Gardeners: What produce are you growing this season?

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.

Oh, I'm sorry I missed this discussion! I was at a meeting of our local Transition Town group which also includes a strong permaculture aspect! I could relate to so much of what you all are growing....or planning to grow! I'm in the north, north east US and the snow has just melded off of the gardens in the last couple of days! I have started onions, tomatoes (Cosmonaut, Premio, Sungold, Roma), amaranth, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, and soaking some parsley seeds. I try to direct seed as much as possible! One of the gardens is fenced to keep deer out so I grow peas (snow, snap, shell), pole beans, cukes, tomatoes and amaranth next to the fence for support.

I'm in love with getting more perennial foods established! Trying new this year: Watercress which I hope to establish on a tiny stream beside the drive. I transplanted some wild Ostrich ferns (for fiddleheads) to that area last year. We also have several highbush blueberries, a raspberry patch, asparagus, sunchokes, 2 young apples, a sweet cherry, and my favorite: Contender Peach which bore fruit the year after we planted it!

New this year: Hazelnut and Sour Cherry bushes. And I'm going to try growing the potatoes on top of the septic field by putting down a layer of cardboard and some hay, then top with the seed potatoes and more hay....an experiment and a way to expand my growing area without tilling. Last year I grew winter and summer squashes on top of cardboard and piles of composted horse manure, mulched with hay....worked beautifully. Of course, there are always slugs to keep under control!

I'd love to hear of other useful perennial crops (edible landscaping) that any of you like to grow! I like ideas for extending the growing season. Can you say more about how you use the wall of water things and the poly tunnels?

Has your permaculture group had any discussions about hugelkulture (pronounced hoogleculture, like google)? The are fantastic for perennials like fruiting bushes. Check them out if you haven't. They're amazing. I haven't watered my native plums in three years and they look just as good as my group that I planted under fabric that I have to deep soak 4-5 times a year.

Oh, I'm sorry I missed this discussion! I was at a meeting of our local Transition Town group which also includes a strong permaculture aspect! I could relate to so much of what you all are growing....or planning to grow! I'm in the north, north east US and the snow has just melded off of the gardens in the last couple of days! I have started onions, tomatoes (Cosmonaut, Premio, Sungold, Roma), amaranth, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, and soaking some parsley seeds. I try to direct seed as much as possible! One of the gardens is fenced to keep deer out so I grow peas (snow, snap, shell), pole beans, cukes, tomatoes and amaranth next to the fence for support.

I'm in love with getting more perennial foods established! Trying new this year: Watercress which I hope to establish on a tiny stream beside the drive. I transplanted some wild Ostrich ferns (for fiddleheads) to that area last year. We also have several highbush blueberries, a raspberry patch, asparagus, sunchokes, 2 young apples, a sweet cherry, and my favorite: Contender Peach which bore fruit the year after we planted it!

New this year: Hazelnut and Sour Cherry bushes. And I'm going to try growing the potatoes on top of the septic field by putting down a layer of cardboard and some hay, then top with the seed potatoes and more hay....an experiment and a way to expand my growing area without tilling. Last year I grew winter and summer squashes on top of cardboard and piles of composted horse manure, mulched with hay....worked beautifully. Of course, there are always slugs to keep under control!

I'd love to hear of other useful perennial crops (edible landscaping) that any of you like to grow! I like ideas for extending the growing season. Can you say more about how you use the wall of water things and the poly tunnels?

Has your permaculture group had any discussions about hugelkulture (pronounced hoogleculture, like google)? The are fantastic for perennials like fruiting bushes. Check them out if you haven't. They're amazing. I haven't watered my native plums in three years and they look just as good as my group that I planted under fabric that I have to deep soak 4-5 times a year.

Yes, there's a lot of buzz about hugelkulture and Sepp Holtzer. I'm trying to work with the concept without a lot of trenching! Sepp does his with machinery and I'd be doing it by the shovelful! I did build a raised bed last fall in order to make it easier to overwinter some greens this year; and I layered cardboard, smallish tree branches, hay, and horse manure to begin to fill it up.....and I'll add some of my kitchen compost before I plant in it. Otherwise, I have a pile of mostly rotted cedar fence posts that I'm wondering how to use.

How did you do yours? We certainly have plenty of piles of rotting wood, although it is mostly softwood, like fir, spruce and pine which I'm not so sure is the best for plants. Although if it has rotted enough maybe the resins are mostly gone.

I used a trench for mine. Basically, I would rototill a three food wide swath, then pile the dirt on one side. Run the rototiller again and pile the new loose dirty on the other side. It took a long time but I was gathering cottonwood from the area at the time, getting rancher permission to forrage on their land around the seasonal creek beds we have around here. I made the trench about 2.5 - 3 feet deep and then filled with all the cottonwood logs and branches I'd collected along with all my tree trimming refuse. I put in a little bit of aged horse manure but not much since I want to encourage to encourage the roots of the bushes to really branch out in the native soil and not heavy collect around the manure. Then I filled it all back in. The first year, i planted alphalpha on it just to add a bit more to the top few inches of soil. The next year (though I could have done it that fall) I planted the seedling bushes, just sticks really with a couple leaves on them. They are now doing great!

It was labor intensive since I didn't have any big machinery to take care of the initial dig but the results and the fact that it will last for 30 years or more is worth it in my book.

There's a lot of controversy about wood types but I think they're overblown. Eventually, the wood will break down and absorb water just like other 'more desirable' woods. Maybe I'll find someone in the foothills that's big into trimming their pine trees and see if I can't make a second bed using primarily those types of wood just to see if there is an appreciable difference.

I'd love to know how yours works out. I did one (a raised garden bed) where i just put small branches at the bottom of the bed to see if it would work small scale. I didn't notice anything last year as far as watering was concerned and thought it was a bust. However, when I was turning the soil a few weeks ago, it was noticeably moister soil than my other, non stick containing beds. I live in a semi arid environment so that's a good thing for my gardening.

Thought I'd lost all of my early planted, warmth loving tomato, pepper and eggplant varieties when my area experienced two consecutive nights of sub 20 degree temps. My walls of water were frozen solid. I checked them once they thawed a day later and was amazed to find all plants had not only survived but looked great! Clear plastic on raised bed along with the walls of water really heated the soil enough to keep them fully within an acceptable temperature range.

I was amazed. I'm excited for July tomatoes instead of August ones! Bring it mother nature, I'm ready for anything (but let's not get crazy or anything).