What's in your garden

[Ray.S]

Well it's still winter here in the midwest and we are in a new home and starting to think about what to plant for vegetables next year. We have a fair amount of raised beds but not like the larger gardens we have always had. What's in your gardens year to year? Feel free to post pictures as always good food for thought.

 

[Pat G]

Usually whatever my daughter wants to plant. She enjoys gardening.


We had a great harvest of cherry tomatoes a few years back.

 

[Andrew F]

Right now? Snow and ice, but the seed catalogs are on my desk.
We always do carrots horticort verts, and pickle cukes.

 

[Jim Lampe]

right now, winter carrots. had some last week, they're GGGGreaaaat! Better than Frosted Flakes.
Garlic also in there, but that's harvested in late July.

we started with this little guy:

added more....

then, added more....

Ray, we have everything in there that grows well for us.
Patty Pan squash, pickles, cucumbers, radishes, beans, carrots, Kale, certain types of lettuce,
bok choy, swiss chard, potatoes, onions, all types of peppers and tomatoes, spinach, dill, corn,
peas, beets, broccoli, leeks..... what am i missing....?

if it grows well for us and we use it up, it's a repeat planting.
over 10 types of Herbs are already growing in our house, for weeks and weeks now.
it's crazy!
but when you harvest, you smile!

 

[Bob Bass]

Excellent reuse of those metal hinged wooden shipping sections in your newest addition !!!

 

[Jim Lampe]

Excellent reuse of those metal hinged wooden shipping sections in your newest addition !!!

Thanks Bob, i found out they are called "pallet skirts"
and i have more ready to use for who knows what.
We get those in our factory on occasion and i ask the receiving dept folks to save them for me if they are not returned.

 

[Jim Lampe]

this photo is actually the start of the garden... it was a bad idea.

 

[Anne M.]

I got chili's, more chili's and even more chili's.
Could it be that I like them?

Also galangal, turmeric, kaffir lime, basil, chives and coriander.....

 

[Kevin L (NKY)]

That is a excellent garden Jim, mine is only 1/4 the size of yours and gives us a ton of great food, i can not imagine the bounty from yours.
Great to see people gardening as you said it is worth it.

 

[Kevin L (NKY)]

That is a excellent garden Jim, mine is only 1/4 the size of yours and gives us a ton of great food, i can not imagine the bounty from yours.
Great to see people gardening as you said it is worth it.

So Jim how long has this project been going on?

 

[Jim Lampe]

So Jim how long has this project been going on?

thanks Kevin, this garden is almost 9 years old...
when we 1st moved here in '90, we had two 12' x 12' full gardens... then stopped in '97... started gardening again using 5 gallon buckets in '03 (and still do some from buckets), but got this one started about '08. easier to garden using multiple smaller beds...

 

[George Curtis]

Weeds ! I tried growing tomatoes for several years and all I got was three tomatoes and a lot of green worms. Green thumb I ain't.

 

[Kevin L (NKY)]

Jim i like the smaller gardens also to control weeds a friend covers his with black plastic the heat cooks the seeds and keeps birds out which is the biggest problem.

I had to take mine apart wood root but will build again.

 

[Bill Elwell]

Right now, mud and leaves...in a couple of months there will be tomatoes, onions, assorted peppers, cabbage (red & green), carrots, chives, parsley, cilantro/coriander, green beans, peas, etc.

 

[Dennis Haner]

Right now 75 heads of garlic I planted in September. Will start seeds later this month for jalapeños, peppers, tomatoes, green beans and something else to be determined.