DU gardeners: Whatcha planting?

[jswordy]

Mine:

Chili peppers
Bell peppers
Banana peppers
Roma tomatoes
100 Cherries tomatoes
Grape tomatoes
Crookneck yellow squash
Zuccini squash
Blue Lake bush beans
Brussels sprouts
Watermelon

Beans and squash are up now. Watermelon will be soon. I planted it in a separate plot all its own. Danged groundhog got some beans and squash plans, but I finally put up the fencing now. HE IS TOAST! Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

The brussels sprouts will go in in late June, so they will get one frost in late October before harvest. (Our average first frost date is Oct. 15; it often happens in early November.) They are sweeter if they get in one frost before being picked.

I gave up on corn this year, I can never get it to come out well in my all-organic garden. No pesticides, so it is hard to keep the borers and worms out down here in the South. Plus, I have cut corn in the freezer still from two years ago!

We have goats on the farm, so I get all the natural fertilizer I can use. And we compost, too.

I plant, let the plants come up a while, then cover the ground with newspapers and straw. A weeding-free garden! I just go out there to pick after that. The mulch also holds in water during dry summers.

Whatcha planting? Is it in yet?

[CatWoman]

1. I just planted a jasmine vine

and this evening I'm planting some hibiscus.

I love hibiscus :loveya:

[jswordy]

8. Oh me too: HIBISCUS RULES!

[bertha katzenengel]

18. Hi, Biscus!

I always greet hibiscus in this way. :crazy:

Your jasmine: is it the kind that smells glorious in the evenings? And where do you live -- I ask because I wonder if it will survive "real" winter. I'm a So. Cali. girl transplanted to where it snows, and I miss me some night-blooming jasmine...

summer breeze makes me feel fine ~

[CatWoman]

24. I had two jasmine vines

and one has taken over quite a bit of the fence.

the one I planted last night was a piece of that one that had taken off like crazy.

I live in Atlanta, and it smells WONDERFUL!!!!

[bertha katzenengel]

28. Hmm.... Might have to get some planters for under the bedroom window

on the deck. On lovely nights, would adore keeping the windows open and having that fragrance blow through my dreams.

:bounce: thanks, CatWoman!

[Don Claybrook]

2. I rent, but I'm doing a 5-gallon bucket salsa garden

-4 tomato plants, all different varieties.
-4 tomatillo plants, for salsa verde.
-Jalapeno
-Bell
-Habanero

And the bell pepper plant is already beginning to flower.

[jswordy]

10. My wife has all our salad greens in small containers by the kitchen door.

I didn't do the habanero or jalapeno, but we were missing the roasted chilis from NM. We have peppers on some chilis now.

Yer plant listings make me hungry! Good luck!

[demnan]

3. I live in a condo with a patio

So go figure I have 6 roma tomato plants, 3 jalapeno peppers, 6 basil and 4 cilantro. And lots and lots of flowers, petunas, panseys (past their prime now), a fern, spider plant and geranium. And impatiens to go in when the pansey's come out.

On top of that I keep a 6 foot kitty walk on my patio. So things are pretty crowded!

[jswordy]

11. ROMAS RULE! I just love 'em. If you get a chance, do just one...

100 Cherries tomato! Profuse fruiter, and the lil things taste like candy, they are so sweet! You get a lot in a little space.

[TNDemo]

4. Mostly what you have planted

though things are late since it has been so cold. I have never grown brussel sprouts. Tell me more about that. I am in Middle TN. What about you?

[jswordy]

12. I'm in southern middle TN!

Gonna start the sprouts indoors, then transplant them late June-early July. Lots of folks plant starts in spring, but they are better if you can work it to get a frost in before you pick. This is kind of an experiment for me, I have never grown them here, so I will have to see how it works out. Such a long season here, I have to start the sprouts late to get in the frost.

People up North can't believe I'd grow a corn crop, then chop it down and plant beans afterward in the same season. But I did it for years. Beans put the N back for next spring's corn. Just not much luck with cob corn. It's fine to cut off the cob and freeze, though. Skipped it this year. I have plenty frozen.

[TNDemo]

38. Have you ever visited The Farm in Summertown?

I have been by it a number of times but never actually visited. I used to buy their tofu at a local store. I don't have the room to grow very much but have to play in the dirt (organically of course). Looks stormy down that way today...

[jswordy]

40. Folks from The Farm used to work on my FIL's plac.

That was in the '70s...it's a different place now than it was. Never been there.

Yep, we had storms...glorious thunderstorms that made everyone wide-eyed, running around worried that we all were gonna die!

I LMFAO when folks over-react every time to t-storms here. I love storms. And am thankful for the rain!

I guess you can live life afraid, or you can live it unworried. I choose the latter.

[Feathered Fish]

5. Not gonna answer

:smoke:

[ret5hd]

6. ours:

squash
zuchini (picked and ate our first yesterday)
tomatoes (various)
peppers (various)
onions (white)
swiss chard (used kinda like spinach, but more vitamins)
cantaloupe
peas
green beans
radishes (already got our first batch, growing the second)

[jswordy]

13. Mmmm....way too late here for onions, radish, chard, tho.

Where do you live?

Those are November crops here. Onions are grown in winter here. Same with peas, I grew them once upon a time and that starts off in early February here for a spring crop, or else in November. It just gets warm here longer. And I love chard, too. But cool season stuff wilts or bolts quick if it's off the cycle here.

Cantalopes are grown all around here on truck farms, I can buy 'em in season far cheaper than it would cost me to raise 'em, so I don't.

Did you start yer zucchini indoors? I planted mine as seed.

[Blue Diadem]

7. Just got some in, will finish the rest this week..hopefully.

We planted tomatoes..several different varieties and the same with peppers. We love fresh salsa!

Granddaughter's asking for pumpkins..not sure if it's too late to put the seeds in..but we're going to do that.

Still have to put in the green beans..maybe some onions..and if I don't get the sunflowers transplanted..the squirrels will never forgive me.

[jswordy]

15. Maybe your garden center has pumpkin sets?

Gets ya a little head-start.

:shrug:

[Blue Diadem]

21. Thanks, I'll have to check that out.

She's got her heart set on homegrown pumpkins for Halloween.

[jswordy]

22. I'm thinking PIE, myself! Mmmmm! n/t

[jswordy]

25. Oh BTW...

...when yer pumpkins get to flowering, pick off most of the blossoms on a plant and just leave a few. You'll get bigger pumpkins for Jack-o-lanterns that way.

Mmmm....pumpkin PIE is my favorite!

[Hugin]

9. Yum... Now *that* is what I call a garden!

All I ever end up with is tomatoes and zucchini.

Tons and tons of zucchini!

Flowers do well here though.

[jswordy]

14. Ever grill them?

I love to get bottled marinades, cut the zuchs in half, score the inner meat, then marinade them overnight or longer in the fridge, then put them right on the grill at very low heat and let them bake away. Mmmm.

[Hugin]

16. Sounds TASTY!

I've breaded and fried them too. (Along with my computer! haha!)

[jswordy]

19. Try grilling 'em. A new way to use 'em up!

I grill a huge batch, then put leftovers in the freezer and take them to work for lunches. Taste even better leftover. They are good with a side of Zatarain's New Orleans dirty rice. Mmmm...NOW I AM HUNGRY FOR SURE! C'mon garden! Heh.

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. I'm growing weeds.. Darned things always outpace my flower seed! *sobbing*

[jswordy]

20. You organic? If not, try pretreating with Preen. Otherwise...

...if you are organic like we are, try planting your flower seed after the ground is good and warm, and then covering the area with a thin layer of wheat straw to shade back the weeds and give the flowers a running start.

Another organic idea that works real good but takes planning: When your flowers are done, cover the area with a weighted tarp or black plastic and leave it that way all winter. Take the cover off a few days before you intend to plant flowers to warm the soil.

Do that a few seasons, you'll kill back most weeds.

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. I've been thinking of doing cedar chips, but the reason I held back

was I have a lot of reseeding annuals and biennials amongst the perennials that would get lost if I did that.

But at this point I am willing to buy the danged plants if it saves me weeding time.

[jswordy]

29. Well, if you buy the plants...

...you can lay down landscape fabric, cut holes in it, and plant through that! That'll fix those danged weeds.

You can do the same with newspapers and straw mulch, too.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. I could do that. I think I might do the chips, though because they

are purty. And I will just have to keep weeind the areas where I have to leave chip-free because the seeds have to be direct sown. (I love my annual poppies, baby's breath, and CA poppies. :) )

[jandrok]

23. Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes

Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better
Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown tomatoes
Up in the mornin' out in the garden

Get you a ripe one don't get a hard one
Plant `em in the spring eat `em in the summer
All winter with out `em's a culinary bummer
I forget all about the sweatin' & diggin'
Everytime I go out & pick me a big one

Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes
What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can't buy
That's true love & homegrown tomatoes

You can go out to eat & that's for sure
But it's nothin' a homegrown tomato won't cure
Put `em in a salad, put `em in a stew
You can make your very own tomato juice
Eat `em with egss, eat `em with gravy
Eat `em with beans, pinto or navy
Put `em on the site put `em in the middle
Put a homegrown tomato on a hotcake griddle

If I's to change this life I lead
I'd be Johnny Tomato Seed
`Cause I know what this country needs
Homegrown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cemetary
Out in the garden would be much better
I could be pushin' up homegrown tomatoes

Guy Clark

[jswordy]

27. Delightful! I grow the 100 Cherries cuz...

...I snack on those right off the plants as I harvest the rest of the garden. Positive reinforcement to get out there!

[jandrok]

33. Yeah, the cherry tomatoes are GREAT!

We have some of those going, too. My daughter really went hog wild with the tomatoes this year (with some help from her Papa). Her plants are HUGE and heavy with plump, green fruits. She's doing a wonderful job of tending to her garden space. She weeds and waters every day. I'm proud of her. Her bell peppers are doing good, too, but it's those big tomatoes that have our mouths watering.

[jswordy]

34. Heh...dang, ya stole my warm-weather braggin' rights!

Texas is ahead of Tennessee on springtime! I have mater blooms, but no fruits yet.

[jandrok]

39. Yeah. We planted quite a while ago.

The fruits on the plants are pretty big. Quite a few large clusters, and the plants themselves are probably 4 feet high. Just huge.

What's even better is that I'll do a fall planting sometime around midsummer. That'll keep us eatin' well into the later months.

You'll get fruited out soon, I'm sure.

[jswordy]

41. Yep, I get to do two cycles, too...just a bit shorter season.

Reminds me of flying to Houston from Huntsville, AL in early spring and watching the difference in the tree leaves as I landed.

[jukes]

30. "white widow feminized"

but don't tell the DEA...

:scared: :hide: :scared:

[jswordy]

36. I did that thing in my late teens. Have you tried...

...growing poppies? Even the domestics have an effect in the eaten seeds...after yer done being sick.

It was fun, but I am really glad it's all behind me.

"I think I'll settle for a nice, 50-60-year OD on Budweiser, myself. You can do what you want."
-- Elvin Bishop, "Midnight Creeper"

[donsu]

31. 1 lone sweet green pepper plant

I have one spot of sun that moves around a small space I can put shade loving pot plants so all day I'm up and down steps to move the pepper plant following the spot of sun. will it get enough sun to form peppers - time will tell.

oh the lengths a gardener will go to when living in a non-garden area :)

[jswordy]

37. Ya just can't get that green off yer thumb! Good for you! n/t

[underpants]

35. My borhter once grew "tomato plants"

My industrious mother did him a favor by getting rid of those "weeds" that had popped up around them.

:rofl:

[TrogL]

42. Rocks, apparently

That's all I ever seem to harvest.

Oh, I forgot. Last week I got a Hot Wheels car and some wire.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

43. Everything you mentioned except for the brussel sprouts

I have a several different varities of tomatoes. I'm a tomatoe junkie.
And
Cucumbers
Cantaloupe
Corn
Jalapeno Peppers
Eggplant
Onions
Potatoes

I won’t even attempt to cover what flowers I grow without my garden diary in front of me. The list is huge and I can never remember them all.