Your Garden

Just curious-
If you're fortunate enough to have a veggie/herb garden this year, what are you planting/growing?
Here's my partial list:
A couple of varieties of tomato
Rhubarb
Spinach, peas and lettuce which are in the ground already
Oregano
Garlic
Peppers-multiple varieties
Rosemary
Thyme-multiple varieties
Chives
Zuccini
Basil - Let's all say pesto.
Plus, some other stuff I've forgotten.

Nothing better than homegrown IMO.

My wife & I have already planted basil, dill-weed & parsley on our windowsill w/ great results. We're probably going to grow tarragon as well (we did last year). We live in an apartment so we don't have our own garden. However, we do help our parents tend their garden & we share the harvest. We'll be growing bell peppers, cantaloupe, lettuce, pole beans, pumpkin, squash, tomatoes, zucchini & probably a few other things that I've forgotten.

Just planted our late winter/early spring garden of lettuces, spinach and carrots. Garlic from November is bubbling along nicely.

I'm planting my first garden this year thanks to the help and guidance of the new local group started by Gary Heine and Valerie Kausen, 15 Thousand Farmers (http://www.15thousandfarmers.com). My garden will include:
tomatoes
peas
broccoli
cucumber
lettuce
peppers
spinach
carrots
radishes
kale
swiss chard
cabbage
basil
parsley
beets
marigolds

We have a really small Highlands backyard, so there's not a lot of room for veggies. However, I use the retaining wall that runs along the side of the yard with about 8 inches in width for herbs. Depending upon how bad the winter, some herbs are perennials & some I have to replant.

-Sweet Basil (hot house flower)
-Chives (perennial)
-Mint (you can't kill it. It's like kudzu)
-Shallots (perennial)
-Tarragon (perennial)
-Thyme (usually manages to hang on by a thread)
-Oregano (sometimes perennial)
-Flat leaf parsley (looks like some of the parsley might have survived)
-Curly parsley
-Cilantro (dead)
-Rosemary (Sometimes it survives, but not the past two winters)
-Regular Sage (it's a survivor)
-Purple Sage (seems to be even hardier)
-Lemon grass (dead)
-Various leaf lettuces (dead)
-Catnip (dead)

We have a really small Highlands backyard, so there's not a lot of room for veggies. However, I use the retaining wall that runs along the side of the yard with about 8 inches in width for herbs.

Nice. Your garden sounds like a wonderful urban farm.

Just remember its not too early to start your garden now.Weve already got our cabbage,broccoli,kale,collards,lettuce,spinach in the ground.I plan on putting in some potatoes and onions over the weekend. If anybody needs any early spring veggie starts we will be selling at the Bardstown rd farmers market this Saturday before noon.

My oregano and both thymes have come back, the rosemary doesn't appear to have ever completely died back, the sage looks like it might come back. I don't know what I'm going to put in the rest of the yard, last year both my basils went nuts, I wasn't really expecting it to grow quite as much as it did. I may do cilantro again, but after last year I'm set for coriander.



Not too bad for a horribly tiny germantown shotgun front yard.

All in all I'm not sure what I'm going to put in this year, maybe some more bell peppers, those seemed to do pretty well last time, and gave me something to nibble on when I walked to work,

My peas and spinach are in.

I'm really hoping to get a good basil plant going this year...but I have a super brown thumb. Cilantro is my arch nemesis...I have no idea why, but it tends to turn mushy on me even after following all the advice and directions I could find.

If you are having an issue with your mint growing like kudzu I'll let you borrow one of my danes for a weekend...she'll clear it out for you! The old residents here had a nice herb cluster in the backyard, one of which was mint...pretty sure we won't be seeing any more of that but my girls had some really fresh breath for awhile! They also have a soft spot for thyme and stevia...cucumbers and tomatoes are fair game too.

Just walked inside from cleaning up the herb bed. I may have to borrow one of your danes Madeline. Actually, we finally learned to grow the mint up a trellis. It keeps the mint from bullying the other plants. I was thinking about heading down to Bunton Seeds today to pick up my replacement basil and the others that didn't survive, but I noticed that we're supposed to drop back down to the 40's next week. Am I being too cautious? What do you guys think. The seedlings they sell are usually only 3-4 inches tall.

Just walked inside from cleaning up the herb bed. I may have to borrow one of your danes Madeline. Actually, we finally learned to grow the mint up a trellis. It keeps the mint from bullying the other plants. I was thinking about heading down to Bunton Seeds today to pick up my replacement basil and the others that didn't survive, but I noticed that we're supposed to drop back down to the 40's next week. Am I being too cautious? What do you guys think. The seedlings they sell are usually only 3-4 inches tall.

Your basil that did not survive?? Is this some sort of exotic basil? The basil I grow is an annual that dies off with the first hard frost in autumn and I kiss it goodbye.
IMO, it is way to early to basil seeds, let alone basil seedlings, so you are definitely not being too cautious.
Cheers,
BP

Yep too early to put basil outside. You can plant seeds inside in a pot on the window sill,or wait until around derby to get some plants to put out. There is no basil that is hardy(perennial) here.Sometimes it might come back from seed that fell,but thats not very common.

Not exactly garden related, butt...
Put out a bluebird nesting box yesterday by the garden. This morning there is clearly some nest building activity going on. The male is quite handsome in his vivid blue and buff plumage.

We have:
cilantro
thyme
rosemary
tomatoes
carrots
lettuce
squash
beans
sugar snap peas
watermelon
gourds


mmmmmmmm can't wait!
our peas are going crazy!