What Do You Grow in Your Garden

[mjrube94]

Re: What Do You Grow in Your Garden

BillsGirl, you don't need a lot of space for an herb garden. I have two window-box sized containers. You could either go that route, or put a few on a windowsill that gets sunlight. It may be worth trying...

[CheaplyClever]

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BillsGirl, you don't need a lot of space for an herb garden. I have two window-box sized containers. You could either go that route, or put a few on a windowsill that gets sunlight. It may be worth trying...

You're right. Herbs don't mind small containers or even indoor settings. A pot of parsley and a pot of chives are good starters. (Fresh chives on potatoes, yum)

If your kitchen is really dark, place them close to a light bulb. And don't forget to water once a week.

[JBinKC]

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Just tomatoes and hot peppers which I preserve whole and in homemade salsa . Unfortuantely my neighbor planted a tree that will shade my entire front yard in a few years. I also occasionally forage for dandelion greens and pick and preserve from my red mulberry, pawpaw and hackberry trees on my small urban property. If I had more sunlight available I would put in dwarf fruit trees.

[cicy33]

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I have tomatoes, green peppers, hot peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and will have onions soon. I have the same bunny problem, BB gun helps alot! But I don't like to watch or know when cuz I feel bad for the scuzzy little rodents who ate all 10 of my tomato plants first time they were planted!

[34saving]

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Our house came with strawberries, spearmint, peppermint, chives, and oregano (along with lots of stuff I don't think is edible though you're welcome to my dandylions if you like -- I dug out over 2000 of them this spring!) I know what to do with the strawberries and chives. Any ideas what to do with the mints and oregano?

[PrincessPerky]

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mint jelly and mint jelup and mint tea, Oragano can be dried, I think it is easy, but I never actually saw it, anyway it is that old italien red sauce stuff.

I love the smell of mint in the summer, Step mom used to have a lot in her farm, course it was a horse farm, the mint was 'wild'. I owuld love to grow some, but we will see if I can even get the carrots to grow.

[fultron]

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We tried to grow tomatoes last year but the animals ate them all. We tried again this year and put up some chicken wire to keep them out. we'll see what happens.

My mother-in-law has a huge garden with tomatoes, basil, green beans, squash, grapes, raspberries, and a fig tree.

[momma4]

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I found a product called Flower pot Tomato they guarrantee it to grow and sure enough I have 6 plants so far I am growing them in my window sil. I got it at Walmart for only 94¢ it is definately going to make its money's worth. I still have plenty of seeds left I am going to clean out some yogurt cups and grow some more we will see in a month or so if I have any tomatoes

[PrincessPerky]

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The carrots are growing !!!!!

Not enough for a 'harvest' or anything, but we go dig up a handful (they are baby carrots) and the kids get a snack, I love that the treat is so healthy and easy!

Anyone know the easiest berry to grow? I would like to have a fruit treat next year, but I am not a good gardener.

Oh and anyone know when to plant a pumpkin if you wanted to grow your own for halloween?

[Some1Shy]

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well in our garden we have a lot of trees and flowers apart from that...we grow..

italian string beans.a big bush of them we pick them and they grow back super quick..

4 types of tomatoes...big tomatoes so we can use them for puree tomatoe sauce..little orange sweet tomatoes..little red tomatoes..and regular tomatoes..

pumpkins.. we should have at least 5 pumpkins before halloween!!

1 pot of strawberries but they were crawling out of the pot to the tomatoes so we cut a bit and put it in another pot so we can have more strawberries..But it seems the snails like the straw berries i see a little bite on them sometimes lol..

apple tree..but there sour ones cuz there small plus there cookin apples lol..

oh and we have a herbs garden to with a lot of herbs in there not sure how many different types ..but next time we want to grow even more types..

thats it

[robex]

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This year we grew two different kinds of lettuce, tomatoes, corn, carrots that didn't grow, radishes, zucchini and cucumber.
My brother also has a big garden, so we share with eachother.
I love not having to shop for vegetables!

[momma4]

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WHOo hoo got sproutlings for my tomatoes. It is only time to see if I get some I was also wondering besides herbs and tomatoes is there anything else I can grow in pots? I know I probly asked before but my brain is forgetful.

[momma4]

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WHOo hoo got sproutlings for my tomatoes. It is only time to see if I get some I was also wondering besides herbs and tomatoes is there anything else I can grow in pots? I know I probly asked before but my brain is forgetful.

forgot to add we lost 4 sproutlings the kids were playing with them and dumped them on the floor then my dh spilt them UGH I can't win so I put them outside and I have 2 good sproutlings going one in front and one in back this will give me an idea which directions is better east or west LOL

[TBH]

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I love the smell of mint in the summer, Step mom used to have a lot in her farm, course it was a horse farm, the mint was 'wild'. I owuld love to grow some, but we will see if I can even get the carrots to grow.

Mint is very easy, but be careful! It takes over. I have some spearmint in a pot this year but don't know what I'll do with it. If you want to grow regular mint, you could try burying a flowerpot with the mint planted in it. I've heard that keeps invasive plants from spreading but I've never tried it. I also have memories of picking mint in my mom's garden as a kid. My sister used it to make sun tea (mint in a glass gallon jar of water, set in the sun all day).

[frugalfarmwife]

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I've got tomatoes, carrots, peppers, sweet corn, cukes, lettuce, beans, okra, summer squash and a hybrid acorn squash/pumpkin cross (oops!) the "squashkin" as we call it is really pretty good, tastes like a mild acorn squash and is HUGE, oh and also have cow peas and cantelope.

I'm freezing enough to make it through the winter, we also have a steer in the freezer and hope to buy a hog at the fair, the 4H kids auction them off after showing, nothing like home grown! (the steer we raised ourself)

Also TONS of wild cat nip which makes my barn cats worthless at their jobs

KJ