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Anyone grow their own food?
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I'm thinking of starting a veggie garden this spring so we can be a little more self sustainable... Anyone grow their own food? I've grown zucchini, and herbs in the past, but this year I really want a variety that I can use to cook with all summer. I live in NY. Since I'm new to this I wanted to know what's really easy to grow? I live in NY, anysuggestions?
Re: Anyone grow their own food?
I'm in CA so not sure if my rec's would be useful but I'd suggest looking at gardening blogs to see what type of a garden you'd like, and then get suggestions on what goes together (complimentary foods), this helps with space. Like this: http://www.gardenguides.com/93382-complementary-vegetable-garden-plants.html
One suggestion is to not go overboard on planting. For example, tomato plants. I thought why not get a 6-pack, they are only a dollar then I can give the extras away if I have too much. Wrong. Soooo much more work and such a high yeild crop, that I was throwing them out. Same with zucchini squash, which is also probably the easiest thing I've ever grown.
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Lurker here, just stopped by on a slow Friday night. Hope you don't mind me responding. I've been putting out a garden for years. First just a small one right behind my garage. I didn't have the best lighting but I was able to grow tomatoes and peppers with little problem. Both usually like full sun, which I didn't have but they still grew anyway.
I have a much bigger garden now that I'm married, thanks to having someone to till the soil for me. I still grow tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapenos and cayenne peppers. Cucumbers are easy to grow initially but you need the proper space for them to spread out, otherwise you damage the vines when trying to pick the first cucumbers of the season. Broccoli is easy to grow but you need to treat with Seven or some form of insecticide. Lettuce Mix is super easy to grow and you can start it very early. Much easier then growing head lettuce, just as tasty and you can break off what you need with each meal. it keeps growing until the temperatures get steadily warmer 72+
String beans are easy. You can re-pick them 2 to 4 times in one season. You can also plant an early and late crop.
We've tried growing watermelon & honeydew but the growing season is to short here (in PA) and I don't think we have the right type of soil. I've never had any luck with onions, probably cause I tend to overcrowd things. I've tried snow peas and they didn't amount to much either. I hope to try them again this summer.
Good luck with your garden!
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I grew up in NY and my parents used to grow tomatoes, green beans, and eggplants and our neighbors used to grow corn. The hilarious thing is that we lived on the border of Queens but this makes it sound like we lived upstate or something.
Right now I grow green onion, parsley, basil, and aloe vera. When I lived in the South I grew beets (successful but on the smallish side), bell peppers (tasted amazing but hard to grow if you don't have the proper space), tomatoes, mint, oregano, and various types of lettuce including arugula. Now that I live in New York again I'm a little afraid that I won't be able to yield as many crops as easily as I did in the South.
Definitely look up what grows well in your region as well as the right months to plant them and how deep you need to plant them and how far apart and etc. Once in a while I'll buy a plant but planting from seed is so fun...you get to see the seedling sprout and it's like watching little babies grow
I could use some suggestions myself...I really want to plant greens and bell pepper. I just remembered we have some seed bombs that we should make use of too.
I'm in Iowa and just starting out with a small garden this year. I've spent lots of time on Pinterest and sites where you can buy the seeds figuring out what will grow in my yard and when to plant. Although I might be a little excited and ambitious, I'm going to try Strawberries, roma tomatoes, serrano peppers, potatoes, cilantro, kale, lettuce mix and carrots. I picked these because these are the ones we eat/use the most.
What ever you decide on, GL!
I live in Stockholm and we grow potatoes, leeks, peas, beets, carrots, squash, rutabega, chinese cabbage, herbs, black currants and raspberries. It depends on what you like to eat.
You may want to look into square foot gardening. It is a fun way to use the space while trying new veggies.
Thanks for share gardenguides.com is a really good site
After years of houseplants and the occasional failed container gardening experience; I finaly was able to get my fingers in the dirt and start my own garden plot this year. No more landlords saying Naaay you may NOT plant a garden, talk about super stoked! Especially yesterday when I went out and saw baby squashes growing. So far this year I have gotten several, several varieties of tomatoes, beefstea, grape, cherry, sunshine in ( I may have went overboard, naa there is no such thing as too many tomatoes!) squash, couple dif. bell peppers, broccoli, and beans. I am learning trial by error, which is my usual method. but I do head over to smartgardener.com to try and see what I am supposed to be putting in when and so on.
For some reason my row of herbs not doing so good, I am thinking I need to move to a shadier spot?
as for what is easy to grow, tomatoes, beans and squash seem to be what most people rec' though broccoli is turning out pretty easy, planted it, water and it is just growing and growing!