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).

Tomatoes. If I don't kill them. I have a wicked brown thumb.

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.

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.

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.

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 !

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.

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.

mandycat223 wrote: »

Trying to grow them myself constitutes cruelty to vegetables.

But it's so much fun.

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.

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.

Karlottap wrote: »

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.

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.

Dan

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