I wish I had room for that many Brussels sprout plants! I might if I didn’t grow anything else in my tiny back yard. I seriously need to think about fencing in and digging up the front yard.
Had 6 ripe strawberries Monday. YUM!
Thinned out my zucchini and butternut squash plants this weekend and gave 3 zucchini and 2 butternut to my mom. I have 4 of each left and they are doing great. So far most things are doing well. Started everything from seed this years except strawberries and tomatoes, and everything is coming up.
I just dug mine this morning, first attempt in many years. Nothing fancy, just a 4x10 foot strip for 8 tomato plants (my favorite food on earth). Can’t wait to bite into the first one. There is room to plant more; maybe I’ll toss in some eggplant or cukes.
Oh yeah, the work was a lot more intense than I thought.
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Just tomatoes and parsnips this year. This past weekend was spent digging up last year’s parsnips; now I’ve got to get the beds ready for planting. We’re having an unusually cold spring, though, so I think it will be a week or two more before I can safely plant the tomatoes. (The parsnips could go in now, if I had the bed ready.)
This will be our third summer here and we’re successively building out ground frames from the starting three garden boxes we brought with us Our yields of the usuals have been unimpressive, but my wife has learned to hate cute lil’ bunnies and deer.
My husband grows tomatoes, peppers, peas, beans, potatoes and onions in raised beds surrounded by an electric fence to foil the raccoons, and this year I’m growing mostly lettuces, herbs and edible flowers in containers on the deck. I even have a container-friendly sweet corn to try this year.
Of course, this all assumes it stops snowing sometime :(.
Freaking squirrels are eating my seed potatoes. Luckily I’m doing them in bins this year, so I just put them in the garage for now. I’ll bring them back out when they have sprouted.
I am going to plant tomatoes, lettuce, beans, garlic (already up from unharvested bulbs from last year), zucchini, ramps (already up in my herb bed), sorrel (ditto), basil. I’ve been doing it for 40 years.
Hanging tomato plants and cucumbers up on the patio to keep them away from the critters here. Cucumber seedlings have been started in the basement under grow lights.
Have I already mentioned I only had 2 of the 8 Beaver Dam peppers I started inside germinate? Fortunately, those two plants seem healthy.
Do most people start all their plants indoors? I’ve never had much luck with that, I usually directly sow seed in the dirt. I started these peppers indoors because our growing season isn’t reliably long enough for peppers.
We started one last year, after living in our house for 19 years…we had tomatoes, cayenne peppers, zucchini, and pumpkins.
This year we expanded, and have strawberries, tomatoes, four different types of peppers, zucchini, pumpkins, butternut squash, three types of lettuce, string beans, and onions.
There’s still some space in the backyard, but I think we’re going to wait until next year to fill that
Two is probably all you needs. Our two pepper plants last year produced so much we let the neighbor come over and take what she wanted, when she wanted.
We probably have a much longer growing season than you, being in Nor Cal, but I never start my seeds indoors. I think about it, but then I just end up planting them in the soil as soon as the beds are ready. They usually do fine. Tomatoes, though, I always buy a started plant at the nursery.
Thought I’d share this cool website: SproutRobot. You put your zip code in and it tells you when to plant what. It also has instructions for container planting as well as bed planting.
At this point we’ve got two kinds of lettuce in the ground, along with spinach. The herbs wintered over, but we’ve planted dill for pickling. We have our tomato starts (Sweet Millions cherry toms) and a sweet red pepper plant. I’m hoping we can do some pickling cukes later on.
I built a raised cinder block bed this year, 13x5 or so. I filled it with native soil and mixed a liberal amount of amendment in the top 6-8". I really don’t know what I’m doing though. It looks nice and is growing. I think we planted tomatoes cucumbers onions basil corn carrots and broccoli.
I have a 4x24’ garden, using square foot gardening.
Some of the sfg will be not so sf this year. Last year’s greens–I’m not sure if it’s kale or collards!–came up again through the snow and they’re HUGE! It’s been nice to have greens without actually having gardened yet!
The strawberries are blooming in their permanent beds as well. In a couple of weeks I’ll put in tomatoes, carrots, sugar snaps, green beans, summer squash, cucumbers, and whatever else strikes my fancy. I also have leeks and a celery base growing in my kitchen, so I’ll plant those and see what happens.
I never have luck with peppers, winter squash, or melons, so I’ll just buy those around town.
But first I have to weed!
Fun website. Thanks for sharing. It may be my part of the country (DC area, and known for wacky weather), but its planting schedule seemed a bit conservative. I can plant a month ahead of its schedule with no worries.
I bought my tomato plants today, and will sow a bunch of other seeds tomorrow. My problem is lack of space. Last year I planted too much, too densely, and it all did great, but I couldn’t reach into the mini-jungle to harvest half of it.
I forgot to buy the seeds this year, but next year I want to grow Roma Striped heirloom tomatoes. Had some from the farmers market last summer and they were both gorgeous and delicious.
My husband and I are planning to kill about a dozen tomato plants this year, as usual.
My fig tree has survived. No figs yet, but it survived! We put it in last year, and usually we can kill a fig tree within a couple of months. Dare I hope to taste home grown figs again in this lifetime?
Really? Because I thought it was recommending things a bit early for my area. Then again when to plant isn’t a perfect science. It’s a guideline, not a hard and fast rule.
