Like so many of us here, I love having a vegetable garden in my yard every year. I try to grow as many plants from seed as possible, but that’s not always as easy as it sounds. I find it challenging to know when to start the seeds so I have nice plants to take outdoors, but not massive plants that take up too much precious space while they’re growing indoors.
My staples are a variety of heirloom tomatoes, hot peppers, herbs & lettuces. I also always grow heirloom cucumbers and “Kentucky Wonder” green beans, along with some type of yellow squash and pumpkins. After that, I tend to mix it up, including melons, watermelons, blackberries and raspberries.
What are you planning for this year? Have you already started your seeds for transplant outdoors?
Here’s a pic of some cherry tomatoes. I no longer grow them, but I like the picture for some reason!
Love gardening!!! I’m in northern Michigan and grow lots of tomatoes, potatoes(in straw bails), jalapeños, tons of mild peppers, chili peppers, carrots, cucumbers, and all the herbs. I have some basil in the window now. I buy my tomato and pepper plants in the spring, and the rest I grow from seed.
Nothing Planning on moving house sometime in August, about 6 weeks after you can safely plant outside, so cant grow anything outside this year. Might try some indoor micro greens though.
That’s a bummer, @Shadey. Sounds like you won’t be doing much gardening of any type for quite a bit of this year, which is sad. I love the therapeutic benefits of gardening, having nothing to do with the harvests. I’m sure you’ll miss it, but hopefully not too much.
I plan to do a lot as always. I have two 4x8 raised beds an herb bed that is probably 6x20 a bed that gets all my peppers and whatever herbs didn’t fit in the herb bed😄 I berry bed with a thornless blackberry and 2 different types of blueberries, an 8x30 bed for all my vining stuff(melons,squash, pumpkins) that also has my asparagus and room for 2 more rows of tomatoes cause they never all fit in my raised beds, 4 young trees(2 fruit and 2 not), lilac bushes and hostas, and 2 beds of perennials and flowers out front. Not to mention the dozens(at least) of potted plants that end up everywhere of all types. Even got a fig tree in a 15 gal that I move to a sheltered location for winter. Then there’s the houseplants. And the cannabis. Decided to go from my 15 gal smart bags for my ladies this year straight into the earth. They’re gonna get monstrous😄
It always does. The fact that I have so much different stuff is probably what makes it most difficult honestly. But that doesn’t stop me from always taking in new, different things and I want to redo my existing raised beds and put a few into that large area that I have for vining plants. I just started working that area 2 years ago so I’ve been focused on bettering the native soil to start with
I have to have the house, attached double garage and sun room all lifted up and the basement as well as the garage pad blown away and re-pored. I have a garden area that has not been used other than one year when I first moved in. To much time working on other things and this money pit of a house. Good thing I did not have time to till the garden, the previous owner ran the electrical to a shed through the garden six inches down.
I love those tomatoes. I grew some green beans at my previous house and brought a bag over to a buddy’s house. Later I go a call from him, he said him and the wife thought it odd of me until they cooked them up and tried them. AND THEY WERE SO GOOD! I guess he only had store bought vegetables, my parents had us growing what we needed for the year on a plot of land. Other kids got to go to the lake, we got to go to the farm. We did eat well though. I would like to grow stuff again, but I have a ton of things to get to that built up over the years due to my illness.
That’s a lot different veges, where did you get the seeds from. Are the numbers the anount of seeds in the Detroit Dark Red and Ruby Red Beets, or is that a date
I think the numbers you are talking about are the dates the variety was established or created.
I get all my seed from Heritage Harvest Seed out of Manitoba, other then one carrot type , which is the only hybrid I grow.
Don’t get ANYTHING from Halifax GREED lol Not only is everything there ridiculously overpriced, they also use to really enjoy trying to get us weed growers busted and would go out of their way trying to do so.
Baker Creek has amazing heirlooms and all kinds of cool stuff you’d struggle to find elsewhere. Massive selection, prices are a bit high but worth it to get something you won’t find otherwise
Planning on moving house sometime in August, about 6 weeks after you can safely plant outside, so cant grow anything outside this year. Might try some indoor micro greens though.
and I want to redo my existing raised beds and put a few into that large area that I have for vining plants. I just started working that area 2 years ago so I’ve been focused on bettering the native soil to start with
Early Wonder - Beet Seeds × 1 $3.00
Detroit Dark Red - Beet Seeds - (1892) × 1 $3.00
Ruby Queen - Beet Seeds (1956) × 1 $3.95
Acadian - Cherry Tomato Seeds × 1 $3.95
Amish Paste - Tomato Seeds × 1 $3.00
Short Season Heirloom Seeds Collection × 1