What are you planting or growing this year?

[Happy Chooks]

Blue Lake Contender (Bush). That is the only kind that I plant. I love snap beans and can't stand the shelley beans.

Me too, it's my favorite.



I'm amazed at the vegetables you guys can grow in the summer. Lettuce, turnip, carrots, beets are winter crops here.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

Me too, it's my favorite.



I'm amazed at the vegetables you guys can grow in the summer. Lettuce, turnip, carrots, beets are winter crops here.

Those things are winter crops here too Chooks!

Contenders are one of the best beans around: I tried a heritage variety called Landreth this year and really liked them as well. I also like the purple pod varieties: Royal Burgundy, Royalty, and LA Purple Pod (pole bean).

Happy Gardening!

 

[draye]

My lettuce isn't doing too well, I'll have to try again in the fall.
Although most people here have better luck with squash in the spring/summer garden, I don't mine grows best in the fall. Last year I planted in late August and had squash through about mid-January or so, until we had a hard freeze.

What else is goo for fall planting?

 

[myjunoli]

This year I have 3 6x6 raised beds with 14 Roma tomatoes in 1 box, 1 heirloom Beefsteak, 1 heirloom Bradley, 2 Mortgage Lifters, 2 Black Sea Man's, 2 Yellow Pears, 2 Indigo Roses, and 1 Super Sweet 100 in box #2. In the third box I have 7 cucumber bush plants, 2 zucchinis, 3 jack be little's, 3 mammoth peas, 2 green peppers, 2 red ruby's, 1 yellow pepper and 1 jalapeno. There's also some herbs and companion planting going on in the 3 boxes and some small planters. There's rosemary, lovage, bee balm, basil, thyme, marjoram, sage, lavender, curry, and patchouli.

I also love the pickyourown.com website. There is a ton of great recipes and tips & tricks to canning.

 

[chickencoop789]

This year I am growing tomatoes, red and yellow bell peppers, and green beans. I have them along my fence in my front yard and they all seem to be doing well there.

 

[HHandbasket]

Probably a shorter list to say what I *haven't* grown this year. I do year-round gardening, fall & winter. In the winter garden this year, I grew "successfully" arugula, spinach, rainbow chard, purple Vienna kohlrabi, scotch curled kale, snow peas, and not-so-successfully cauliflower and brussel sprouts (in my defense, it is our first year growing in this zone & I planted them too late for where I am at now). The plants, however, became ginormous and made wonderful chicken treats. We also had some chantennay carrots earlier this year, as well.

In the current summer garden I started/planted this spring, I have: A "volunteer" tomato and a "volunteer" spaghetti squash (we thought it was a pumpkin, turned out to be spaghetti squash). On purpose, we have planted chick peas/garbanzo beans (same thing, though technically is neither a pea nor a bean), Thai hot chiles, pasilla peppers, jalapenos, honeydew melon, Rutgers tomatoes, lemonboy tomatoes, sugarbaby watermelon, heirloom large red cherry tomatoes, heirloom black cherry tomatoes, sweet 100 cherry tomatoes, black zebra striped tomatoes, early girl tomatoes, cherokee purple tomatoes, sweet cayenne peppers (looks like a hot cayenne but is sweeter and more flavorful but lighter than your typical sweet bell pepper), sweet Yolo wonder bell, sweet purple bell pepper, Ichiban eggplant, green globe artichoke, sugarpie baby pumpkins, radishes (done for the season along with the spinach), golden yellow flesh watermelon, papaya pear squash, zucchini, jarrahdale pumpkin, honeyrock cantaloup, lemon cucumber, and pickling cucumbers.

Have already started working seedlings for fall planting.


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