Post by undecidedowl on May 24, 2015 7:47:45 GMT -5
We have planted peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, zucchini, spinach, lettuce, carrots, snap peas and various herbs. We like to try something new every year as we learn.
We have a 5x20 plot. We've planted corn, string beans, squash, tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, carrots, and lettuce. We also have herbs in pots on the patio.
We only have a balcony so are limited in what we can grow but we have: - strawberries - bell pepper - jalapeño - thyme - mint - lemon and lime tree - tomato
We will probably add basil again this year.
It's all in pots.
Can you tell I want a SFH to make a bigger garden?
We have a small bed at the edge of the patio enclosed by brick (it's level with the patio--not raised). Right now we are (attempting) to grow strawberries, raspberries, brussel sprouts, tomatoes, and a bunch of herbs (rosemary, basil, mint, parsley, thyme, oregano, lavender, sage). Some things are in pots.
Post by sillygoosegirl on May 24, 2015 9:11:22 GMT -5
This year I've planted tomatos, basil, potatoes, and some seeds I found from last year (I forget what, have to see what I get in that part of the garden, lol). I don't seem to have a lot of patience for annuals at the moment. I've also started to keep bees, so I'm hoping for better pollination this year than last.
My raspberries (planted last year) are going gangbusters. I think only about 1/3 of the asparagus planted last year survived, but maybe the rest is taking it's time to come up. The one strawberry plant from last year that survived sent out a ton of runners and is doing really well, as are the additional strawberries I planted this year. All 4 of last years blueberries survived, but the only one that is healthy is the one on the property line that gets watered when my neighbor waters his grass. Need to water the others more. The cherry tree I planted last year looks like it will produce a few cherries. My neighbor's grape looks like it will produce a ton of grapes on my side of the fence this year (he planted it on the north side of a wood fence, so it keeps sending tendrils through to my side looking for sunlight, so I've been shaping that side of it).
We have a small garden with 4 squares. DD started seeds indoors and we're transferring tomorrow. DD bought every seed packet in Home Depot, so we had to hold her back. We're doing kale, beans, peas, summer squash, watermelon, and tomatoes. We started herbs for a container, and we're trying carrots that way as well
We have a couple raised beds. I planted tomatoes (6 plants and a variety of kinds), 3 zucchini which take up a ton of space, basil and some sunflowers. The sunflower were seeds my kids planted. We also have raspberries.
I love having a garden, but am not good about keeping up with it. That is why I only plant a few things and supplement from the farmers market.
I just had 3 (4'x8') raised bed planters installed in my front yard. It's SF gardening so there are 96 spots. I have a lot of greens/herbs because I don't have full sun on a lot of it. But there is a bit of everything. The micro greens, lettuces, kale, beets, radishes, snap peas, onions are up & several of the transplants are in (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, leeks, celery, etc). I'm thinking of doing some berries in pots still.
Post by gibbinator on May 24, 2015 10:10:16 GMT -5
I'm just doing a deck garden thus year. Grape tomatoes, zucchini, chard and dwarf peas and beans. Other than the tomatoes they're all pretty sturdy, easy to grow plants. Ds1 helped me plant all the seeds and he helps me water them. We check them every day to see how much they've grown. It's fun!
Post by countthestars on May 24, 2015 10:18:20 GMT -5
We just put in a raised bed 4'x8' with tomatoes, squash, cucumber, beets, lettuce, chives, basil, oregano. Also have strawberries and thyme in a separate little plot. We have no idea what we are doing.
Post by spunkarella on May 24, 2015 10:39:08 GMT -5
We have tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, strawberries, and blueberries. The strawberries look sad but I'm hoping next year will be better for them. We have picked one squash so far, and everything else seems to be coming along. Last year, the birds ate every single one of my blueberries. We added netting this year and I'm hoping it works.
Awesome stuff! You guys are making me want to plant even more. I wonder if it's too late?
My boyfriend has a plot in his backyard that we've both been wanting to plant, but got super busy.
We plan to plant some stuff at the beginning of June. We're both beginners at this, so I'm not sure how well it'll turn out, but we plan to go for it! I briefly read a gardening 101 book and it made it seem like plenty of things could be planted in June. Also, I was recently at Lowe's and there was a bunch of veggies and herbs for sale for gardens. So I don't think it's too late at all!
Follow up question...but does anyone not do raised beds? Like I just mentioned my boyfriend has a plot in his backyard that we intend to plant some things. He could build raised beds, but is that really necessary? I'm a complete beginner at gardening!
Follow up question...but does anyone not do raised beds? Like I just mentioned my boyfriend has a plot in his backyard that we intend to plant some things. He could build raised beds, but is that really necessary? I'm a complete beginner at gardening!
We have raised beds but don't have room for in ground planting. I think simpsongal and @supergreen do inground planting. I like raised beds because our dirt sucks (very rocky clay) so it is easier to create all of my own soil vs toiling away to make my ground soil workable. But my dad has an in ground HUGE garden and it does great.
Follow up question...but does anyone not do raised beds? Like I just mentioned my boyfriend has a plot in his backyard that we intend to plant some things. He could build raised beds, but is that really necessary? I'm a complete beginner at gardening!
It's totally fine to do in ground gardening if you have good soil. I grew up in IL & anything would grow practically with just some compost/fertilizer. Here I live urban & worry about contamination plus the soil has a lot of clay & would need a lot of amendments to make it really good. It's just easier to raised bed.
Follow up question...but does anyone not do raised beds? Like I just mentioned my boyfriend has a plot in his backyard that we intend to plant some things. He could build raised beds, but is that really necessary? I'm a complete beginner at gardening!
We did raised beds to help with weed control and to keep out rabbits and other animals. It's certainly not necessary.
Our soil is also really sandy so it's a way to put in a small spot of better soil to help the plants grow.
Follow up question...but does anyone not do raised beds? Like I just mentioned my boyfriend has a plot in his backyard that we intend to plant some things. He could build raised beds, but is that really necessary? I'm a complete beginner at gardening!
We have raised beds but don't have room for in ground planting. I think simpsongal and @supergreen do inground planting. I like raised beds because our dirt sucks (very rocky clay) so it is easier to create all of my own soil vs toiling away to make my ground soil workable. But my dad has an in ground HUGE garden and it does great.
We did ingroung gardening at our last house (an 1800s farmhouse with lots of land). It was difficult. We had to till to get the soil softened, add a LOT of compost and soil amendments to get the soil in good shape. Weeding was also very difficult and time consuming. Really backbreaking work.
We switched back to raised beds at our current house, they're a lot easier. Easier to add soil, amend the soil, easier to plant, easier to weed. The raised bed also keeps the soil warmer, so you can start plants earlier and produce leaves/fruit longer. If you're a beginner at gardening, I would do raised beds.
Follow up question...but does anyone not do raised beds? Like I just mentioned my boyfriend has a plot in his backyard that we intend to plant some things. He could build raised beds, but is that really necessary? I'm a complete beginner at gardening!
My dad does in ground gardening in Maryland. It's all I've known. He's never had any problems once he's gotten the area ready for planting. In our old house he would be giving stuff away constantly because the garden produced so much.
He did a mixture of manure, fertilizer and weirdly shredded paper from work plus our compost pile.
He covered over the garden a couple years ago and it was a sad day for all of us.
To answer the original question, here's what we've done so far this year. This is our forever home, so we're doing lots of long-term projects (like fruit trees) right now so they can get established and fruit in a few years.
Front yard: 2 apple trees, 2 pear trees, 2 paw paw bushes, 6 blueberries, 2 blackberries, 2 currants. Oregano, thyme, rosemary, and chives.
Back deck: 3 tomatoes (only place on the property with enough sun), fig tree, flower pots to attract pollinators. 4 shiitake mushroom logs, no mushrooms growing on them yet though.
Main garden: asparagus, beets, radishes, broccoli, arugula, cucumber, Choy sum, bok choy, lettuce.
We also have 5 laying hens. We'll have meat rabbits in the fall, DH is almost done building their enclosure.
I'm a huge gardener. I usually start everything from seed in a portable hot house I have. This year being pregnant I didn't. We planted fruit trees (nectarine and cherry) and bushes (blueberries) this year since we cut down a couple dead trees last summer.
I also have planted all these, some I bought as plants and some I just planted seeds in the ground:
Summer squash, zucchini, butternut squash, sweet peppers (two varieties), tomatoes (two varieties), eggplant (two varieties), corn, celery, leeks, ground cherries, tomatillos, beans (bush and pole), sunflowers, zinneas, and many herbs.
@wandering I grow things great without raised beds. I do have one large raised bed (about 4x12) but the rest is just in soil. My trick to grow well is a ton of compost, yearly tilling, and fishy fertilizer.
These are all super impressive! DD1 and I only planted tomatoes (several different varieties) and basil. Our cucumbers and peppers did poorly last year so I wanted to focus our limited space on tomatoes. Several of the tomatoes look pretty strong so far, though I don't have the best track record - DH and I joke that I have a black thumb instead of a green one. (I've already somehow managed to basically kill off a couple of knockout rose bushes in the past few weeks.) Hopefully with several types of tomatoes, at least one or two will give us something.
Yep karinothing is right we go in ground gardening. Amending the soil was quite a bit of work but after 3 years it's going very well.
We've got about 20 tomatoes - mostly different heirloom varieties, at least a dozen peppers (different types), zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, strawberries, peaches, blackberries, blueberries, lots of herbs, heirloom squash. I do some flowers in the garden too - I have a new Dawn rose, Don Juan climbing rose, clematis, cosmos, and tons of zinnias & sunflowers.
We built a raised bed last year. We have blueberries, raspberries, strawberries. Last year we also had cherry tomatoes, green beans, and green peppers, this year we have cucumbers and pumpkins. We also have herbs in a planter box. All of the berries are because they're DS' favorite.
I'm following. I'm going to plant one in the fall. I'll spent the summer building it. I can't plant in the summer here because everything will literally die. My peppers and zucchini that I'm testing are barely staying alive. I have to keep moving them into the shade because it's too hot:(
To answer the original question, here's what we've done so far this year. This is our forever home, so we're doing lots of long-term projects (like fruit trees) right now so they can get established and fruit in a few years.
Front yard: 2 apple trees, 2 pear trees, 2 paw paw bushes, 6 blueberries, 2 blackberries, 2 currants. Oregano, thyme, rosemary, and chives.
Back deck: 3 tomatoes (only place on the property with enough sun), fig tree, flower pots to attract pollinators. 4 shiitake mushroom logs, no mushrooms growing on them yet though.
Main garden: asparagus, beets, radishes, broccoli, arugula, cucumber, Choy sum, bok choy, lettuce.
We also have 5 laying hens. We'll have meat rabbits in the fall, DH is almost done building their enclosure.
Do you have a pic of your front yard? I'd love to plant some edible stuff in the front, but I'm not sure how it'll look with the rest of our neighborhood.