Is anyone else growing a garden?

not particularly but at risk of my family tearing up my deceased father's shrubs and trees i decided to start going out to take care of them. Ive found it to be great exercise too and a good way to get vitamin d. We have blackberries and rasbperries. As well as a pear tree and grape vines. It has been two years since anyone has tended to it and there are so many dead canes and branches that I'm still pulling out.

I don't have any yard space, but I am growing blueberries and strawberries in containers on my balcony. I've harvested several big bowls of blueberries so far, and currently waiting on my first, sad, strawberry.

bbontheb wrote: »

We live in BC so not too hot yet. But we have growing:

Blueberries (on the bushes but not ripe yet)
Strawberries
Rhubarb
Peach tree
few raspberries
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Zucchini
Different types of thyme, parsley, sage, basil (just transplanted), chives, oregano, mints....probably more herbs.
Swiss chard.
From seed: spinach, lettuces (a big mix), magentaspreen, amaranth, sorrel , other mixed greens, carrots, onion (for green onion), peas, radish, kale.
Potatoes in a big potato bin made from pallets.
Not nearly enough room to plant what I would want to.
Flowers: calendula, nasturtium, zinnia, cosmos.

Starting tonight/tomorrow: Green beans (pole)

Would like to still plant: rosemary, more thyme and curly parsley, hot peppers to make my own sweet chili sauce, pac choi/bok choy, dill, lavender,

Never having in any garden of mine: cilantro

I'm in BC too- interior. Im jealous of your garden- sounds fabulous! Curious why no cilantro? Too hard to grow?

I planted a small garden with tomato, and variety of squashes, not much of a farmer. I joined a CSA for the bulk of my summer veggies

I ate my first garden strawberry last night! There were two, but the squirrels got to one of them first I'm also growing several lettuces, spinach and arugula, peppers and tomatoes, celery, beans and peas, cucumbers and various herbs (off the top of my head: anise, dill, cilantro, mint and orange thyme?)

I'm trying to remember what all we have planted for later harvest.

corn (have a garden just for corn now)
beans (bush and pole)
squash - zucchini, straightneck (yellow), spaghetti, butternut
pumpkin - cooking and large for decoration
watermelon
beets
garlic
peppers - 2 mild, 6 (I think) hot varieties
tomatoes (grape, 2 types of slicer, roma, yellow)
cantelope
cucumber

We will be planting parsnips, carrots, brussel sprouts and more sugar snap peas in late summer and replanting radishes, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower in fall

We also have pecan, walnut, hickory nut, apple plum, pear and cherry trees, as well as filbert (hazelnut), raspberry, blueberry, blackberry and gooseberry bushes scattered about our property.

I just planted my garden last weekend. Up until a week before we were having hard frosts (below -2) almost every night. It will be a while before I am actually able to harvest anything! My seedlings aren't up yet, but the plants that I started in my greenhouse are doing well. I live on a farm, and have a very large garden, so I grow probably 75% of the produce we eat. I freeze and can a lot so that we have plenty of veggies to last us the winter. We're out of pretty much everything now, so I've had to buy all our produce for the past few weeks. I can't wait until my garden starts producing again!

I have corn, spinach, peas, green and yellow beans, three types of lettuce (which I replant periodically), green and yellow zucchini, spaghetti squash, three types of carrots, beets, onions, garlic, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, three types of cucumbers, many types of tomatoes, a few hills of potatoes for my husband, and some dry beans. I started a couple of watermelons and planted them as well, but chances are slim that I'll actually get an edible watermelon. Even with the shortest season watermelons I can find I've never had any luck. They are usually about the size of a baseball by October, and then end up frozen, despite my best efforts to protect them. I'm also experimenting with a little patch of quinoa, I'm not sure if we have a long enough season for it here, but we'll see. And I also have a little orchard, with apples, crabapples, sour cherries, raspberries and strawberries. I'm hoping also to plant some blueberries, and maybe some cold hardy pears and sweet cherries. Saskatoon berries grow wild all over in the treed areas of our farm. I plant my herbs in my wildflower garden, right now I have dill, thyme, lavender, chamomile, basil, chives and rosemary.

OdesAngel wrote: »

I'm growing a bush.

Giggle.

Veggie and herb garden. Have dill, basil, parsley, tarragon, cilantro. Peppers are growing.. gardening is very therapeutic!

Tomatos, herbs, cucumbers, beans, carrots and romaine