What are you planting in your Garden

[BookWorm243]

I am planning on doing a small garden this spring and was wonder what everyone else is going to plant this year. I am just wanting to be able to get most of my veggies organic. My goal is to be able to get most of our food from the garden and not the store. We are also planning on getting our own chickens for meat. What are you planting?

Lettuce
Snap Peas
Snow Peas
Spinach
Strawberries
Peanuts
Spaghetti squash
Watermelon
tomato
Basil
Mint
Sage
thyme
rosemary
oregano
dill
broccoli
carrot
eggplant
Celery
potato (plain & sweet)
peppers
corn
pumpkin
blueberry
blackberry
mushrooms

 

[Rozzie]

I'll be planting a small garden this year. The last few years I haven't been able to garden much, when at all, due to moves and changes in my life. In fact, the last three years I had only container gardens.

I do have one patch of ground ready for a small garden this spring. I'm estimating, but I think it's about 15 feet by 4 or so feet. I'll also plant in all of my larger flowerpots, though I'm "not" planting in the small ones. I may do a couple of small tire gardens, too.

My garden priorities are:

Tomatoes -- red, yellow, and cherry tomatoes
Peppers -- banana peppers & hot peppers. Green peppers if space allows.
Salad greens / lettuce
Asparagus Beans
Herbs - basil, oregano, rosemary, and thyme.
Flowers - marigolds. I have to have my marigolds...

I have a variety of other seeds & other things that I'd like to grow BUT these may be all that I have the energy to deal with this year due to various events.

Edited to add: I planted some blackberry & raspberries last year. I do see that a PUPPY has been gnawing on the thornless blackberry so I won't expect much crop there this year! Here's hoping the thorns on the raspberries deter him some. I am headed on a trip to my old place soon, so I may dig up some thorny blackberries there and bring them back with me. It's a different zone and they may not survive here, though, as they are a warmer weather variety.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

For the first time in many years...nothing, absolutely nothing

 

[HHandbasket]

We already have red lettuce, green leaf lettuce, curly-leaf spinach, and arugula in one raised bed. The other raised bed is prepped but not planted yet because the chickens don't let me plant (I'll probably put the hens to bed early one day this week and get it done, though). Onions and leeks are going into that bed.

The main garden is 11 rows, about 20 feet by about 10-12 feet total area (it's wider at one end than the other). It is fenced off and already made into rows, had to fence it off so I could work the dirt and prep the rows without any chicken (or feline or canine!) interference. We'll be planting tomatoes (cherry tomatoes, maybe couple of high-producing large tomato varieties, still deciding on that), bell peppers, jalapenos, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, parsnips, celery (first time trying to grow celery!). We'll be planting yellow squash, zucchini, and cucumbers in a few weeks when we plant the tomatoes and peppers. When the lettuce/greens bed is done in May, we'll empty out that raised bed, recompost, and plant our spaghetti squash and pumpkin in that bed.

When the onions and leeks are done in May, we'll clear out that bed, as well, recompost, let it sit a couple of months, then plant our fall greens/lettuces there in early August.

Herbs will be thyme, both purple and green basil, oregano, 2 kinds of mint, fernleaf dill, rosemary, and gonna try one more time to grow cilantro this year--herbs will be in container gardens, though, not in the ground.

 

[BookWorm243]

Rozzie: sorry to hear about you blackberry I hope the ones you bring back will grow! my list is what we would love to have but we may not get it all. Some of ours will be in pots as well. I love marigolds

Hillbilly hen: sorry

Maybe you will get something

 

[feather and mountain man]

Sorry Hillbilly hen that sounds awful

I always have the salad garden in the front yard
cherry tomatoes
sweet bannan peppers
spinach
6 kinds of lettuce
raddishes
onions


Big garden along the lane
Green peppers and tomatoes for the market

The mellons up the right of way

honeydew
pumpkins
cantalope (YUCK)

In the garden on the hill
sweet corn! and carrots


The garden over the hill
beans, beans, and beans

In the flower bed along my walk way

Quash and zuccini
and strawberries

In the green house herbs and more onions

I just wish I could get my potatoes to grow well here. Still not sure what is wrong.

 

[BookWorm243]

wow everyone has gardens that sound wonderful! We have done container gardens till now so we will see how it go's. Some of the things we are still going to keep in containers.

HHandbasket: where are you getting your celery? I want to try growing it to but cant find anyone who has it.
We did red potatoes last year in a raised garden bed and really did not do much with them, but boy did we get alot of potatoes!

 

[chickenaddictntn]

tators
lettuce
cabbage
onions
brandywine tomatoe
marglobe tomatoes
contender
pink eye purple hull
carrots
sweet tators
str. 8 cucumber
zuccini
str. neck squash
cantalope hale's best
okra
watermelon
FL speckled butter beans
mustard
turnups
bell peppers
serrano chili
pumpkin

Herbs

chives
cilantro
dill
sage
basil

 

[farmerlor]

We're seeing grocery prices rising here so we're planning to get the whole acre garden area really productive. We'll be planting lots of potatoes and tomatoes per usual. The kids like salads so we plant a lettuce mix with mesclun and lots of kale and spinach. There'll be corn but we're going to cut the corn plot down since we simply don't get as much yield per square foot out of corn as we do other veggies. There'll be melons, squash, drying beans, peas, sweet potatoes, peppers and the herb garden and the onion/garlic garden are still going. I'm going to TRY to plant some broccoli and cauliflower again but I'm not going to use as much space for it and if it doesn't grow again this year this is my last year to try.

 

[schellie69]

Here is what I have been thinking about planting, Not sure if I will plant everything but its what I am thinking about.

Corn
Popcorn
Tomatoes
Peppers
Onions
Potatoes-----baskets
Pumpkins
Squash
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Watermelons
Honey Dew
Beans
Snap Peas
Lettuce
7 leaf lettuce----for my chickens
Spinach

Raspberry bush
Strawberry bush
Grape Bush

Herbs
Cilantro Chives Dill rosemary
ginger oregano basil Thyme
Garlic