What all are you growing this year?!

[Haesuse]

My entire yard is shaded 95% of the day, and the only place I can get enough natural light to grow anything is on my back porch, which is elevated 20 feet off the ground, and gets 8+ hours of sunlight per day (from around 11am to about 30 minutes before dark). So, I have 6 plants, all in 5 gallon buckets, each with a dozen 1/4" holes drilled in the bottom, filled with a mixture of potting soil, spent mushroom compost, and sphagnum peat moss (5-to-1-to-2 ratio) to about 1" short of the top. I planted them all on April 16th, from seedlings that were all around 8-10" tall.

-1 Patio Tomato (12", bushy and full, 3 flower clusters)
-1 Husky Cherry Red Tomato (15", 2 main stalks, 5 flower clusters)
-1 Bush Goliath Tomato (18", bushy, 2 golf ball sized tomatoes, and 3 more flower clusters)
-1 Jalapeno (12", thick, 3 peppers, and 12 flowers!!!)
-1 Tabasco (10", thick, decent leaf growth, but absolutely zero flowering, smallest plant of the bunch)
-1 Cayenne (12", insanely bushy, 10+ flowers forming)

I also have Rosemary, Thyme, Sage, Sweet Basil, and Greek Oregano.

[elevenplants]

Yay! Somebody else from Alabama.

Rebecca

[Haesuse]

Yay! Somebody else from Alabama.

Rebecca

where are you? anywhere near birmingham?

[sweet thunder]

I found this little guy on my Stupice yesterday!
[img]https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3355/3507806587_37811c7b92.jpg[/img]

And another on the way:
[img]https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3579/3508619916_c101f22903.jpg[/img]

It was already a pretty big plant when I bought it - maybe close to 12" tall - but I transplanted it into its container only three weeks ago, and it has easily doubled in size. I don't want to get my hopes up because I've been disappointed before, but I'm still excited!

[pepper4]

Totally new at this. First year but I want to say I have learned alot from you guys. I am growing lettuce, 3 cabbage plants, 2 cauliflower, about 100 onion, 60 or so radish, 3 tomato plants (Big Boy) 6 cuke plants and a variety of peppers. I live in the city with very little land to work with but I am making the most of what I got. Happening gardening to you all whether it be big or small.

[Duh_Vinci]

Same here, totally new to this! And indeed, learning so much from all of you!

Few tomato varieties (mostly "Black/Purple" varieties and some basket yellows)
Few cukes (Boston Pickling, Space Maker and couple of Red Hmong)
Few varieties of radishes
Few varieties of carrots
Red leaf lettuce seem to be doing rather well
Few variety of bell and hot peppers
Eggplants (Ichiban and Early Long)

Learning as I go

Regards,
D

[Haesuse]

so, a friend's dad had 2 leftover bull's horn pepper plants after planting all of his in. they are still small, but each have 3 peppers already forming.

I immediately brought them home and potted them. sounds tasty.

[elevenplants]

My first two maters! Both on the Genovese Costoluto, grown from seed and transplanted into the ground on Good Friday. Found them a couple of days ago. Also this morning found babies on my Yellow Pear and Roma.

[img]https://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww13/elevenpictures/photo-34.jpg[/img]

Here we go!!!!

Rebecca

[elevenplants]

Here's a new pic of the Genovese Costoluto tomatoes, they are growing and adding on at a very rapid pace:

[img]https://i701.photobucket.com/albums/ww13/elevenpictures/photo-41.jpg[/img]

Rebecca