What are you growing this year?

[SPierce]

I probably don't have enough proper room, but I'm going for it anyway Its a lot of stuff, but not a lot of plants

brussels sprouts
Lemon cucumbers
Pumpkin
Gourds (2 kinds)
Zucchini & Butternut squash
tomatoes (got sunny boy and mortgage lifter)
lettuce
onion
corn
radishes
watermelon
french beans
lima beans
peppers (bananas and bell)
potatoes

and, if i have room, some everbearing strawberries

and flower wise, got a mix of small sunflower seeds, and some bachelors buttons

[btrowe1]

I grew some pumpkins and watermelons one year, had this beautiful looking melon and let it go all year, picked a real hot day in late august to cut it open had all the kids around and when I cut into it it turned out to be a pumpkin on the inside. . What a let down for all the kids..Since then I only grow one or the other, not sure how it happened but it was intresting.. Was told some time later that the pumpkin and melon are kind of the same family and that when pollenated the dominat strain took control. I'll never forget all the unhappy faces on the kids.

[!potatoes!]

I grew some pumpkins and watermelons one year, had this beautiful looking melon and let it go all year, picked a real hot day in late august to cut it open had all the kids around and when I cut into it it turned out to be a pumpkin on the inside. . What a let down for all the kids..Since then I only grow one or the other, not sure how it happened but it was intresting.. Was told some time later that the pumpkin and melon are kind of the same family and that when pollenated the dominat strain took control. I'll never forget all the unhappy faces on the kids.

considering how distantly related they are, i'd be willing to bet you've already gotten the one like that that you're going to see in your lifetime. that's a wiiiiide cross. not impossible, but probably not worth skipping growing one or the other over.

[jal_ut]

I think you got bad seed. Melons don't cross with pumpkins. Even if they did, you would not know it until next year if you saved the seed and planted it. Corn is the only plant I know where the pollen affects the nature of this years crop.

Where did you get the seed?

[HannahGrace]

I've got 3 different types of pepper (jalapeno, sweet pepper and mini bell peppers). Cherry, Roma and regular tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, green beans, sunflowers, lettuce, spinach, radishes, carrots, peas, beets, broccoli, okra, marigolds, lemon balm, thyme, lemon thyme, rosemary, cilantro, sage, lavender, dill, yarrow, stevia, spearmint, pennyroyal and majoram... and I think that's all in the main garden. I'll have some different flowers (I just got some ranunculus the other day) but I'm not positive what all I'll have.

[greenstubbs]

I'm doing my usual this year.
Beets
Carrots
Onions
Rad's
Pole Beans
Kohli's
Acorn Squash
Unknown Squash-unlabeled bag that I did and forgot what it was???
Patty Pan Squash
Spinach
Chard
Honeydew's
Banana Pep's
Bell Pep's
A couple different Mater's
And tring something new and different- Russet and Red Spud's
Spices are
Rosemary- I have to butcher that as it's getting outta control, I'll either have tons or just trash it??
Mint
Sage
Chive
I'm worried about my Oregano and Thyme as I cut them back and now look dead.
I forgot my chocker, don't know weather to keep it or not as it's not choking yet when it should be full of them. Plants healthy and big and that's it.
I'm also kicking around the idea of next year growing just Good Ol' Illini Yellow Sweet Corn as out here on the left coast what they call a sweet corn is white and nobody has yellow and it's just NOT sweet.! They just don't know and are clueless as to what us Midwesterns call corn! If they only knew? I've got a year before I have to make that command decision.

[southerncomfort]

Now:

Cabbage
Red Cabbage
Chinese Cabbage
Romaine Lettuce
Collards
Georgia Sweet Onions
Red Sweet Onions
Carrots
Red Potatoes
Strawberries planted last Fall
Asparagus planted last Spring

Spring:

Yellow Crookneck Squash
Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans
Early Girl Tomatoes (seedlings now)
Roma Tomatoes (seedlings now)
Big Boy Tomatoes (seedlings now)
Cherry Tomatoes (seedlings now)
Bell Pepper (seedlings now)
Sweet Banana Pepper (seedlings now)
Egg Plant (seedlings now)
Okra
Cucumbers
Zipper Cream Peas
Big Boy Peas
Watermelon

[klevelyn]

I grew Brussels sprouts a couple of years ago and they didn't make good shoots. I am trying again this year. I have started my seeds this week and hope to plant them in April with some cover to protect them.
I will plant again in the fall around Aug. to see if they do better at the end of the season.
I love this vegetable but haven't had luck in my part of the country.

[jal_ut]

I have never had good luck growing them either. Tried a few times. I really don't think we have long enough season in Utah. Then I tried eating some at a cafe and decided they were not worth the bother.

Plant cabbage instead. Much better flavor. Much bigger heads. Ten times the yield. Yes, it will make it in Utah.

[Yellowsnow]

Gonna have a good variety this year. Adding some new stuff as well.

Tomatoes: Mortgage Lifter, Brandeywine Pink, Amish Paste, Dutchman, small yellow pear

Squash: Waltham Butternut, Early Prolific Straightneck, Black Beauty Zucchini, Pattypan

Spinach: Bloomsdale Long Standing

Lettuce: Black Seeded SImpson, Buttercrunch

Cabbage: Danish Ballhead

Peppers: Emerald Giant bell, Large Red Cayenne, Jalapeno, Banana

Cukes

Carrots: Chantenay

Brussels Sprouts: Long Island Improved

Broccoli: Atlantic

Corn: Golden Bantam Improved

Potato: kennebeck

Also gonna try Parsnips and Rutabaga this year. I have been growing Roma tomatoes for years, but enjoyed teh Amish Paste last year. I still may plant a couple Roma this year just in case.

[klevelyn]

Kennebeck potatoes did really well for me last season. When do you grow your Brussels sprouts in PA? fall or spring?

[nosta]

Peas,radish,spinach going right now.

Squash, zukes, cukes, okra, tomatoes, bell pepper, cayenne, habs, tabasco, thai hots, jalapeno, serrano, poblano, cantaloupe, eggplant, bush blue lake beans, and maybe corn.

[Duets]

I'm growing....8 tomato plants (cherry, patio, beefmaster, heirloom) , pole beans, bush beans, cucumbers, radishes, strawberries, onions, garlic, zuchinni squash, green peppers, garlic chive, potatoes, eggplants, lemons.

....... stevia, mint- (citrus, chocolate, peppermint), basil, Italian basal, 2 different kinds of parsley, lavender, marigolds, petunias.

[PunkRotten]

** Spring **


Tomatoes

Cherokee Purple
Box Car Willie
Green Zebra
Micro-Tom
Tiny Tim
Red Robin


Peppers

Serrano
Sweet Chocolate bell
Lemon Drop
Pepperoncini
Hot Cherry
Aji Dulce
Bulgarian Carrot



Herbs

Dill, Mammoth
Basil, Purple ruffles
Basil, Lemon
Basil, Genovese
Parsely, Italian plain-leaf
Cilantro, slow -bolt
Yarrow
Chamomile
Anise Hyssop


Veggies


Bean, Royal Burgundy (bush)
Bean, Blue Lake (bush)
Bean, Mellow Yellow (bush)
Cucumber, Mini White
Cucumber, Double Yield or boston pickling
Lettuce, Deer Tongue


Fruit

Cape Gooseberry
Sugar Baby Watermelon
Minnesota Midget Melon


Flowers


Marigold, Tangerine gem/Lemon gem
Sunflower, Teddy bear
Sunflower, Velvet queen
Nasturtium, Black velvet
Nasturtium, Moonlight
Nasturtium, Empress of India
Impatiens










*****Fall*****






Veggies


lacinato Kale
Carrot, little finger
Carrot, Romeo
Carrot, Scarlet nantes
Lettuce, Ashley
Lettuce, Rouge d'Hiver (romaine)
Lettuce, Rougette de Montpellier
Bean, Kentucky Wonder (pole)
Bean, Rattlesnake (pole)
Beet, Golden
Beet, Cylindria
Radish, Icicle
Radish, Sparkler
Radish, Crimson Giant
Radish, Watermelon
Endive, Broad-leaved Batavian



Herbs

Cilantro
Parsley
Dill
Basil

[DoubleDogFarm]

I'm concentrating more on beans, corn, squash, potatoes and eggs. My 10 new Ancona ducklings should arrive about mid month. Pictured, are 20lbs of Yukon Gold potatoes, cut and ready for planting.


Eric