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Apr 22nd, 2008 at 08:32 PM
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Wild Willow
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I thought this might be a fun post.
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I grow peas,tomatoes, peppers,corn,cucumbers,squash,onions,and beans.
Waiting for fall...
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Northern Star
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Depends...I try different things each year. Last year I put in just a small garden so it was only tomatoes, green peppers, yellow beans, carrots and radish. Some years I go crazy and plant some of everything but last year I wasn't feeling the best so it was small.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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Northern Star
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Oh, I forgot.... cucumbers as well.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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tomatoe, peppers, chives, cucumbers, squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, okra, basil. during the winter i grew (for the first time) lettuce, spinach, cilantro. oh, i'm also trying out a loofa for the first time. (didn't know those little bath sponges were a type of squash...should be fun)
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker
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I grow potatoes, corn, peas, onions(I did the spanish onion bulbs sets last year and we just used up the last bag a few weeks ago, still can't believe how well they kept over winter) cabbage, cauliflower, broc, carrots, cucumbers, radishes, leaf lettuce, spinach, beans, and lots of peppers and tomatoes in my greenhouse.
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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I have got broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, several different types of peppers, onions, different types of lettuce, brussels sprouts, 2 different kinds of watermelon, and 2 types of cantalope.
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Last year I did tomatoes, broccoli, swiss chard, radishes, lettuce, peas, beans, carrots and hot and sweet peppers. Alas, the melons were an utter failure. This year I'm skipping the melons and carrots and replacing them with spinach and arugula. I do Square Foot Gardening, so it's easier to grow lots of stuff in a small area.
Jim, Rochester, NY Senior Igloo Engineer
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This year, we're going to grow: - tomatoes (1 "regular", 1 plumb, 1 cherry & 1 grape)
- broccoli
- cucumbers (trying to grow up an old step ladder)
- pole beans (teepee grown for the Boys)
- carrots (little ones)
- large gourds (hopefully to make birdhouses in the fall/spring) (also trying to grow up the step ladder)
We're also growing (attempting to grow) pumpkins & watermelons but @ a local church community garden. We don't have the room to grow these in our back yard garden. The director of the garden has given us 6 plots to grow these giant vining plants. I think each plot is 4' x 4', so, hopefully, we should have enough space to have 3-5 of each plant. If anyone has any suggestions as to how many pumpkin & watermelon plants I should plant in the space alloted to us, please share them with me! I don't want to plant too many, but I don't know what "too many" is for that space.
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Pretty much everything but eggplant, beets and spinach. Seriously this year I am growing: carrots, radish, parsnip peas, beans, broccoli potatoes, sweet potatoes, rutabagas onions, leeks, garlic, shallots, scallions lettuce, napa, bok choy, broc. rabe, swiss chard, mixed greens tomatoes, peppers, herbs melons (several), cucumber, summer squash Jerusalem artichoke I will need lots of help. Everyone is asking me what my plans are: am I selling some, canning, giving away etc and I say I am not planning anything because I don't want to have expectations. So I am just rolling with whatever comes! I need to be ready to face bugs, weather and disease and not get too upset! :wink:
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I forgot 2500 square feet of sweet corn! My first corn ever after spending every summer on grandma's sweet corn farm.LOL
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I am new to this forum and excited to share my joy of gardening, last year I did tomatoes went very well ,strawberry bird ate them squash, cucumber got 4 small and pumpkin (bird and squirrel ate them got only 3 so not good) this year I am going bigger, I have already potatoes, onion in the grown , and in pots strawberres,raddish, beets,peas, green bean, tomatoes, carrot, squash, cucumber,sweet corn, coriander, marjorans, persil,chives , lettuce (already sprouted after 3 days [planting seeds) ),spinach,some flowers marigold,nasturum so I need a lot advice trying to learn as I go I love it and wnat to make it last have a nice gardening day
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Fencer
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welcome to the forum! I had a squirel last year that would get one tomatoe from my garden, go up a tree, take a bite, drop it, then go get another. I wouldn't mind sharing with an occasional squirrel if he'd eat the whole thing. very frustrating. I've already posted my list of veggies I'm growing this year, but left out raddish's (first time to grow them). I'm trying them in pots too.
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker
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