Your 2026 Garden

[pollipazzi]

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.

i googled those. they sound lovely!

 

[akroberts1085]

what kind of herbs will you grow?

Probably cilantro, oregano, Basil, holy basil, dill, and really just whatever other herbs I have. I also have the big 72 pocket herb planter and I will use that as well.

 

[akroberts1085]

I'm cleaning and rearranging my dining room to get the little greenhouse put in there so that I can get my veggies started. I will probably start some herbs as well.

 

[jxp]

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

I get a new grow bag every 10 days when the doggies empty another 50 lb bag - if I don't need it for yard cleanup of recycled feed.

 

[Rillowen]

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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I have all my seeds! I have been carefully holding myself back from planting anything yet. That's going to change next week though, I'm starting the indoor sprouts! I'm very excited.

 

[Debbie292d]

it turns out i didn't get the big beds delivered yesterday, but the two smaller ones and one in between.

they aren't as dark in colour as they looked in the picture, but it'll do for now. there was also this protective film on them that took me longer to take off than to put the things together.

these ones do not have supports. do i need them with them being small?

they are waiting now for the husband to be off work so he can straighten them out.
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the chicken was not very helpful.

Those look like the one we have for annual herbs!

 

[Debbie292d]

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.

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

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

Could one of you explain how to use those? I have a half dozen or so we got free somehow that are in the garden shed in a box as I looked at them and shrugged.