Vegetable gardening Ladies!

[jerseyakl]

This blows my mind right now. I failed at cleaning out the beds this fall, too, but the ground is snow covered and my garden for spring/summer is the last thing on my mind. I applaud you though!! Can you come to my house next?

We did not grow veggies this year because we had a CSA, but will start. Where you live affects what you can grow easily. Herbs are always a good option, too!

[pintobean]

I didn't clean out my beds either because I was on bed rest most of the fall. We have a garden show here that I go to every spring. This year its the end of march and I plan on getting all my heirloom tomatoes there. I also like to plant eggplant, bell peppers, cucumbers, squash, and zucchini.

I made a box garden last year and it's much easier. I'll prob just pull out all the dead stuff and throw a few bags of garden soil and some kinda animal shit for fertilizer and mix it all up. I always get my beds ready over the mardi Gras holidays and I plant on Good Friday. It's always worked for me but I'm in the Deep South.

[Deleted]

So jealous you can start in Jan! I don't think I will get much gardening done this year here in the NE before baby arrives! If anything I will just be doing herbs. I am hoping to get lots of squash from our CSA to use for baby food this fall when LO can start with real food.

[meandmylove]

I can't do anything until the grounds thaws but so far we are planning tomatoes onions jalapones and Swiss chard carrots and radishes. Maybe peas but I'm not sure yet. We also only rent but our landlord said we could put in a garden if we wanted just not sure how big

[Deleted]

Creeping Charlie is taking over my lawn, so if I plant anything I will use containers this time.

[amelandre]

I try not to even think about my garden until the end of Feb, otherwise I get depressed and burnt out on planning.

[kate6214]

I usually plant in April and May and I was so sick this fall that the beds are not clean. I think I may just rest the beds this summer. I'm not sure how I'll be feeling.

I've always found tomatoes and cucumbers to be low maintenance. Just gotta remember to get out and pick them.

[Starbuck128]

I'm not doing a vegetable garden this year, but my favorites are zucchini and green beans because they are brown thumb proof here. I'm in between zone 8 and 9. I do have rosemary cuttings going right now, and I always grow basil in a big pot.

[tomatopie]

we just moved into out house in November and our yard is under a foot of snow right now. But I am so excited to finally have a garden. We plan on growing tomatoes, zucchini, and bell peppers. I have no idea where to begin or how to start, but I'm hoping it goes smoothly. We have a million squirrels and rabbits and things around our neighborhood, so I'm a little worried about that.

[ajm0711]

We live in Iowa and don't normally start our garden til late April/early May. Since I'm due May 1st, I'm not sure how much help I will be. However, we plan on planting green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers so far. I don't think we'll try anything new this year.

Our tomatoes, cucumbers and green beans seemed to thrive pretty well last year. Just making sure they're watered enough, those are all pretty low maintenance for us. Plus they always create a lot. And hopefully by the time they are ready to pick, I'll be ready to get out there and pick, too.

[sarahchrismck]

We start our garden in April, since we live in Wisconsin. Our garden is full of snow right now! I usually do kale, spinach, and lettuce since it grows easily and I can cut leaves off and then they grow back quickly. I love growing zucchini too. I tried broccoli and pumpkins last year, but that failed, so I might just stick with my leafy greens this year.

[Cornflakegirl]

I have always wanted a vegetable garden and now that LO is coming I just may be inspired to start one. Thanks for the idea @deziniki!

[Poppy]

We were SO into our garden the first two years. Then last year we did nothing. It's embarrassing but its around the back of the house and out of sight. I didn't clean any of the dead plants out. From two years ago!

I'd really like to do a garden this year. Especially since I'll be gone most of the summer. I know I'll be doing stuff but its not like it takes all that much time once it's planted. Ours is little and hardly impressive. But I do love watching things grow and getting to harvest my own veggies.

Our spot is really great too. We had no idea how things would grow back there and it's done awesome with minimal interaction from us.

[pintobean]

Jan 29, 2015 19:58:53 GMT -5 norsern said:

We rent, and don't have a place for a garden at our new house. I'm thinking of doing a container garden for some of our staples. I haven't really looked into it at all yet, though.

Cherry tomatoes are so easy in containers, almost full proof. If you can get a hold of any heirloom's they have a few variety of even the big tomatoes for containers. I have a friend that only does container gardening. They also do squash cucumbers and bell peppers with no problems.

[veenie]

ajm0711 I am worried with all of the warm weather this last week it will still be snowing in May! I am not sure how much I will do/get planted. I am hoping my blueberry and raspberry bushes survive the winter. I just planted them last year. I hope to have lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, peas for sure.

[ajm0711]

Jan 29, 2015 20:11:06 GMT -5 veenie said:

ajm0711 I am worried with all of the warm weather this last week it will still be snowing in May! I am not sure how much I will do/get planted. I am hoping my blueberry and raspberry bushes survive the winter. I just planted them last year. I hope to have lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, peas for sure.

Ah! I hope it doesn't snow in May, but I know what you mean.

[udubbaby]

I actually saw some daffodils in bloom in my run today! It blows my mind!

We have a shorter growing season but we always grow peppers and tomatoes. Last year we tried some corn and failed. So I think we'll grow sunflowers instead (we wanted a tall plant in that particular planter). J will probably want to grow some type of squash this year too. I have a raspberry crop every year - I cannot wait until summer so I can eat them all again! Stuff does pretty well up here, but we never can eat it fast enough. I always end up making two or three huge batches of tomatoe sauce at the end of every summer. It does well in the freezer and lasts us all year!

[jvega1]

We will probably start early with a hoop house. We will most likely have carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, beans, and squash.

[mpiemont]

Our new home has 5 acres of land and I really want to start a garden but we just moved in 2 weeks ago and I doubt it will up and running to plant this year. I'm hoping to be all ready to go for next season.

[Deleted]

Forgot to mention what I planned to plant, durrrr.
I'm going to do all my favorite herbs, onions, tomatoes, lettuce and maybe a jalapeño pepper plant.
I've only ever done herbs in a container so the rest will be an experiment, however my neighbor is a master gardener and she only plants in containers and since she always gives me starters I'm assuming all of those must grow well for her.

[prater2011]

ajm0711, I'm in Iowa too. What area?

I didn't clean my bed out either. Unfortunately this year I'm not going to put my garden in as I will be moving in June to the new house. I'm just going to help my mom with hers, and plant a little extra there.
I've had great luck with zucchini, cucumbers, sugar snap peas, pole beans, rainbow carrots, banana peppers, jalapenos, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, juliet tomatoes (my favorite to grow, leaf lettuce, and spinach. I planted winter squash (butternut) last year but only got one squash from it.

[smile55k]

Tomatoes are the only plant that I have been successful at. I tried red and green peppers last year, but they never made it past the seedling stage. I also suck at herbs, even though they are supposed to be easy. I don't know what I'm doing wrong! I would love to have a big vegetable and herb garden though, so I'm trying again this year! Any advice? (I'm in SE wisconsin)

[prater2011]

Jan 30, 2015 13:01:35 GMT -5 norsern said:

Jan 30, 2015 12:49:05 GMT -5 prater2011 said:

ajm0711, I'm in Iowa too. What area?

I didn't clean my bed out either. Unfortunately this year I'm not going to put my garden in as I will be moving in June to the new house. I'm just going to help my mom with hers, and plant a little extra there.
I've had great luck with zucchini, cucumbers, sugar snap peas, pole beans, rainbow carrots, banana peppers, jalapenos, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, juliet tomatoes (my favorite to grow, leaf lettuce, and spinach. I planted winter squash (butternut) last year but only got one squash from it.

I love that there are 4 Iowans here! There's only 1 other IA mom on my DDs BMB but she is pretty inactive.

And now you have me wanting to try banana peppers and zucchini and spinach. I need to get researching/planning!

I forgot that I also did green onions (scallions). Made our own salsa, just chopped up tomatoes, green peppers (from my mothers garden), green onions, jalapenos, bannana peppers, and cilantro (from my moms garden) and added a little salt and pepper. It was soooo good. We ended up just freezing our left overs tomatoes, onions and peppers and letting them thaw a bit and chopping up during the winter. I think our last batch of fresh salsa was the 1st week of December. 

[prater2011]

Jan 29, 2015 19:58:53 GMT -5 norsern said:

We rent, and don't have a place for a garden at our new house. I'm thinking of doing a container garden for some of our staples. I haven't really looked into it at all yet, though.

Jalapenos and banana peppers grow well in containers. I also saw a thing on pinterest about doing carrots in a container. As with the other suggestions for tomatoes.

[ajm0711]

Jan 30, 2015 12:49:05 GMT -5 prater2011 said:

ajm0711, I'm in Iowa too. What area?

I didn't clean my bed out either. Unfortunately this year I'm not going to put my garden in as I will be moving in June to the new house. I'm just going to help my mom with hers, and plant a little extra there.
I've had great luck with zucchini, cucumbers, sugar snap peas, pole beans, rainbow carrots, banana peppers, jalapenos, cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, juliet tomatoes (my favorite to grow, leaf lettuce, and spinach. I planted winter squash (butternut) last year but only got one squash from it.

I'm in the Ames area.  

We also did banana peppers last year and had really good luck with those.  

[Starbuck128]

smile55k Most herbs need a lot of sun. For example, all those Italian herbs probably do really well in a Mediterranean like environment, so I would place them in a sunny, warm area of your yard. Sage and rosemary grow like invasive weeds in the southwest, so they probably want to be where it is hottest. My basil likes the heat too.

[prater2011]

ajm0711 that's not too far north of me. I lived there before my parents divorced. Small (big) world