BYC gardening thread!!

[Mr MKK FARMS]

No, I don't sell any. I can/freeze/dry some of it, and some goes to the livestock, but most of the surplus eggs and produce go to family and friends.

I haven't tried growing actual tea plants, but I've wanted to. I've grown several herbs and made teas from them, however.

This reminds me that I also have a coffee plants I forgot to put in my earlier list.

Oh fresh coffee

That is awesome! So how big is your garden? Do you have any pictures of it?

 

[AccidentalFarm]

Well, I don't actually get fresh coffee yet, but I'm sure looking forward to it.

I don't know how big the garden is exactly. It's a large, fenced area with raised beds. I don't have any good photo's of it handy, but here's one from when we were building it. I had gotten too excited and started planting in it waaay before we finished building.

This is just a small section of the garden. To the left of the tree is a section that houses my compost tumbler and more garden space. Also, next to the ladder and tree and just out of the picture is a big stainless prep table with a faucet and sprayer for washing produce and hands and whatnot. The 'workbench' my husband is using is actually one of my brooders we attached to the end of the raised bed. In the warm months, I house my chicks in it and let them have the run of the garden until they grow up and move in with the big girls (the fencing has been extended up another 4 ft. higher.) The lights above extend the width of the garden, and there are 6 in total- (to give you an idea of how much of the garden is not pictured). A little pond is to the right of where I'm standing when I took the picture, and there are additional beds to my left, not shown.

 

[BantamFan4Life]

What type of a climate do you need to grow peppers?

 

[AccidentalFarm]

What type of a climate do you need to grow peppers?

Peppers grow really well where I am, zone 9. They like hot weather and full sun.

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Peppers grow really well where I am, zone 9. They like hot weather and full sun.

Dang! We have the opposite climate here :/

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Dang! We have the opposite climate here :/

Oh thats to bad

 

[BantamFan4Life]

I know

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

I know

Do you grow anything else?

 

[BantamFan4Life]

We haven't planted anything this year yet but last year we planted:
Broccoli
Green Beans
Onions
Cabbage
Strawberries (in are raised beds)
Corn
Turnips
Carrots
Domesticated Blackberries
Radishes
Lettuce
Spinach
Cucumbers
Pumpkins

I think there's a few I'm forgetting too.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

We haven't planted anything this year yet but last year we planted:
Broccoli
Green Beans
Onions
Cabbage
Strawberries (in are raised beds)
Corn
Turnips
Carrots
Domesticated Blackberries
Radishes
Lettuce
Spinach
Cucumbers
Pumpkins

I think there's a few I'm forgetting too.

Nice!
Are you gonna plant anything this year?