Anyone else starting a garden this year?

[cwilliamsws6]

I've never at all been into gardening in my life but for some reason this year I had a sudden and strong urge to start some plants from seed and try to grow things to make my own salsa with.

I'm currently growing Box Car Willie tomatoes, mixed color bell peppers, peach ghost scorpion peppers, and basil, all from seed.

Anybody else starting a garden and if so what are you growing?

 

[RazorsEdge]

We usually plant green peppers, tomato, squash and onions. Not sure what's on the agenda yet for this year's garden.

 

[gman2304]

Already have red leaf lettuce in the ground. Tomatoes, peppers and spring onions as soon as the ground warms a bit.

 

[HankHill]

I know a ton of people in NYS that are trying to start growing pot in their gardens the summer... Will it work? Dunno. Am I interested in their experiences? Hell yeah, I don't smoke pot, but the information is interesting to me.

I wanted to start a garden last summer, but a friend down the road has so much extra vegetables from her garden, I would feel wasteful starting my own. Her garden in only 1 foot above the water table, in the corner of a high water area. It floods ponds around her house every time it rains a lot, or the snow thaws in the spring. When the water rises, he gardens about 3 inches above the waterline at its maximum height usually. Oddly enough, every well in that area has sulfur water issues.. Maybe its because its a swampy area?

 

[KneeGrinder]

We all might need to grow some of our own food the way things seem to be at the currant time.

 

[Lubener]

Tomatoes, sugar snap peas, sweet gypsi peppers, blue lake green beans, zuchinni, butternut squash and potatoes. Getting ready for peas and soon as I can work the soil.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

I think the only thing I could grow in the current place is rice or cranberries.

 

[supton]

We’ve had a garden last couple of years, it is nice, but too easy to get too much food to know what to do.

 

[Passport1]

Planted some turnips yesterday. I don't have a good place to plant in ground so I use containers. Works good and I can move them to shelter when a hurricane hits. Will get some tomatoes going soon.

 

[Tdbo]

I will put out my usual fare: tomatoes, green peppers and banana peppers.

 

[jeepman3071]

My family has had a garden since I was a kid. My father has a 20'x400' garden, and grows a variety of vegetables. His tomatoes have 100% ruined store-bought tomatoes for me as well as all of my friends who have tried them. They look red and feel like a tomato but taste like nothing in comparison.

 

[doitmyself]

We all might need to grow some of our own food the way things seem to be at the currant time.

YES! Gardens connect people to their food source. Awesome learning activity for kids (of all ages). Ours has grown smaller in older age.

 

[Barkleymut]

The squirrels demolish tomatoes when I try to grow them. But I can get great results from almost any type of pepper. Haven't grown any for a few years, I think I may try again.

 

[RhondaHonda]

I’ve got two 4x8 raised beds that I’ll plant with the kids this year. I need to get the weeds out from last year and get stuff going soon. We had tomatoes last year but had a bad infestation of tomato hornworms that I didn’t notice til it was too late.

 

[RDMgr]

Any garden that I have grown really just feeds the groundhogs, deer and squirrels. Groundhogs pick a tomato, take a bite and throw it on the ground. Then, they pick another, take a bite, etc. until the tomatoes are gone. Buying gasoline to drive to the fruits and vegetable stand is a lot cheaper and less work then my putting in a garden...and I actually get stuff to eat at the F&V stand

 

[cpayne5]

My family has had a garden since I was a kid. My father has a 20'x400' garden, and grows a variety of vegetables. His tomatoes have 100% ruined store-bought tomatoes for me as well as all of my friends who have tried them. They look red and feel like a tomato but taste like nothing in comparison.

Yeah, once you have a *good* tomato, you turn your nose up at all the rest. I get tomatoes from my mother, who has tons of tomato plants every year. For a solid month, all I'll eat for lunch (and many dinners) is a simple tomato/cheese/mayo sandwich. Summertime...

 

[svtrit]

I used to grow a lot of my own food, and bought beef that lived within 2 miles of my place. We would fill the freezer and can most of it. We had a lean time working on getting rid of debt that having this garden really paid off.

We moved into town, and now have small beds. I grow a mix of things, and plan on building fences for squash to climb this year. I also have an asparagus patch in an odd spot in the yard that wasn’t much good for anything else. My garden is 4, 4x8 boxes, one of which my wife uses for cut flowers.

I really enjoy growing potatoes, and also grow the usual stuff others do along with beets, kale, spinach and carrots.

 

[Snagglefoot]

We have a couple 6’ x 5’ raised beds that are irrigated and have a deer fence around it. Small but prolific. We plant in late May.

 

[Chris142]

My wife does every year. Between her stuff and my apple trees the birds and squirrels eat well