Gardeners: What produce are you growing this season?
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Probably a small plot of beans, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, maybe corn (I HATE working corn, hubby's fav to eat).
My aunt has been wanting to give me blackberry vine to start for a few years. I need to do that!0 -
Probably the same as ever year: beans, squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, pumpkins in the fall, i think we're looking into asparagus too. We used to have a bigger garden but the ground went bad so we had to cut back while the nutrients rebuild. Plus the amish have such good deals at their farm stands we just get from them half the time. Last year was insane for green beans, they were growing faster than we could harvest them.
I think we're doing heirloom tomatoes again though.0 -
My brother is giving us some of his extra tomato starts.
We're also going to try zucchini, cantaloupe, and maybe broccoli.
This is our first spring in this house, and we're having to dig out a space for garden, but the soil looks much better that the last house we had - less clay and rocks, etc. We've been in an apartment for the last 5 years, so I'm excited to get to try a garden again.
Good luck! I'm trying cantaloupe again this year buy placing them under a poly tunnel and walls of water to see if I can actually beat the first fall frost. I've never been able to ripen them on the vine.
I haven't succeeded at cantaloupe yet, but when I was little my grandma grew them. Like tomatoes, once you've eaten vine-ripened cantaloupe it spoils you for life from the store bought ones :laugh: How early does it frost for you?0 -
5 varieties of gourmet hardneck garlic, sunchokes, red sweet bullhorn peppers, mini yellow and red sweet peppers, yellow and purple bush beans, 4 varieties of broccoli, purple, orange and white varieties of cauliflower, garlic chives, lemon cucumbers, green cucumbers, 3 vareities of eggplant, lettuce, mesclun, cilantro, parsnips, sugar snap peas, Amish pie squash, globe artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes,6 vareities of heirloom tomatoes, Brussels sprouts, leeks, strawberries, blackberries, dragon carrots, various herbs such as mountain and white sage, marjoram, chamomile, flowers for pollinators, bunching onions, summer squash, zucchini, 2 varieties of radishes, golden and Detroit Red beets, and sweet corn and winter squash over at the other farm.
....but the main crop is hay.
Do you raise bees too? I ask because you said you had flowers for pollinators too. Or are they for the wild ones?
Also, do you live in an area where artichokes are easy to grow with mild winters or do you do something special? I tried a variety that was supposed to mature quickly but I didn't overwinter the plant well enough (end of season laziness).
We have raised Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) for years, they are absolutely trouble free; plant and forget. They don't need weeding becasue they get 8 feet tall and no weeds survive in the shade under them. For globe artichokes, this will be our first year. We may have a local beekeeper put his hives in our garden, next to the hayfield ( flowering alfalfa), but we do have a good number of bumblebees ( not at all aggressive and good pollinators) with a nest up in the rafters of our garage. We use no herbicide or pesticides at all.0 -
I just have a small garden, but it gets me outside. I have my seedlings started inside already.
Tomatoes - Many varieties
Radishes
Green Onions
Onions
Mini Cantaloupes
Cucumbers
Bell Peppers
Carrots
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For everyone that plants a variety of tomatoes, do you bunch all of a single variety together or do you intermix them? I don't seed save and I love looking at a wall of variety (I do the same with my peppers except the jalapenos).0
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I need to get my spring crops out so I can put my summer crops in! #californiagardenissues
Currently growing potatoes, onions, broccoli, garlic, strawberries, carrots and celery. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant started from seed in the house in January are ready to go in, and I will start squash varieties from seed right in the beds.
Just turned my front porch flowerbed into an herb garden this week - sage, garlic chives, dill, thyme, Greek oregano, Thai basil, globe basil, curry (new one for me!), lavender and catnip. More basil going in, plus whatever interesting herbs I come across in nurseries from here on out. :bigsmile:0 -
I need to get my spring crops out so I can put my summer crops in! #californiagardenissues
Currently growing potatoes, onions, broccoli, garlic, strawberries, carrots and celery. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant started from seed in the house in January are ready to go in, and I will start squash varieties from seed right in the beds.
Just turned my front porch flowerbed into an herb garden this week - sage, garlic chives, dill, thyme, Greek oregano, Thai basil, globe basil, curry (new one for me!), lavender and catnip. More basil going in, plus whatever interesting herbs I come across in nurseries from here on out. :bigsmile:
I am very envious of your California gardening issues. My mother likes to wax poetic about how much more fun it was to garden when she lived there. The increased growing season alone is jealously inducing! Our last estimated frost is 15 May where I am, so putting out tomatoes and peppers like I did a couple weeks ago is only possible with very special care and observation. I want ripe tomatoes in July and this is the only way I can do it.
Have fun with your awesome gardening environment!0 -
Next weekend I'll sow radishes,spinach,broccoli and sugar snap peas.
End of May I'll sow cucumbers,carrots,summer squash,butternut squash,greenbeans, pumpkins,corn and sunflowers.
I'll buy tomato and pepper plants and plant at the end of May.
In may plant some kale next weekend to hide in my shakes.
Really excited to get things going but it's still cold here :sad:0 -
I keep my tomato varieties separate. Have yellow pear, white beefsteak, red beefsteak, red cherry, brandywine, tasty treat and patio tomatoes. As you can tell I love tomatoes.0
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kohl rabi, beans, carrots, zuchinni, beats, peas and cherry tomatoes0
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I didn't figure strokingdiction for a gardener!
I just moved, so my garden wont be meeting it's full potential this year. I'll probably only use 1/4 of the gardening space that i eventually plan to use.
I'll definitely be planting the basic this year:
Various cucumbers
Various tomatoes
Various kales
Rainbow chard
Various hot peppers
Various sweet peppers
Various herbs
Melons, various.
Squash, maybe pumpkins
Beans
Sugar snap peas,
celery,
collards,
lettuce,
beets,
carrots,
broccoli,
cauliflower.
Strawberries,
I also have a peach tree, and i'll be adding one more. I have a lemon tree that is in a container, and is already blooming in it's current window home.
In the future, probably not this year:
Grapes
Hops (i grew hops at my last house. Homegrown hops in my homebrew!)
Blueberries,
raspberries, (i left my old bushes at my old house. I had a yellow raspberry that was SO good!)
apple tree,
pumpkins, (if not this year)
flowers, especially edible flowers like nasturtium and hibiscus
Probably a lot more that i'm forgetting right off hand.
EDIT: Yep, forgot about potatoes. Going to try asparagus, too.0 -
Tomatoes, variety of peppers, and zucchini. I'm not going overboard this year like I always do. lol. Well, knowing me, I will. I say the same thing every year.0
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A couple planting guides:
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I didn't figure strokingdiction for a gardener!
I just moved, so my garden wont be meeting it's full potential this year. I'll probably only use 1/4 of the gardening space that i eventually plan to use.
I'll definitely be planting the basic this year:
Various cucumbers
Various tomatoes
Various kales
Rainbow chard
Various hot peppers
Various sweet peppers
Various herbs
Melons, various.
Squash, maybe pumpkins
Beans
Sugar snap peas,
celery,
collards,
lettuce,
beets,
carrots,
broccoli,
cauliflower.
Strawberries,
I also have a peach tree, and i'll be adding one more. I have a lemon tree that is in a container, and is already blooming in it's current window home.
In the future, probably not this year:
Grapes
Hops (i grew hops at my last house. Homegrown hops in my homebrew!)
Blueberries,
raspberries, (i left my old bushes at my old house. I had a yellow raspberry that was SO good!)
apple tree,
pumpkins, (if not this year)
flowers, especially edible flowers like nasturtium and hibiscus
Probably a lot more that i'm forgetting right off hand.
EDIT: Yep, forgot about potatoes. Going to try asparagus, too.
Don't worry, a lot of people find my penchant for gardening unusual (online and offline). I guess my personality (a bit of a jerk due to overuse of sarcasm and terrible jokes) isn't like your typical gardener's.
Good luck on getting an entirely new growspace up and going. I dread the thought of moving. The year I do will be right after I think I have the perfect garden design.
I've done square foot gardening in the past with the idea of companion planting. It's a great way of doing it but I don't have plans for it this year. Half of my raised beds are going to be planted with cover crops (alfalfa and rye grass). Maybe next year. This year is nothing but tomatoes and peppers in the raised beds, the only ones that have polytunnel setups.0 -
Next weekend I'll sow radishes,spinach,broccoli and sugar snap peas.
End of May I'll sow cucumbers,carrots,summer squash,butternut squash,greenbeans, pumpkins,corn and sunflowers.
I'll buy tomato and pepper plants and plant at the end of May.
In may plant some kale next weekend to hide in my shakes.
Really excited to get things going but it's still cold here :sad:
Still cold here too. In fact, it's snowing as I type this and the temps are hovering around 31 degrees F. I've checked on my tomatoes/pepper temps and they're holding steady at high 60s at the moment. As long as we doing have sustained temps lower than 15 degrees for more than four days, my early plantings should be fine. It's a risk to plant so early but I'm not a patient gardener. If I can manipulate my garden environment, I'll do it.0 -
You are not alone. I have one tray of stuff that i started in a window 2 months early, like matoes, celery, collards, etc, and i also will start another one this week (one month before planting day)It's a risk to plant so early but I'm not a patient gardener. If I can manipulate my garden environment, I'll do it.
I hope to afford a lean to greenhouse within a few years. I have a flat wall facing south that would be perfect. Once i get that, i can do spinach and kale year round, and start all my other plants early.0 -
In the ground. I need to have three spots to rotate each year if I want to have potatoes each season.0
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We still have about six feet of snowbank on the front and back yards of our property, and the last frost date here is May 21
I did start seeds though about a month ago and have the following growing in our front bedroom/office: mini broccoli, cherry tomatoes, multiple colours of sweet peppers, and green onion. In five weeks or so, I will transplant and add carrots and lettuce, along with an herb garden just on the patio.0 -
Last year I grew:
Potatoes
Onions
Carrots
Parsnips
Beetroot
Leeks
Purple sprouting broccoli
Broad beans
Climbing french beans
Runner beans
Sugar snap peas
Sweetcorn
Squash
Courgettes
Lettuce
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Radish
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Mint (3 varieties)
Rosemary
Parsley
Chives
Lemon balm
Thyme
Sage
Oregano
Basil
Tarragon
Raspberries
Tayberries
Blueberries
Strawberries
Plums
Apples
Gages
Blackberries (wild invaders through the hedge!)
This year I'm adding
Brussels sprouts
Spinach
Kale
Redcurrants
Blackcurrants
Gooseberries
Rhubarb
I need a bigger freezer and a dehydrator!0
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