What are you planting or growing this year?

Originally Posted by Gryphon 

O_O Color me impressed. I take it you have an acreage of some sort? Alas, I live in an apartment building so no gardening for me except for my window boxes which have some onions, carrots, and lettuce growing in them as well as some tomatillos which I found out grow FAR too big to keep in there! Fortunately I have a friend with a garden and he lets me putter around in it so I'll be transplanting the tomatillos there and we're also growing:
-Three types of tomatos
-Two types of carrots (orange and purple)
-Celery, maybe...Not sure if the seeds came up, I've never grown them before so I don't know what the seedlings look like.
-A potatire (potatoes grown in a tire that will be stacked as they grow. Three of the potatoes are a purple type called India Blue, one was a red potato my friend got at a store, and one was a type I got at a garden center and can't recall the name of)
-Four garlic cloves that sprouted
-a row of onions that are doing very well
-a good sized chunk of the garden is given over to June-bearing strawberries, and they've been fruiting already! Crazy weather in Iowa.
-a row of climbing sugar snap peas that are doing quite well, although it seems a bird or two thought the tips of a few plants were worth giving a try.
-Half a row of bush beans
-half a row of loose leaf lettuce
-half a row of broccoli
-half a row of spinach
-a couple of cucumber (bush type)
-a couple of climbing string bean (for some reason the peas did WAY better at germinating)
-chives, which can NOT be killed.
-spearmint, which mocks the chives for being sissy in their ability to come back from a stomping.
Last year we got NO string beans or sugar snap peas because the fence was so pathetic a bunny hopped over and had her babies in the garden. >;/ Early this year we got some good fencing, dug a trench and hammered some t-posts into the ground and put a fence that's overkill for bunnies, but laughable to deer. Fortunately deer aren't a problem, and I don't mind the garden being Fort Knox to the bunnies. STARE ALL YOU WANT YOU LITTLE BEGGARS, NONE FOR YOU! ::ahem::.

 

Thank you Gryph. I'm also impressed. You're growing some cool stuff! I have rocky, clay soil I keep adding organics. Raddish, carrot, fragile root crop? Forget it for now. I envy the carrots and types. You have a good garden going.

Bunnies? Got so many. They play in the yard. Week ago at midnite something came down the drive hopping. It was a just been weaned little wild bunny and stopped at my feet. I pet it between it's fuzzy little ears and then it hopped back into the woods. Pretty darn cool. Last year they didn't mess with my garden, got so much clover in the yard. Coons? yea, ate all my sweet corn. Then Crows ate all my flint corn.

 

Yes 13 acres, small by some peoples standards but works for me.

 

Tomatillos, cool! Neat stuff. In Maine I didn't have much choice but to do planters, pots and it was wonderful. 25 miles south a total different weather zone I had a regular garden. We do what we can do with what we have and that is all that counts. 

I do want to market garden some of my produce. Look at garlic in Territorial catalog! Not those prices but gourmet seed garlic is in demand. I'm looking into CSA's. Produce and meat. Have to make a living right? What better way than growing organic produce and a bunch broilers can't hurt

Originally Posted by Gryphon 

13 acres would be wonderful to have! I wouldn't completely give up on carrots, there's a short burly type of carrot that could probably handle your soil. As for marketing, that shouldn't be too much of an issue with the variety of stuff you have! I see more and more craigslist sales for produce and meat, people like knowing the story behind the food they're getting and will pay a lot more for that story.

Originally Posted by kcjones 

This year i am growing tomatoes,peppers,onions,carrots,beets,purple tomatillo, okra ,lettuce,tatsoi,bak-choy, potatoes, eggplant, celery,summer squash, artichoke, asparagus,soybeans,lima beans bush beans. Rosemary,basil, sage, pinapple sage,parsley, oregano, lemon thyme. Blackberries,raspberries, figs, peaches, pears,plums, an a hummingbird bush an a few flowers