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

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  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    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!

    Do tell. How short and how cool?!
  • jonswife0206
    jonswife0206 Posts: 125 Member
    I love vegetable gardening! Ours is around 25’ square. We grow snap peas, swiss chard, spinach, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers, banana peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, yellow beans, garlic, dill, cabbage, broccoli, raspberries and blueberries. Whatever we cannot eat fresh gets canned or frozen. It’s really a fun hobby for me.
  • jonesin_am
    jonesin_am Posts: 404 Member
    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 :)
  • wiltl
    wiltl Posts: 188 Member
    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!

    Do tell. How short and how cool?!

    Gonna make a guess and say she's in western Washington state. There are definitely two separate climates here, with eastern WA having a much longer and warmer spring and summer than western. I'm from eastern but currently live in western where the spring is generally in the 60's to 70s through early July if we're lucky. The joke is summer begins on July 5th. Cooler weather makes its way back late September. (Its currently snowing hard in the mountains about 40 miles from me)
    In eastern WA, especially SE corner, spring and summer are nice and warm from April through September (60-100+). My parents have few small raised beds now, with tomatoes (roma and heirloom), zucchini, strawberries, and I think a melon or two. Growing up over there, we had carrots, corn, all kinds of melons, onions, peas, lettuce, cauliflower, potatoes...

    I would love to have a container or two but my deck doesn't get enough sun to do any good. But, around August, this area will see wild blackberries and I need to remember to get some this year.
  • rllewell
    rllewell Posts: 234
    Below is my latest update to my blog titled "Cool & Wet Spring, Week 3 Progress" where it shows the progress of my Tower Gardens from week 1 to week 3. Come on warm weather!

    http://wp.me/p3g1VU-3t
  • Spokez70
    Spokez70 Posts: 548 Member
    Last year we just did tomatoes, peppers, and herbs all in containers. This year we added a 4'x12' raised bed to the mix and right now have several varieties of tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, broccoli raab, squash, lettuce, watermelon, cantaloupe, bell peppers, poblano peppers, jalapeño peppers, basil, oregano, cilantro, peppermint, chocolate mint, sunflowers, and a bunch of okra for pickling....I think that's about it.
  • pamhoffca
    pamhoffca Posts: 10 Member
    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!!
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    i havent yet but would love to
  • chadgard
    chadgard Posts: 102 Member
    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...

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