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Gardening
We had a small garden at our old house, but have had nothing in the 2 years we've been renting. I'm super pumped about having a huge garden at our new house (and the fact that we can start it before the house is finished.
Anyone else plan on having a garden this year?
When will you plant?
What will you plant?
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Re: Gardening
We have a small garden every year. DH is in charge of it, so I don't know when he'll plant it. May, I guess.
We always plant cucumbers, zucchini, radishes. Sometimes we plant kohlrabi if we can find the seeds. And then sometimes DH will add something else for fun. We've tried watermelons and carrots. (Neither of which did well). I do love fresh veggies from the garden!
we didn't get to garden much last year due to the move. But I started some parsley and basil at the old house in pots and brought them to the new house. I am not sure if/when I will get back into a larger veggie garden. The deer are going to be a problem. No doubt about that. But I would like to try spinach, lettuces in the spring. Peas, beans, tomatoes, onions, herbs. I have done carrots successfully in the past but only in a raised bed.
eta- cucumbers, we do those too
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Also, aside from early spring things like peas and lettuce, I start on mother's day weekend.
DH is the gardener. Like Amanda, we have deer issues. We have had some success with the electric fence but Nathan has been growing his tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets and our lettuce in long planters with herbs and spices in pots. We have had a lot of success and the deer don't come all the way down the yard onto the patio.
We usually grow about 15 tomatoe plant of different vareties, lettuce, beets, peppers, cucumbers, celery(which is amazing but hard to find), eggplant, radishes, basil, thyme, rosemary. We also have garlic and horseradish but garlic you plant in the winter.
We have a pear and quince tree in our yard and the deer are plentiful in the yard when the fruit is ripe. Jerks take one bite and then leave the rest to rot or fill with bees. We tried planting a cherry tree and it was completely destroyed by a buck rubbing on it (we even had it fenced off).
DH is the gardener - he usually plants all different kinds of peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber. We have strawberry plants too, but we've only been able to eat a few of them because something keeps eating them - either a bird or a chipmunk (or yard is fenced in, so no deer issues).
I do the herb garden but I just buy the plants already grown, so that probably doesn't count!
Speaking of deer - does anyone have any flower recommendations that deer don't like to eat? The past two years deer have destroyed all of my flowers in the front yard - I always plant impatiens because they spread and recover well from my regularly forgetting to water them.
Deer hate dusty miller flowers. We plant them every year at the cemetary and it keeps them from eating the other plants.
http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plant-dictionary/annual/dusty-miller/
DH is the gardener in this house as well. He has a nice sized, fenced in garden to keep the deer away. His dad has a small greenhouse and will start some plant for us early, but otherwise I think he usually plants in early May.
We'll have a few types of tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, beets, lettuce, peppers and cabbage. We do basil in a separate space.
We plant a small garden! We have corn, tomatoes, peppers, green beans, cucumbers and... not sure what else this year! :-)
Happy Gardening!
Ours keeps getting bigger every year.
I like to have most of my stuff in before memorial day.
We will do green beans, tomatoes, beets and peas for sure. I need to check out my cupboard to see if I should put in pumpkins this year. I want to try growing banana peppers again this year although every year I have tried peppers they have been a big fail. I'm thinking about doing onions and potatoes. Maybe corn again but this is another bad luck item for us.
Maybe I'm just not planting them close enough together then because I buy my plants from a local green house and they grow pretty well just never get any peppers.
We will be planting this year - DH has to move the garden he built two years ago, though, because we didn;t realize it was so shady and we weren't too successful. DH also plans to redo our deck this year - make it larger and add another level, so once that's done, I can do planters.
I'm excited for it this year bc I hardly planted anything last year due to our 2-week trip to Ireland in late May/early June. (It was too late to really plant by the time we got back.)
Most people I know plant around Mother's Day here, but you can start hardier veggies in mid to late March: lettuce, potatoes, and the such.
My three sons!