Who is planting a garden this year?

[michaels4gardens]

We are just getting started, have Spinach, lettuce, and cabbage up, and kale peas and a few others in the ground, carrot is going in soon...
I have been doing a lot of work on the garden site, I have hauled in tons of organic material this past year, - I now have about 8 to 12 inches over the entire site [about 50 x 150 ]
I think this year, and next year are going to be the year to "garden for real" -cause unless I miss my guess, the US is in for a bumpy ride this year, [at least for the US economy]. - so --,just incase we need it-- My daughter and I have been getting the garden in good shape...

 

[DBA]

My main garden is just over half acre. I have another, much smaller garden as well. Then this year I am also renting some ground to grow pumpkins.
On top of that, we put in several fruit trees last year and will adding more this year, as well as grapes, strawberries and blackberries. Have tons of black raspberries growing wild on our property.

 

[Ramjet]

I started planting my garden in January .... Onions & potatoes went in first and have taken off like weeds thanks to the rabbits. gold poo ...

Tomatoes & peppers were planted indoors in the first week of February and have since been transplanted , all have either set fruit or started to bloom, I'll be forced to eat dozens upon dozens soon. Planted Early Girl , Husky Cherry & Beefsteak.

Planted a few rows of Okra for the wife as she likes them pickled .... they are slow starting this early.

Have about ~70 corn stalks that have come up & planted pole beans below each one. Space saver ....

I have 7 fruit tree's. Lemon , blood orange , pear , plum , two peach , apple & olive.

The olive tree has fruit on it for the first time this year.

All of the others accept the plum have set fruit , second year in a row its dropped its blooms. Beginning to think I need another tree for cross pollination as its healthy otherwise.

The rabbits get all the apples .... they don't have a very good flavor.

 

[michaels4gardens]

I have a 2+ acre garlic plot, [but that is separate from the house vegetable garden], but that is a business endeavor... I wish I had the resources to mulch that as well as the House garden, but-- it took a year of hauling a pickup load every evening after work to get the house garden where it is.-- OH-WELL, we do what we can...

 

[akane]

I don't have the space anymore but there is about 15' wide by 200' for the total beds but some need work. About a third I am covering in rabbit, chinchilla, and guinea pig poop with bedding to smother the grass that was left to take over and fertilize for future use. The rest I am planting for this year. 3 rows of corn, a row of garlic, a row of chard, carrots, radishes, and 3-4 rows of peppers. I started some squash and watermelon seeds but I failed at keeping the seedlings alive. I tried to move my remaining squash to a larger pot for the next month until planting and it died. :shrug: My seed starting skills need work. The last 5x15' I'll have to buy some started plants whether it's squash or something else. For fruit there are 2 dwarf apple trees not producing yet but I can't really eat apples anyway. We are taking down the old grapevines that have complex flavor but are not good for eating plain. They make good grape juice but we'd get more use out of sweeter table grapes. Also replacing some with berry vines and I am debating doing kiwi since they have some hardy to zone 3 now.

 

[PSFAngoras]

With our 1/10th acre I can't boast about how big and glorious my garden is, but our whole front yard that isn't parking space is for food.

This is the first year my raspberries haven't kicked it over winter, and they're coming back wonderfully, along with the strawberries, that are already flowering. I do think the peach tree didn't make it though. Luckily my work bought some fruit trees last year to grow out for organic certification (must be on the property 1 year), so I may replace it with a self fruitful heirloom Apple if no sign of growth appears by the time the farm sale starts to happen. That and I'll be buying up some kiwis for my trellis next to the house. The grape is getting a slow start like usual, but the goji berries, hops, and honeysuckle are taking off like rockets.

I started kale, kohlrabi, broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage inside in January, and that's all been planted out and is very happy, and I stuck some onions, rutebega, carrots, radish, lettuce and spinach in as well that's starting to show their tiny little leaves. I have tomatoes and peppers starting in the house now for May, along with a few herbs that are annuals, and my herbs and dye plants in my beds are already overpowering anything that might look like a weed. (Thank you, chicken poop straw mulch!)

I guess I can't really say I'm planning a garden so much as already doing one!

 

[Marinea]

Our tomatoes, peppers and plantains have been started and are inside for a bit yet.

Spinach, lettuce, onions and celery have been started in the raised beds. Potatoes are next. We have another few weeks before we can really start to plant outside, but do I have plans

The apple, peach, cherry, blueberry and blackberries are just starting to leaf out. No sign of my kudzu yet (yes, I actually am cultivating a small patch of it for the buns). Not sure if my container herbs survived the deep freeze this winter- may have to re-plant those.

We are adding a small vertical planter this year, made from a pallet. Going to attach it to the southern side of our compost bin. Not sure what I am going to put in there yet, but excited at the thought of new planting space.

 

[Rainey]

Our garden is still under snow, but my herb garden is mostly out. Have seedlings in the greenhouse--peppers, eggplant, onions and tomatoes. Received 3 bare root mulberry's last week but can't plant them until the snow is gone and the ground thawed.
At least the snow cover kept my perennial herbs in good shape.
The greens we grew in the greenhouse through the winter are really doing well now that there's more light, but I am thinking asparagus and wondering when we'll get the first taste of it this year.

 

[cmfarm]

I have started some squash, green beans, onions, lettuce, sunflowers, cucumbers, melons, and lots of flowers. I wanted to get them started in the ground but my husband didn't bring home the tool to get the new spark plug back in the tiller yet. So I started them in seed trays instead. Now I will have to mow the garden before I till because the grass has gotten really tall already. I plan on planting tomatoes too but waited to long to start them so I will have to buy some.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

We've started on our garden, but still have quite a few raised beds to weed and augment with bunny berries topped by a thin layer of compost (just enough to plant the seeds in, really).

So far, some lettuce is coming up (volunteers) and we have planted potatoes, broccoli, brussel sprouts, beets, cabbage, assorted lettuce, spinach, carrots, and radishes. Need to get the peas in, too!

I use stucco wire (4' x 8' panels) as "hoops", wedging them across the 4' beds as supports for various vining plants- but I am thinking of covering a couple with visqueen to make mini greenhouses so we can get a jump on starting tomatoes and peppers.

I tried to move my remaining squash to a larger pot for the next month until planting and it died. :shrug:

I believe that squash is very sensitive to being transplanted- if the roots are disturbed at all they tend to die. If you have peat pots, I would use those so you can put them directly into the ground (or a bigger pot, I suppose) and see if they do better.

 

[the reluctant farmer]

Tomatoes & peppers were planted indoors in the first week of February and have since been transplanted , all have either set fruit or started to bloom, I'll be forced to eat dozens upon dozens soon.

. Aww, that's a fate no man should have to face alone. Shoot, guess I could come to Texas and help you & your wife eat 'em. Just let me know when they're ripe.

Fruit trees are looking ok, especially the plums I put in last year. Peach is on it's last year...had the blight last two years, and if it doesn't do better this year after treatment, it will become barbecue wood & something low fuss & productive will take it's place. (Mulberry, I believe I'm talking about you.). Had a rough year for preparation due to illness and life issues. My potatoes are all in, but didn't start any plants, so will be hitting the Community College's Ag program's sale next week. It will be an interesting year, I suspect. My oldest really wants to.have a plot of his own, so I'm letting him have a 10' x 10' space. I find myself wanting to micro-manage and tell him what to do, but he learns best by throwing his ideas out there, seeing if they work, then correcting as he goes. It may mean a portion of productive garden space is not up to potential this year, but it is time for him to try. Blueberries look excellent so far, and blackberries are coming along (although I'll continue to forage the ones that grow wild near a school by me.).

 

[karebru]

We've always got a little bit of something going in containers, but we're not great about planting things at the right time. More like when we happen to see seeds. So, sometimes they do well, and sometimes, well... :roll:
We tend to let herbs go to seed on us but they make the yard smell nice. The Rosemary is getting woody, but I hate to cut it back. It's turned into a beautiful bush. We do use a lot of eatables for landscaping. The pineapple hedge is starting to produce again.
A couple of years ago, a hard freeze finally killed my pair of 20 foot coconut palms that I grew from nuts. (We're a little too far inland for some things at this latitude.) They were producing nicely. The bargain-bin lemon tree that I planted a few years ago turned into a beautiful tree, but the root stock must be dominant because I can't match it or the fruit to the specs of any one variety.
Our biggest gardening problem is one of the Beagles. She will eat things off the vine the day before you plan on picking it. Tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, (Including jalapenos!) whole, full-sized pineapples... it doesn't matter and somehow she knows just when it's time for her to "harvest". :|
I do well with the pickling cucumbers and the okra that I plant every year. I'm getting ready to plant okra where my chicken run was a year ago. We'll see what happens.
We also have a grapefruit, a carambola, and a couple of dragon fruit cacti that ought to do something, "any year now". The avocado is looking like this might be the year.
And then there's the MANGO... :mrgreen:
We planted it as a pit over 20 years ago, knowing it would probably never produce. It got big. Against all odds, we got one mango about 4 years ago, and it was just a good as those from the parent tree at my in-law's. Last year, the same thing... One mango on the same branch. The squirrels got that one. But this year... the whole tree is LOADED! I mean THOUSANDS!!! It looks like enough are going to hold, that we'll be thinning and propping branches! We're pretty pumped. :lol:

Oh, and tomatoes... I grew and sold Beefsteaks and other salad stuff, and made deliveries to the neighbors on my bike when I was a kid in Illinois. I have tried off and on for 40 years to grow tomatoes in Florida with little luck. I know other people do it but...
Maybe, my new rabbits will provide me with the formula for tomatoes! :bunnyhop:

 

[skysthelimit]

Sadly I have done nothing. The state just thawed out a few weeks ago, and I'm sure the group is still frozen. April came with welcomed temps above freezing, but also brought the rain, every day since the 31st, at least 12 hours of the day. The dogs have destroyed the side garden,a nd I am hesitant that I can sanitize it enough to want to plant anything there.

 

[Homer]

Red Swiss Chard and Collard Greens transplant are going in today. The Green Beans and Red Beet seed is in the ground but not up yet. Radish and Spinach are up and doing well. And the Garlic I planted last fall is about a foot high now. Still have all my peppers <about 700> in the greenhouse at the neighbors along with the okra, cantaloupe, basil etc. :mrgreen:

Started about a 1,000 seeds but still feel like I'm forgetting something. :lol:

 

[mystang89]

I'm planning one but I haven't gotten anything besides the carrot seeds. I saved some green bean seeds from last year and I'm curious to know if they will grow. Other than that I'm going to try to fit spinach, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, okra, and I'm sure I'll think of a few more things to throw in there. The rhubarb is a beast and already started to come up although we did lose one rhubarb plant this year

Oh and the grapes, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are already starting to bud which is great to see. One apple tree has flowers on it but the other doesn't have anything but leaves. It's been that way for the past 2 years :/

 

[ladysown]

I plant a garden every year. what goes it in changes from one year to the next as does the configuration.

last year we put our tomatoes into hangers and that worked wonderfully well, keeping the slugs off them, but unfortunately NOT the squirrels....

 

[II Arrows]

my wife and I had our first garden last year and I have to say it did really well Until the watermelon choked everything out. We had to relocate last year's garden due to the rabbit hutches. This year I decided to try and put everything we are planning to grow in raised garden boxes I made from fence slats. They turned out really well I must say This year we have all the peppers one could think of, red and green bell peppers, jalapeño, sweet and hot banana peppers and a few habanero peppers. we have a beautiful beef steak tomato plant along with a cherry tomato plant. We just picked up a few cucumber and cantaloupe plants From the local feed store along with some Khale and egg plant seeds. I can't wait for the cantaloupe to take of MMMMM mmm mmm! The wife's favorite, green beans. There in the ground looking good. We also have a few of my favorit, the infamous zucchini. Last years strawberries are starting to flower already But recently Some of our chickens got in the box and had a field day destroying a few plants thanx to my 6 year old son :evil: also the wife had to get her herbs. basil, oregano and sweet mint And probably a few others im forgetting. I picked up the mint to help out the weaning mama buns. I still have tons of work to get the garden the way I want it but as for now it's a start.

 

[OneAcreFarm]

Squash(zuchinni, golden zuchinni, and several larger ones) tomatoes, peppers, jerusalem artichokes, eggplant, and some other things...also put in a bunch of fruit trees and about to put some blackberries and black cap raspberries in as well.

 

[Miss M]

I'm planting a garden, just getting around to it a bit late. I want to do a tire garden. I'm tired of trying to decide whether to plant or weed. Last year, shortly after we put a bunch of plants and seeds out, it rained for two weeks and made the garden impossible to walk in. By the time I was able to get through it, it was already a weed jungle. What to do... try to tame the jungle? Or continue planting? This way, no matter what, I'll be able to walk through it without wondering if I'm about to step in a fire ant bed or on a rattlesnake.

I finally found a source for billboard tarps, and they're free. Now I need to find the tires. Shouldn't be too hard... everybody has tractors around here. They have to get their tires from somewhere.

 

[akane]

I'm sending the peppers out on the porch to start hardening and I might plant the chard today. I have to scrape out the quickweed sprouts as much as possible and spread some compost in the area.