Who grows their own food?

sure do! i'll plant some of my favorites this year...broccoli, hot and sweet peppers, tomatoes, garlic and maybe a few others. the coming week ill be getting everything set up. my designated garden knife is the izula.
 
shotgunner11 said:
I used to grow the majority of the Mrs. and my veggie stock when we lived back east.

Since relocating to TX, I can't grow shit. Guess they call it the garden state for a reason.

Might skip my garden this year because were trying to buy a few acres further from the city and the future is up in the air.
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Any reason stuff doesn't grow there? Is it too hot, too arid? Are you trying to grow non-regional things?

matt1987 said:
sure do! i'll plant some of my favorites this year...broccoli, hot and sweet peppers, tomatoes, garlic and maybe a few others. the coming week ill be getting everything set up. my designated garden knife is the izula.
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Is your garlic in the ground from last fall or just a spring planting?
 
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We've got friends in Falfurias TX that grows a great garden every year.
 
Critizen said:
We do tomatoes, peppers, herbs, cole crop, and a few flowers. We have plants in stores all across the country.



I'm sure something could be worked out. ;)
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Cool. I don't plant until May on Tomatoes. I'd be looking for about 30 Beefsteak about 16" tall so they would be in the larger pots. I can pick them up, send you knives, etc.
 
R.A.T. said:
Cool. I don't plant until May on Tomatoes. I'd be looking for about 30 Beefsteak about 16" tall so they would be in the larger pots. I can pick them up, send you knives, etc.
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That's a nice system of bartering, something that seems to be much more prevalent here on BladeForums than I see anywhere else on a daily basis. Outside of my father (an old New England Yankee) and his crew of fellow old putzers (I mean that in the nicest way) bartering seems to be seldom seen, which is sad because it's a great skill to have and a great goods transaction method.

/rant off
 
We actually started some pepper and tomato seeds inside last week! I know it's early, but I've got a ton of small pots laying around, so we'll just be moving them in and out of the house until at least mid-April. I found it really interesting that seeds from some of my grandfather's tomatoes (he has a farm up in Ohio- we got tomatoes from him last summer, and dried some seeds) have already sprouted and are about 2in tall. The store-bought seeds have barely started poking up...
 
We're going to set up some raised beds in the garden this year, probably one 4 x 12 and a couple 4 x 4 beds. Tomatoes, peppers, and herbs to start. I also have horseradish, blackberries, rasberries, and blueberries. The trick is picking the last three before the birds get them.
 
Delkancott said:
Any reason stuff doesn't grow there? Is it too hot, too arid? Are you trying to grow non-regional things?
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Oh, it's more than possible. My neighbor has a pretty decent setup going right now.

I just have 30 years of experience with different plants in a different climate. I've only had 2 seasons here to straighten out the learning curve.:o
 
I have large gardens every year, we depend on it. I grow Tomatoes several varieties, Egg Plant, Squash, Cucumber's, Zucinni, Okra, Bell Pepper's, sweet and hot pepper's, Sweet Corn, Potato's, Snap Beans, Mississippi Purple Hull Peas, Texas Big Boy peas, Butter Beans, Christmas Lima Beans, Mustard Green's, Brocolli, Cabbage, parsley,. We can or freeze our crop's and eat on them all year. I also hunt Deer and wild Hog and rely on it heavily. I do all this mostly Organic and only use pestisides when I have no other choices. I use no chemical fertilzer. I honestly believe Cancer is so rampant these days due to heavy chemical and pestiside use. Once you eat garden food all the time, store bought does not taste very good. People can grow gardens even in urban setting's and as food prices keep rising, more and more are doing so. I live in a rural area and do all I can to be self sufficient.:thumbup:
 
I wish I knew how to grow things. But I am one generation removed from the farm. I have over 3 acres. My neighbor grows some great vegetables.
 
I'm going to do a 4'x4' this year. Finally have just enough trees cleared out to get a little light!
 
We grow quite a bit of our own. Lots of potatoes, tomatoes, onions, garlic, pepers, corn, carrots etc. Things that will last in the basement for the winter or can be frozen (tomatoes for sauce, corn) for later. We also hunt and fish a lot and I can honestly say we have had many meals where everything we ate was grown and hunted by us. It feels satisfying to me to sit down and know I shot those geese and we grew the veggies.

We also bake our own sour dough bread and I promise you there is nothing as good as fesh bread and home made goat cheese our friend makes with a bit of smoked sausage or fish.
 
Used to grow hot peppers. The wife has claimed the condo's wee garden areas as hers now. Have to deal with evil squirrels wanting to steal her cacti and I think the airsoft will land me in trouble here.

I think I'll buy her an Izula for the garden though. :thumbup:
 
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I am planning on a full garden this year, after all I grew my own help...I have 5 daughters!:D
 
I do. Grew up with a family farm of 800 acres and ranched on another 600. I live on .25 acres now and have a small area in the yard set aside just for me. Going to do alot of veggies and also some fruit. Got it all cleared out and rocks picked out. Gotta do a bit more but my 25 month old son has been helping me a TON. Really fun to do with him. I dont depend on the government and like to be able to provide for myself to an extent if need be.
 
We do lots of plum and cherry tomatoes, some banana peppers, jalapeno, herbs and eventually, when the plants gets big enough, blueberries and black berries. we did a larger scale garden with corn etc a few years ago but it took too much time.
 
I have a big raised bed with lots of lettuce (spring mix usually) as well as greens, broccoli, cabbage, and that type of thing. On the side I have some horseradish, garlic, and onions. I grow tomatoes hydroponically because where I live (CO, north face, woods, 7500 feet) they won't pull a crop otherwise. This year I'm going to expand with some hydroponic peppers too. I just bought my place and have an apple and plum tree we just planted. I also have some wild raspberries and alpine strawberries.

My old place was warmer and I had over 50 varieties of tropical fruits, coffee plants and palms. I had over 20 wild coconut palms I had transplanted and loads of mangoes and other cuttings. We even grew vanilla orchid and other wild orchids mixed with air plants up to 50#.
 
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Our family grows quite a good portion of our own vegetables. But seing as the growing season is so short here, we need to buy food during the winter. We usually have a couple of pigs in a pen in the woods and many varieties of vegetables ranging from: corn, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, green beans, peas, broccoli, potatoes, squash and others I'm forgetting.

The stuff we buy at the store never tastes as good as what we grow ourselves.
 
Daniel Fairly Knives said:
I have a big raised bed with lots of lettuce (spring mix usually) as well as greens, broccoli, cabbage, and that type of thing. On the side I have some horseradish, garlic, and onions. I grow tomatoes hydroponically because where I live (CO, north face, woods, 7500 feet) they won't pull a crop otherwise. This year I'm going to expand with some hydroponic peppers too. I just bought my place and have an apple and plum tree we just planted. I also have some wild raspberries and alpine strawberries.

My old place was warmer and I had over 50 varieties of tropical fruits, coffee plants and palms. I had over 20 wild coconut palms I had transplanted and loads of mangoes and other cuttings. We even grew vanilla orchid and other wild orchids mixed with air plants up to 50#.
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That other place sounds like it must have been very warm. Here in New England we have a shortened growing season too. Not impossible, but tough on melons and other long-season crops. However, the weather lends itself pretty nicely to winter squash, apples, blue berries, greens, brassicas and other cooler weather crops.

Anyone have or use a greenhouse?
 
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