What's in YOUR garden?

[starsevol]

We finally finished the planting yesterday. We have tomatos, bell peppers, rutabagas, purple-top turnips, red onions, snap peas, green beans, kohlrabi, head lettuce, leaf lettuce, spinach, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, summer squash, rhubarb and some wild squash that sprang up from last year that is either patty-pan, summer or acorn.

 

[Shiari]

I wish I had a proper garden. I have some tomatoes and a bush-style green bean and a single thing of maize. The rest of my porch is taken up with the various tree saplings I have. 2 Avocados, three oaks, 1 japanese maple, 1 apricot, 1 pine, 1 grapefruit and a raspberry vine.

 

[Susielea]

Aww Beth, you can't make a post like this without a couple of photos to show off your efforts. You could even post progression shots, as things grow

I'm living vicariously this year, my little patch won't be ready for planting until next year

 

[whippet]

I planted Zinnias, Marigolds, Geraniums, daisys, and other fun flowers in the Garden Lauren built for us. We are thinking of doing a tomatoe or two in pots because the city rats ate them when they were in a traditional garden.

 

[tom e]

I've got a little patch in front of the condo we rent, but we just have flowers. I WISH I could grow some food there, but we have this enormous tree that shades it all day long. It's both pro and con in that way I guess. We did plant some herbs and some blackberries, but haven't seen any berries yet.. My other garden is my fish tank. (That needs a bumper sticker!)

I agree we need pictures!

 

[Carinata]

.......grass

 

[Hypancistrus]

I planted Zinnias, Marigolds, Geraniums, daisys, and other fun flowers in the Garden Lauren built for us. We are thinking of doing a tomatoe or two in pots because the city rats ate them when they were in a traditional garden.

What she said... I am going to try and grow cherry tomatos in pots along with bell peppers. And I planted some leaf lettuce along the front of Tara's garden... shh don't tell her... and it's just now sprouting!

 

[ZoologyGirl]

As of now I don't have a garden. I plan on making some small raised bed gardens this year so that I can plant next year. So this year all I have is a tomato plant in a pot.

 

[Nanci]

Right now all I have is pick your own strawberries in the box turtle pen. I am not sure how long in the season they will keep fruiting. Last year I had three tomato plants. The Roma produced at least a pound a day. I gave them away to everyone I know. I am so sick of tomatoes. It got at least 12 feet in diameter forget the stakes, it grew up the hybiscus and redbud it was crazy!!!

I'd like to make a raised bed garden but I don't know what I'd grow in it. I don't know how to garden in Florida.

 

[JoannaD]

Beth you must have an enormous amount of space!

We planted tomatoes (cherry, grape and regular), red, orange and jalapeno peppers, cucumber, zucchini, basil, oregano, thyme, parsley, cilantro, eggplant, pumpkin, butternut squash and brussel sprouts. We'll see what grows. This is only our second year doing this and I think we had beginners luck last year!

We also have strawberries, blueberries and I planted a raspberry bush but I don't think I gave it enough space.

 

[Nanci]

Ooh, I want blueberries! My whole fence line has wild blackberries yum!

 

[ghosthousecorns]

no veggies yet, thanks to the fact most of mine is in the shade of a big sycamore. I threw some shade mix wildflower seeds back there to see if anything takes. I have some planters on the south side, waiting for violas and pansies to die back before putting some tomatoes in. I have some nice perennials though, iris is just starting to bloom, primroses are about done. Roses are budding, rhodies either blooming or about to. For not having much space it looks OK.

 

[snakemom1961]

I miss having a garden. Living in an apartment doesn't lend itself to having a garden sadly. In the past I always had tomatoes, green beans, zucchini squash, acorn squash and carrots.
I loved gardening and hope someday to be able to do it again.

 

[Nanci]

Do you have a patio or a balcony? You could grow plenty of tomatoes and strawberries in pots!

 

[crackerhead]

I miss having a garden. Living in an apartment doesn't lend itself to having a garden sadly.

When in grad school living in a second floor apartment, I had a screened balcony that I grew veggies, flowers and sod/grass on. It was like having a little upstairs backyard. I'm a firm believer in when there is a will there is a way. And anybody who knows me at all can tell you how willful I am.
Terri

 

[snakemom1961]

That is what I had hoped for before I moved in here, but the only apartment available at the time was a basement apartment without a walkout or deck of any sort.
All the upstairs apartments have their own decks but sadly I'm not in one of them...lol

 

[RobbiesCornField]

Diddly squat. And I prefer it that way. I don't have to weed or anything!

 

[mvervest]

We have bananaplants(to be insulated at wintertime) and palmtrees .
We have 5 and many more morphs of salads for the Testudo Hermanni and some summer vegetables for summersalads by BBQ .
Here some pix .

 

[Nanci]

How the heck do you insulate those??? What kind are they? Or is that the five different types. I really want a banana. In my zone, I think they freeze back but regrow in the spring. Do you only need one for pollination?

 

[mvervest]

How the heck do you insulate those??? What kind are they? Or is that the five different types. I really want a banana. In my zone, I think they freeze back but regrow in the spring. Do you only need one for pollination?

Pictures with insulation for winter . They are Musa Basjoo , one off the strongest survivors of winter in Belgium .
No the 5 types are my different morphs of salads . I will look for pics or make them . This year is was -18°C , so they froze back to groundlevel but are coming back yet