How many (here) plant a garden?

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For the first time in roughly 30 years I am planting a garden. I don't have ideal conditions, since my property is heavily wooded, but I'm in the process of getting it going anyway. We had a garden when I was a kid and I did have gardens as a young adult, but time and work constraints put a stop to that.

I'm actually pretty excited about the garden - hopefully I'll lose a bit of weight and harvest some good vegetables.

Par for the course, I am jumping in with both feet...

I'm planting the following items:

String beans (a couple varieties)

Sugar Snap Peas

Carrots

Tomatoes

Sweet Corn

Summer Squash

Cucumbers

Kale

Mustard Greens

Radishes

Egg plant

and a couple of others that don't come to mind right now.

If you grow a garden, what are you planting and how is the garden coming along?

Hopefully I'll be posting some pictures of my haul in a few months.
 
I too am starting a garden this year. I just finished making my planter boxes.
I'm in Missouri and have a pretty large variety of things I can grow.
Strawberries
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
Zucchini
Tomatoes
Blackberries
Blueberries
Carrots
I'm interested peanuts but have never grown them
 
I plant a very big one every year. so far this year I have 300 cloves of garlic that are all off and racing. 12 broccoli in the ground off and running, 18 early girl cabbage off and running (I can't wait as my homemade sauerkraut is gone :( ). I got a ton of peppers started 4 habanero, 4 super chili's, 6 cajun bell peppers, 4 giant bells, 30-40 carrots in the ground, 4 mortgage lifter heirloom tomatoes, and 4 early girls. next week I'm going to drop in 5 rows of string less bush beans, and hopefully the rest of my starts will be ready for transplant also.

minus the asparagus picture these others are about 4 weeks old when i mixed in the compost and everything else. all the garlic under the orange covers are now 8 inches tall or so.

first batch of asparagus is already in the fridge getting ready to be eaten :)









 
Looks good, Grunt, we're somewhat less successful then that, be we are eager and have a lot of fun doing it

We have been learning for the last couple of years, now in our own pace we have two little plots going and are trying some new things out as well (have to say though our most successful crop last year was pumpkins taht started to grow besides teh hosue becuse of some stray seeds that got on the ground when throwing things away, grew about10 monsters from that :)

this year we are trying:

Potatoes
Tomatoes
The three sisters
-corn
-beans
-squash)
Onions

As we get better we are hoping to plant a lot more of all of the above and other veggies besides, for now our corn is coming through despite looking like it's been beaten by a monster every night , potatoes are poking out and look sturdy and the a squash and beans have either died in the ground or are hoping to make a fashionable later appearance. personally I'm willing the onions to start showing more promise, I love onions!

 
Lol dang how could I forget my potatoes. I got a few rows of red and Yukon golds. Also trying some German butterballs.

And KY my garden didnt get there over night. It took a good amount of trial and error. The biggest thing you can do is keep amending the soil. Add tons of organic matter. Lots of peat moss and compost. Another big thing is to much under all your plants. It helps the soil hold water and keeps the weeds off them. It also gives the worms organinic matter to eat so kinda like constant fertizer :)
 
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thanks grunt! we do add stuff to the soil, we'll definitely try it all, take all the advice we can get :)

also we had cucumbers, my wife reminded me, they died so quick I forgot about them :(
 
I've had a few tomato plants out for a couple years, added a few peppers to the mix last year, and they all did terrible, I know my soil didn't help, lots of clay and limestone rock. This year I added leaves last fall and cow manure this spring. Hopefully this year will be better.

I just put out strawberries and a few blackberry bushes. Got these from dad, he has a big garden every year, you name it and he probably grows it or tried to in the past. About the only thing I can think of that he gave up on was blueberries. Soon I'll put out the tomatoes again. Looking forward to a better harvest than last years!
 
M.FREEZE said:
I too am starting a garden this year. I just finished making my planter boxes.
I'm in Missouri and have a pretty large variety of things I can grow.
Strawberries
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
Zucchini
Tomatoes
Blackberries
Blueberries
Carrots
I'm interested peanuts but have never grown them
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I'm not sure if I've ever actually seen a peanut plant. I probably have and just didn't know what I was looking at.

I was a little surprised that sweet corn wasn't in your list. Growing up in NE I know for certain that MO can grow corn.
 
That garden looks sweet, Grunt.

Reminds me of the gardens I had back in NE.

I planted Sugar Snap peas, carrots, okra and spinach today. I saved some seed (minus the okra) for a later planting of the same. Over the next couple of weeks I'll be working on getting the rest of the items planted.
 
Blueberries are a pain in the butt to grow. After three years of adding stuff to the soil trying to get the ph right I gave up on them. The only way I ever got them to work was in a 5 gallon bucket.

Tahts I do the same thing with staggering my plant times. It extends your harvest out over the summer and allows you to not have to rush when harvesting. My first year I just went out and planted everything. I could not keep up with it all. Almost felt overwhelming till I remembered hey this is just a hobby lol
 
We have 3 gardens on my property. I don't even have anything tilled yet. The weather has not cooperated thus far. I plant, the staples, corn, beans, peas, potatoes, squash, onions and carrots. We plant heirloom and harvest seeds for the next year. Working the garden in one of my favorite things.
 
I used to plant an elaborate garden - but lost the motivation (much like Tahts) as we got busier with the family and work.

At one time, I would put out 20+ tomato plants (early girls, beefsteaks and some low acid), sweet peppers (since they are over a buck apiece in the stores now, I do these in pots now) cucumbers, hot peppers, pumpkins (fun to grow!) and sweet corn.

One thing that helped me with the corn was planting the corn in small circles instead of rows - this allowed better germination with a smaller planting like one would find in a backyard garden.

My pumpkins I would plant through black landscape fabric (to keep the weeds down) and string the vines out along the row as they grew. I did find that I had to manually germinate the pumpkin blossoms, as they would flop closed and keep the bees from doing their thing - but it was very cool to carve up your own pumpkin on halloween.

Now I just grow a few tomatoes and peppers in pots in the back yard.

best

mqqn
 
I built a 4 x 8 raised bed a couple years ago, had moderate success with tomatoes, beans, chives, basil, and cukes. Last year, I added another 4 x 8 bed. I added some green, Jalepeno, and banana peppers. Also grew some leaf lettuce, and had one zucchini and summer squash plant. Had good success with the tomatoes and other stuff until a groundhog decided that my garden was an all-you-can-eat buffet. I eventually discouraged him from helping himself, but things started to go downhill from there. The tomatoes got some kind of blight and went south. Overall, a satisfying growing season for us.

Here's a few pics of my tiny garden...









 
We grow a large garden every year with tomatoes, sweet corn, eggplant, multiple peppers, okra, summer squash, cucumbers, bitter melon, long beans, etc.. Later I'll add cushaw's and seminole squash and a few pumpkins for the grandkids.

We have recently moved into a new house and are busy planting stuff. Planted a couple of satsuma's two ruby red grapefruit, lemon, lime, pomegranate, avocado, two bananas, two paw paw's so far. Dug up and moved my blueberries, but they didn't take the move well, two died and two are not sure if they are going to live or give up.

A tip for improving your soil is in the fall when the garden is done, plant winter rye grass super thick over the entire thing. In the spring till this back into the soil a couple of times starting a few weeks before planting time. It is a great green manure, as it rots back into the soil it enrich's the soil with lots of nutrients and good organic matter.

The problem with adding fresh manure is that it is so full of weed seeds, you will have every grass and weed imaginable coming up in your garden. One way to add manure without weed seeds is to buy it in bags(too expensive) as it has been pasteurized to kill the seeds, Another more economical way is to get an old 55gal. drum with the lid, fill it approx 3/4 full of manure place the lid on it, lay it on it's side in the sun for a few days to a week, rolling over daily. This will kill the weed seeds. This method is like the commercials you see of the small drums to "turn your yard clippings into black gold"

**If you try this remember ALWAYS remove the small opening on the drum to allow internal pressure to escape. Tremendous pressure builds inside the drum from the heat of the sun combined with the decaying manure which produces *EXPLOSIVE* METHANE GAS !!

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I got bored today and decided to expand my garden some more. I needed to get further away from the walnut trees as they tend to kill your tomatoes quickly!

Only took me about 45 minutes :)


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After- I'll have some grass in it this year but I'll just keep tilling it under.

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Nice tiller!

best

mqqn
 
No worries, I'm sad to admit I can't remember who but someone (he collects sodbusters, his name will come to me as soon as I leave the computer, dang) anyway, he asked for the JKTK to be modified with the sodbuster handle, great idea if you ask me and I think it could well deserve it's own name, he and JK rocked out an awesome knife

i did a passaround with ti a while ago and would be happy to send it out to you if you'd like to try it


here they are next to each other and before i started playign with the handle finish
 
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