[EJ711]

Anyone else planting a vegetable garden this year?

[ziggy1]

Yes EJ Just put in some Big Boy Tomatoes, summer squash, and pondering about a few other veggies too anything to save $$$$
this year.....

Just gotta keep the Rabbits and Squirrels out now..!!!

Whatcha Planting by the way????

[PasDeDeux]

Yes EJ we have the last couple of years but this year I think we will do more than the few things we had planted last year..It willl save money and we will get organic...again ..I am thinking of adding potatoes and some of the things ziggy mentioned too...maybe more...

[Timgt5]

I have a small patio garden,. tomatoes, lettuce, peppers cucumbers and strawberries

[MyBestKids2]

We have a very small garden, also. Tomatoes, honeydew melon, and cantelope.

[SweetSunshine]

We are actually doing ours this morning provided the weather holds out for us!! We are planting Big Boy and Early Girl Tomatoes, Green peppers,Green beans , peas, beets, radishes,cabbage and I think I am missing something in here lol. Ahh well thats a start anyways lol.. I'll post it when I see the seed packet if I did miss something.. ohh and I've already got strawberries out there!!

[Perna]

I have lettuce and beans planted and doing okay. Haven't bought my tomato plants yet. Anyone need any parsley? I have annual/last year's parsley with a vengence that and oregano and garlic chives.

[Razzleberry]

We have no yard :-( and live in a rented duplex with wood chips for the backyard.

But, we are (maybe) building a house soon and will have a garden by next year. I want to plant strawberries, blueberries (yay, I can grow them here!!), marionberries, blackberries, huckleberries (can you tell I like berries?!) and a peach tree, plum tree, and do a small garden with sugar snap peas, carrots, lettuce, herbs, and whatever else I feel like.

Sounds ambitious since I hate yardwork!

Ooh, and i want tons of flowers too. Roses (they also grow amazingly here!), tulips, everything.

[TaintedGoth1]

Nope...but I sure do love watching the corn behind our house grow!

[splitimage]

I life in an apartment but have a balcony garden. Veg - I limit myself to swiss chard and chilis. But I plant tons of herbs, and lots of pretty flowers.

[sarahlilianne]

I have a small garden and i will plant tomatoes, cucumbers and carrots. Summer salads are soooooo good .

[radio_flyer]

A few weeks ago I started seeds for cucumbers, spaghetti squash, yellow squash, hot peppers, watermelon, cantelope, cherry tomatoes and pumpkins and tomatoes...Hope to plant them when my son gets the garden cleared.. Nothing better than a fresh tomato n cucumber straight from the garden... yummmm

[SeptemberMorn]

Guess everybody has gotten the same idea hubby and I have to save money on groceries. We've planted a few things here in our postage stamp yard, but I got the bright idea to go to my youngest son's place and plant a righteous garden!

Last Sunday, we all worked tilling a large piece of ground and adding rabbit, goat and steer manure to the plot and sorting out all the rocks that the dirt will yield where there used to be a river bed. There's a pile big enough to start a rock wall! That dirt BREEDS rocks!

Anyway, this Sunday we'll be planting yellow and white corn, multi-colored bell peppers, carrots, lettuce, green and regular onions, 3 kinds of tomatoes; Early Girl, Big Boys and Roma (for sun dried tomatoes), cantaloupe, watermelon, cauliflower, potatoes and they've already got quite a bit already growing like artichokes into their second year. I'm not sure what else they have.

We're also thinking of buying a calf and a pig to raise for meat. My son is great at killing them and dressing them out, as I saw when he did a goat about three weeks ago. We're still eating on that goat! They kept him in a pen and fed him grain and alfalfa so he didn't taste goaty at all. I like the taste of goat as long as it isn't pastured 100% of the time.

Next year we'll have goat milk again! My granddaughter now has two little does. I've already bought my dill seeds to have dill to make dill goat milk cheese! YUMMMMMMM!

Back to nature! YEEEAAAH!! Oh, for hubby and I it will be with the comforts of the city.

Good growing, ya'll!

[pachyderm]

For a different take on vegetables, see

[SeptemberMorn]

Too bad I can't understand what he's saying!

Thanks for the laugh, Pachy. I needed it!

So... do you think I should plant Danver Longs carrots or a baby carrot variety?

[ziggy1]

The weather here (massachusetts) has been actually quite nice
and above average for Gardening. I started mine 2 weeks ago,
usually it's reccommended to wait until after May 15th because of
frost, but its been very mild at night too.

So I was able to get a Jump on it. Although, Next week like around tuesday the forcast says we may have a Frost.

Make sure you all have somethin to cover up your plants if your
situation is Similiar. There predicting a low of 35 for next tuesday and thats close enough to freezing for me...LOL.

[(JD)]

Hey EJ did you know today is World Nude Gardening Day??? No kidding! Guess that would make indoor gardening a bigger hit imo

[pachyderm]

> Too bad I can't understand what he's saying!

I have a friend who knows Japanese and who said:

"Very classic Japanese words: half apology (apology for interrupting you, apology for taking your time, apology for telling you what you may not want to know) and half explanation."