What are you planning to grow in your garden?

[bromeliad]

I just noticed that the snowdrops were coming up (a month early), so here is a question for all you cats and kittens who like listening to You Bet Your Garden and such.

What are you planning on growing in your vegetable or flower garden this year?

I usually enjoy planting hot peppers, ornamental peppers, sunflowers, unusual heirloom pumpkins, and sweet peas. I also plan on trying strawberries using hanging planters this year.

[dblandon]

I'm renting a house, so I don't have much that I can grow. My garden is largely inside, and rather sparse. I'm hoping to be able to grow some more plants when I move in May!

At the moment the only useful plant I'm growing is mint, for the occasional cocktail. Much cheaper to grow than buy! I'm growing it inside, because as soon as you plant it outside it goes everywhere.

[thegrinder]

Put the mint in a pot, dig a hole and put the pot into said hole, cover with soil. Old trick my Mom used to stop the mint from spreading.

[jumpingRabbit]

I'm renting a house, so I don't have much that I can grow. My garden is largely inside, and rather sparse. I'm hoping to be able to grow some more plants when I move in May!

At the moment the only useful plant I'm growing is mint, for the occasional cocktail. Much cheaper to grow than buy! I'm growing it inside, because as soon as you plant it outside it goes everywhere.

Tomatoes grow in pots! So do squash! then you can move 'em!

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It's very far from spring here, but for winter and early spring I have radishes (need to plant a new batch), broccoli, beets, chard, sweet potatoes, garlic, onions, carrots.

This summer we'll have tomatoes surrounded by carrots, winter squashes, patty pan squash, hoping to try cassava, turkish orange eggplant, basil, and hopefully some beans, and more stuff that I haven't planned out yet.

Oh yeah, jerusalem artichokes (or "sunchokes")! And potatoes!

[gopats11]

I'm renting a house, so I don't have much that I can grow. My garden is largely inside, and rather sparse. I'm hoping to be able to grow some more plants when I move in May!

At the moment the only useful plant I'm growing is mint, for the occasional cocktail. Much cheaper to grow than buy! I'm growing it inside, because as soon as you plant it outside it goes everywhere.

As jumping Rabbit said tomatoes do great in pots. Another thing I love to do is plant cherry tomatoes in hanging planters, even those cheap plastic ones left over from last year's dead plant you had hanging from your porch. They do awesome in those! If you don't pack them too tight you'll get quite a harvest from them!

[ccjp]

I'll be planting tomatoes, cucumbers, leaf lettuce, bell peppers,beans and sugar snap peas. That's all I know of for sure, I'd like to put a few blueberry bushes in but I've heard they take a while to produce fruit. Oh, and strawberries, I'll be planting strawberries this year too

[Rosemary]

Bromeliad, what sunflowers do you grow? I was just thinking about trying some of them this year. I wanted to be able to eat the sunflower seeds, and I wondered which types taste best...any suggestions? I guess I'll have to put netting on them to keep the birds away. I'm also thinking about pumpkins, to grow to eat the seeds.

We always grow a variety of peppers, since that is the one things the bugs leave alone. Each year I try tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, and lettuce, but often the bugs get more of the veggies than we do. Herbs do well for me, so I always grow oregano, rosemary, thyme, and sage. I dry the herbs to use throughout the year, and that saves a lot of money. If you don't have a lot of garden space, try growing the herbs in pots.

[gopats11]

Bromeliad, what sunflowers do you grow? I was just thinking about trying some of them this year. I wanted to be able to eat the sunflower seeds, and I wondered which types taste best...any suggestions? I guess I'll have to put netting on them to keep the birds away. I'm also thinking about pumpkins, to grow to eat the seeds.

We always grow a variety of peppers, since that is the one things the bugs leave alone. Each year I try tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, and lettuce, but often the bugs get more of the veggies than we do. Herbs do well for me, so I always grow oregano, rosemary, thyme, and sage. I dry the herbs to use throughout the year, and that saves a lot of money. If you don't have a lot of garden space, try growing the herbs in pots.

I'm not sure what region you live in but I'm in New England and last year (since you mentioned bug problems) these really nasty fat grub type things killed all our pumpkin plants along with everyone else I know around here who had them. Buggers! I'm pretty sure there's something you can do to prevent them I'd look into if you're going to try pumpkins. Good luck with your garden!

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We are going to grow cukes, a few types of tomatoes, leaf lettuce, bell peppers, pumpkins, zucchini, summer squash. We've had great luck in the past with all but the pumpkins. Can't wait for some fresh tomatoes, there's nothing better!

[bromeliad]

I'm not sure what region you live in but I'm in New England and last year (since you mentioned bug problems) these really nasty fat grub type things killed all our pumpkin plants along with everyone else I know around here who had them. Buggers! I'm pretty sure there's something you can do to prevent them I'd look into if you're going to try pumpkins. Good luck with your garden!

The pest in question is the squash vine borer. Heck, I knew the buggers were coming and despite my valiant efforts, I still lost four out of 6 pumpkin vines last year.

[gopats11]

The pest in question is the squash vine borer. Heck, I knew the buggers were coming and despite my valiant efforts, I still lost four out of 6 pumpkin vines last year.

Gah, yeah that's the one. So I don't suppose you know of any way to prevent the bugger? I'd love to be able to grow them this year, my boys were looking forward to doing carving their self-grown pumpkins and I think they are beautiful plants I enjoyed watching them spread before dying.

I saw your post on "trap crops", I think I'll try and see if that works on these particular pests. Thanks!

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May I ask how you all do stuff in hanging baskets? Don't tomatoes need to stand upright? I'm new at this stuff (did my first garden last year) and could use all the advice and knowledge one can get!

Thanks!

I've only done cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets and they do wonderfully. Just plant it like you would in the ground and it takes care of itself...hangs down instead of growing up. YUM! You can put a couple plants per pot but don't pack them too tight.