Do you have a vegetable garden?
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I would love one but where I live there are several obnoxious young kids who live a stone's throw away, and they'd sneak into the garden to steal whatever grew (or just stomp on it all.) :-(0
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We have a huge garden. I love to do canning and freezing. It is a great workout, too! I have a Bodymedia this year and I'm amazed at the calorie burn.0
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Yes we have one. We are growing, tomoatoes, carrots, squash, purple bell peppers, habanero peppers, stevia, mint, parsley, basil, cilantro, onion.
We have two rasied beds. I can't wait!0 -
I see several people grow mint - can I ask what you all do with it? Mint grows wild here, and mostly I just run it over with the lawnmower, but the kids sometimes will pick some to chew.
It's used to make tabouleh and mojitos. It's good to make dressings or as an addition to salads. But it also helps deter some garden pests so some people plant it for that purpose alone.0 -
Yes, I have a full garden - 4 types of squash, 4 types of tomatoes, 7 types of peppers, 2 types of melon, 2 types of beans, 2 types of potatoes, 2 types of peas, 3 types of cabbage, 3 types of onion, brussel sprouts, corn, kale, collards, chard, beets, parsnips, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, garlic, basil, cilantro, oregano, chives, thyme, rosemary, parsley. mint.
fruit trees/bushes/vines - apple (wild and planted), pear, plum, cherry, blueberry, blackberry, gooseberry, grapes
nut trees - walnut, hickory, hazelnut and pecan
We also have a greenhouse for growing some vegetables year round.
Makes my efforts look kinda puny.
Honestly, makes all my previous efforts look puny too. :laugh: We bought a small farm last year.0 -
For me the work outs come in the forms of digging in the spring. I turn all the soil and break the ground for new plots by hand. Then I hand water with a large bucket or gallon jugs through out the summer as not to knock of flowers or veggies and to make sure the water gets all the chlorine out before I water. It also makes it easy to fertilize when needed. My best spring summer and fall outdoor work is mowing the lawn. I always get a great workout from pushing the mower to emptying the grass bag every few minutes. I've already lost my winter weight so it must be working0
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Started this year with a veggie/fruit/herb garden. Some were epic fails but I learned and am learning SO much. I live in SOFLA so it is great weather year round to grow most anything.
Right now I have :
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Eggplant
Lime
Cabbage
Arugula
Mesclun Mix Salad
All kinds of herbs:
Cilantro
Mint
Basil
Parsley
Oregano
Sage
Thyme
Rosemary
Chives
I am also starting to germinate:
Frisee Salad
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Onion
Garlic
I am interested in adding a few more but am in the process of selling my home and do not want to get ahead of myself and have loads to move later on.
I also have three hens who give me delicious and nutritious eggs every day
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Oh to grow year round. Very nice! We have super wet and sometimes frozen winter days here on the NW Oregon coast so growing outdoors isn't an option November through April. I think I would miss the winter if we didn't have it but to grow all year might just make up for the loss.0
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The pears look like ones in the store, shape- and color-wise. Maybe they are just hard. Too bad because my kid loves pears but can't eat anything hard like that because his 2 front teeth are mostly fake.
I have pretty big crabapples....crabapple jelly sounds good. I'll have to try that this year.
Maybe the pears are cooking ones, try searching for poached pear recipe, may not be suitable for child, poached in red wine, but I guess non booze versions are available
PS may be problem in translation, jelly in UK is not same as US jelly0 -
I have a small garden plot. I grow zucchini, rhubarb and lots of tomatoes and peppers for salsa0
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This is what I learned with my pear trees...we tend to want to pick the pears and eat them straight from the tree like apples. But pears don't mature the same as apples. You can tell when pears are mature on the branch when you lift the fruit horizontally and the stem breaks away easily. The fruit actually ripens from the inside out, so once you think it is ready (on the tree), it is usually too late. Pick these hard pears and bring them inside (room temperature) for a week or so and they should be ready to eat. :0)Come to think of it, i have a pear tree in the yard as well...but the pears never ripen. I think something is wrong with it, but I'm not exactly a horticulturalist...
Not knowing the variety of pear, but some pears need to be just left to ripen indoors, maybe for a month or more
Or they could just be cooking or perry pears
We rent, and my fiance had the house before i moved in, kept telling me how annoying the one tree in the backyard is because it drops little hard things for months starting in August...turned out to be pears lol. They seem to get biggest and closest to ripe in October, i was thinking bosc..they're also brown-skinned? Unless that's just whatever is wrong with it manifesting itself in the skin as well. I tried to let them ripen indoors but only got one that was even close to edible, and that took 2 weeks. My cousin has a bachelor's degree in agriculture and said it may just need some food spikes...the one sort-of-edible pear i got was actually quite good, but still hard. Maybe they're supposed to be hard? Although i thought pears were usually supposed to have some kind of softness to them.
I also have a crabapple bush/tree that I'd like to utilize, if i can figure out what to do with them.0 -
I had to buy another 4-5 plants because mine died off...and the ones that have survived are smaller and barely hanging on. It's been averaging 60-70s so I'm sure that's a factor.0
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Don't have as much space as I used to, but planted radishes, carrots, onions, peppers, tomatoes, zuchini, and various herbs. A LOT of basil, to be turned into a massive pile of pesto eventually.0
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Yes, 220 x 140 ft, including a greenhouse.0
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Yes, I have two allotments. Love gardening!
Edit now I have more time to add:
At allotments I have -
Blackberries, leeks, red onions, white onions, shallots, garlic, broan beans, french beans, rhubarb, spinach, beetroot, courgettes, chard, and carrots
At home waiting to go to allotment I have -
Extra french beans, extra beetroot, swede, tomatoes and spare cucumber
In garden at home I have -
5 apple trees, a cherry tree, rhubarb, cucumber, tomatoes, spring onions, lettuce, mint, chives, sage, oregano
Love gardening, love eating0 -
My gardens have taken over my yard. Quite literally, our entire front yard has been turned into an edible landscape this Spring. What started out as an occasional hobby and a few raised beds has turned into a passionate venture. And gardening is no joke when it comes to workouts. Lifting, squatting, lunging, stretching, edging, raking, shoveling, all the walking, etc. I am dead to the world by the end of the day...and I notice I get a much better night's sleep when I work in the gardens. Like the OP said...it IS therapy! There is a joy to gardening, unlike running or spin classes, for me. The bonus is sharing the works of your labor with friends and neighbors throughout the season.
I have in my collective vegetable and herb gardens:
19 varieties of mostly heirloom tomatoes
6 types of summer squash/zucchini
purple and blue potatoes
6 varieties of dry cooking beans (1 bush)
6 varieties of snap beans (4 bush)
8 varieties of sweet peppers (pimento, chocolate, orange, green, yellow monster, purple, red, albino)
8 types of Hot Peppers (cayenne, jalapeno, aurora, cherry, tequila sunrise, annaheim, ancho, Hungarian wax)
Ground Cherries, Giant Cape Gooseberries and Tomatillos
3 types of spinach (one is a climber called Malabar)
8 types of wonderful lettuce (mesculin mix, romaine mixes, butterhead, freckles...)
7 types of strawberries (you can never have enough!) (Honeoye, pineberry, jewel, yellow alpine, Winona, Earliglow, everbearer)
red, Vidalia and yellow onions
5 varieties of basil
2 types of oregano
2 Parsley
4 varieties of Nasturtiums
dill, cilantro, tarragon, sweet mace, sweet marjoram, lavender, German chamomile, lemon balm, Echinacea, 3 types of bee balm
6 winter squash (acorn, Jahrdale (sp?) and another small pie type, blue hubbard, red warty, jack b little)
3 melons (cantaloupe, sugar baby watermelon, moon and stars)
12+ varieties of sunflowers
3 types of peas
5 types of carrots
fennel, radishes, parsnip, broccoli, white and purple cauliflower, Brussels sprouts,
5 types of cucumber (jelly melon, Mexican gherkin, lemon cuke, straight 8, and one popular pickling cuke)
3 types of okra (2 green, 1 red)
collards, 3 types of edible kale, giant red mustard, turnips, green cabbage, baby bok choi
sweet potatoes (we started the slips this winter from potatoes we grew last year)
Black beauty eggplant, pumpkin on a stick, Malaysian eggplant
Altrei Coffee (it is a lupin that is grown as a coffee replacer)
4 types of Amaranth
mini indian corn (not edible, but dang it they are so cute!)
rhubarb, horseradish, chives
artichoke
5 or more varieties of chard
Chocolate Mint and Spearmint
Trees/Bushes/Vines:
2 Grapes (White and Red for fresh eating)
6 Kiwi (4 types/ 2 males)
2 Asian Pear trees
4 Cherry Trees (Rainier, Bing, Montmorency, and a yellow cherry (forgot the name))
2 Apple (Winesap, Honeycrisp)
4 Plum (Yellow, Weeping Red, Purple, and a nectaplum)
1 Sweetpit Apricot
a patch of thornless Blackberries
a patch of Tayberries and yellow raspberries
2 Flat Wonderful Peach trees
1 American Serviceberry
2 Hazelnut
1 Crabapple
And this doesn't begin to cover my perennial flower beds, ornamental and shade trees. Like I said...it's a passion! And I do this on 2/3 of an acre. :0)0 -
Oh, yes! I have always done potted herbs but have decided to try a garden for the first time this Spring. We have tomatoes of many kinds, fingerling potatoes, summer squash, zucchini, cucumbers, several types of peppers, and strawberries. I had onions but they died immediately when I planted them . Everything else has just started blooming mini veggies.
I fell in love with succulents as well and have started a few pots of those. Other than that I have chives, rosemary, thyme, and basil. Next year perhaps I will actually try flowers, bushes, grasses, and landscape in the front. This is all completely new to me. I have never gardened before and am overwhelmed when I think of landscaping.0 -
I've been growing a fine garden for the past 4-5 years, but unfortunately, this year, I'm injured, SO with a lot of help from pinterest, facebook, and friends, I've got a small container garden on and around my back porch. Roma and Champion tomatoes, butter leaf and red sail lettuce, butternut, spaghetti, and yellow crookneck squash, sugar snap peas, and an eggplant in a topsy turvey because hey why the hell not.
We also have a gravenstien apple tree, a winter apple tree, comes in handy for makin pies for the holidays, a multi-splice apple with northern spice, red gravenstien, and honey crisp, a shiro plum tree, an absolutely worthless pear tree, and concord grapes.0 -
I love my little garden- Just a little 6'x 4' plot. This year I am growing
Tomatoes
Ancho peppers
Chili peppers
Oregano
Basil
Parsely
cucumber
Spinach
Snap peas
I also put in some Rosemary and Lavender,
So far the only thing that is looking awesome are the tomatoes and peppers. The oregano and parsley are doing well along with the lavender and rosemary At this point everything else is questionable....0 -
I have a vegetable garden with : 5 types of tomatoes, sweet potatoes, white and red onions, squash, pole beans, 4 types of peppers, red cabbage, watermelons, cantaloupe and eggplants.
I also have a little berry garden with strawberries, blackberries and raspberries.0 -
oops! double post, see below...0
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yes, i built my first ever veggie garden on the side of the house last year. the tomatoes, peppers, eggplant did quite well. I also grew sweet butter lettuce, kale, bok choy & rainbow swiss chard but the bugs got to them (all but the chard. i guess they did not care for it) for some reason my cucumbers and zucchini did not survive. planted corn and it grew well but i never read up on when to harvest and unfortunately it got mealy by the time i picked it.
This year i would like to stick with the easy ones which for me were tomatoes, peppers & eggplant. also want to try some root veggies this time....and I might try cucumbers again because i love them.
edit: oh i forgot about my strawberry plants. those were a bust. I saw bees polinating them daily so i'm not sure what went wrong. I only got one substantial sized berry to grow and it rotted before i picked it. i think i am going to try them again.0 -
Yup! Just finally got it in! Its small, but I can't wait for all those great veggies to come in~0
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I used to, but the produce went to waste, the garden was taken over by weeds, and it became more of a pain than a pleasure.
Now I'm happy to support local farmers by buying what I can from the farmer's market, and I've turned my patch over to perennials (bulbs mostly).
I do have some volunteer beans coming up, on account of how terrible I was at harvesting last year, and how many of them fell in the soil and then survived being tilled this spring, and merrily sprouted. I'm going to experiment to see how well they do with literally zero input. No weeding, no watering. I might put down a trellis for them to grow up, since that requires minimal effort on my part.
In the past I've grown carrots (some so big you couldn't get your hand around... first year, when I was still gung-ho), Roma tomatoes, beans & peas. I tried watermelon one year (I live in a cold zone) and ended up with exactly one fruit, about 3.5" across, all white on the inside but surprisingly tasty despite the colour. Tried squash last year, but nothing got past the flower stage. I've done cukes (came out bitter). Grew corn one year, it grew all right but wasn't very good. Peppers that produced plenty of flowers but no fruit.
So my lesson in vegetable gardening is that I don't have the commitment to keep on it for a full summer, and the produce I can buy are much tastier than what ends up growing in my garden.0 -
I'm trying to have a garden this year, but don't have a clue what I'm doing. I did find out though, that it is a lot of work. I planted lots of cherry tomatoes, three kinds of peppers for salsa, sweet corn, zucchini, cucumbers and one little basil plant. It all seems to be growing, but my neighbors garden is much, much taller than mind already, so I must have planted mine later. I was scared the frost would get them, so I waited a long time to plant it. The grandkids are enjoying watching the tiny tomatoes grow.0
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My garden is in! I love to grill vegetables in the summer. Another one of our favorite dishes is a spaghetti squash with fresh tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, and cheese bake.
I also put in a small herb garden. I've never grown herbs before, but found a nifty idea on Pinterest using concrete blocks for the herbs. I've got the following in my herb garden:
sage
a couple different basils
cilantro
garlic
mint
rosemary
lavender
thyme
fennel
My vegetable garden has:
Tomatoes--8-10 varieties (25 or so plants total)
sweet peppers
jalapeno peppers
sweet banana peppers
hungarian wax pepper
eggplant
zucchini
yellow summer squash
spaghetti squash
cucumbers
sugar babies watermelon
I can't wait to start getting some fresh produce!0 -
I'm trying to have a garden this year, but don't have a clue what I'm doing. I did find out though, that it is a lot of work. I planted lots of cherry tomatoes, three kinds of peppers for salsa, sweet corn, zucchini, cucumbers and one little basil plant. It all seems to be growing, but my neighbors garden is much, much taller than mind already, so I must have planted mine later. I was scared the frost would get them, so I waited a long time to plant it. The grandkids are enjoying watching the tiny tomatoes grow.
I learned everything I know from my grandfather, growing a good garden is a lost art! I'm glad to see it's becoming "hip" to do for yourself with my generation, when I first started my garden, no body I knew had one, now, I can help out giving advise to friends that have the commitment to see it thru. I wouldn't worry about the size of your plants, I planted weeks after my grandpa last year, and out grew him by late July lol.0 -
yes, i built my first ever veggie garden on the side of the house last year. the tomatoes, peppers, eggplant did quite well. I also grew sweet butter lettuce, kale, bok choy & rainbow swiss chard but the bugs got to them (all but the chard. i guess they did not care for it) for some reason my cucumbers and zucchini did not survive. planted corn and it grew well but i never read up on when to harvest and unfortunately it got mealy by the time i picked it.
I've had problems with pests getting into my greens before, I lost a whole crop of brussle sprouts to afids (sp?) before I knew what was happening. Next year if you decide to grow more greens, after you water them, sprinkle them with wood ash, it's an old trick I leaned, works great for me, I do the same for my roses too. So far as the corn goes, seperate a small part of the husk and silk, home grown corn won't always grow all the way up the cob, so if the kernel looks large and ripe, press your thumb nail into it, if it squirts corn juice at you, it's ripe and juicy and ready to eat. If it's gotten over ripe and a little tough, blanch the corn in boiling water, shave it off the cob, and freeze it freezer bags of vacuum sealed, when you want corn in the winter, just pop it in the pot with a tab of butter, better than creamed corn IMO, and better for you!0
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