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What are you growing in your garden?

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April 25, 2018, 10:08 AM
stickman428
What are you growing in your garden?
Last year I turned my deck into a garden with planters all the way around the railing. I’ve added even more pots and planters and should have a decent garden. Because my deck is one story up it keeps the wildlife from eating my lettuce.

So far it looks like I’m gonna be growing:

Tomatoes
Lettuce
Cabbage
Mint
Cucumber
Eggplant
Cilantro
Strawberries
Citronella
Lavender
Green peppers
Chives
Green onions
Sage
Thyme

What are you planning on growing?


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April 25, 2018, 10:11 AM
signewt
we're still weeks away from even tilling;

have permanent blueberries/raspberries/strawberries; rhubarb/garlic/various herbs/apples/pears when the produce/plums/morels when they cooperate

expect obligatory tomatoes/onions/green beans/green/red peppers/sunflowers/squash/carrots/beets/variety dry beans/about giving up on the delights of home grown okra/favas

Corn, melons & potatoes don't work very well in our garden spot.


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April 25, 2018, 10:20 AM
David Lee
Fill them up with garlic in Autumn stickman.
April 25, 2018, 10:31 AM
ScreamingCockatoo
Tomatoes, squash varieties, eggplant, peppers, okra

Maybe some beets.





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April 25, 2018, 10:33 AM
craigcpa
I have blue berries and grapes for the deer and birds. For me I have cherry tomatoes, zucchini, squash, cucumbers and sweet potatoes.

This year I'm doing all hay bale. Autumn planting season, I hope to go late with green beans and, probably, more sweet potatoes.


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April 25, 2018, 10:37 AM
SIG4EVA
Weeds right now. Well, technically I just cleaned them out.

I'm hoping to get some tomatoes and green beans going after my baby is born.


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April 25, 2018, 10:37 AM
tatortodd
Outdoors, I’m growing:
  • 4 varieties of tomatoes - 2 eating and 2 sauce
  • 3 varieties of peppers
  • 2 varieties of green beans
  • personal sized watermelon on a trellis
  • mojito mint
  • catnip for my cat
  • rosemary
  • carrots
  • malabar spinach - asian variety that likes heat and grows like a vine

    Indoors, I’m using my two aerogardens to grow the things too delicate for Texas’ bugs:
  • butterhead lettuce which I’ll switch to cilantro and basil before tomato harvest
  • romaine
  • spinach



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    April 25, 2018, 10:45 AM
    P250UA5
    We keep talking about building a planter in our back yard & haven't gotten around to it.

    quote:
    Originally posted by tatortodd:
    Outdoors, I’m growing:
  • 4 varieties of tomatoes - 2 eating and 2 sauce
  • 3 varieties of peppers
  • 2 varieties of green beans
  • personal sized watermelon on a trellis
  • mojito mint
  • catnip for my cat
  • rosemary
  • carrots
  • malabar spinach - asian variety that likes heat and grows like a vine

    Indoors, I’m using my two aerogardens to grow the things too delicate for Texas’ bugs:
  • butterhead lettuce which I’ll switch to cilantro and basil before tomato harvest
  • romaine
  • spinach


  • I'ma start shoppin' at Todd's instead of HEB Big Grin




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    April 25, 2018, 10:45 AM
    Leemur
    Right now it’s weeds and mud. It’ll be tomatoes, squash, zucchini, okra, corn, bell peppers, few varieties of beans, onions and TBD.
    April 25, 2018, 10:46 AM
    stkfox
    Sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, and more sweet potatoes. Some cherry tomatoes and hot peppers too.





    April 25, 2018, 10:47 AM
    Jim Shugart
    Not much and all in planters/buckets.

    Thyme
    Rosemary
    Italian parsley
    Curley parsley
    Chives
    Peppermint
    Tomatoes
    Okra



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    April 25, 2018, 10:50 AM
    vinnybass
    Potatoes - Red Norland & Yukon Gold
    Tomatoes - Early Girl & Better Bush
    Radishes
    Beets
    Zucchini
    Japanese Eggplant
    Peas
    Beans
    Onions - Red & Yellow
    Mint - a few varieties
    Sweet Basil
    Sage

    My wife has a bunch of different flowers in pots on the back porch.

    Everything is going great right now. We'll see how they fare when the real heat hits.



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    April 25, 2018, 11:03 AM
    lyman
    put the garlic (2 varietals) in last fall, doing well,

    got the onions started by seed in containers, and the garden area tilled,

    will plant in the next week,

    English peas
    fordhook limas
    crowder or blackeye peas
    green beans (snaps)
    potatoes
    more onions,

    watermelon
    cantaloupe
    a few tomatoes, and peppers,

    and whatever else I think off,
    will do pumpkin in june,

    no squash, damn squash bugs are killer and need to give them a year or so to die off



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    April 25, 2018, 04:03 PM
    GT-40DOC
    Right now I have:

    Mint(for mint juleps)
    Red Onions for the grill, and tops for salad
    Okra
    El Grande Jalapenos
    Habinaro peppers


    I don't have a large place to grow things, plus our summers "fry" most plants!!
    April 25, 2018, 04:05 PM
    TBH
    Snow, mud, wet grass.


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    April 25, 2018, 04:28 PM
    HRK
    slowly killing a better boy tomato plant, for some reason I just can't get them to do well here in FL, however the three pepper plants, one hot and one sweet banana and another sweet bell seem to be thriving...
    April 25, 2018, 04:36 PM
    smschulz
    Only some herbs right now.
    Basil, Thyme, Oregano, Parsley and Rosemary.
    More to come.
    April 25, 2018, 04:57 PM
    thumperfbc
    I planted probably 3-4 weeks later than I wanted to but it’ll be ok. Last year I crammed way too much in a little space so I’m cutting way back this year.

    - 2 golden cherry tomato
    - 2 large red tomato of some variety
    - 1 yellow think skin crookneck squash (I hope, I’ve had terrible luck with squash not being labeled right)
    - 2-4 green bean, bush type. We’ll see how many sprout ok.
    - 2 red bell pepper
    - 2 yellow bell pepper
    - about 35 silver queen corn. Yum!
    April 25, 2018, 05:21 PM
    Nickelsig229
    I don't know. It's beyond me at this point.

    My parents were born and raised farming in Italy. So now that they are retired their daily "job" is farming in the back yard. We don't even mow the lawn back there anymore. There is maybe 2 feet of grass left.

    The rest turned into a farm.

    There is just too much to list. Cherry tree, plum, orange, lemon, persimmons, fig, pear, peach, apple, and some other fruit trees that I can't remember.

    Then there are blackberry, raspberry, golden raspberry, cantelope, watermelon, honeydew, strawberry.

    Then there are tomatoes, potatoes, peppers a few different kinds and colors, eggplant, zucchini, squash, green beans, chicory, escarole, lettuce, romane lettuce, broccoli rabe, garlic. Seems like everything but corn.

    and every kind of spice.

    Not just 2 or 3 plants either. I'm talking 15-25 each depending on their yeild. They even build a green house leantoo on the side of the garage for germinating.

    All year round when they eat a fruit, they save the seed if the like the fruit and try to grow from them.

    Seriously, its gone to far now.

    But who am I to complain, I get to walk outside and eat something fresh of the tree when ever I feel like it.

    Oh, and don't let me forget the grape vines. God forbid we don't mention those mighty roots, my father will snuff me out in my sleep if I don't brag on those...




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    April 25, 2018, 05:25 PM
    tatortodd
    quote:
    Originally posted by P250UA5:
    We keep talking about building a planter in our back yard & haven't gotten around to it.

    quote:
    Originally posted by tatortodd:
    Outdoors, I’m growing:
  • 4 varieties of tomatoes - 2 eating and 2 sauce
  • 3 varieties of peppers
  • 2 varieties of green beans
  • personal sized watermelon on a trellis
  • mojito mint
  • catnip for my cat
  • rosemary
  • carrots
  • malabar spinach - asian variety that likes heat and grows like a vine

    Indoors, I’m using my two aerogardens to grow the things too delicate for Texas’ bugs:
  • butterhead lettuce which I’ll switch to cilantro and basil before tomato harvest
  • romaine
  • spinach


  • I'ma start shoppin' at Todd's instead of HEB Big Grin
    To be fair, my garden looks nice this year but so far it’s been more beneficial to my chiropractor than me.



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