Who's putting out a garden this year?

[Jim Shugart]

It's that time again (at least around here).

I just finished setting out six Better Boy tomato plants. We now have two chive plants (that survived from last year), two flat Italian parsley plants, one curly parsley plant, a dill and a sweet basil plant.

How about ya'll?

- Jim

 

[Jim Shugart]

It's that time again (at least around here).

I just finished setting out six Better Boy tomato plants. We now have two chive plants (that survived from last year), two flat Italian parsley plants, one curly parsley plant, a dill and a sweet basil plant.

How about ya'll?

- Jim

 

[mtb1bkr]

I just put out a couple of tomatoes and peppers a few days ago. Next year I am going to try to put in a bit more but I have to finish sculpting the mound of sand in the back yard so there is room. And then I'm going to run the sprinkler lines to the area so I don't have to remember to water them. In this area, they are going to need a lot of water to survive and produce.

Bill

 

[canoeguy]

Last year, I planted six tomatoes and six peppers, it was my first garden ever. I thougt it was quite a success, I estimate we produced about 200 pounds of tomatoes from those six plants. I gave away tomatoes to people until they got tired of getting them.

This year, I have increased the size of my personal garden to 250 square feet, will plant tomatoes, peppers, squash, onions, etc.

In addition, I talked my church in allowing me to use some of thier unused land to plant a Community Victory Garden, 900 square feet. It's a community garden as it will be worked by members of the church, not just me. Produce grown will go to church members and a local food pantry ministry. So far, we have recieved donations of plants, fertilizer, hoses, gardening tools, pretty much everything we will need. With 900 square feet, it should yield quite a bit of vegetables. Right now, all the grass has been removed from the plot, I'll roto-till on Monday, and probably plant next Friday. I'll post pics once everything is planted...

 

[Catshooter]

Very cool canoeguy about the church garden.

I moved late last year to South Dakota, too late for a garden.

But this year, we're good to go. I tilled it up for the first time a week ago. Of course we can't plant here for about three more weeks to sure of no frost.

I can hardly wait!


Cat

 

[rundownfid]

I'll be putting in a small garden. Usually grow a variety of vegetables and flowers. This year I'm putting in lots of sunflower seeds to feed the birds in the winter.
I can't believe I save much money as we have a great local produce market and veggies are fresh and cheap when my produce is ready. I wish one could get good fresh vegetable in Dec and Jan as cheap and good as in Aug.

 

[Muley Gil]

I just got in from tilling up the garden plot. The wife has some starter plants on the back porch. This picture is from last year.

 

[Ohio Outdoorsman]

We have 36 tomato plants growing and Poblano pepper plants just sprouting. Here in Ohio we can't put them out until mid May so the plants should be just about right.

 

[glypnir]

Well, we're starting a few boxes of square foot gardening for the first time.

I know we've got 16 tomato plants that we grew from seed. And some peppers and herbs.

My wife has been spending time on some tomatofinders forum or something.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

No real garden here. But the Grapefruit tree and the Orange tree were full of blooms and now they have littly bitty round green things all over them which I hope to see turn into delicious and healthful citrus fruit by December. I will put in a couple of pots of Jalepenos though.
BTW anybody try one of those upside down tomato plant thingees that have ben on TV the past month?

 

[tyusclan]

We planted a fifty pound sack of seed potatoes, set out ~50 tomato plants, watermelons, green beans, butterbeans, peas, sweet corn, field corn, onions, garlic, cukes, squash, and lettuce.

The main garden space is about 10,000 square feet, then we have the tomatoes planted around hoops, the lettuce and some of the onions in raised beds, and the field corn alone will be about 5 acres. I'm growing it for us and the livestock.

In the orchard we have 3 each of fig, peach, pear, and apple trees, 4 plum, 2 mulberry, 15 blueberry, 2 fifty-foot rows of thornless blackberries, 4 different varieties of grapes; 1 each of concord, seedless concord, seedless red, and seedless white, and about 20-25 pecan trees. Also have a ton of dewberry and blackberry growing wild around the place.

 

[Jim Shugart]

Gary -

My MIL hung some of those up last season and was very pleased with them.

I'm gonna stick with the Better Boy's. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

- Jim

 

[K.38]

We moved into our house last June and I started working on the garden spot. Checked it last week to see what I needed to do. I discovered I need to replace the dirt as it blew away during the winter and now we have about 6" of snow on it. Don't know if we are going to be growing much here or not. We have lots of rocks but not much dirt. Maybe thats why they call this area the Rocky Mountains.

BTW Muley Gil your place is beautiful. What do you call all the green stuff laying all over the ground.

Want to trade some of that green stuff for some rocks?

 

[trapper704]

We plant a fairly large garden every year. Raise all we can eat and always give quite a bit away. We plant radishs and lettuce every few weeks, so always have new stuff coming on all summer. Most years we have a late frost so plant most above ground crops after 1st. of May. Love home grown tomatos, cucumbers ,onions etc.

 

[slowburninsteve]

We have a flowerbed we converted to a small garden, about 6' x6'. We will be putting out some tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, and maybe one other veggie yet to be decided. We plant burbless cucumbers that will get about 2-3 feet long with lots of interesting curves! They can grow about 6 inches overnight once they get started! Last year we planted some broccoli for the first time, but they are a one shot deal. You get one head and that's that. We won't be planting them again.
Jim, I think you are planting a little early! We aren't putting out any plants until about May 15. We often get late frost here.

 

[enfield]

I put out 9 each of Better Boys, bell peppers and broccoli last week. Also planted squash, cukes, lettuce and onions. Still have to plant beets and half-runners. My garden's about 600 sq. ft.

I'd plant some Hickory King corn iffen we had a grist mill nearby.

 

[Hermann]

As always, my kids love to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, cauliflower and pumpkins.
Of corse I have to dig over the soil and so on, but it is nice for the kids to see how things grow and we all enjoy the homegrown food.

 

[bamafan1977]

I've been in the garden three days straight. 15 acres of watermelons, 100 yellow squash plants, 200 tomato plants, 200 cucumber plants, 100 honeydew melon plants, 100 cantaloupe plants, 50 white squash plants, 50 zucchini plants, 2 lbs sweet corn seed, 1 lb butter bean seeds.

Feels good to sit back and take a break. For a day at least.

 

[walkinghorse]

50 zucchini plants,

Reminds me of the old story that summer was the time you had to lock your car at church to avoid getting it filled up with zucchini!

 

[DCC]

Hello Muley

That looks good...nice place you got there...

I just got in from tilling up the garden plot. The wife has some starter plants on the back porch. This picture is from last year.

haven't been in contact for a while - keeping low profile - changed job here in the UK etc...
but my daugher Jos - RAF Flt Lt has just completed a 6 month tour at Lash Kahgar as a CIMIC with 3 Royal Marine Brigade HQ - and all without firing a shot herself - so it's a load off my mind now she's in the UK...but she never brought me back a Martini-Henry in 450-577...

BTW - I'm not into gardening myself...bet all the organic stuff you guys grow tastes good?
but I am into "natural drinking" i.e. apple cider - can get some great stuff from a farm about 10 mile south of me at a place called Weston super Mare - in what used to be the County of Somerset...Hic...

ATB DCC