What are you growing this year?

We had frosts this past weekend, so don't have any tomatoes or chiles in the ground yet (have some starts waiting), but put in kale, lettuce, peas, cabbage, onions, and cauliflower.   Also have garlic, herbs, and additional kale and cabbage that overwintered.   

By May, I should have a lot more going and need to stop by the pot shop for some clones.

I'm no longer feeding the deer.  I'm only planting Ilex Crenata. 

I'm jealous of your raised beds, Mark. My yard is overrun (underrun?) with ground squirrels and gophers, so everything I plant goes in containers. I'm looking to buy a house later this year or early next year though, so maybe then I can take my garden to the next level.

I just got some seeds in the mail today for some bloomers I'll be planting in the next week or so: marigolds, snapdragons, two-tone sunflowers, and zinnias. I also have some seeds for Oriental poppies, California poppies, and catnip from last year that I need to get started soon, and some leftover Poblano chile seeds too. I'll also pick up a grape or cherry tomato plant; I like the smaller varieties because I tend to get less waste with them. The conventional wisdom p where I live is to not put your tomatoes outdoors until after Mother's Day, which is early this year, so I'll probably wait until the middle of next month for those.

I started my cannabis crop indoors about three and a half weeks ago, and things are looking good so far, although I have one strain, a Pineapple, that's not doing well at all; the person who gave me the seeds had the same kinds of problems I'm seeing, so it's not just me. The other five strains I have going are looking pretty darn good, and I'm excited to continue the experiment with mainlining I started last year. I'm blogging that part of my garden here:

https://vivalazone.org/cannabis/cool-blog-bro-my-2021-garden-journal

Real estate in SoCal has been running higher than usual lately, Mark, so I'm hoping things cool down a bit before I take the plunge.

>>>What are you growing this year?

so far, a lingering resentment for rocky, red clay soil.  I need to build a raised bed this year and, hopefully,  grow next year.

Nice garden, Mark. I miss growing garlic the most.  

((((((((((House for mike)))))))))))

 

I'm growing my waistline.

That's about it.

Can't really start planting in VT until late May. You can risk it, and early planting may work out, but a week of rain in the 40s and 50s, and everything gets stunted or rots.

My garden used to be about 1,000 sq/ft. It's now about 100. Last year, for the first time in 30 years, I didn't do a garden. Too much surgery and recovery to deal. This year I'm going to do a manageable 250 sq/ft.

I miss the fresh garlic. I'll have to get some new seed-stock this Fall.

Credit to my wifes back yard, she plants and tends to 90% of it all.

Our season is out of winter and moving to summer, tomatoes are re-vegging, onions, carrots, radishes are finishing up, eggplant is going good year round, peppers and green beans are finishing.

Blue Dream 27" Ready in 6-8 days Auto Flower

One of my heirlooms three weeks since emerging. My cat Murphy loves greens and thinks they're all for him.

I still have way too much dried heirloom from last year. Didn't help that my friends did too and gave me some. I may stick with heirloom tomatoes this season.

 

I saved the seeds and sprouted them indoors and already put a few in the outdoor pots. 

Make hash?

Maybe. I'm pretty happy with my stash and a couple of friends grew some 'shrooms and well, I'm set. Not a heavy user and all of my friends that are also have more than enough. 
 

*if we have family visiting this summer though, all bets are off and the stash will get depleted fast. might plant one girl, just to be on the safe side.

hair

nothing, down to the last two weeks of living in the home we have had for the past 17 years, one more trip around the yard with the lawn mower and my grass cutting days are thru. I have already stopped with the monthly maintenance of weeding, seeding and fertilizing, and up keep of plants and flowers

Fabes

They are finally putting you in the home they have been threatening for years?

Good luck Pops, Tapioca is good.

I've got Thai basil growing from seed, cilantro, parsley and scallions. Staples around here. 

All the usual's plus my Mexican sunflowers started early indoors this year.

I can finally have (4) legal plants in VA starting this summer.

Gonna have to pull out the old green thumb from my sketchier early days.

Lots and lots of legal weed. Many varieties. 

Hopefully the next owner likes pineapples 

 

and weeds with purple flowers

 

 

T - hopefully my mushroom maintenance program keeps me out of any home, and more fishing should also help

I was hoping to get some bloomers planted this week, but it's been getting down in the low 30s the last few nights, and hasn't gotten much out of the 50s during the days. It looks like we have a little warm up coming next week though, so maybe I'll get some stuff done then.

Great thread, kidz- "keep on growin'"?  (Couldn't resist.)

 

^^^ Tim with the "Staghorn fern" of the century up there... holy schnikey's!

 

Joe- welcome to the WC- about time you got "shown the light"... 

restless.

 

wait. what?

This years repurposed actively mobile driveway garden, year 2,  is mostly set.  

Traded carnivorous plants in the local garden clubs for the majority of this years plantings.  I grew from seed as well, and did support one private sale ($20, mostly peppers), a roadside self serve ($4 for brussell sprouts), plus some fertilizer.  All the pots and soils were from last year, as were the seeds (some tomatoes I didn't harvest from the herb garden apparently self seeded, as there're 5 - 7 baby seedlings now).  

The herb garden was a huge success... so cool to try things like chive and sage flowers for the first time, had to share those with all the vegetarian neighbors and even a local chef!  (they'll be in his garden next year!).  

So for a total investment (this year) of $32 (not counting the ~ $150 in carnivorous plant total sales to friends, nurseries, and fans of vegetative murder), we're very happy with our current inventory of future delights!   

Set list; (give or take a few, and possible interpretive readings of various hand written garden tags)

 

Tomatoes;   

Baby

Basa Juan Red Basque

Barry's Crazy Cherry

Beefsteak 

Big Cheef Pink Beefsteak

Cherry 

Chocolate Cherry

Darby Red/Yellow

Dr Wyches

Estate

Gold Nugget 

Italian Neighbor Paste

Karma Purple

Orange Berry Cherry

Oregon Spring

Pineapple

Purple Cherokee

Roma Paste

Rosa de Zarautz Pink Basque

Terra Cotta 

Tigerella

Willamette

 

Peppers;

Anaheim

Ancho  

Banana 

Bell

Black Chilhuacle  

Cayenne

Chocolate Bell

Chocolate Poblano

Diamond Bell

Golden Apple

Hungarian Black (hot)

Italian Pepperoncici  

Jalapeno 

Orange Sweet

Paprika 

Paprika Supreme (sweet pepper)

Purple Beauty (sweet)

Serrano Haustela

Sweet Sunset Italian Mix

 

Onions / Chives  

Cipollini Onions

Flagpole Scallions

Red Onions

Walla Walla Sweet

White Onions 

Chives 

Oriental Garlic Chives

Mauve Garlic Chives
 

Herbs

Genovese Basil

Greek Oregano

Hot and Spicy Oregano

Flat Parsley 

Italian Parsley

Marjoram 

Rosemary

Sage

Summer Thyme

Sweet Basil 

 

Viny ground thingees:

Bonbon Buttercup Squash

Buttercup Winter Squash

Golden Zebra Zucchini

Jack Be Little Pumpkin

Kakai Pumpkin

Mellow Yellow Pumpkin

Mini Cucumbers 

 

Others

Brussel Sprouts

Horseradish 

Liseneros Tomatillo 

Lista de Gandia Eggplant

Siberian Kale

 

my man is in charge of that (:

hoping for his first 2k pumpkin fer sure

Thanks Mark, last year think I spent over $350, and I sold a similar $150 in carnivores...   but, and a good but, I learned the local ropes about various freebies, places to trade, etc...   so even though my seeds went in a few weeks later this year, i'm way ahead of where I was last year!  All good though, turning a driveway into a mobile garden, more should try it!   

Just took a pic, amazing how much can fit into such a small space!   

 

 

Older.

Grouchier.

Tip of the hat the agriculturists out there. 

This is the smallest my garden has been in decades:

 Cherry and beefsteak tomatoes

Summer squash and spaghetti squash

Cukes and fingerling eggplant

5 varieties of peppers

kale and collards

mustard, parsley, basil, cilantro, thyme, rosemary, oregano

beets

Each kid has their own bed to plant and maintain. They also get to choose what they want to grow 

sungold patio tomato's 

peppers(few kinds)

zucchini

spag squash 

cukes

carrots

eggplant

swiss chard

kale

thyme

basil

sage

 

i grow flowers throughout the yard and have a small pumpkin patch to keep me busy

 

 

Fishcane and BrianK clockin' in with some beautiful homes and gardens! Get that magazine on the horn!

Good produce is easy to get around here. We're just growing cannabis, tomatoes, and a few other things. Last year we had 4 pot plants - one hermed late, and the other three were diminished because of the super hot weather and smoke from the wildfires. This year we over-planted a bit... Feast or famine. I'll take some pics after I take off the rest of the rabbit protection chicken wire cylinders, now that the girls are a bit bigger. Biggest earliest ever, so far.

Did Bryen grow a pair yet?

Lol.

Been eating a lot of our homegrown stuff -  beets, yellow + zucchini squash (so many I'm making cold zucchini soup), potatoes, green beans + salad greens for weeks now,, but today we finally got enough vine ripened tomatoes for a tomato salad w/ cucs red onions garlic + basil. Took a long time this year but we'll have toms going forward for weeks. Lots of flowers, but not 1 pepper ready yet of any variety. Fucked up growing year.

Have made a few batches of Pesto so far, and have way tooooo many cherry tomatoes (trying to get the whole neighborhood to eat them, lol)

What's interesting, is I harvested basil seeds last year for this years plantings, and the one thai basil plant I had, managed to mate with all my genovese and sweet Italian basil...  pretty impressed one plant could pollinate 50 other plants...  oh well, didn't need to plant any Thai basil this year! 

Calla Spiders

j

Some harvest time pics:

Cabbage, tomatoes, tomatillos, ground cherries.

More tomatoes, tomatillos, beans, and goji berries.

Mystery squash

Beautiful shots, great specimens. Enter some of them shits in your local fairs,, I see a lot of blue ribbons.