Masthead #56 – garden
I really want a raised garden bed. It’s on my list of house/yard things to do. Since Jason doesn’t eat vegetables, I’d only plant things I would eat:
- Carrots
- Tomatoes
- Radishes
- Cucumbers
- Pumpkins
- Sunflowers (because I think they look cool)
Do you have a garden? What are you growing this year? If you don’t have a garden, what would you grow if you did?
*Love the masthead*
Not this year. I’m more concerned with setting up my flowers beds. But last year we had an awesome one.
Corn, watermelon, cantelope, cucumbers, green beans, banana peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, and pumpkins. It wasn’t raised, that’s too much effort on my part, but I do think the vine plants would have been less uncontrollable had we raised it. The pumpkins and cucumbers were seriously gone one day. Like, ran right out of the garden and down the side of the hill. It was crazy.
I will say, if you do one, PLEASE manure or compost it (it’s best to do in the fall before the next plant). No one told us that nugget of info and the first year our veggies sucked.
Comment by Nik-Nak — June 2, 2011 @ 11:01 am
My husband does all the gardening, and he’s planted tomatoes, peppers, basil, dill, cilantro and thyme. And we have some oregano that comes back, year after year, in our whiskey barrel. He may have also planted garlic, I don’t know, I try to stay away from anything involving growing things as I tend to squash them.
Comment by Sara — June 2, 2011 @ 11:48 am
i have planted a garden for three years now, last year my sucess was cucumbers,this year we have a crazy travel baseball team schedule which will not allow me a lot of time so i have decided to plant all sunflowers!!
Comment by jen — June 2, 2011 @ 12:52 pm
I don’t do a veggie garden because of all the wild critters around here. I DO have one little tomato plant, close enough to the house so the deer don’t get it, and I have a couple of squash plants that appeared out of nowhere in the side yard. Mysterious!
I do have a couple of blueberry bushes and a blackberry bush that I put in last year, but I’m afraid they’re several years away from producing any fruit. Hey, I’ve got time. (I sure hope so, anyway! Knock on wood.)
Comment by RockyCat — June 2, 2011 @ 1:59 pm
Oh yeah, we do a raised bed garden (even if Jason doesn’t eat the veggies, he’d probably be good at building one!) and a container herb garden (my favorite!). Last year the critters ate all my crops, so assuming you have veggie-eating crits in Minnesota, I recommend building some sort of cover to keep the pests out. (Note: Gravy is one of the critters who steals my crops, he especially likes strawberries!)
Comment by Funnelcloud Rachel — June 2, 2011 @ 7:46 pm
I am trying square foot gardening this year. We built a 4×4 raised bed and it has cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, beets and beans in it. In a side bed I planted peas which are doing very well.
Last year I tried hay bale gardening. It worked, but all the tomatoes around here were affected by some kind of blight so no crop. This year I put a couple zucchini plants in the decaying bale. They should do real well. Next year I may try more bale gardening. Gardening that actually works is pure magic!
Comment by kali — June 2, 2011 @ 9:45 pm
If the weather holds up, the garden will be in this weekend. We did very well last year. Hub doesn’t eat veggies either, really, so the garden is mostly for my own enjoyment.
I will plant beans, carrots, cukes, peppers, tomatoes (but not 8 bushes like I did last year), eggplant, and mybe corn. Sqirrels ate all of my corn last year though, which was disappointing.
Comment by saly — June 3, 2011 @ 10:52 am