Edible Gardens

Kermit1976
Kermit1976 Posts: 120
edited October 5 in Food and Nutrition
we are going into summer so i have 24 tomato plants. cucumber, broad beans, 3 types chinese cabbage, cabbage cauliflower brocoli, peas, yellow capsicum, banana capsicum, pumpkin, watermelon, leeks, onion, garlic, silverbeet, beetroot, yellow zuchini, strawberries, blueberries, black berries x2 raspberry, plum tree, apple tree, mandarin tree, then there is my herb garden.

What plants are you growing always good to see what others are growing.. we all might find a new idea.

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  • jadebvb92
    jadebvb92 Posts: 82
    its winter here but during the summer we grow tomatos, green beans, cabbage, lettuce, peppers, potatoes
  • dragonz11
    dragonz11 Posts: 57 Member
    Wow nice big garden,I'm just growin tomatoes,broccli cabbage red onion and lettuce but must put in some carrots my house hold is very fussy well half off us lol,yum love watermelon and cucumber maybe I should grow this a well :-)
  • dragonz11
    dragonz11 Posts: 57 Member
    Oh and I got strawberry yummy
  • kjannan
    kjannan Posts: 248 Member
    I don't have a very green thumb but I'm not bad at growing cherry tomatoes. I've got 7 plants this year. I've also got capsicums, parsley & mint growing. My beans have been eaten before they've even grown anything on them :( This year I've planted lettuce & pak choi & it hasn't worked out too well with 1 lettuce & 2 pak choi that have survived!!

    I'm learning & in the meantime a cheap fruit & vege shop has just opened round the corner from my house, I don't know what hours they're open, they seem to always be open. So handy when I'm cooking tea & need to shoot round there & grab something!
  • Kasya007
    Kasya007 Posts: 165 Member
    Oh my, your garden sounds lovely! :)

    This year I had 16 tomato plants of different varieties (the golden boys & golden cherries produced the most), red onion, Spanish onion, carrots, radishes, cauliflower, broccoli, Sweet red, green, yellow & PURPLE peppers, Swiss chard, red lettuce, green lettuce, spinach, pole beans, snow peas, snap peas, cucumber, butternut squash, spaghetti squash, zucchini, herbs, and I just put my garlic in to over winter last month.

    I know that next year I will definitely NOT be doing the spaghetti squash or the cauliflower. I had an awful time with powdery mildew this year & it spread to all of the other squash in the garden. And cauliflower although delicious, just takes up too much room for that one harvest. It's alright though, both give small yields & take up far too much precious real estate, so next season kohl rabi & kale will be moving in to those empty plots of earth.

    It's so nice to see another fellow vegetable gardener & from NZ too! As a Canadian, I must admit I am ever-so-envious of your ability to plant fruit-bearing trees. I am curious about your climate however. Do you grow all year round? Can cold tolerant plants make it through the rainy season? Or is it just too darned wet?
  • Kermit1976
    Kermit1976 Posts: 120
    forgot about the 6 lettuce that i can just rip off and let it keep growing tis great. have seen from others there are veges i can also grow..
    i put in many and different vareities of tomatos as they all have a purpose.. i am going to try nana cucumber and tomato relish.. also i make soup two years ago when i did it i got 12 litres of tomato soup...so is good. i also grow lots so that i can freeze for the winter so i can still have capsicums at a good price..:)
  • Kermit1976
    Kermit1976 Posts: 120
    we have winter and summer veges where i live it gets wet autum and end of winter when climate is going from wet one day hot the next not very good things like cauli cabbage tend to shoot quiet quickly.. i would love to get a glass house. just a small one so i can grow stuff in the winter also...becomes expensive. if i can grow stuff i in winter i would be happy it is spring here and it is wet and windy and only had a couple of days of son.. I am in Palmerston north if you want to look on a map.. also i know i have friends in te awamutu which is between new plymouth and hamilton and they are already trucking water on to there farm...so we have a diverse weather system here in new zealand..my area is manawatu and that is the worse place for allergies in new zealand..
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