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Has anyone started planning their vegetable garden yet?
Even though it's snowing out today I'm starting to get the urge to start planning.
Last year was our first year and we learned a lot. We have a large yard so we went really big for first-timers and it wasn't too bad to maintain. I think our biggest mistake was getting antsy and starting our seeds too early. We could have waited another 3-4 weeks. The summer weather around here (Pacific Northwest) wasn't very cooperative either, so the garden wasn't nearly as successful as we were hoping.
What are all of you planning this year?
Re: Has anyone started planning their vegetable garden yet?
I'm hoping to expand my garden this year, and have had fun looking through the catalogs. I just posted a blog article about it today!
http://eatlocalwestmichigan.com/2011/01/09/its-not-too-early-to-plan-your-west-michigan-garden/
DH and our upstairs neighbor have the yard all mapped out as far as where everything will go.
We are planning on planting a few different types of tomatoes, green beans, wax beans, okra (not as much as last year - it was INSANE and we could not keep up with it, plus the stalks got so tall that they took over my clothes line), lettuce, swiss chard, spinach, mustard greens, morning glories, pumpkins, squash, grapes, carrots, cantaloupe, cabbage, broccoli, bell peppers, jalapenos, herbs, sweet corn...
Garlic, onions and potatoes are possibly happening.
My aunt gave us one of those topsy turvy planters, too, so we want to try out strawberries.
We(I) have been planning our garden for about 2 weeks. I ordered most of my seeds last weekend.
We are planting a large variety of beans, some tomatoes, eggplant, squash, melons, corn-both eating and for flour, strawberries, several fruit trees, lavender, oregano, basil, parsley, rosemary, celery, onions, potatoes, garlic, lettuce, spinach, wheat, pumpkin, peppers, leeks, and echinacea. There are a lot of wildflowers and other beneficial insect attracting plants we are planting around the yard.
This is our first Spring in our house, so I'm looking forward to being able to grow more than we did last Summer. We have torn out the grass in the front and back yards and have several cover crops growing right now. The wheat will be grown in the front yard in place of grass. We have the layout for our beds and trees completed and a space for our chicken coop already set aside. We've been quite busy the last couple of weeks!
We are also in the Pacific Northwest, but I had to get a lot the planning done early because I will be out of the country during a large part of the planting season and FI will be on his own.
Last year's garden was a spur of the moment decision and it did reasonably well, everything considered. I'm being much more organized about it this year. My plan is to plant enough so we have some to eat during the summer and to can and freeze for the winter.
I'm going to plant beans (green and dry), carrots, cucumbers, hot peppers, pie pumpkins, tomatoes, kale, mixed greens, onions, corn and herbs.
I'm still looking for a source for Kobacha squash seeds - preferably organic or heirloom - if anyone has seen them.
Tired after a long morning of hiking and swimming.
Wow! I better start figuring out what we want to do! There will be more thought into it this year to make sure we do a proper rotation.
I'd love to try corn this year. I was told it wouldn't grow well here by the previous homeowner, but our neighbors grew corn and it looked successful. I'm also adding in kale. I've recently discovered a love for kale chips.
We have a bed devoted to strawberries and I can't wait to see how well they produce this next year. The previous homeowners planted plum and pear trees about 4 years ago so I'm wondering if we'll see anything on those soon.
We have a great space for our garden, but we plan on moving in a few years so we don't want to invest too much more into the garden area. Just have to work with what we created last year.
Snowing here too, but I'm planning! I can't wait... I am in the same situation as you Cheryl, last year was the first for me and I also started seeds too early. They got too big before I could transplant.
I'm new to the boards but trying to find like minded buddies.. anyone in St. Louis area? I love gardening and cooking and am trying to get better at both!
I have started to go through seed catalogs. We haven't yet decided exactly much garden space we are adding this year so I won't have my plans in stone until we do that. But we will have tomatoes, eggplant, zuchini, summer squash, peppers, garlic, onion, cucumbers, lettuce, basil, rosemary, thyme, sage, chives, green beans, possibly potatoes.
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Yep, some of our plants were so big. We are lucky we have the extra space in our house where a whole room is our growing room. (That's what we jokingly call it). I just remembered our tomato plants were so big that they even started producing before we could move them outside. We'll be more patient this year.