Who has a garden to grow their own fruits and vegetables?

I have two beds right now, one for greens and one for other plants. My greens bed is 3x3 and has several types of lettuce, kale, and spinach. The bigger garden is about 4x13 and we have shell and snap peas, several melons, watermelon, zucchini, green beans, spaghetti squash, apple gourds, tomatoes, bell and jalapeno peppers. I just planted strawberries in our flowerbed too. We also have six laying hens and four rabbits to eat the weeds and provide us with fertilizer. I will probably put in another bed in the fall so we can do corn and cruciferous veggies. I can't wait!

Our garden is about 140 x 220 ft., and we use all-natural methods, no herbicides or pesticides, and certified organic seed. We grow beans, beets, peas, squash, melons, hardneck garlic,( 4 varieties), heirloom organic tomatoes ( 200 plants last year), cucumbers ( lemon cucumbers and poona kheera cucumbers a specialty), Jewel strawberries, blackberries, garlic chives, onions, broccoli, 4 colors of cauliflower, mesclun mix, herbs, greens, fennel, Jerusalem artichokes, globe artichokes, gourds, sweet peppers, yellow potatoes, just what comes to mind at the moment. There's more.

Mine is around 20x30', with a 4' fence to keep my dogs out. I have some perennial herbs- rosemary, peppermint, spearmint, oregano and thyme in one corner and the rest I do annual crops.

Right now I have a long row of sugar snap peas and snow peas that grow up the fence, they are just sprouting. Along another fence I planted asparagus beans- they are long Asian beans that can grow 2-3' long, but taste best at around 1' long. They are fun to grow and taste like a green bean.

I have 3 tomato plants- 1 giant slicing type for me to eat, 1 grape for salads, and 1 Roma for fresh pico de gallo. My wife isn't much of a tomato eater so planting too many is a waste.

4 "burpless" cukes, 4 bell pepper, 4 brocolli, and 4 yellow summer squash that my wife got from the Ag program at the school where she works, they sell the plants for $1 for a 4 pack, a great deal.

12 "mixed greens", basically different spring mix types of lettuces.

3 different basil plants- Thai, purple, and Greek. I also have some regular basil seeds and cilantro that I'll plant later, after the salad greens are done.

Daikon radish, carrots, and a spinach/mustard hybrid green that I grew from seeds, those are sprouted but are still tiny.

4 okra, 6 collard greens and 6 kale plants for my "southern food"

1 peanut plant just to see what happens

a long row of potatoes, we had a bag sprouting in the pantry so I cut them into pieces and put them in the ground. I did the same last year with a single potato, cut it into 4-5 chunks with eyes on them, and got about 10lbs of nice potatoes from it. Nothing like a freshly dug up potato!

garlic and onions that came back from last year. I love using the chives in salads.

Still to come, my chile pepper crop, which is my main love of gardening. A friend works at a university greenhouse and has a lot of different chiles that he'll give me a few of in the next week or so. Ghost peppers, Scotch Bonnets, Thai Dragon, Anaheims, jalapenos, Anchos. I usually get a Tabasco from the local garden center as well, 1 Tabasco plant yields thousands of peppers and I use them to make hot sauce. I use the Ghost and Scotch Bonnets for Jamaican Jerk sauce, Thais for hot sauce and cooking ,and the others I like to grill up and eat with dinner.

Small 5x5 foot greenhouse on the front porch (I live in WA so our growing season is pretty short and cool) - so far we have two types of lettuce, blueberries, two types of tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers, LOTS of strawberries, oregano, rosemary, basil, cilantro, and lemon balm. I love growing food!

I've been gardening every year since we moved into our house about 8 years ago. I LOVE it! Each year is seems to grow a little too, hehe! It's probably about 50' X 100' right now. The snow has recently melted so I was finally able to work in the garden this weekend; pruned the raspberries, uncovered the garlic from the leaf mulch so the ground can warm up, transplanted some blueberry bushes because I don't like where my husband planted them and they don't seem to be doing as well as the other ones I planted elsewhere, and just cleaned up and got the garden ready to rototil.

We always plant a crap load of different kinds of tomatoes and sun gold cherry tomatoes, onions, hot/sweet peppers (usually experiment each year with some different hot peppers), broccoli/cauliflower/cabbage, japanese eggplant, cucumbers, summer squash/zukes, butternut/delicate winter squash, beets, lettuce, carrots, green beans, watermelon, pumpkins (pie and jack-o-lanterns), sugar snap peas, tomatillos and ground cherries! Whew, that's alot and now I'm hungry for summer!

In addition to our own garden, we also sign up for a share through our local CSA. We get a lot of the same stuff but also get potatoes and corn and a little bit more variety than what we plant.

LOVE fresh fruit and veggies!! Can't wait for summer

Our garden is on the side of our house and is about 4 feet wide and 48 feet long. I bought non-gmo seeds from mypatriotgarden.com and last year had tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, green beans, cukes, radishes, lettuce, carrots and jalepenos. We have most of our garden planted this year already.

2 years ago, I canned a lot of the tomatoes and made picante sauce. Last year, I did a lot of pickles. Since my husband went crazy on planting tomatoes again this year, I may do picante again. Lots of work, but so worth it!!

In addition to the day job, we run a Certified Naturally Grown farm. The veggie garden is about 2.5 acres, with a separate dedicated salad green garden that is 60x96 feet. This year we're growing 107 different varieties of veggies, with many on the Slow Food Ark of Taste and/or endangered varieties.

Outside of that, we also have peach, nectarine, and almond trees we hope to get our first crop from this year (will only be big enough for us, none to sell, and iffy at that), 2100 crowns of asparagus in its second year (so first very small harvest this year. Year after next and thereafter we should get about 800 pounds of asparagus/year), and raspberries. We also have 11 alpacas, 1 llama, and about 90,000 honey bees, and are getting weeder geese to help keep the grass out of the asparagus, and ducks mostly to control Colorado Potato Beetles and mice, but also for a few eggs. Hope to get started on chickens this year, and we may be adopting Jersey/Dexter mix calf to eventually become a dairy cow., but time, money, other projects, and gender of a calf not yet born may prevent chickens and cow this year...