How many (here) plant a garden?

[JK Knives]

Looks great!

You folks may just motivate me to get out my tiller and start gardening again.......

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mqqn

Me too, but I`ll just use my Bohemian Backhoe (that`s me with a spade.)

 

[grunt soldier]

Lol John I tried that the first year and it was insane amount of work. And my back did not like it. The third day I went to one of those equipment rental places and got a tiller for the day! Instead of breaking ground it would be much easier to build some raised beds and but good soil in them.

I love gardening but it is a lot of work. But when I can feed my family organic food with no pesticides or chemicals it makes it worth it. Plus the food is so much better tasting.

 

[KYenglish]

I used the spade this year, even for my my little plots I think I'll just build some raised beds next year,

 

[cchu518]

Great advice grunt! Year one we tilled an area totally backbreaking year two same. This year I bought some pressure treated timber at home depot and built some garden boxes for about 15 bucks each. Ordered some garden grade dirt mixed in with peat moss and voila!

 

[Amarion]

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 am also doing gardening and i want to see egg plant pictures can you share egg plant picture with me.I want to plant it in my garden.I somewhere heard that it's beautiful.Is that?

 

[grunt soldier]

Here is a little update. Pretty much everything is finishing up except beans peppers and squash. I learned something too. Apparently my squash isn't butternut but is buttercup which explains why they look nothing like I thought they were going to lol. I got probably 10 1-3 pound ones so I'm happy with that. Next year I will be growing them in heavy duty tall tomato cages. I saw it and it saves a lot of space.

And my first apples ever!! I'm stoked. I ate one of these and it's the best apple ever! They are honey crisp! Amazing.

 

[glennbad]

GS, did you have to do anything special to grow the apples? Everything looks great!

 

[grunt soldier]

Nope nothing special other than make sure your trees have a pollinator. Read the tag and it will tell you this tree pollinates these trees. Plant them with in 30 feet of each other and let the bees do their work. Very easy.

 

[glennbad]

Cool. I love fresh apples. While I don't mind buying/picking them from local orchards, guess I'd prefer my own orchard...

 

[grunt soldier]

Canning pasta sauce and hanging habanero's to dry! Good times. At least it's a nice day outside. Pretty cool in the shade! Habanero's have gone crazy lately. It's my best producer this year!