OT: What's in your garden?

Dukester

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What are you growing (or will grow) in your gardens this year?

For me this year it will be tomatoes, peppers, green beans, maybe watermelons. Still have black-eyed peas in the freezer from last summer..ha. I'm not going to bother with okra or squash anymore. Squash bugs are so bad here I think they are already in the seed packets when I buy them.

I did gourds a couple of summers ago and they were neat but good gracious the flowers stunk!

Dukester
 
I'm looking at planting several 100' rows of sweet corn in one spot. In a new spot I've been getting ready for the past couple months I'm gonna do my usual tomatos, green beans, squash, cucumbers, and new to me carrots and spinach. I usually grow my tomatos from seed, but I think this year I'm only gonna plant about 6 and I'm gonna let someone else get them started for me.
 
My potato plants are over a foot tall and I am ready - as soon as we have 2 days without torrential downpours - to plant okra, cucumbers, couple watermelons and cantaloupe, Cream-40 peas, eggplant, bell peppers and hot peppers, and gonna try some carrots. We have planted tomatoes in pots the last few years here because of the nematodes in the soil.
 
tomatoes, green beans, snow peas, green peppers. the kid likes to plant hot peppers, cucumbers, cauliflower and if we feel really wild we may try sugar corn.
 
Potatoes, radishes, artichokes, lettuce, beets, carrots spinach, onions, asparagus, strawberries, blackberries, figs, blueberries, cukes, squash, broccoli, cabbage, snaps, sweet corn, snow peas, & English peas. Tomatoes, peppers & eggplant will go in starting today.

Yea, we sell at a farmers market!
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Farmers Market
 
Usually just plant stuff I can freeze or can. white taters, sweet corn, green beans, okra, field peas.
I want to have about 2 years worth of canned goods on hand. Did not get to use my pressure cookers last year as the garden stayed drowned out. Hope to make up for it this year.
Corn and taters are up and will plant beans as soon as I can get back in the garden. Okra in mid May and Colossus peas after July 1.
Glad I canned 128 quarts of taters 2 years ago.
Hope to do 200 this year.
Richard in NW SC
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If it ever gets warm enough to plant here-potatoes, corn, few tomato plants, carrots, pumpkins. Cant wait for the asparagus to start coming up. Might try some peppers this year
 
I plan to grow a few rows of corn, tomatoes, lettuce, carrots spinach, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, hot peppers, cucumbers We've got strawberries, blackberries , blueberries still going from last year. Had some figs in pots that I planned to set out. They were suppose to be cold hardy. But it looks like they died.
Weeds pretty much took over last year. Will be trying new way to deal with them. Then we also usually have a couple of months of drought. I'm trying to put in an irrigation on a timer. Plan to have it come on about 10 pm. We don't get a lots of water from the well. I'm hoping that way it will have time to recover before we wake up.
 
I enjoy planting a garden,

Gives me some exercise and a chance to exercise my old ferguson and equipment.

I grow sweet corn, purple hull peas, tomatoes, squash,

Then later in the season I plant watermelons for me and local kids, weard looking gourds for the local church fall festival sales.

Always looking for something new or odd to grow in the garden.
 
Ever bearing tomato plants "Roma Grande", started from seed in basement, under "grow lights", over seed starter heating mat, 75 degree, March 1, transplanted up to 3 gallon pots (bottoms cut out), or recycled water softner bags, staked 3 foot stakes and bread wrapper ties.
Replant May 1 in my recycled window and storm doors greenhouse, in ground (some with 3 gallon cut out bottom as tomatoes like "warm feet") supplemental electric heater on frost nights.
Start harvest June 15 to Nov 15. Windows and door with screens (no bugs, no spray).
Sash windows now rotting after 10 years. supply friends extra harvest.
34 degree tonight.

Charles Krammin SW MI
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Garlic bravely coming up... (Currently hiding under burlap coffee bags) Once warmer weather comes, Peas, beans, cukes and tomatoes.
 
Bet we have more verity of weeds here then anywhere on earth. The drier it is the better they grow and if its wet they are un-stopable.
 
beefstake tomatos
cal sweet bell peppers
chili peppers
jalapeno peppers

squash
zuchinni
pumpkin
basil
okra

basil and okra not doing well!
 
Still a little frost on one side and mud on the other. Come Spring I'll plant flowers for the farm stand. For vegies - I will let the boys grow them.
 
Sweetcorn, green beans, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, maybe some melons -- all known under the collective name "deer food."
 
Ground cover from last fall when the garden was done.Red top clover and rye grass about16"- 18" tall and blooming out.It's been to wet to plow under,every time it gets just about dry enough to plow under it comes another big rain.If it ever dries enough I will spread horse manure on it and plow it under.
 
Sounds like it's time to get a high voltage fence :) Cheaper than a dog, and doesn't take a nap in the sun.

Colin, MN
 
Green beans, wax beans, sweet corn, strawberries, cantaloupe, watermelon, bell and hot peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, raspberries, blueberries, carrots, potatoes, beets, swiss chard, kale, brussels sprouts, red & green cabbage, kohlrabi, broccoli, cauliflower, fennel, many different types of squash, pie and carving pumpkins, guards, salad greens, and onions.

The onions will be planted at the end of this month. The remainder will get in the ground beginning the 3rd week of May.

Colin, MN
 
(quoted from post at 03:32:43 04/19/14) Nice photos, Bruce. Who's the little one?

Colin

That's Maureen's grandson Brody. He and his mom and dad will be here tomorrow for Easter. He loves the chicks. One of them is "his". My g-daughter Lindsay has "her" chick too. But their chicks have to live here...... :)
 
Silver queen corn (if the turkeys don't eat all of the seeds), red taters, heirloom peas (my Grandfather's variant), zucchini, yellow crook-neck squash, cucumbers, briars, deer tracks, cat feces (rich in Sciurus Carolinensis), raccoon tracks, armadillo holes, sandspurs, bullet impact craters (armadillo hole and raccoon track deterrent), fresh deer hides on fence posts (to prevent deer tracks), and fresh ground turkey heads (to keep turkeys from eating the corn). I used to have a lot of holes dug by squirrels, but they don't like the cat feces.

Jimps (the sustainable gentleman farmer) in GA.
 
That's awesome! Nice photo of the three of you. I hope Brody and Lindsay get to spend lots of time with you on the farm. There's lots to learn, and they've got a good Grandpa to learn from. :)

Colin
 

For the past three years, I"ve done nothing but feed the grasshopper"s, this year, they"re in for a surprise, not planting anything.
 

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