Grow your own veggies?

We started growing our own veggies last year. Can't wait to give it another try this year. Probably start the seeds in another few weeks.

I plant a garden every year. I love fresh veggies, especially when I know exactly how they were grown.

Only if i had a yard to plant some veggies....my veggies would be fresher and cheaper.

I do, I cannot wait till summer!!!! I did cabbage, okra, cucumbers, tomatoes, green peppers, squash, strawberries, raspberries, cantalope, watermelon, lettuce, onions, green beans last summer. It is fun and healthy

I grow some veggies in the summer, but love keeping green onions year round. You can put the white part with the roots in a glass of water inside and they grow back. Just rinse the onions and change the water every 5-7days and you're set! Its nice not only having a constant fresh supply (because I eat them on almost everything!), but they are also so, so much better than what you can get from the store.

this past year i started a small garden to see how it worked out..it was awesome..i grew huge squash. cucumbers, beans, carrots, small tomatos.

gonna make it bigger and i've learned from my mistakes, so hopefully this year it'll be better

i do! depending on the season, my family and i grow: carrots, tomatoes, peas, beans, potatoes, various lettuces, spinach, kale, onions, radishes, leeks, garlic, beets, and artichokes. not much beats a garden!

(forgot a few: cucumbers, brussels sprouts, and zucchini)

I love to grow heirlooms! I have an herb garden I can walk out to from my kitchen, which is great. My husband has made me tons of cool trellises and arbors for my long Asian beans. Can't wait for the snow to melt!

if you plant zucchini, cilantro or radishes, they will be low maintenance and produce a lot, usually. Love growing vegetables...

I'd love to but I can't with my dogs lol

I would love to grow my own veggies but, I'm scared. Whenever I've looked into it it seems that every bug under the sun will come and attack them! And I wouldn't know where to start.

I planted a minature apple tree last year and it barely survived the green fly attack and I had to resort to spraying which I really didn't want to do. I may give onions ago this year as I love 'em.

I love fresh fruits and veggies. Since we moved out to the family farm, we have been planting a garden. Each year it has been getting larger with more varieties. This year we plan to add plum and nectarine trees to the apple, peach and pear trees. I also plan to add strawberries and grapes. My husband has already order the chicks (both for meat and eggs) which should be here next month. The baby calves should be delivered sometime during the summer. We are hoping to have to spend very little at the grocery buying food with additives and preservatives.

My mom (and by extension me since I live nearby) grow tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, herbs, and a couple years ago I grew tomatillos. At my apartment we just grow herbs usually, not enough sun for many things, though we pick our own food at some nearby farms.

Somehow the tomatos grown in the back yard just taste better:)
For those who don't have good soil or just not much room, check into the book
"All new square foot gardening : grow more in less space!" Mel Bartholomew

I found using these suggestions I could have a very good harvest without much space.

Anyone else try out these methods, and how did they work for you? We always have so much we want to grow, but not much space! We're in NE Wisconsin, so input from people in a similar zone would be helpful!

I do too! My bf and I started a few years ago and everything tastes so much better from our little organic garden.!! We just moved recently so we can't have an actual garden where we live now but we're planning to do it bucket style for the items that did the best for us. We found the most success with tomatoes (we've done all kinds: tiny, big, multicolored etc and they all come out amazing!), red skin potatoes (yum yum), sweet potatoes (yum again), sugar snap peas, all sorts of peppers (multi-colored bell peppers, all sorts of spicy ones), all sorts of spices (rosemary, basil, cilantro, sage etc), pole beans, watermelon, cucumbers (we've done all sorts of these including lemon cucumbers), and some more I can't think of. We've also done bok choy (too many bugs and we don't use pesticides), broccoli, carrots (they usually grow in funny shapes~we've done multi-colored which are awesome!), zucchini, yellow squash, spaghetti squash, radishes, spinach, eggplant, rhubarb, chard and the list goes on!!!
What we usually do is plant a bit of the ones that we know grow great and then add a few other new things to test. Some years are better than others because of weather conditions but it's always worth the effort. We even have a pot of strawberries and we had blackberries and raspberries as well (we only brought the strawberries with us to the new house).
Anyway, just wanted to say that I do hope you decide to have your own garden. It's a great way to get outside in the spring-fall and nothing beats home-grown organic veggies. It will bring you such pride!! We've had so many people come to our house and eat our food straight off the plants! lol

Best of luck!!
Oh and come on spring~ I've got some plating to do!! (I get a little excited for our garden, can you tell?! lol)
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