# Doper Gardeners: Watcha planting this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-gardeners-watcha-planting-this-year/357764 "2006-05-22T15:39:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-gardeners-watcha-planting-this-year/357764/21 "2006-05-23T21:01:18Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] I also have three “Patio Princess” tomato plants on order from Burpee. Oooooh ihopeihopeihope they really do grow! I haven’t heard many satisfactory reports from people growing tomatoes in containers. Also, I have started some of Martha Stewart’s tiny currant tomato plants from seed. They are pretty spindly. I don’t expect much. [/QUOTE] I haven’t tried that kind, but we grew tomatoes in pots last year and it worked beautifully. We were pulling cherry tomatoes off the plants by the dozen. We do container gardens too. This year we’re up to five containers, all along one side of the house. We’re growing broccoli, onion, garlic, strawberries, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, carrots, zucchini, beets, bell peppers, eggplant and herbs. The herbs we’re trying are basil, oregano, chives, thyme, peppermint, rosemary, dill, stevia, cilantro and parsley. I also planted some annuals in pots, added hyssop to my butterfly garden, and plan to start a bed of lavender along one side of our yard. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-gardeners-watcha-planting-this-year/357764/22 "2006-05-23T21:09:16Z")
In the vegetable patch, there will be: Hungarian Wax Peppers Tomatoes radishes green onions In the spice planters there will be: peppermint spearmint basil thyme parsely sage In the flower garden there is: lobelia pansies a geranium petunias rose moss allyssum agertum dianthus bleeding hearts snow in summer viola forget-me-nots 3 fushias We divide the flower beds by color. The heart bed gets red, pink. salmon, and white flowers. The foot bed gets white flowers. The Illinois bed gets purple flowers, and the Wisconsin bed bluish violet and white flowers. The Illinois and Wisconsin beds are shaped like mirror images of the states and border each other; this was not intentional. The flower beds are bordered with low limestone walls and the vegetable garden is a raised bed surrounded by timbers. ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-gardeners-watcha-planting-this-year/357764/23 "2006-05-23T22:13:33Z")
So far, we’ve planted: Sugar snap peas Snow peas Carrots Broccoli Lettuce Strawberries Scallions 3 kinds of tomatoes (Juliets, Marglobes, and 1 Mr. Stripey) Serrano peppers Basil Cilantro Parsley Dill Oregano Rosemary Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-gardeners-watcha-planting-this-year/357764/24 "2006-05-24T00:00:54Z")
Bell Pepper! I wanted to make some fajitas lastweek, but had to make do with a bag of frozen mixed bell peppers. The fresh bells were $3.99 a pound! And I wanted all the different colors. So, I’m ending my 'No More Gardens Until We Get A Non Squirrel Infested Yard" strike. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-gardeners-watcha-planting-this-year/357764/25 "2006-05-24T00:09:57Z")
My mother claims that putting dryer sheets around your plants will keep pests off them–deer, squirrels, whatever. Dunno if it really works, haven’t tried it, none of my plants are bearing fruit yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-gardeners-watcha-planting-this-year/357764.md?page=1)