How does your garden grow?

[Hosakawa Tito]

I just spent the last few hours preparing our vegetable garden for planting. It's not very big, maybe 10x20 feet, but after clearing last years' debris and roto-tilling in some fertilizer I'm bushed. Roto-tilling that compacted heavy clay excuse for soil we have really kicks my .
I am looking forward to the fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, and green peppers though. We're going to hold off putting in the plants a few more days till the frost danger is past, supposed to get down near freezing tonight.

Anyone else plant a garden? What do you grow?

[Tristuskhan]

Potatoes, rhubarb and chili peppers for me. Everything is going neat, especially potatoes (Belle de Fontenay, small outcome, fragile, but so tasty). My garden is not big either (8x4 meters),and was not used for seven years. It's also compact clay so I had to prepare it with a hoe and my bare hands (one hour for one square meter, really), everyone in the village now admires me.

I was afraid of such heavy soil (and it lacks some depth in my opinion) since I grew up in a very sandy place before moving where I am, but it's incredibly rich and has a very good water reserve, it won't need fertiliser for one year or two, then I'll incorporate the thick layer of weed-roots I spent so much time destroying. Kicks my *** too!

[InsaneApache]

Got a couple of apple and pear trees. A strawberry patch and some rhubarb. I get the missus to do most of it. It saves on my back!

[Rhyfelwyr]

I had to cut the grass at my Gran's house on Satuday because she didn't like the last council job, that's the closest I've ever got to gardening.

[PBI]

We were recently given a small tomato plant, and kits for growing thyme, basil and chives (i.e. pots, seeds and compost). All are sprouting and coming up nicely.

It's not so much a garden as it is a windowsill, and my "gardening" efforts have so far mostly consisted of watering, but it's quite fun to watch something we planted actually grow.

[Ja'chyra]

Garlic, onions (red and white), carrots, parsnips, spring onion, green beans and lettuce in our two small patches. First time we've tried but everything looks good so far.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Mom's started growing tomatoes, beans and corn in the balcony.
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[Lemur]

We've just gotten it planted. It's kinda huge, and a real pain to maintain, but it feeds us for a long time. We seal and freeze a lot of veggies so we can have home-grown deep into winter.

[Samurai Waki]

We've just gotten it planted. It's kinda huge, and a real pain to maintain, but it feeds us for a long time. We seal and freeze a lot of veggies so we can have home-grown deep into winter.

I can't say that this doesn't make me just a little bit jealous. Time to sell the home deep in the forest and move to suburbia!

[Lemur]

I can't say that this doesn't make me just a little bit jealous. Time to sell the home deep in the forest and move to suburbia!

Hey now, to be suburban you must have an urb to which you are subbed. This is small town America, son.

[Samurai Waki]

Hey now, to be suburban you must have an urb to which you are subbed. This is small town America, son.

Forgive my insolence! I'm so far out in the boondocks that a wide spot in the road is considered a small town.

[miotas]

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We've just gotten it planted. It's kinda huge, and a real pain to maintain, but it feeds us for a long time. We seal and freeze a lot of veggies so we can have home-grown deep into winter.

You're garden looks remarkably similar to my dad's. Except his has a fence around it, the dogs kept eating everything, so last time I was home I spent a weekend helping him put the fence up.

[Lemur]

My mother-in-law designed it, so all layout credit goes to her. Then wifey dear demanded it, and your friendly neighborhood lemur got to dig it out, frame it, haul a hundred-odd loads of dirt and build the thing. It's all good though, the amount of food it generates is staggering.

[miotas]

My mother-in-law designed it, so all layout credit goes to her. Then wifey dear demanded it, and your friendly neighborhood lemur got to dig it out, frame it, haul a hundred-odd loads of dirt and build the thing. It's all good though, the amount of food it generates is staggering.

I know what you mean. My dad planed it and put the frame together and then left miotas the mule to do all the shoveling.

And I agree with your sentiments on beetroot whole heartedly, I think I must be one of the only aussie's who do but I just can't stand the stuff. Nothing that colour should be consumed, I swear the stuff even tastes purple

[KarlXII]

My garden grows very well.