What are YOU growing this year?

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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:01 pm

Spring is almost here! And that means planting your gardens.

So what will you grow this year? I've already got my seeds in a little Jiffy Greenhouse so they will be ready to plant in their respective containers next month.

Kudos to my landlady who has given me permission to grow climbing beans on my balcony! It took some bargaining, though. I had to agree to also growing tomatoes and giving some of them to her. Laughing

What I will be attempting to grow:

Kentucky Wonder Beans
Bell Peppers (Grand Bell Mix)
Balcony Hybrid Tomatoes
Wild Flax
Genovese Basil
Dark Opal Basil
Common Thyme
Tarragon
Catnip
True Lavender
Oregano
Broad Leaf Sage

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

I would like to grow cucumbers and tomatoes. I need to learn how to pickle from my mom.

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:06 pm

Well I was actually thinking about growing some of my own chilli's but I think I'd have to use Hydroponics for that, I'd love my own supply of chilli's!

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:09 pm

Hydroponics take up a bit of space.. then again.. so do containers Laughing

I've thought about doing hydroponic veggies in my utility room.. But I just can't bring myself to get rid of my washer and dryer in order to have that water hookup and the vent.. I want a sun room. Confused

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:21 pm

Quote:

What are YOU growing this year?

[Looks at lawn, looks at work load, thinks about the last few years]

Weeds. Sad

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:26 pm

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So what will you grow this year?

Older and fatter Crying or Very sad

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Apart from older and fatter i will be growing the stuff i put in the window boxes last year, i live in the middle of the city center and last year spend a small fortune on window boxes and pretty onions so i'm hoping i will get flowers without doing sod all this year.

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:39 pm

Tomatoes, squash, bell peppers, sweet red peppers, cucumbers and lots of flowers.

I will show you! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:45 pm

I really wish I had a house with a good size yard.. My parents', sister's and best friend's yards are awesome for growing stuff. Sad

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:48 pm

In the yard, potatoes and onions, the only plants that can withstand the drought, gophers and the deer here, the rest is easier to get at the neighbors, the Hutterite Colony. And of course a few acres wheat, barley, oats and rye, say about 3040 acres, the advantage of living very rural Very Happy

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:49 pm

Nasal hair.

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:49 pm

My prize project is to grow a banana tree.... Very Happy

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:50 pm

bill2 wrote:

about 3040 acres, the advantage of living very rural Very Happy

You really know how to make a girl jealous, don't you? Crying or Very sad

Seriously, I'll have my house and yard one day. Very Happy

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

I grow these every year.

http://store.tomatofest.com/Brandywine_p/tf-0078.htm

It is the "open source software" of tomatoes.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:00 am

weas, you'll have your house one day and in the meantime you can come here and be our gardener.

The more beds, the more weeds!

If my post look weird, it is because I am trying not to use icons and having a very hard time, I tell ya!

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peas, and some herbs. . . . plus a lot of flowers.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:24 am

Ima Baeder wrote:

some herbs. . . .

Yeah, me too Ima. I try to plant some "herb" every year. Laughing

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:00 am

Well... if it is like last year, about 70 tons of alfalfa/grass mix for horsy feed. "We" do a small garden too [corn, green beans, melons, tomatoes, potatos, okra].

Oh and I ususally raise a little cane too.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:06 am

ParaNoid wrote:

... Oh and I ususally raise a little cane too.

My neighbors raised that, but they moved away and it's quite now. Wink

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:13 am

Potatoes
Beets
Carrots
Corn
Butter Lettuce
Onion
Herb Garden
Loads of Tomatoes (heirlooms especially)
Loads of Eggplant
Green Beans
South African Gem Squash
South African pumpkin
Loads of Chilli peppers
Lemon cucumbers
Swiss Chard
Spinach

That's it for now.....but I'm sure I'll add some others. Very Happy

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:18 am

lotta wrote:

Lemon cucumbers

When I was choosing my seeds, I got into a conversation with a man who recommended those. Problem is, he took the LAST packet of those seeds! Laughing

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:19 am

I'll send you some. They really are wonderful to eat! They are vines so will be easy to grow in a smaller space, if you give them something to cling to.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:21 am

lotta wrote:

I'll send you some.

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:23 am

@419weasel

Sorry wasn't thinking and you're welcome here, but it's dry land farming, I'll clean and turn over a patch for you as big as you like, all the horse manure you can handle or cow manure if you want to. But rain? I can't help you with that, I stopped when I had sun dried tomatoes on the plant and beans with no seed.
The hutterites have a water system and plenty of potable water, I haul mine in 5 gallon bottles. It's always something, in Holland I had the rain and only 6 by 10 meters to grow on, here I have the square meters and no rain.
Hey, at least I get a nice tan Very Happy

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:25 am

I love to vegetable garden. I'm going to grow San Marzano paste tomatoes, and the other desert stuff, squash, pumpkins. Oh, and Opium poppies. Beautiful flowers.

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