Any gardeners in here?

Danger2OneSelf

I just got into it the last two years with the help of my mom. We have a pretty big garden and I would like to share tips and tricks with other green thumbs here. It's actually a pretty good feeling eating something YOU produced with your own two hands, that and the fact that you know exactly what went into it (Nothing other than strictly organics). I am currently growing lots of peppers, tomatoes, kohlrabi, beans, sugar snap peas, corn, spring leaf lettuce, culinary herbs, tea herbs, chard, cucumbers, asparagus, potatoes, peanuts, and onions. Anyone else?

jasmina_chic

Love helping my mom garden...we planted zuchinni, tomatoes, carrots, parsnips, cucumbers, and beans this year!!!:happy: cant wait to eat them!!!

debussyschild

My husband and I are actually in the process of building our very first garden. We've got seedlings going in our sun room and they're doing very well! They just need to be hardened. Putting in the raised garden beds (two 4X8 FT beds) out in our backyard after cutting down and removing 10 awful pine trees. Making the trip to the nursery to get the dirt for the bed tomorrow. We have very sandy soil here in FL, so we're trying to do our best to create beds that will retain moisture well. Seedlings (which are thriving nicely!) include: garden beans, sugar snap peas, beets, carrots, green onions, yellow onions, mesclun, jalapenos, various hot peppers, various sweet bell peppers, vine tomatoes, and beefsteak tomatoes. Separately from our garden outside, we've got herbs growing that are almost ready to transplant to pots. I don't want them running rampant (or the bunnies getting to them) so all of my herbs will live on our front porch. It's easier to access them that way from the kitchen anyhow. Crossing my fingers that we'll have a nice harvest in a few months! Can't wait to taste homegrown veggies!!!

sharleengc

We have bell peppers, strawberries, pumpkins, tomatoes, corn, and sugar snap peas. Yesterday we had our first fully grown sugar snap pea! This is the first time we've attempted but it seems to be going well so far.

I planted onions, lettuces and spinach too but none of those came up. I'm perfectly happy with with did come up!


We started everything in the house in pots in March and began moving them out every day once the weather got into the 60's and back in at night then as it warmed out more we moved them to the back of the truck with the topper on at night. Now they're out all the time and we built a 2 level raised garden...so far only the pumpkins and peas are planted in the garden...yesterday we built a climbing wall for the peas then transplanted them.

Gohomebay

Avid gardener here. Pretty well growing a bit of everything. My tips through the years is using great manure to top up the beds every year. This year started doing assortment of lettuces, all doing great but arugula was completely eaten and bolted fast so pulled that out! What are your tips?

splashangel

Oh yea! I have loads of peas and butter beans. Snap beans and pole beans. Okra,sweet peppers and bell peppers. Corn and tomatoes. I have way to much basil and thyme. A few more herbs. All started from heirloom seeds. No GMO's here. I also have harvested a good amount of wild blackberries.( blueberries and figs soon) And..... I have a good bit of edible weeds in and around my yard. All organic! And you are right, it just taste better when you grew it.

Danger2OneSelf

That's awesome your growing everything from heirloom seeds. I just watched a documentary about the whole GMO foods and the agriculture business, and couldn't believe some of the stuff I heard. Next year I'm doing everything organic heirloom also. Right now half of my plants aren't heirloom.

I vermi-compost our food scraps, which is composting with worms. Then I collect tall the worm castings and till it right into the garden every spring. This has helped with the growth and the greenness of the plants tremendously. I'm still having some issues this year though. Most of my plants just kind of came to a stand still, they are fruiting but the actual plant itself isn't growing any bigger. I just bought an all organic 3 part fertilizer thats high in Phosphorus and Potassium and I'm hoping that will help.

Anyone willing to share a picture of theirs? I'm curious as to how everyone else's is doing compared to my sloth like growth I will upload a pic tomorrow.

splashangel

It is all fairly new to me also.My Mom lost her fight with cancer. It changed my life for the better as far as what I put in my body.Trust me, you don't want me to get on my soap box.... I use kitchen compost. It's not all organic. I hope to get to the point that everything coming out of my kitchen is. As I produce more of my own food, I see this being a reality. I'd say 80 % of my kitchen compost is organic though. I also use mushroom compost and rabbit poo here and there. I wish I could get it from a cow that wasn't fed GMO's but some say it has no effect anyways. I can not post pics. I wish I could! My garden is lush and vibrant and has given ALOT of food. Several neighbors told me you could not grow organic because of bugs.Now, they still have buggy gardens and are amazed at my non buggy garden. I order my seed from a company called Victory seeds. They are not linked with Monsanto and that to me, is important.

creech6317

My garden is mainly Herbs this year. I need to trim some of the trees surrounding my garden so I can get enough hours of sunlight for my peppers and tomatoes. I picked a couple of artichokes yesterday from my garden and they will be part of my dinner tonight. It feels so good going out picking the goodies and then using them.
I have a ton of pears growing right now. I will have to start researching some recipes for them for later in the year.