OT: Anyone doing vegtable gardens… what’s in your garden.

[UCGal]

I remember a year or two ago there was a thread where people talked about what food they were growing… Since I just came in from my first harvest of the season… it’s on my mind.

Here’s what we’ve got going.
– Tomatos… big ones and lots of cherry/grape size ones. The first of the grape tomotoes have ripened and are getting eaten by the kids as quick as they turn orange. The bigger ones are still green.
– Sugar snap peas. Just harvested enough to serve for our fathers day dinner tomorrow. They’re super sweet and yummy.
– pole green beans… they seem to be struggling. I just planted another area, this time with more compost mixed in with the crappy soil.
– bush green beans… again, not doing as well as last year.
– yellow wax beans (aka butter beans)… they were put in later so I’m still waiting.
– several varieties of peppers.
– watermelon
– summer squash.
– plus the usual fruit trees – naval orange, blood orange, lime, lemon, apricot, nectarine, peach.

What’s in your garden?

[jpinpb]

First, I want to say I’m jealous of your yard. While I like the townhouse we’re renting w/the ocean view, I miss having a yard.

But I’m making do. On my balcony I’ve managed to squeeze in a lot of plants (many dwarf). I’ve got:

one grape tomato producing about 7 tomatoes
two different blueberry bushes bearing fruit
a dwarf meyer lemon – only one lemon, but lots of buds
himrod grapes growing in a big tub that actually has 5 bunches
my cabernet grape is too young to produce
a dwarf nectarine bearing 7 fruit
a dwarf peach w/some buds
a bears lime w/one lime, but some buds.
a dwarf red apple that doesn’t like the pot and doesn’t want to produce yet (though not in season, I don’t think, but flowering)
an olive plant, but quite nascient. I don’t expect anything for quite a while.
And some herbs: rosemary, oregano, lemon thyme and lavendar.

I love sugar snap peas and green beens. That’s so cool that you can just go to your yard and grab them for dinner. Wish I could grow them. I just don’t have the space. I’m at capacity on my balcony 🙁 I have not had much luck w/peppers.

I’d like to try to get a fig, but those like being in the ground.

[jpinpb]

First, I want to say I’m jealous of your yard. While I like the townhouse we’re renting w/the ocean view, I miss having a yard.

But I’m making do. On my balcony I’ve managed to squeeze in a lot of plants (many dwarf). I’ve got:

one grape tomato producing about 7 tomatoes
two different blueberry bushes bearing fruit
a dwarf meyer lemon – only one lemon, but lots of buds
himrod grapes growing in a big tub that actually has 5 bunches
my cabernet grape is too young to produce
a dwarf nectarine bearing 7 fruit
a dwarf peach w/some buds
a bears lime w/one lime, but some buds.
a dwarf red apple that doesn’t like the pot and doesn’t want to produce yet (though not in season, I don’t think, but flowering)
an olive plant, but quite nascient. I don’t expect anything for quite a while.
And some herbs: rosemary, oregano, lemon thyme and lavendar.

I love sugar snap peas and green beens. That’s so cool that you can just go to your yard and grab them for dinner. Wish I could grow them. I just don’t have the space. I’m at capacity on my balcony 🙁 I have not had much luck w/peppers.

I’d like to try to get a fig, but those like being in the ground.

[jpinpb]

First, I want to say I’m jealous of your yard. While I like the townhouse we’re renting w/the ocean view, I miss having a yard.

But I’m making do. On my balcony I’ve managed to squeeze in a lot of plants (many dwarf). I’ve got:

one grape tomato producing about 7 tomatoes
two different blueberry bushes bearing fruit
a dwarf meyer lemon – only one lemon, but lots of buds
himrod grapes growing in a big tub that actually has 5 bunches
my cabernet grape is too young to produce
a dwarf nectarine bearing 7 fruit
a dwarf peach w/some buds
a bears lime w/one lime, but some buds.
a dwarf red apple that doesn’t like the pot and doesn’t want to produce yet (though not in season, I don’t think, but flowering)
an olive plant, but quite nascient. I don’t expect anything for quite a while.
And some herbs: rosemary, oregano, lemon thyme and lavendar.

I love sugar snap peas and green beens. That’s so cool that you can just go to your yard and grab them for dinner. Wish I could grow them. I just don’t have the space. I’m at capacity on my balcony 🙁 I have not had much luck w/peppers.

I’d like to try to get a fig, but those like being in the ground.

[jpinpb]

First, I want to say I’m jealous of your yard. While I like the townhouse we’re renting w/the ocean view, I miss having a yard.

But I’m making do. On my balcony I’ve managed to squeeze in a lot of plants (many dwarf). I’ve got:

one grape tomato producing about 7 tomatoes
two different blueberry bushes bearing fruit
a dwarf meyer lemon – only one lemon, but lots of buds
himrod grapes growing in a big tub that actually has 5 bunches
my cabernet grape is too young to produce
a dwarf nectarine bearing 7 fruit
a dwarf peach w/some buds
a bears lime w/one lime, but some buds.
a dwarf red apple that doesn’t like the pot and doesn’t want to produce yet (though not in season, I don’t think, but flowering)
an olive plant, but quite nascient. I don’t expect anything for quite a while.
And some herbs: rosemary, oregano, lemon thyme and lavendar.

I love sugar snap peas and green beens. That’s so cool that you can just go to your yard and grab them for dinner. Wish I could grow them. I just don’t have the space. I’m at capacity on my balcony 🙁 I have not had much luck w/peppers.

I’d like to try to get a fig, but those like being in the ground.

[jpinpb]

First, I want to say I’m jealous of your yard. While I like the townhouse we’re renting w/the ocean view, I miss having a yard.

But I’m making do. On my balcony I’ve managed to squeeze in a lot of plants (many dwarf). I’ve got:

one grape tomato producing about 7 tomatoes
two different blueberry bushes bearing fruit
a dwarf meyer lemon – only one lemon, but lots of buds
himrod grapes growing in a big tub that actually has 5 bunches
my cabernet grape is too young to produce
a dwarf nectarine bearing 7 fruit
a dwarf peach w/some buds
a bears lime w/one lime, but some buds.
a dwarf red apple that doesn’t like the pot and doesn’t want to produce yet (though not in season, I don’t think, but flowering)
an olive plant, but quite nascient. I don’t expect anything for quite a while.
And some herbs: rosemary, oregano, lemon thyme and lavendar.

I love sugar snap peas and green beens. That’s so cool that you can just go to your yard and grab them for dinner. Wish I could grow them. I just don’t have the space. I’m at capacity on my balcony 🙁 I have not had much luck w/peppers.

I’d like to try to get a fig, but those like being in the ground.

[mike92104]

We haven’t started the garden yet, but we have started a worm box. Hopefully we’ll get some pretty decent soil from it.

[mike92104]

We haven’t started the garden yet, but we have started a worm box. Hopefully we’ll get some pretty decent soil from it.

[mike92104]

We haven’t started the garden yet, but we have started a worm box. Hopefully we’ll get some pretty decent soil from it.

[mike92104]

We haven’t started the garden yet, but we have started a worm box. Hopefully we’ll get some pretty decent soil from it.

[mike92104]

We haven’t started the garden yet, but we have started a worm box. Hopefully we’ll get some pretty decent soil from it.

[NotCranky]

Hi UGgal,

I started building a garden last father’s day and haven’t stopped since.We grew corn and pumpkins only.following that I had my first fall/winter garden ever. The learning curve kicked my butt. There were some good results with many cool season crops once I got the hang of things. The soil is becoming excellent and I have lots of compost/ fertilizer reserves.

We are just finishing harvesting cool season produce. The fennel bulbs are just now swelling.

At 2000 feet I am a ways behind you with the summer annual vegetatbles. It’s been a cold spring and an earwig infestation out there set me back too. Overall though, I am pleased.Some off the crops I am going to list will “underperform” due to inexperience with them.As you know, stuff happens. I am just working on the timing and cultural practices.

I am practicing with lettuce in the shade.
Stawberries, (Much easier than I thought)
Tomatos( variety)
eggplant
peppers,
corn,4 staggered stands so far
pumpkins,Including some that can get pretty big.
Watermelon (3 kinds)
beets
Basil (harvest plenty and will keep planting)
Summer squash
Butternut squash(winter)
Honeydew
Cantaloupe
cucumbers
runner beans (just enough to practice/study with)

I very much want this delicious lettuce we have been getting to be available with ripe homegrown tomatos. We will see.

My other medium sized project has been starting blackberries. So far they are going gangbusters.

I think I am not much of an orchardist but there are some stone fruit trees and a few apples, that have been out there in the yard about 4 years now doing better than ever. Citrus planted at the same time is producing great oranges every winter through spring with the number of fruit increasing each year. Next year there should be a thousand oranges and grapefruits or more, some of which are something like gift quality.

[NotCranky]

Hi UGgal,

I started building a garden last father’s day and haven’t stopped since.We grew corn and pumpkins only.following that I had my first fall/winter garden ever. The learning curve kicked my butt. There were some good results with many cool season crops once I got the hang of things. The soil is becoming excellent and I have lots of compost/ fertilizer reserves.

We are just finishing harvesting cool season produce. The fennel bulbs are just now swelling.

At 2000 feet I am a ways behind you with the summer annual vegetatbles. It’s been a cold spring and an earwig infestation out there set me back too. Overall though, I am pleased.Some off the crops I am going to list will “underperform” due to inexperience with them.As you know, stuff happens. I am just working on the timing and cultural practices.

I am practicing with lettuce in the shade.
Stawberries, (Much easier than I thought)
Tomatos( variety)
eggplant
peppers,
corn,4 staggered stands so far
pumpkins,Including some that can get pretty big.
Watermelon (3 kinds)
beets
Basil (harvest plenty and will keep planting)
Summer squash
Butternut squash(winter)
Honeydew
Cantaloupe
cucumbers
runner beans (just enough to practice/study with)

I very much want this delicious lettuce we have been getting to be available with ripe homegrown tomatos. We will see.

My other medium sized project has been starting blackberries. So far they are going gangbusters.

I think I am not much of an orchardist but there are some stone fruit trees and a few apples, that have been out there in the yard about 4 years now doing better than ever. Citrus planted at the same time is producing great oranges every winter through spring with the number of fruit increasing each year. Next year there should be a thousand oranges and grapefruits or more, some of which are something like gift quality.

[NotCranky]

Hi UGgal,

I started building a garden last father’s day and haven’t stopped since.We grew corn and pumpkins only.following that I had my first fall/winter garden ever. The learning curve kicked my butt. There were some good results with many cool season crops once I got the hang of things. The soil is becoming excellent and I have lots of compost/ fertilizer reserves.

We are just finishing harvesting cool season produce. The fennel bulbs are just now swelling.

At 2000 feet I am a ways behind you with the summer annual vegetatbles. It’s been a cold spring and an earwig infestation out there set me back too. Overall though, I am pleased.Some off the crops I am going to list will “underperform” due to inexperience with them.As you know, stuff happens. I am just working on the timing and cultural practices.

I am practicing with lettuce in the shade.
Stawberries, (Much easier than I thought)
Tomatos( variety)
eggplant
peppers,
corn,4 staggered stands so far
pumpkins,Including some that can get pretty big.
Watermelon (3 kinds)
beets
Basil (harvest plenty and will keep planting)
Summer squash
Butternut squash(winter)
Honeydew
Cantaloupe
cucumbers
runner beans (just enough to practice/study with)

I very much want this delicious lettuce we have been getting to be available with ripe homegrown tomatos. We will see.

My other medium sized project has been starting blackberries. So far they are going gangbusters.

I think I am not much of an orchardist but there are some stone fruit trees and a few apples, that have been out there in the yard about 4 years now doing better than ever. Citrus planted at the same time is producing great oranges every winter through spring with the number of fruit increasing each year. Next year there should be a thousand oranges and grapefruits or more, some of which are something like gift quality.

[NotCranky]

Hi UGgal,

I started building a garden last father’s day and haven’t stopped since.We grew corn and pumpkins only.following that I had my first fall/winter garden ever. The learning curve kicked my butt. There were some good results with many cool season crops once I got the hang of things. The soil is becoming excellent and I have lots of compost/ fertilizer reserves.

We are just finishing harvesting cool season produce. The fennel bulbs are just now swelling.

At 2000 feet I am a ways behind you with the summer annual vegetatbles. It’s been a cold spring and an earwig infestation out there set me back too. Overall though, I am pleased.Some off the crops I am going to list will “underperform” due to inexperience with them.As you know, stuff happens. I am just working on the timing and cultural practices.

I am practicing with lettuce in the shade.
Stawberries, (Much easier than I thought)
Tomatos( variety)
eggplant
peppers,
corn,4 staggered stands so far
pumpkins,Including some that can get pretty big.
Watermelon (3 kinds)
beets
Basil (harvest plenty and will keep planting)
Summer squash
Butternut squash(winter)
Honeydew
Cantaloupe
cucumbers
runner beans (just enough to practice/study with)

I very much want this delicious lettuce we have been getting to be available with ripe homegrown tomatos. We will see.

My other medium sized project has been starting blackberries. So far they are going gangbusters.

I think I am not much of an orchardist but there are some stone fruit trees and a few apples, that have been out there in the yard about 4 years now doing better than ever. Citrus planted at the same time is producing great oranges every winter through spring with the number of fruit increasing each year. Next year there should be a thousand oranges and grapefruits or more, some of which are something like gift quality.

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