Your 2026 Garden

[Three Stents]

My chickens just found my small pile of mushroom compost and do they ever like it! Looks like I need to put a pile of it closer to the coop

 

[CCsGarden]

My peppermint, mountain mint, lemon balm and hyssop sprouted!

 

[akroberts1085]

@pollipazzi, I love your garden set up. I'm trying to just get the crabgrass out of mine and then get it fenced to keep my chickens out and my ducks in.

 

[pollipazzi]

@pollipazzi, I love your garden set up. I'm trying to just get the crabgrass out of mine and then get it fenced to keep my chickens out and my ducks in.

thank you! my chickens don't really bother the plants when they are established enough, but i net them off until then.
and don't feel bad! our lawn is 95% weeds and clover

 

[DemeterAD9]

It's snowing here in MI, again. Just received my second Baker Creek order and am debating on if I want to get a few things from Gurney's. I don't have any normal red slicing tomatoes and would like a resilient, disease hardy hybrid, preferably a determinate type. I also sort of want bush cherries and/or high bush blueberries. But where to put them? I have ideas of decent spots but our yard is full of big mature oaks and maples and someone complains about having more things to mow around.

I've sort of planned out the garden rows on paper but that is likely to change. I keep finding new things I want to try and I've only got so much room. So far I'm looking at 7 tomato varieties, 3 bush beans, 2 types of carrots and beets, mixed radishes, 4 kinds of cucumbers, 5 kinds of winter squash and 4 summer, plus 2 types of peppers. Add to that an unknown number of leafy greens (kale, lettuce, swiss chard), dill, and a few flower types... it makes me want some raised beds or better yet a greenhouse. I'm calling it my sample garden to help me figure out what I like and what grows well for me. Whatever passes the test and is approved by the family will get to grow again next year. My current plan is to start some seeds towards the end of March. Hoping to avoid those leggy 15in+ tomato plants by doing them later.

Grow bags will have leafy greens, flowers, and perhaps some of the smaller veggies. I really need to think about doing my own compost area as filling all those bags with decent soil is pricey. Honestly at the end of the day it might actually be cheaper to buy produce. But let's pretend otherwise!

 

[StarOnFire59]

It's snowing here in MI, again. Just received my second Baker Creek order and am debating on if I want to get a few things from Gurney's. I don't have any normal red slicing tomatoes and would like a resilient, disease hardy hybrid, preferably a determinate type. I also sort of want bush cherries and/or high bush blueberries. But where to put them? I have ideas of decent spots but our yard is full of big mature oaks and maples and someone complains about having more things to mow around.

I've sort of planned out the garden rows on paper but that is likely to change. I keep finding new things I want to try and I've only got so much room. So far I'm looking at 7 tomato varieties, 3 bush beans, 2 types of carrots and beets, mixed radishes, 4 kinds of cucumbers, 5 kinds of winter squash and 4 summer, plus 2 types of peppers. Add to that an unknown number of leafy greens (kale, lettuce, swiss chard), dill, and a few flower types... it makes me want some raised beds or better yet a greenhouse. I'm calling it my sample garden to help me figure out what I like and what grows well for me. Whatever passes the test and is approved by the family will get to grow again next year. My current plan is to start some seeds towards the end of March. Hoping to avoid those leggy 15in+ tomato plants by doing them later.

Grow bags will have leafy greens, flowers, and perhaps some of the smaller veggies. I really need to think about doing my own compost area as filling all those bags with decent soil is pricey. Honestly at the end of the day it might actually be cheaper to buy produce. But let's pretend otherwise!

I have 6 grow bags: 3 for Red potatoes & 3 for sweet potatoes.

 

[akroberts1085]

I got 6 grow bags for Christmas. I'm going to use them for herbs

 

[pollipazzi]

just for the record, i now have 40M of hwc!
happy christmas to me!

 

[pollipazzi]

I got 6 grow bags for Christmas. I'm going to use them for herbs

what kind of herbs will you grow?

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

MIGardener had a livestream and was trying to tempt everyone to grow Kazakh melons. I must resist for now. They’ve been on my ‘hey those look fun I should try them’ list for a bit, but I have too much building maintenance this year for anything big and viney unless I wanted to try them indoors under a grow light.

I still emailed them to ask if the Kazakh would cross pollinate with the melons I already had planned for next year.