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| What edibles are you growing this year? Heres my list although i dont know all of the varieties off hand:
Lettuces: Romaine simpson elite buttercrunch sylvestra little caesar speckles red cross red lollo four seasons Scallions Arugula Fordhook chard Shattered and yellow cippolini onions Saffron shallots kaliedescope carrots Salsify Bok choy Kohlrabi Celery collards Red and green cabbage Shelling peas Spinach those little french round carrots Broccoli raab Flat leaf parsley cilantro C Garlic chives Broccoli (di cicco and green goliath) Cauliflower Sweet mesclun mix sage Davignon radishes chinese kale blue kale Mache leeks Mint Raspberries strawberries (alpine elan allstar? And some everbearer) Artichokes For summer i have:
If you cant tell im pretty bored. Its supposed to rain alllll week. So please share your grow lists with me!!! |
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| wow mindy! that's a huge list! How large a lot are you on? How much devoted to the garden? (are you rural, suburban, or urban?) I'm on a small but large for the city chicago lot. Right now: For summer: I have several varieties of each kind, and I don't know where I'll end up putting it all, lol! I have over 40 celery seedlings going, and about 30 peppers and eggplants. Now I need to start the main bed of toms (have some xtra earlies well established - not extra early varieties, just plantings...) On the maybe lists: |
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| Oh boy, it's a list and a half... Onions, garlic, shallots, leeks and hopefully some real bunching oinions And I think I must be forgetting something, but I can't think what. Also rapberries, muscadine, and I just planted 2 apple trees, though they won't be bearing fruit this year. Also figs if they survived and a persimmon. And various herbs. Here's to eating well! |
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| Sunnibel: im worried my artichokes didnt proper vernalization either! Tbird: pretty small area. Im intensive planting though and not planting a huge amount of any one thing. Like i only have 3 celery plants, i dont eat a lot, just need it for soups here and there. But lots of lettuce, maybe 60 onions, 20 toms, etc. I posted pics in the " how many lbs of produce" thread. Ill post a pic of our side yard too as i convert it for melons an the shelling beans. |
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- Posted by stuffradio SW 8a BC (My Page) on Tue, Mar 20, 12 at 13:15
| Artichoke Asparagus Arugula Leeks Lettuce Broad Beans (Fava Beans) Beets Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Celery Corn Cucumbers Eggplant Garlic Kale Melons (Cantaloupe and Watermelon) Onions Bok Choy Parsley Parsnips Peas Peppers Pumpkin Radishes Rutabaga Spinach Squash Swiss Chard Tomatoes Turnips A bunch of herbs |
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| Nice photos Mindy! I'm thinking of redoing my entire veggie area as a potager, but also want to get a greenhouse, so not sure where I'm going with it... |
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| Annuals: Corn, Black Aztec Eggplant, Pumpkin on a Stick Lentil, Green Melon, Kiwano Melon, Watermelon, Cream of Saskatchewan Pepper, Bhut Jolokia Pepper, NuMex Halloween Pepper, Sweet Red Cherry Pepper, Trinidad Scorpion Pepper, Trinidad Scorpion Butch T Pepper, Uba Tuba Pepper, 7-Pot Douglah Potato, Adirondack Purple Sugar Cane, Purple Tomato, Black Pineapple Tomato, OSU Blue Wasabi Perennials: |
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- Posted by donnabaskets 7b-8 MS (My Page) on Tue, Mar 20, 12 at 17:31
| Tomatoes: One each in ground: Big Zebra, Amish Paste, Big Beef, Matina, Brandywine, Black Krim, Mortgage Lifter, OSU Blue, Rutgers, Tropic, Aunt Ruby Green. Then in pots: Black Cherry, Sungold, Isis Candy, Juliet, Tommy Toes, Celebrity Pickle Bush Cucumbers Beans, to be planted in successions throughout the summer season: Also Sugar Baby Watermelon, Minnesota Midget Cantaloupes, a bush Sweet Potato whose name escapes me now, and Silverskin garlic which will be harvested in early summer. Come fall, it will be time for Collards, Red Russian, Vates, and Dinosaur Kales,Crimson Forest Bunching Onion, Napoli Carrots, matador Shallots, Inchelium Red Garlic, Yellow Potato Onions, and French Red Shallots. I pulled out the last of my winter garden about three weeks ago when it got so warm, so for the first time in over a year there is nothing out there to eat! I miss it so much! Can't wait for the summer crops to begin. |
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| Yes, I'm hoping with the artichokes to be able to maybe mulch them and have them overwinter, like my cardoons do, but they do seem more tender. And stuffradio made me remember what I forgot... Aspargus! Cheers! |
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| Donna: i would love to do sweet potatoes but the only space i have for them is where the melons are going or a pretty shady spot. Next year ee are going to try to fit them in somehow though. i havent really planned for fall yet and i know that with my lack of space ill be choosing between ripping out summer crops that will likely still be producing and putting in fall crops in time to actially size. Only my onion and carrot spaces will be open by then. |
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- Posted by tishtoshnm 6/NM (My Page) on Tue, Mar 20, 12 at 23:20
| Mindy, I have found for a short growing season (which I assume you have with a normal zone 5)with fall plantings, I need to have a plant to go in the ground when one comes out. When garlic comes out in July, I will put the brussel sprouts that were started mid-May and begin the succession plantings of things like carrot. When cukes are done in by an early frost, I will have lettuces that are ready for transplanting in that spot. I will only direct sow those things that need it. My list includes: Tomatoes: San Marzano, Amish Paste, Roma, Speckled Roman, Black Krim, Cherokee Purple, Mountain Princess, Stupice, Taxi, Japanese Trifele(sp?)Black, Arkansas Traveler, Honeybunch, Sungold, Italian Ice, Chocolate Cherry, Autum Fire Radishes: Daikon, Red Meat, French Breakfast, Easter Egg Blend, Helios, White Hailstone Roots: Carrots (Kuroda, Napoli, Nelson, and various others), turnips, parsnips, celery root, potatoes. If I can get some Jerusalem artichokes for a fair price, I will try planting those in the fall. Greens/leaves: Various lettuces, amaranth, spinach, mache, sorrel, orach, kale (2 types), various Asian greens, cabbages, arugula, fennel (bulb and herb), strawberry spinach Brassicas: Kohlrabi, cauliflower (cheddar and snow), broccoli (sprouting, purple peacock, Belstar and Apollo), red giant mustard Legumes: Snow peas, shell peas, dragon tongue beans, red noodle (if I can get the seed still), green and yellow snap beans (some pole, some bush) Herbs: Various basil, rosemary, sage, lovage, stevia (undecided), borage, parsley, dill, mint (different varieties), lemon balm, parsley root Cucurbits: Lemon cucumber, aremnian cukes, a white cuke, marketmore, a pickler, dragon's egg cuke. Melons will be twice as nice, charentais, and Ineya melon. Summar squash will include lebanase Clarinett, yellow, and costata romanesco. Winter squashes will include sweet meat and my kids will insist on some orange pumpkin. Acorn and buttercup will likely make it into the mix. If I cound somewhere for it, I would like some spaghetti squash too. Alliums: Garlic (Music, Italian Easy Peel, Duganski, Chesnook Red), various short day bulb onions, Egyptian onions, scallions (red and white), leeks, red shallots and hopefully this fall I can find some French gray shallots. For perennials, we do hope to purchase blackberry, red and yellow raspberry vines. I do have strawberries in the ground. I have the spot set aside for a grape vine and we may try obtaining rhubarb and currants (black and red) but we will have to see how money goes. More fruit trees would also be great. |
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| Whee! I'm so excited about gardening this year... Already started: Planned: |
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| Tishtosh: have you grown teice as nice before? It looks like a store bought melon my son loved and i wanted to try it but didnt buy seed this year. Please let me know how you like it! |
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- Posted by tishtoshnm 6/NM (My Page) on Wed, Mar 21, 12 at 14:39
| I grew it last year for the first time. It was my first time successfully growing melons. The plants were quite vigorous and produced quite a few fruit. I found the flavor a little bland but, I think we may have over-watered and I am pretty sure DH picked them on the early side. I am giving it a go again this year to see if the blandness was due to overwatering. We got the seeds from Burpee. |
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| Hack gardening here. So far, I have in: 3 varieties of lettuce, seeded late, so may not do much Planned - not much more, as I will be away for awhile, but I started multiple varieties of tomatoes & peppers from seed, and they'll go in, along with basil. Gotta have basil! |
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- Posted by dickiefickle 5B Dousman,Wi. (My Page) on Thu, Mar 22, 12 at 4:22
| Is everyone supposed to list what they are growing ? Why ? I dont get it. |
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- Posted by harveyhorses 7 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 22, 12 at 8:42
| Call it sharing. Tomatoes: St. Pierre, Delicious, Black Krim, Brandywine, red, Cherokee Purple (I think) German Gold, Belgian Giant, Beefsteak, REd, (these were freebies) Lettuce, spinach, onions (white sweet) potatoes, Sweet potatoes, snow peas, Parsnips Basil, Garlic, Rosemary (my 'tree' finally died so time for a new one) does mint count? had a BAD intermingling a few years back, I planted oregano and it got too close to the mint, lets just say the world is not ready for Oregamint. Not as much as I wanted, but it will do. |
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- Posted by scarletdaisies 6 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 22, 12 at 10:45
| Going to try these: Yellow sweet corn I'm in a much better area, moved a few miles away and so I expect some good returns if the floods stay away. It was worse last year here then in my mother's poisoned soil at her old house. Would also like to plant some peanuts, will see how much room, though. Good luck on your gardens. |
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| This is what I'm growing Asparagus - Started last year from seed collected at a customers house. No idea of the cultivar I'm sure I missed something... |
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| forgot my garlic Garlic - Russian Red, Music, German Extra Hardy and a Softneck from the supermarket. |
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| In The Ground Asparagus - not sure of what kind Broccoli Cabbage - Bonnies Best Kale Lettuce - Butter Crunch,Romaine,Red Sails Onions - Savannah Sweet Spinach Swiss Chard - Neon Lights Summer Beans - Blue Lake 274 (bush),Blue Lake(pole),Early Contender (bush) I'm missing something but can't think of them just now.
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| Lol @ harveyhorses. What do fava beans taste like? One of my sons and i both have alpha thalassemia so im a little afraid to try them... |
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- Posted by olympia_gardener 5 in chicago (My Page) on Sat, Mar 24, 12 at 14:56
| Can't wait to expand my garden. In the ground: Garlic, When weather warms up Herbs: I am sure this only less than half I actually plant. |
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- Posted by pumpkins4u 8b (My Page) on Sat, Mar 24, 12 at 22:48
| Ok, I keep telling myself that I need to figure out what else to plant but I only have 100 square foot plus a couple planters. So even if I figure out what else I need to plant I don't have space. Currently Planted: Tomatoes Ground Cherry - Giant Cape Herbs Will plant later this year |
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- Posted by RabbitRabbit 9 CA (My Page) on Sat, Mar 24, 12 at 23:48
| Uwaah! So cool to see what everyone is planting. I have a small urban space: Tomatoes (1 plant each) - Black Krim, Black Prince, Black Cherry, Odoriko, Bloody Butcher, Sungold, Cosmonaut Volkov, Moskovitch. Lettuce, kale, chard, spinach, zucchini, strawberries, onions (interplanted), shiso, parsley, peas, cilantro, oregano, mint, thyme, sage. I'm also trying to make room for roses, so lots of stuff is interplanted as edible landscaping. We have no lawn...;) |
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- Posted by momtopom03 z6b MA (My Page) on Sun, Mar 25, 12 at 12:54
| I haven't decided yet except I know I want to do beets and probably butternut squash again. I may do sweet potato this year instead of Yukon Golds. I'm not much of a salad eater so I skip lettuce, cukes and tomatoes. I may do some eggplant again this year. |
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- Posted by alpidarkomama none (My Page) on Mon, Mar 26, 12 at 2:17
| Here's what I'm doing... It's all in the ground, except the amaranth which I'm hoping to get in this week. BEANS BEETS BROCCOLI CARROTS CAULIFLOWER CUCUMBERS EGGPLANT FLOWERS FRUIT VINES FRUIT TREES GRAINS GREENS HERBS MELONS PEPPERS SUMMER SQUASH TOMATOES WINTER SQUASH OTHER GOOD STUFF |
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- Posted by anonymouspeoria zone 5 (My Page) on Tue, May 15, 12 at 14:04
| Wow, everyone's list makes me feel really inadequate with my 9x9 plot. :) |
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| Tomatoes, Cukes, Tomatoes, Bell Peppers, Eggplant, Tomatoes,Corn, Half Runners, Tomatoes, Squash, Green Onions, Tomatoes, Thornless Blackberries, Tomatoes |
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- Posted by Deborah-SC 8a (My Page) on Wed, May 16, 12 at 21:28
| This is my 1st year veggie gardening - I've always been an ornamental gardner. I have a 4 X 12 raised bed with yellow straight neck squash, zucs, eggplant (regular & Japanese), roma tomatoes, basil, poblano pepper & red hot chili pepper. When the tomatoes ripen & come out, I'll put in sweet potatoes. I'm planning on adding 3 more beds @ 4 X 6. Having 4 beds will make crop rotation easier. My next bed is going to hold the okra that I need to get in within the month. My plan is to have a great fall garden of spinach, lettuce, brussel sprouts, and carrots. |
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- Posted by tomatoesandchickens 9 (My Page) on Thu, May 17, 12 at 0:04
| I'm new here, but I'd like to join in! Last year was my first attempt at gardening, and I grew tomatoes and tried eggplants but got nothing from them. This year, I'm going all out! Well, for a teeny tiny amount of yard that is! I've got: Sunflowers I'm planning on adding pumpkins and cantaloupe for the summer, and possibly sugar cane. |
Here is a link that might be useful: My Blog, with pics of my plants so far
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- Posted by stargazer943 8bTX (mandara_jb@yahoo.com) on Thu, May 17, 12 at 1:30
| This has been the best season ever for my garden! I am growing Beans-Rattlesnake, Cherokee Trail of Tears, Mennonite Purple Stripe, Cherokee Wax, Kentucky Wonder, Kentucky Wonder Wax, and Long Beans. Not alot of all the varieties trying to get my seed stash resupplied on some. Tomatoes-Mr Stripey, Brandywines, Cherokee Purple, Juliet, Sweet 100, Roma, Parks Whopper, Better Boy Watermelon- Moon and Stars and Tenderweet Orange Squash- Grey striped zuke and Trombocinno Pumpkins- Musqee de Provence Melons-Charentais Bright Lights Swiss Chard Collard Greens Cucumbers-Lemon, National Pickling, Armenian, and some other pickling kind Onions-1015s, Red onions, and some other sweet white Peppers-Jalapenos, Big Bertha Bells, Sweet Cherry, Habanero Eggplant-Black Beauty and Japanese Broccoli Cabbage-Red and Green Corn-Country Gentleman Okra-Emerald Flowers-Sunflowers, Nastursiums, Morning Glories, Asters, Petunias, Moonflowers, Black-eyed susan vine I just can't believe how amazing everything is doing this year, it's soooo awesome!!! |
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| Wow! Some of these lists make my little attempt at gardening seem teeny tiny!!!! In the ground I have: 3 varieties of sweet corn, 2 early and one late Onions, "green onions" and big sweet ones leaf lettuce strawberries- that I'm fighting the birds for. (The cheesecloth cover worked for awhile, now we are planning a hinged box with chicken wire and aluminum screen. Okra, 2 different kinds 2 peas, one bush and one vine red beans green beans both bush and pole, acorn squash straight neck squash Jelly-bean cherry tomatoes, Roma Tomatoes Goliath Tomatoes 2 Pimento Peppers 2 Green Bell Peppers 2 blueberry bushes Lots of raspberry and blackberry on the fence line a couple peach trees and one lone plum tree We've already pulled the Danver's half short/long carrots (reseeded them again) |
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| Sweet corn - Ambrosia, Incredible, Montauk, Xtra Tender 1181 Potatoes - mostly Kennebec Sweetpotatoes - O'Henry, Centennial Tomatoes - Big Beef, Sun Gold, Juliet, Pink Girl, Brandy Boy, Mortgage Lifter Lima Bean - Fordhook 242 Peas - Super Sugar Snap Peppers - Carmen, Cal Wonder, Archimedes, Fat and Sassy Lettuce Spinach Squash Cantaloupes - Sugar Queen, Goddess, Burpee Hyb. Crenshaw, Diplomat Watermelons - Raspa, Carmen, Sangria, Big Tasty, Gold Strike, Yellow Doll, Klondike, Oranglo, Cooperstown, Kleckley Sweet Broccoli - Emerald Crown, Imperial Cauliflower - Symphony |
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| I am trying to grow: Sweet peas (peas are just starting to come) This is why I say everything I touch dies. :D Well hopefully it all will start growing. |
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| At the moment: Snap peas More when the peas are done. |
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- Posted by socks12345 Zone 9 (My Page) on Thu, May 17, 12 at 20:59
| My garden is tiny because I'm overrun with roses. Also there is just two of us, so can't use a lot of produce. Anyway, here is the list: 4 tomatoes (3 in large pots) parsley I do have room for one more upright-type plant. I'll look around at the nursery. |
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| This is my first year trying to grow my own food: Tomatoes(not sure what kind, my wife got it for me off of the Lowe's sale rack. I also planted a fig tree about a month and a half ago. I'm really hoping this all works out! |
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