What Do You Grow in Your Garden - Page 3

shelbylovesmelby · #41 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 07:56 PM

My green thumb is really itching, darn cabin feaver!

We usually plant tomato's, radishes, corn, zucchini, & peas. This year I'm going to get some pumpkin seeds for my dd. I think she'd get a kick out of them.

MrSwapper · #42 (**permalink**) 02-11-2006, 09:38 AM

Hmmm... I'll have to keep an eye on this thread... we're having 4 trees removed next week and in the place of one will be some raised vegi gardens... I can't wait!!

frugalfarmwife · #43 (**permalink**) 02-13-2006, 10:10 PM

I'm DYING to get out there! This year we're making the garden 4x the size to grow for market. It's going to be a lot of work but well worth it. I'm planning on growing tomatoes, sweet corn, cukes, summer squash, acorn squash, butternut squash, zuccini, Cayanne peppers, habernaro peppers, green peppers, blue lake runner beans, cow peas, okra, bib lettuce, beets, radishes, basil, thyme, rosemary, chervil, peas, eggplant, catnip, and, and, and!

Yep, just itching to get out there!

kj

Lostsoul33 · #44 (**permalink**) 02-14-2006, 05:37 AM

We plant tomatoes, green onions and lettuce. We're planning on making our garden bigger this year so we can plant a lot more stuff.

nanamom · #45 (**permalink**) 02-14-2006, 11:43 AM

One of the things we miss most being renters is the ability to have a garden. Two years ago we did some container gardening but it didn't work very well. I think I will try again this year as a science lesson for DS2. Of course we may be moving (hopefully) and then we have to decide if it is worth transporting them!

acezz4e_tish · #46 (**permalink**) 02-19-2006, 09:08 AM

container or indoor growing isnt as hard as it sounds. fish tanks and those round buckets that cost 5 dollars at dollar general, like a big tub, with rope handles. good dirt, love, sunlight and water. in the end, you will save so much money, and knowing where it come from is refreshing as well.

frugalfarmwife · #47 (**permalink**) 02-19-2006, 11:54 PM

I've got cabin fever so bad right now I can't wait to get out there in the dirt! Went seed shopping and got TONS of stuff, now for the thaw!

kj

BillsGirl · #48 (**permalink**) 02-20-2006, 03:26 AM

I just planted ALOT of cosmos and quite a few sunflowers this past weekend!

acezz4e_tish · #49 (**permalink**) 02-20-2006, 11:12 AM

green onions, peppers, lettuce, squash. i have 2 apple trees starting to produce fruit but it wasnt good fruit last year, i also have another fruit tree, not sure what they are.lol they look like italian toms.lol it was here when i bought the place. id love to start grapes and mushrooms tho. that would save me tons also, we also plant watermelon, i forgot to metion. my daughter plants those, she loves it and loves to watch it grow, she feels like queen of the south.lol.

Ima saver · #50 (**permalink**) 02-20-2006, 11:44 AM

moles!!

acezz4e_tish · #51 (**permalink**) 02-20-2006, 11:53 AM

caster seed will stop that hun. i read that in a book about natures way of pest removal. it said to put it all the way across your problem area and then thin it out to where youd send them away too. like a triangle leaving away from your home.

dwallyfam · #52 (**permalink**) 02-20-2006, 03:26 PM

I grow tomotaotes, peppers and choke cherries. I have lots of squirrels and bunnies. I have food for them in the opposite corner of my yard. That way the fill up on it and not my veges.

acezz4e_tish · #53 (**permalink**) 02-20-2006, 05:51 PM

my dad puts 2 liters of water around his garden for some reason it keeps pests out.

shelbylovesmelby · #54 (**permalink**) 02-21-2006, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by acezz4e_tish

my dad puts 2 liters of water around his garden for some reason it keeps pests out.

I belive the reason behind that is.... most animals feed on your garden ect because they are thirsty & they get their fluids from what they eat. So if you leave them some water they'll leave your plants alone.

I've had better luck with putting the bottles around my plants to spare them from being comped on.

I'm so jealous, some of you are planting already!!!! I still have snow on the ground & this past weekend below zero temps. I wish our growing season was longer.

nickie33 · #55 (**permalink**) 02-26-2006, 11:54 AM

i live in the north also and every year i plant a garden . i like to grow green beans, tomatoes. onion, any kind of peppers, watermellon, cabbage hard to grow though, peas
cucumbers,cantalope, pumpkins, and i like to grow flowers of all sorts because we have some very pretty birds here, humming birds, gold finch, cardniels all love zinnas grow some and watch the birds and leave your used orange rinds for the oriols and the oranges will bring in the bees for the garden

acezz4e_tish · #56 (**permalink**) 02-27-2006, 05:02 PM

with usual weather here, u could plant twice a season if u do it early in the spring.

nickie33 · #57 (**permalink**) 02-27-2006, 06:42 PM

alot of the plants i grow can be reseeded mid summer but most just keep growing, green beans, onions can be reseeded, but tomatoes, peppers, mellons, cabbage, peas,cucumbers,and most flowers keep producing new veggie and flowers as long as the weather permits and you take care of the garden

markio26 · #58 (**permalink**) 03-09-2006, 10:18 PM

we grow alot of mint.. the deer and rabbits eat everything up.

mom-from-missouri · #59 (**permalink**) 03-10-2006, 06:25 AM

I just read last night that rabbits, deer and turtles dont like garlic or the smell. The writed stated they planted garlic around their garden, and it kept the animals out. Of course she had surplus garlic, which she sold.

acezz4e_tish · #60 (**permalink**) 03-10-2006, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by markio26

we grow alot of mint.. the deer and rabbits eat everything up.

im wondering if your statement means they eat the mint or it keeps them out?