Who is growing their own summer veggies?
ettaterrell
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My seedlings have sprouted and in a couple weeks will be ready to plant... Tomatoes, okra, squash, and herbs oh and watermelon which I have never grown..
What are you planting??
What are you planting??
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We're not close to planting season yet (located in Wisconsin) but I am SOO looking forward it! We will be planting tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, bell peppers and jalapeno peppers (these are my fave).0
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Will plant tomatoes, jalapenos, purple onion, carrots, red bell peppers, corn, melon, jicama, cilantroand basil. Hopefully today will be the day.0
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Tomatoes. If I don't kill them. I have a wicked brown thumb.0
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I still have a ways to go until I can plant outdoors, but I typically have tomatoes, purple and yellow beans, snap peas, kale and then one or two odd things just for fun. I do square foot gardening so I don't plant a lot of variety, just some of my favorite things!0
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We have garlic and green onions about 3" high that were planted at the end of last summer. Harvested a few of the green onions last week for an Indian meal that we did. We usually start a lot of seedlings but will not this year due to a construction project that we are doing. No time for both. We will plant a few tomato , pepper, and pole beans. Got to make dilly beans. The cilantro comes up as volunteers all over that we transplant to a patch. Easy.0
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I'll be planting tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans, peas, butternut squash, zucchini, herbs, and probably some other things I haven't decided. Peppers grow so slow here that we usually get a frost before they are ready to pick, so I'm going to try to grow some jalapenos indoors in my aerogarden.0
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I plan to but it usually end in a disastrous waste of time and money. Hoping for better results this year. We are still a ways away from being able to plant though. I want green beans, zucchini, and peppers.0
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Spaghetti squash, spaghetti squash, and more spaghetti squash. Seriously, we started half a dozen jars with 2-3 seeds each, and they've all sprouted and are growing like crazy. I'll be happy with 2-4 plants, but might let more grow so we have plenty for the fall potlucks (I have a cheesy squash casserole thing that everyone loves).
We also have a couple of red pepper plants starting to sprout, but I've had terrible luck with them in general.
My kale plant from last year managed to last through the winter and is trying to grow again. No one in my house actually eats it, so my BFF will be getting all the kale she could want.
I've also got calendula, sage (if it comes back), and lemongrass for herbs, strawberry plants that will hopefully fruit this year, a blueberry bush that will hopefully fruit enough to get some before the birds get to it, and random onion and garlic plants (because the flowers look cool) that I can dig up. I've also had asparagus for a couple of years, but the stalks have been pretty wispy, so I don't know if I'll ever get to eat from it.0 -
We grow everything from lettuce to honeydew. But we sell commercial organic produce.
What my mouth waters for every year in spring is radishes. Sweet, crispy, hot and spicy all in one bite. the D'Avignon, the round reds, the white both round and long the Daikon and watermelon radishes, they are all so very good. Slice the hottest one, probably black Spanish radishes, put them on bread (low carb bread of course) and butter with a pinch of salt. Now that is a breakfast of champions.0 -
I'm going to scale back this year, since I planted too much the past two years. My main focus will be pickling cucumbers so I can make pickles, and tomatoes to go with my bacon ! Spaghetti squash and a few other plants in small quantities. This will be my last year with the big garden since my mother will likely sell her house next year. I'll lose her big garden. Perhaps it's for the best. I find I eat less and less vegetables anyway. But I have a strong urge to make pickles !0
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I am going to try some new things. The kids have been wanting to plant so I have turnips, radishes, and a leafy green lettuce.0
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I'm not a gardener my husband and now daughters are. I think my daughter has started peppers indoors. I need to inspire someone to plant some squash.0
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Tomatoes. If I don't kill them. I have a wicked brown thumb.
Several years ago I ran across an article written by someone just like you and I: "The Sixty Dollar Tomato." We are lucky enough to have a reliable market handy that carries local produce whenever they are in season. Trying to grow them myself constitutes cruelty to vegetables.0 -
We do. I have asparagus beds, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries , chives, various spices and rhubarb. We grow tomato, peppers, spaghetti squash, brussel sprouts, and cucumbers. Out woods also has morell mushrooms.0
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I'm putting zucchini in the ground this week! We have blueberry bushes too, that are loaded with flowers! MIGHT do some tomatoes though I never get edible tomatoes from them! So we probably won't.0
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What brand of tomatoes does everyone grow?? Last year I did a brandy boy (mix between a brandywine and better boy I guess). Them things went crazy.... I waited to late to order them this year so I ended up getting brandy wine, and 2 other kinds to experiment.
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zukes, carrots, cabbage (so I can makes much kraut), and tomatoes.
The maters haven't done well for years. Every year we try bell peppers, and every year some jerk-bug munches them before they can even flower.
I want to do some kind of greens, too. I have to wait until mid-April as we still get frosts here in the mtns sometimes until then.0 -
mandycat223 wrote: »
Trying to grow them myself constitutes cruelty to vegetables.
But it's so much fun.0 -
We will be, for sure. If we could grow mozzarella we'd be in caprese salad heaven.
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Lots of different kinds of tomatoes, zucchini, green beans, perilla leaves, herbs and lots of peppers, sweet, jalapenos, Serranos, Carolina reaper, bhuta Jolokia. Will be making a lot of tomato jam and hot pepper Jam. Can't eat any of them unless I can figure out a sugar-free version.0
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mandycat223 wrote: »Tomatoes. If I don't kill them. I have a wicked brown thumb.
Several years ago I ran across an article written by someone just like you and I: "The Sixty Dollar Tomato." We are lucky enough to have a reliable market handy that carries local produce whenever they are in season. Trying to grow them myself constitutes cruelty to vegetables.
That is me also. I have a black thumb. Luckily my husband has a green thumb. He grows them, I cook them!0 -
ettaterrell wrote: »What brand of tomatoes does everyone grow?? Last year I did a brandy boy (mix between a brandywine and better boy I guess). Them things went crazy.... I waited to late to order them this year so I ended up getting brandy wine, and 2 other kinds to experiment.
We get most of our plants from the local arboretum. They had their annual Veggieplooza last Friday. Picked out over 30 tomato plants, different heirloom tomatoes, different types of cherry tomatoes (my favorite so far is the blueberry), this year I picked up a lot of varieties of paste tomatoes, they hold better for tomato jam and tomato sauce.0 -
Red chard, kale, spinach, collard greens, a tomato plant or two, watermelon are all planned out 0
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I'm putting zucchini in the ground this week! We have blueberry bushes too, that are loaded with flowers! MIGHT do some tomatoes though I never get edible tomatoes from them! So we probably won't.
Cherry tomatoes.
Seriously, they're the weed of the tomato world. I'm not sure it's possible to kill them short of ripping them out of the ground.0 -
We have neighbours all around who garden for the love of gardening (they grow way more than they need, lol) so although we used to garden a few years ago... now we garden by osmosis, lol. Somehow veggies turn up on our doorstep and we never have to weed or cultivate. Lovely tomatoes (Oxheart are my favorites as well as the black-purple streaky ones - all heirloom), English cucumbers, spaghetti squash and zucchini, and the odd butternut squash, radicchio, rainbow chard, and grocery bags of assorted lettuces like red leaf and butter. If only it was warm enough to have an avocado tree here....0
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Lord willing, I plan to grow a garden this year. Bell peppers, jalepenos, cucumbers, carrots, onions, brocolli, green beans, radishes. I do raised bed organic gardening.
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I have a chicken coop full of wonderful compost waiting to be transferred to a veggie garden!0
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I just ordered some worm castings online, my sister says it worked amazing in her garden. I have to get my bf to build some raised beds for me and get into town for my free mulch to fill them up0
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auntstephie321 wrote: »I just ordered some worm castings online, my sister says it worked amazing in her garden. I have to get my bf to build some raised beds for me and get into town for my free mulch to fill them up
I recommend buying or building a worm bin. It'll be cheaper in the long run, and you can compost your own kitchen scraps. 0
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