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Posted by: coasterqueen Mar 27 2009, 07:50 AM |
I have 8 6x6 garden beds to decide what to put in each. I'm going to do hanging tomatoes this year, after talking with Dh about it this morning, so I have more room than normal. I know I'll do a bed of corn, green beans, potatoes, lettuce/broccoli. I also have a bed that has strawberries in it. I usually do cucumbers and carrots, but Dh said he thought we should skip the carrots this year. I think I'm going to try peas as well. So I have two more beds to fill. |
Posted by: Brias3 Mar 27 2009, 09:58 PM |
I always do peppers. Also, depending on the amount of room you have around the beds, eggplant can be good. I grow it every year, but the plants grow out, not up as much, so I always have to allow for plenty of space around the radius. |
Posted by: boyohboyohboy Mar 28 2009, 11:21 AM |
I am doing hanging tomato plants. and spinach and carrots and peppers. then pumpkins and watermelon for the kids garden. I may also see about doing some herbs this year |
Posted by: BAC'sMom Mar 28 2009, 05:19 PM |
I planted tomatoes, broccoli and cabbage in October. Last month I planted onions, potatoes, green beans, 2 kinds of squash and cucumbers. I'll put in a few other things in the next few weeks. |
Posted by: coasterqueen Mar 30 2009, 05:09 AM | ||
oooh onions....I completely forgot about those. I think I'll add those this year. I think we did them one of the first years we did a garden. We are definitely using onions quite a bit and will more now that spring is here and will be cooking on the grill more. Thanks. ![]() |
Posted by: BAC'sMom Mar 30 2009, 05:52 AM | ||||
I went ahead and harvested cabbage yesterday. I ended up with 6 good heads of cabbage. I cooked some up last night and darn it was good if I do say so myself. Now I need to find something to replace the plants I took out. I am thinking about some eggplant but not sure what else. ![]() |
Posted by: coasterqueen Mar 30 2009, 05:59 AM | ||||||
Wow! So is that what you get out of one season for cabbage? I've thought about planting it as we use it in roasts, but we don't use a TON of cabbage. |
Posted by: BAC'sMom Mar 30 2009, 09:04 AM |
I normally plant two kinds of cabbage but this year I only planted one. Like I said these plants were put in back in October. Out of the 9 plants I planted I got 6 “good” cabbages. I planted about the same amount of broccoli and got a good bit too. But season in over for us because it’s getting to hot. It was 93* here Friday! I planted Eggplant, Bell pepper, Banana pepper, Watermelon and Cantaloupes this morning. Here's another picture of the cabbage ![]() |
Posted by: Boo&BugsMom Apr 5 2009, 12:00 PM |
How do you make hanging tomato planters??? I really want to do that this year. Last year our tomatoes took over the entire garden! We have a very small space, but if I hung the tomato it would save a lot of space. I also might use some above ground planters this year too. Last year we planted: tomatoes wax beans green beans strawberries (they're a perrenial so they come up every year) jalapeno peppers green peppers cucumbers I'd like to plant cantaloupe, but our garden is just too small for it. I think I might grow a few corn stalks and zuchinni this year as well. |
Posted by: coasterqueen Apr 6 2009, 05:40 AM | ||
Here is the link someone else gave on here awhile back and is how Ryan is going to do ours: http://urbangardencasual.com/2008/05/27/upside-down-tomatoes/ We tilled up our garden this weekend and added some more dirt. We also bought all our seeds so we are ready to plant....if it would stop snowing. ![]() So we are going to do: Tomatoes (regular size and grape tomatoes) Strawberries Corn Green beans Peas Mush Melon Watermelon Baby carrots Cucumbers Onions Potatoes Brocolli ETA: Lettuce I think that's it. ![]() |
Posted by: Boo&BugsMom Apr 6 2009, 05:50 AM |
I wonder how many other veggies you could do upside down??? ![]() I think I may try that with my beans too. Hum.... ![]() ETA: Thanks Karen!!! ![]() |
Posted by: luvmykids Apr 6 2009, 06:10 AM |
You guys are making me want to garden! I don't have a place to do it though, and DH won't get around to making me any raised beds in time so I'm going to give container gardening a shot. So far all I have is tomatos, I'm still doing my research on what to do and what to do it in. |
Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife Apr 6 2009, 06:30 AM |
I am seriously slacking this season. Mostly due to lack of space.. and moving again in the summer.. so, no point. I've got a few cherry tomato plants going now, they're only a few inches grown. ![]() I have some parsley plants and basil plants going, too. I haven't bothered with the rest, although I'd like to, it just isn't feasible this year. ![]() ![]() |
Posted by: PrairieMom Apr 21 2009, 05:20 AM |
I have way to much for my little garden, so I am branching out to the strip along my garage too. ![]() This year I have raspberries blueberries strawberries rhubarb asparagus then I am putting in cherry tomatoes big tomatoes corn green, red, and orange bell peppers acorn squash broccoli pickling cucumbers big cucumbers red onion yellow onion potatoes peas garlic and I will have dill and chives growing in a container on my deck. wow. that is a lot. ![]() ![]() |
Posted by: coasterqueen Apr 21 2009, 05:21 AM |
You have too much time on your hands, Tara. Can you come over and help me out? I barely find time in the day to do a load of laundry or wash a cup. ![]() ![]() |