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So, how many of you plant a garden?  I love planting vegetables - and I have been increasing the amount I do each year.  So what are you growing?

We have seven tomato plants - cherry, beefsteak, salsa, grape
okra
banana peppers
yellow squash
watermellon

Hey thats great. I planted around 1000 kernals of corn mostly silver white but some sweet yellow too. I also planted 5lbs of long string bush beans and 1lb of peas and 150lbs of red potato's and then there are 3 kinds of melons and 4 squashes and radishes and carrots and tomatoes two types .. and pumpkins and sorgum to suround the garden and to smoother the grasses that didn't get tilled well enough. I have about 6 types of peppers and some brocoli and kale and some onions and soon some garlic.. but i have a 1/4 acre and well its the first time its been planted in over 20 yrs. It use to have a log house on it but i took it down. thats where most of the beans are and they will eventually get plowed under and help to add nitrogen same as the sorgum. Everything i planted is by seed and its coming in now like gangbusters the last day. I planted about a week ago so i was late but the heat and rain here in central pa makes for a perfect germination rate. I will get some pics soon as they get a little taller to show it off. The corn mostly popped out of the ground today and the beans yesterday and the other things today and the last two days.. oh yea some mesculine mix..  ;D

I'll be giving away tons of food soon and i mulched 1/4 the garden yesterday and its all organic except for some powdered lime..

I really want to start a bit of a garden on my balcony, I used to have one, and I wouldn't mind having some real fresh peppers, I used to grow some jalapeños and banana peppers. I don't have much room, but I think that gardening in the city, while presenting challenges is still worthwhile.

Quote from: Hikari on June 22, 2011, 04:08:10 PM
I really want to start a bit of a garden on my balcony, I used to have one, and I wouldn't mind having some real fresh peppers, I used to grow some jalapeños and banana peppers. I don't have much room, but I think that gardening in the city, while presenting challenges is still worthwhile.

Hey no need to travel the the country for fresh veggies etc  grow em everywhere

I put in a garden most years. This year's garden is scaled back because of the cold and wet spring we had. Usually I grow the normal stuff, tomatoes, squash, lettuce, etc. My experiment this year is trying to grow sweet potatoes that are supposed to grow in cooler climates.

I'm also a big proponent of edible landscaping. My little 5000 square foot lot has 16 dwarf fruit trees (apple, fig, plum, olive, persimmon and quince), 5 blueberry bushes, raspberries and all sorts of herbs. This year's addition is the kiwi trellis in back. I've even grown hops on the side of my house for making my own beer. I really want to find room for a medical herb garden as well.

My gardens progress since removal of old log house. For over 200 yrs people farmed all around the log house. The pear tree is behind it with an elm tree in front.

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just three weeks ago the garden looked like this below

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and previously 8 weeks ago this was standing there

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That looks like a lot of work but your garden looks well worth the effort.  I would love a pear tree but right now I'm stuck with a balcony with a zucchini and tomato plant

Well get out of the city / suburbs.. lol find someone with some land and dig it and plant it.. i use to use other peoples properties.. i always plant gardens

my corn is now above my knees and sqaush are about to flower as is tomato's and mesculine mix is being trimmed daily as needed. The bush beans will be coming in soon and the red potato's are also growing like gangbusters.

I usually put out a good sized garden but this year all I have out is 4 tomato plants-2 Big Boys & 2 Better Boys. There are a lot of nice garden plants that can be raised on a balcony or patio if you don't have much room.

M2M-nice pics-thanks for sharing!

Randi

This year I have about 18 tomatoes plants, potatoes, peppers, lettuce, chard, broccoli, strawberries, blueberries, zucchini, cucumbers. I just pulled my garlic (a years worth) will be planting more potatoes, carrots, radish, more chard, broccoli and another round of lettuce, ooh and I  have basil and a ton of herbs.  And apple and  pear trees.
Myels

  I have tomatoes (7 varieties, 18 plants), Pepper (5 varieties, 16 plants), Yukon Gold potatoes, watermelon, cucumbers (2 varieties), limas, peas, spinach, lettuce, carrots, beets, onions (2 varieties), turnips, grapes, and a sweet bi-color corn variety.  Several herbs. 
  Joelene

Great thread! For perennial veggies I have chives and asparagus. This year I'm growing cherry and beefsteak tomatoes, green and yellow beans, bell peppers, sweet Italian, and jalapenos. I have pickling and slicing cucumbers, lima beans, turnips and brussel sprouts. I'm going for a big pumpkin, and there is butternut and acorn squash. And a medical herb garden

I love gardening! It's like therapy, for me!
I try different plants each year.
(But, of course, I always grow tomatoes every summer :)
Lately, though, my tastes have been changing to ornamental perennials and other plants with require less maintenance.
Some of my current favorites are hostas, Knock Out roses, herbs of all kinds, irises and lilies.
I have tons of garden pics!
I'll put them up as soon as I they give me permission.
Happy gardening! :)

15 days later OH HOW THINGS GROW AND ORGANIC TOO :)


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OH THE POTATO'S ARE COVERED WITH DIATOMATEOUS EARTH TO KEEP BUGS OFF SO THAT IS THE WHITE YOU SEE BELOW

Hey m2 have you ever grown ->-bleeped-<-akes? I find them an interesting difference from growing plants. They like to eat harder wood, and I usually have some of that around. Locally organic ->-bleeped-<-akes run about $10 a lb at the farmers market.

I still want to get some more stuff going on my balcony again, apparently the heat wave well, it toasted the plants I have out there. Only my cactus is in ok health now lol.

I actually applied to be a grower of ->-bleeped-<-aki musrooms but i wasn't picked. Yes i can do it myself but i need to learn and most of my down trees are not oak which is what is needed to grow them

Not a garden, just two of Sonoma's nicest female plants.  I could legally grow 99, but 2 is more than enough.

I pulled the male plants out of my patch yesterday.

send some to me a
sendsometomea 
Sinsemilla

no more shake shake shake
shake shake shake
smoke Sinsemilla

  Harvested the first sweet corn, made super thick tomato sauce, canned some tomatoes, made enough pickles and relishes to supply me and my extended family all winter.  Already picked a watermelon with 2 others ready on the vine.  Beets , turnips, carrots, and onions are ready!  Plenty of herbs.  What all you can ask for?  I need no stinking c. sativa in my garden!
  Joelene

I need no stinking c. sativa in my garden!

Check your watch, it's 2011 everywhere else and nobody's grown the sativa for well over a decade and a half that I know.  It's an indica world now.  Super advanced hybrids, incredible hydroponic systems, huge business.  America's number one cash crop you know.  I just do it for a friend who wants outdoor organic plants for clones.

Hey Tekla, plant Saffron, well over $10,000 a pound!!! And it's legal.

I used to have a garden, but the drought the last few years finished it off due to watering restrictions.  I generally put in a couple of  Grosse Lise tomato, and a few cherry tomatoes. Also Chillies , Capsicum, Basil, Chives, Mint, and Butternut Pumpkin. 

Once I get settled here in Tasmania where it rains regularly I will get back into it.  M2... it's amazing what you can grow there where you have top-soil measured in yards instead of inches! All the native trees here in Oz are evergreen, so there is no leaf litter rotting down each year to make good soil unfortunately.

Karen.

I'm not doing anything that is illegal under local or state law.

  Um, It is legal here in Colorado with a permit.  But nobody has it outside in their garden unless they really tell nobody about it.  Attractive nuisance, this will attract the wrong kind of attention to his yard.  A local TV station was about to air something about a bragging man who was growing pot with the state permit in his basement in an upper middle class neighborhood.  The promos for that story came on the noon news program and by the time the first afternoon news came on that guy was busted by the Feds.  Be careful out there!
  I just don't want it, I really don't care for the stuff! 
  Joelene

Quote from: justmeinoz on August 24, 2011, 07:57:10 AM
Hey Tekla, plant Saffron, well over $10,000 a pound!!! And it's legal.

I used to have a garden, but the drought the last few years finished it off due to watering restrictions.  I generally put in a couple of  Grosse Lise tomato, and a few cherry tomatoes. Also Chillies , Capsicum, Basil, Chives, Mint, and Butternut Pumpkin. 

Once I get settled here in Tasmania where it rains regularly I will get back into it.  M2... it's amazing what you can grow there where you have top-soil measured in yards instead of inches! All the native trees here in Oz are evergreen, so there is no leaf litter rotting down each year to make good soil unfortunately.

Karen.

yes karen i do have very deep soil here. My garden is where the log house stood for over 200 yrs, so the people who lived there worked the soil. I did plant beans to add nitrogen for next yrs crop in that area. In the other areas i will terace it and make smaller more managable gardens for a more varied garden. As for the legal herb its not here in Pa so you won't catch me growing any of that here.

yesterday i picked 2 - 5 gallon buckets of string beans from just 4 rows about 15 ft long.

GARDEN TIME AGAIN  whats your garden looking like ?


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see mine at my site i have lots of pics at bottom of the 100 or more pics listed there which shows my latest additions of fruit

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i got 21 fruit trees for a good deal. These were older trees in pots + not bareroots. They were not rootbound so they will grow great. I got 3 plums, 8 cherries,(black,red + tart) + 6 nectarines + 4 peaches. They are all planted along the treeline so they will get good water from the creek yet not too much. They will not block my veggies + other things in the garden. I finished mulching along the road so if someone with a lit ciggarette throws one out it won't hit hay. I also got 15 blueberries which are 3 of 5 different types. They will get planted tomorrow. This early planting will really help them to get established. They will be on the west side since they don't get very tall. I got 2 red seedless grape vines + soon will get a few concord grape vines.

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Ok all fruit trees are planted + 3 persimmon trees too. I did find some huckleberry bushes too and transplanted them along my creek. I found some concord grape vines but they are seedless, which is fine by me. I cleaned up really well along my creek and below garden + burned two large piles. Most of it was invasive species. I planted peas under the hay. I also have been watering my seeds at the amish neighbors house with fish emulsion. They are now outside under protection from the elements and seem to be doing well. I have been helping my amish neighbor with his garden. He does it the old fashioned way with horse to plow and disc. Then we make rows and seed by hoe and hand respectively. The weather has been extremely warm in mid 70's for late march still winter time. A woman i met online sent me some jerusalem artichokes. They are now planted in 5 locations throughout my county due to me :) I also got some nice rhubarb plants and roots to plant from a amish man.

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  I like your garden Amazon, I like to garden as well. I have a alot of exotic plants and tress that I take inside for the winter and bring outside for the summer. I have a bunch of banana tree's, a fig tree, a pomegranate tree, a lime tree, a blueberry bush, and some bonsai tree's which are my favorite!

 

Quote from: Danielle×o on March 19, 2012, 05:55:27 PM
  I like your garden Amazon, I like to garden as well. I have a alot of exotic plants and tress that I take inside for the winter and bring outside for the summer. I have a bunch of banana tree's, a fig tree, a pomegranate tree, a lime tree, a blueberry bush, and some bonsai tree's which are my favorite!

Wow cool. My house uses woodheat so its tough on indoor plants. I need to add a greenhouse to the side of it..

  My small greenhouse is up and has some pepper and tomato seedlings already.  The greens have been planted last week with the onions and garlic already up.  My house is not friendly to plants in the winter.  The thermostat is at 60 degrees F and lower all winter.  I start these plants under a grow light over a heated mat.  Then I transfer them to the little greenhouse that's heated at night.  We got wide temperature swings in these parts. 
  Joelene

I'm going to start a mini-garden on my porch next week. :3  I plan on growing stuff like chilies, bell peppers, and maybe even some strawberries.   I have to see what's able to be grown in a pot because that's what I'm limited to so I might just have a bunch of herbs growing, which I'm fine with since I love herbs.

I completely mulched a trail all the way around my garden. I also have my garden mulched with hay to prevent weeds this yr. Fruit trees on the RIGHT and blueberries on the LEFT middle


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I've always wanted to figure out how to rig up a window box full of plants that don't mind constant drizzle. When I was a kid we grew tomatoes, carrots, watermelons, kale, pumpkins, cucumber, maybe other stuff sometimes.

Well I did get a few things in, even if a bit late.  The only real success has been Bok Choy and Silver Beet.  Bok Choy is very fast growing.  5 weeks from planting to having to pick it because it was starting to bolt.

Over winter I will buod up the bed ready for spring.

Your garden is totally amazing Amazon.  I have used DE in the past, expensive here, but works well.

Karen

Quote from: justmeinoz on April 06, 2012, 04:56:22 AM
Well I did get a few things in, even if a bit late.  The only real success has been Bok Choy and Silver Beet.  Bok Choy is very fast growing.  5 weeks from planting to having to pick it because it was starting to bolt.

Over winter I will buod up the bed ready for spring.

Your garden is totally amazing Amazon.  I have used DE in the past, expensive here, but works well.

Karen

DE cost like 20.00 a bag here and the poles in my garden with strings arond them is where i have onions and potatos coming in and peas and brocoli and coliflour. The hardwood mulch comes from a giant mulching plant 2 miles away. They grind down all the extra wood waste from local amish sawmills. It makes a great break to keep weeds outside the garden from coming into the garden. Its also a nice walk path.

  I got my third planting of greens done today.  Unusually warm weather this past March.  The greens are ahead of schedule.  The first planting will be ready by the end of this month with a supply of salad greens through June.  The broccoli is well ahead. 
  Joelene

I love gardening

my pineapple plant is now having a baby pineapple (and it is so cute (picture in camera but not yet in the computer)) and my sugar cane has leaves a foot long already
I planted coffee seeds 3 days ago and am very excited about them.

the regular outside vegetable garden is still in the planning stage this year...

I have my "salsa garden" in now.

I have four types of tomatoes (Early Girl, Lemon Boy, Beefsteak, and Roma);
three types of peppers (Anaheim, Hot Cherry, Yellow Bell - and I am going to add an Habanero or Scotch Bonnet);
and Walla Walla sweet onions.

I've got a little room for some carrots, radishes, and other root vegetables.

In a half wine barrel, I have my herbs - Cilantro, Rosemary, Orange Mint, Thai Basil, and Chives.

In the back yard I have a lemon, tangerine, and avocado tree.  The lemon sets fruit three times each year, as long as we don't have a frost.

I have a small garden area at my apt.s and have become the default gardener of the complex because no-one else does much of anything

I've mostly been cleaning and prepping because the season tends to be rather short where I live and most things have to be started indoors if you want any good results

I've got Roma tom, hot pepper, red onion and zuc.s starts so far and hope to do some sunflowers and cucumongers (cucumbers)

Maybe a few other things and flowers as well  :)

  The garden is very early this year due to the warmer weather since the beginning of March.  I will have greens in two weeks, broccoli in 3 or so.  The tomatoes will be put into the ground tomorrow, they are protected from late frosts and hail.  The peppers in another week or so.  The melons are planted with the potatoes and cucumbers to follow. 
  Joelene

I have my garden up and running!

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I have lavender, mint, morning glory, dill, oregano, unknown herb, hibiscus, and cactus.  It's a garden geared towards spirituality, but all of the things are able to be used in a practical way (minus the morning glory).

Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on April 23, 2012, 10:23:24 AM
I have my garden up and running!

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I have lavender, mint, morning glory, dill, oregano, unknown herb, hibiscus, and cactus.  It's a garden geared towards spirituality, but all of the things are able to be used in a practical way (minus the morning glory).

great job :)

Quote from: Amazon D on April 23, 2012, 11:37:49 AM
great job :)

Thank you! :)

It's my first garden and I'm really hoping it takes on this porch.  So far so good.  I'm growing the Morning Glory from seeds so seeing them sprouting is so cool.