Is anyone else growing a garden?

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

Tomatoes
Green beans
Okra
Rosemary
Peppers
Basil
Mint
Aloe Vera
Thyme
Lavendar

We're growing tomatoes, red peppers, basil, rosemary, parsley and cilantro. We have tomatoes starting now and my basil and cilantro are out of control. Unfortunately I have a baby rabbit living under my shed that likes my pepper plants. I need to do something to keep him out of them.

njfitnessmom wrote: »

We're growing tomatoes, red peppers, basil, rosemary, parsley and cilantro. We have tomatoes starting now and my basil and cilantro are out of control. Unfortunately I have a baby rabbit living under my shed that likes my pepper plants. I need to do something to keep him out of them.

Can you fence them in? Rabbits can't jump very high so you'd only need about 6 in high fence, but they can and will dig under so you'd need to also bury about 6 inches.

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

njfitnessmom wrote: »

We're growing tomatoes, red peppers, basil, rosemary, parsley and cilantro. We have tomatoes starting now and my basil and cilantro are out of control. Unfortunately I have a baby rabbit living under my shed that likes my pepper plants. I need to do something to keep him out of them.

Can you fence them in? Rabbits can't jump very high so you'd only need about 6 in high fence, but they can and will dig under so you'd need to also bury about 6 inches.

completely untrue

you'd need a whole lot more than 6 inches.

I am the Garden coordinator for our local community garden.... I have baby pak choy, kale, spinach ready. Peas, kohlrabi, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, sweet and thai basil, swiss chard, tomatillos, onions are growing away. Very excited about harvest and all the new gardeners we have on board this year, Plus it's a kick *kitten* workout -weeding, watering, shoveling, raking, etc. Great stress reliever.

Tomatoes from the garden are the bomb.com! Peppers, broccoli, spinach, basil, carrots, garlic, onions, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, (new plant so prob win't fruit this year) cucumbers, parsley, and anything else I can fit!

planted- tomato, peppers, herbs, strawberries, cabbage, watermelon and Cantaloupe, onions, radishes and i forget what else lol figure I will find out when it grows

This is my first year growing anything other than flowers. The annual herbs are coming to the end of their lives and I'm prepping to replant for a late summer/fall harvest.
Herbs - Basil, lemon balm, rosemary, thyme, oregano, marjoram, Cuban oregano, parsley, shiso, chocolate mint, spearmint, and aloe
2 papaya and 2 pineapple, primarily for landscaping
serrano peppers - starting to harvest
habanero - the insects always get them before I can
and 11 tomatoes - 2 Brandywine, 3 Cherokee purple, 1 patio (a mutant because it was a baby I took out of my mother's garden out of curiosity, so not sure what I'm going to get), 1 large orange one of unknown variety (popped up with the serrano), 1 Early Girl, 1 Heatmaster, 1 Husky Red dwarf cherry, and 1 Roma. I have well over 100 green tomatoes, and some are starting to change color now.

I grew almost all of it from seed, except the chocolate mint, Cuban oregano (from a cutting), pineapple, aloe and 3 hybrid tomatoes I picked up at Home Depot late in the season in case my late-harvest heirlooms fail.

I only have tomatoes planted so far. I'm going to buy a few more plants this weekend. I got a late start and contimplated not having a garden at all this yea. I think it will still be okay to start this late.