Barbm

our garden is 30' x 40'. We planted 18 tomato plant- 12 plum and 6 beefsteak. 4 cucumbers, 4 zucchini, 1 eggplant, onions, peas, green beans, pumpkins and watermelons.

Hubby loves to garden and I like to can. We try to can a lot of spaghetti sauce- the kids love it.

Last year stunk for tomatoes but we canned about 75 pints of pickles.

JanetM

Can you post a picture of them. I am thinking of starting an above ground vegetable garden...probably tomatoes, green onions, and herbs. Thanks.

Catlady

We planted cucumbers, radish, hot radish, green onions,
carrots, and tomatoes (lots and lots of tomatoes - 8 hanging
and 8 in the garden and 3 sitting in containers on the deck
waiting to be planted)
Ya think we like tomatoes much??

quiltilicious

We just picked the last of the strawberries this morning with our granddaughter, and got a handful of early blueberries.

We've been cutting the "first harvest" of our first -ever broccoli this past week as well.

Our tomatoes, cukes and beans are all doing fine and my squash are all blooming away.

The sunflowers in the front yard are growing happily, too.

Do you make pickles from your cukes? We aregoing to attempt slow-brine pickles this year (the quick brine ones are nice and sour, but they get mushy after a few months).

Lisa773

If the rain doesn't let up soon, I'm considering building an ark!! The mosquitoes are BAD this year!!!!! And it doesn't help that I have neighbors with overgrown yards and have junk piled up all over. It makes it difficult to weed the garden when you're being eaten alive.

CarrieAnne

Lisa, it was like that here last year. And SOOOOOOOOOO cold in the Spring. My garden was awful last year, I'm hoping for a better one this year.

Favorite Fabrics

My garden has tomatos, pole beans, summer squash, basil, peppers, kohlrabi, broccoli, cabbage, onions, sugar snap and snow peas. With clay soil, the cabbage family and onions always do well.

I'm also trying four eggplant seedlings... I'm not sure if the season will be long enough / hot enough to get anything off of these. But I'm thinking that if our local garden stores always sell eggplant seedlings, they must be appropriate for our area.

Anyone out there growing eggplants? That could tell me whether I can expect success or failure? (I'm in the colder part of zone 5, first frost comes mid-late September, first measurable snow historically is around October 12th. Oops, sorry, I probably should NOT have mentioned snow!!)

auntmarie

I am growing Tomatoes, peppers, Eggplants and some herbs.
First time that I have had success in years. All in containers.
I am tying the tomatoe plants with the cut- off fabric strings that I have!!!!!!

Woodster

I got an email regarding Bounce fabric softener sheets. It's been said if you put those in your belt loops or pockets it'll keep bugs away.....I dunno.........

sandpat

I have a garden. DH is very proud of it (he only "supervised")...here it is. I have tomatoes, corn (planted at different times), okra, green beans, eggplant, butternut squash, Zinnias, cucumbers, zuchinni, yellow squash and basil.

This pic was taken a week or so ago. I've already picked a couple of tomatoes and given away a bunch of squash this week. :lol:

Edited to say:...when I look at this pic and then at the garden today...man, I think it grew like crazy this week!