# Gardners: What are you planting this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardners-what-are-you-planting-this-year/286262 "2005-01-23T16:57:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardners-what-are-you-planting-this-year/286262/41 "2005-01-25T16:06:10Z")
> [@Long Time First Time](#): > > I just moved last summer. The last home owners were hosta and day lily freaks- both plants are everywhere. I’m not a huge fan of either, but appreciate the fact that they require virtually no care. You know, day lilies are edible and utterly scrumptious! WhyKid and I eat them right off the plant, picking off one petal at a time like an artichoke. They have a wonderful sweet nectar at the very bottom of each petal. It’s like flower candy. Toss a few petals on a salad for a real treat! You can also pick the buds before they open and [stir-fry](http://www.lowderfarm.com/DayRecipes.html) them, stuff the open flowers with chicken salad (same link), make [Day Lily Chicken Soup](http://www.valentine.gr/recipes_soups.htm) or [Spiced Pickled Day Lily Buds](http://www.hugs.org/Spiced_Pickled_Day_Lily_Buds.shtml). Hostas? I got nothin’. Space fillers with ugly flower stalks, if you ask me. Rip 'em out and donate them somewhere and plant more day lilies! ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardners-what-are-you-planting-this-year/286262/42 "2005-01-25T16:12:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Someone gave me a mammoth dill seed packet. I’m thinking of planting it and putting the container in the corner of my balcony. Think it’ll grow huge and take up the corner? It might be pretty there. Beware the dill. I planted a little bit in a flower bed and it liked the spot and took over the entire back yard. I could not pick it and use it fast enough. It was so tall I started having nightmares that it was taller than I am. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardners-what-are-you-planting-this-year/286262/43 "2005-01-25T17:41:46Z")
My wife didn’t eat a lot of things when we first got married, because her mom ruined dinnertime for years. She apparently had no aptitude for cooking, and didn’t make an effort to learn even some of the basics. So anyway, I’ve shown my wife that some foods that she thought were terrible are actually quite good when cooked properly. I’ve got her to go from not coming near a tomato, to where a BLT is one of her favorite things. This year, I’d like to grow my own tomatoes, to show her how they really taste. Those store tomatoes are awful. I’ve never grown anything before, because I have no aptitude for growing stuff. How hard is it, and what’s an ideal number of seeds to sow so that it gives two people some tomatoes for the summer? I don’t want to become “oh no, here he comes again, and he wants me to have more tomatoes!” guy. We don’t even want enough tomatoes for canning. How bountiful is one successful tomato vine? Any suggestions are welcome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardners-what-are-you-planting-this-year/286262.md?page=2)