banana peppers, and bell peppers. And last the fruit garden has strawberries, blueberries (along the edge), cantaloupe, and watermelon all growing around a mulberry tree and a pecan tree.

The tomatoes are slowly starting to make, so I'll be making no batter fried green tomatoes soon, and our squash and zucchini are making faster than we expected. The corn is starting to grow little cobs, so they're be ready soon. And all of our fruit plants are blooming little flowers on them.

njfitnessmom

We're growing tomatoes, red peppers, basil, rosemary, parsley and cilantro. We have tomatoes starting now and my basil and cilantro are out of control. Unfortunately I have a baby rabbit living under my shed that likes my pepper plants. I need to do something to keep him out of them.

MonsoonStorm

I have a staggering collection of dandelions.

I should start harvesting them to produce beverages.

Or perhaps buy a rabbit to eat them. Maybe a goat... Homegrown dandelion-reared mutton curry?

Need2Exerc1se

njfitnessmom wrote: »

We're growing tomatoes, red peppers, basil, rosemary, parsley and cilantro. We have tomatoes starting now and my basil and cilantro are out of control. Unfortunately I have a baby rabbit living under my shed that likes my pepper plants. I need to do something to keep him out of them.

Can you fence them in? Rabbits can't jump very high so you'd only need about 6 in high fence, but they can and will dig under so you'd need to also bury about 6 inches.

YolliB2014

Definitely always have a garden. Just planted all our seeds and won't see anything from it until end of July. I'll be planting lettuce, tomatoes, spinach and herbs in planters from the greenhouse for a head start. We don't have much of a growing season here.

MonsoonStorm

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

njfitnessmom wrote: »

We're growing tomatoes, red peppers, basil, rosemary, parsley and cilantro. We have tomatoes starting now and my basil and cilantro are out of control. Unfortunately I have a baby rabbit living under my shed that likes my pepper plants. I need to do something to keep him out of them.

Can you fence them in? Rabbits can't jump very high so you'd only need about 6 in high fence, but they can and will dig under so you'd need to also bury about 6 inches.

completely untrue

you'd need a whole lot more than 6 inches.

pdank311

All I've pulled so far is basil. But I have the following going.

Tomato
Basil
Sweet Banana Pepper
Hot Banana Pepper
Jalapeno
Habanero
Eggplant
Zucchini

Doubt there will be much harvest prior to Late July / August. The main bulk of the tomato plants come in early Sept - first frost for me.

mossiejoe

I am the Garden coordinator for our local community garden.... I have baby pak choy, kale, spinach ready. Peas, kohlrabi, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, sweet and thai basil, swiss chard, tomatillos, onions are growing away. Very excited about harvest and all the new gardeners we have on board this year, Plus it's a kick *kitten* workout -weeding, watering, shoveling, raking, etc. Great stress reliever.

Need2Exerc1se

MonsoonStorm wrote: »

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

njfitnessmom wrote: »

We're growing tomatoes, red peppers, basil, rosemary, parsley and cilantro. We have tomatoes starting now and my basil and cilantro are out of control. Unfortunately I have a baby rabbit living under my shed that likes my pepper plants. I need to do something to keep him out of them.

Can you fence them in? Rabbits can't jump very high so you'd only need about 6 in high fence, but they can and will dig under so you'd need to also bury about 6 inches.

completely untrue

you'd need a whole lot more than 6 inches.

Under or above ground? Above, I'm going totally by what I've read in gardening forums. My fences are 5 ft high to keep deer out. But 6 inches under has always kept the burrowers out for me.

originalkelli

Tomatoes from the garden are the bomb.com! Peppers, broccoli, spinach, basil, carrots, garlic, onions, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, (new plant so prob win't fruit this year) cucumbers, parsley, and anything else I can fit!

Francl27

Tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, peas, green beans, basil, carrots, watermelon... pumpkin and cauliflower later. Well, it's the plan, but we haven't had much luck with anything growing so far My husband planted everything in April and we got a freeze that week end that killed off most of them. We'll see... Last year we got a ton of tomatoes and yellow squash.

trying4real

planted- tomato, peppers, herbs, strawberries, cabbage, watermelon and Cantaloupe, onions, radishes and i forget what else lol figure I will find out when it grows

MonsoonStorm

Above. Rabbits are very capable jumpers. Mine could easily jump a 3ft wall.

I never tried stopping them digging so I'm no help there.

AmandaHugginkiss

This is my first year growing anything other than flowers. The annual herbs are coming to the end of their lives and I'm prepping to replant for a late summer/fall harvest.
Herbs - Basil, lemon balm, rosemary, thyme, oregano, marjoram, Cuban oregano, parsley, shiso, chocolate mint, spearmint, and aloe
2 papaya and 2 pineapple, primarily for landscaping
serrano peppers - starting to harvest
habanero - the insects always get them before I can
and 11 tomatoes - 2 Brandywine, 3 Cherokee purple, 1 patio (a mutant because it was a baby I took out of my mother's garden out of curiosity, so not sure what I'm going to get), 1 large orange one of unknown variety (popped up with the serrano), 1 Early Girl, 1 Heatmaster, 1 Husky Red dwarf cherry, and 1 Roma. I have well over 100 green tomatoes, and some are starting to change color now.

I grew almost all of it from seed, except the chocolate mint, Cuban oregano (from a cutting), pineapple, aloe and 3 hybrid tomatoes I picked up at Home Depot late in the season in case my late-harvest heirlooms fail.

bbontheb

carakirkey wrote: »

bbontheb wrote: »

We live in BC so not too hot yet. But we have growing:

Blueberries (on the bushes but not ripe yet)
Strawberries
Rhubarb
Peach tree
few raspberries
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Zucchini
Different types of thyme, parsley, sage, basil (just transplanted), chives, oregano, mints....probably more herbs.
Swiss chard.
From seed: spinach, lettuces (a big mix), magentaspreen, amaranth, sorrel , other mixed greens, carrots, onion (for green onion), peas, radish, kale.
Potatoes in a big potato bin made from pallets.
Not nearly enough room to plant what I would want to.
Flowers: calendula, nasturtium, zinnia, cosmos.

Starting tonight/tomorrow: Green beans (pole)

Would like to still plant: rosemary, more thyme and curly parsley, hot peppers to make my own sweet chili sauce, pac choi/bok choy, dill, lavender,

Never having in any garden of mine: cilantro

I'm in BC too- interior. Im jealous of your garden- sounds fabulous! Curious why no cilantro? Too hard to grow?

Haha. No, because all cilantro should wilt up and die off this earth for good. LOL. I vomit if I taste it. No lie.

I don't have space to grow squash but that would be my other must have. I love squash-butternut, spaghetti, acorn...any of them. Mmmm.

IAmTheGlue

I only have tomatoes planted so far. I'm going to buy a few more plants this weekend. I got a late start and contimplated not having a garden at all this yea. I think it will still be okay to start this late.

jfp420

Everyone's gardens sound great. I'm starting out with a small one this year. Tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber and watermelon. If all goes well I would like to expand it next year. I would love to grow some berries.