Your 2026 Garden

[Debbie292d]

I saw @Nomadicus hasn't been on to start the new year of gardening thread, so here goes 2026!

Plus, I was excited as I just planted 4 tomato plants indoors under the new grow light 15 minutes ago. There are 3 Rutgers and 1 Tiny Tim.

This year is an experiment to try to grow these in the house, to harvest.

Otherwise, I've bought some kale (for the chickens), corn, pumpkin, squash, sunflower, and flower seeds. We're old so slowing down on what we plant as less to take care of. In a couple of months, I'll start the flowers indoors.

Has anyone else ever grown tomatoes completely indoors?

Have you ordered or bought your seeds yet for this summer?

 

[Sally PB]

Since I'm getting garden porn seed catalogs in the mail, I've thought I might try a few new things. I'll be starting peppers in a few weeks indoors. I only have room for 8 pots. I will plant the rest about the first of April in the green house.

 

[Debbie292d]

Since I'm getting garden porn seed catalogs

 

[jxp]

Have you ordered or bought your seeds yet for this summer?

Saved some from the biggest, the tastiest, the least bothered, the most productive, etc. etc. etc. Does that count?

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Most of my plants this year will have to be small and/or sturdy enough to move or quick growing as I’m having maintenance done in my main garden area. I had to unwind pole beans and cart them inside once, I do not recommend it!

To that end I put some Iroquois Cornbread beans in pots a few days ago in the hopes they’ll produce enough seeds to fill an outdoor planter in a few months. I’ve got more Red Beard Bunching Onion seeds (planted last year, did well once they were outside and out of last year’s terrible seedling soil ) and this year I’m going to give bulbing onions another go (Red Wethersfield). I’m also planning for three varieties of hot peppers (ghost, fish, and my usual cayenne), and snow peas as usual. I got four different varieties of tomato seeds to try, but I’m only going to be planting at most two - definitely the Silvery Fir (supposedly very short, so should fit nicely in a couple big pots) and maybe San Marzano. The Inciardi and the Giant Crimson are (alas!) going to have to wait unless I can figure out a safe place to put them as I gather they’re both big and viney. Strawberries and a couple other things will depend on whether the plants survived the winter. Any remaining space will go to leafy greens and whatever else I can cram in.

I’m also going to start a coffee plant if I can manage it, but that will be indoors.

 

[Debbie292d]

Saved some from the biggest, the tastiest, the least bothered, the most productive, etc. etc. etc. Does that count?

I'm no expert here but in my book, what you're doing is way better than us who order seeds! I did that once with 4 O'clock seeds as they are annuals up here in Wisconsin. It worked!

 

[Debbie292d]

I had to unwind pole beans and cart them inside once

We've raised pole beans and just pick the beans off the vines. Why would you have to drag them into the house? Maybe yours are different than ours? We have 8' tower sections that they climb on, and we wait until fall when they're dead and easy to pull off to clean them up for the next year.

Pray tell, will that coffee plant really produce coffee beans? That'd be so cool!

 

[fuzzi]

I saw @Nomadicus hasn't been on to start the new year of gardening thread, so here goes 2026!

Plus, I was excited as I just planted 4 tomato plants indoors under the new grow light 15 minutes ago. There are 3 Rutgers and 1 Tiny Tim.

This year is an experiment to try to grow these in the house, to harvest.

Otherwise, I've bought some kale (for the chickens), corn, pumpkin, squash, sunflower, and flower seeds. We're old so slowing down on what we plant as less to take care of. In a couple of months, I'll start the flowers indoors.

Has anyone else ever grown tomatoes completely indoors?

Have you ordered or bought your seeds yet for this summer?

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Thank you for starting a gardening thread for the new year!

I bought seeds in the fall, when they went on sale.

 

[Debbie292d]

I bought seeds in the fall, when they went on sale.

Smart thinking!

Usually, we order from the seed catalogues, but this year I went to Etsy for the first time.

 

[fuzzi]

Not my main source for seeds, but it sure is pretty!