Asked on Mar 14, 2014
What are you planting?
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What will you be planting in your gardens this year? Are your gardens traditional plots, containers, raised beds? What grows best where you live? Compost? Miracle Grow? What are your special tips and tricks to get a bounty in return for your efforts?
#Beets #Carrots #Peppers #Squash #Zucchini #Tomatoes #Lettuce #Herbs #Arugula #SweetPeas #Kohlrabi #Cucumber #Okra #Corn #Broccoli #Cabbage #Turnips #WhoEvenEatsTurnips?
12 answers
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I have 5 acres, 2 1/2 in gardens TOTALLY ORGANIC! We use homemade compost and maple leaves to enhance our soil and cow manure. In my vegetable garden I'll be planting tomatoes, snap beans, snow peas, kale, spinach, from organic seeds from Territorial Seeds. I get organic tomatoes and sets from our CSA provider. In my perennial gardens I plant native perennial, ornamental grasses and flower seeds like sunflowers and runner beans. I buy the rest of the vegetables I cannot grow due to Michigan's short growing season at the farmers market.
White Oak Studio Designs
on Mar 14, 2014
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We have a couple of heritage apple trees. We had a patch of serious high ground water flooding a few years back and sadly, we lost most of our fruit trees. Yes, our area of SW Michigan is know for its wonderful fruit many orchards are within a few miles of us. We pick and freeze every year.
White Oak Studio Designs
on Mar 14, 2014
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I have raised beds I built in my back yard. I use my own compost and well rotted sheep manure. I have sage that over-winters. It's about 5 years old; chives that over-winter as well as spearmint. I also plant basil and rosemary; squash (I got 24 from 1 plant!!), heritage and cherry tomatoes 3 or kinds of peppers; spinach, kale, chard, sunflowers; morning glory, sweet peas, beans, and rhubarb. All organic and as many heritage varieties as I kind find. I'm also going to try potatoes in straw cages this year. I mulch the paths with lots of straw and as soon as the tomatoes start to flower I put straw around them as well. I buy lots of local frui to freeze and preserve. FUN!!
Katie
on Mar 14, 2014
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Tomatoes and Bell Peppers...Yuuummm
Sandy Brown Horton
on Mar 14, 2014
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We always plant lots of tomatoes,squash,green beans,some corn,potatoes,lots of onions,cucumbers,okra,turnips in the garden,I have wild strawberries planted to border my flower garden of irises,pink ladies & lily of the valley.
Anna Garris
on Mar 15, 2014
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Wow-so much deliciousness! Any tips on keeping the critters away? I've got a raised bed in my backyard and tomatoes and strawberries both were raided last year by raccoons, birds and my chihuahua. The only thing that was left were the zucchini-too large to be hauled off :-(
Shaun Roney
on Mar 16, 2014
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I understand birds will avoid your garden if you have shiny things running across it. I'm going to try it this year. And I have some squirrel statues for my garden that I move every day I water and that seems to help. Good luck @No search results.Shaun Roney.
Sandra Cook
on Mar 16, 2014
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@Shaun Roney A few years ago I made a boxs to go on top of raised beds. The framework was made of 1x1 stock with chicken wire stretched over it. I could water through it, and it was light weight enough to easily be moved for other chores (and harvest!). I placed screen door latches (facing opposite directions on two opposing sides to keep larger critters from knocking it off the raised bed to get at the goodies.
Kate Chatterton
on Mar 16, 2014
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Im using straw bales for alot of things, We have about a 200x50 garden space which hubby put irrigation into last year, large area veggies like zucchini and pumpkins and a 10 row by 10 row of sweet corn. Tomatoes, watermelons, hot peppers, peas, green beans. I can most of what we grow, and this year we are dehydrating alot of our apples again. All organic heirloom seeds, no miracle grow just, alaska fish fertilizer. Potatoes will be grown in wire towers layered with straw and soil, easier to harvest and bigger healthier potatoes. . Strawberries in the raised beds with bird netting.I buy my strawberry roots by the case from a supplier and my seeds from a grower supply because I have a nursery license so I get a better deal.Thats what we are doing:}
Patricia W
on Mar 16, 2014
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I'm growing lettuce, spinach, turnips, kale,broccoli, leeks, beets and garlic right now, my summer veggies will be cucumbers, okras, beans, tomatoes, eggplants, sweet and hot peppers, squash,basil, mint, watermelons and some sunflowers. My kids really want to grow some berries this year so we're going to try our hand at some blackberries and raspberries, has anyone grown blackberries or raspberries before and if so, are they difficult to grow?
Shelly
on Mar 17, 2014
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Thank you @KateChatterton I like the idea of the screen door latches!
Shaun Roney
on Mar 17, 2014
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This year I'll plant potatoes (Yukon Gold and Russet), peas (a bush variety), broccoli, spinach, lettuce (Bibb and Salad bowl), carrots, zucchini, spaghetti squash, onions ( Walla walla sweets and scallions) garlic, jalapeño peppers, tomatoes (mostly cherry, some beef steak), parsley, sage, rosemary (no, no thyme!), dill and cilantro. I grow the herbs in pots and everything else in raised beds, though I'm going to try tomatoes in buckets this year (a landscaping project will displace them this year). Most of my raised beds are elevated, the soil warms earlier and they are easier to work. Last year my spinach was still going strong when the weather got hot, so I built frames from half inch PVC and covered them with shade cloth. I was able to grow spinach through out the summer with out it getting bitter. Because I plant my potatoes so early, April 1st (covering them with straw, I can usually get a second crop in each year, though the second harvest is never as prolific as the first. I use compost, some commercial, some I've made. I freeze any produce we don't eat while fresh.
Kate Chatterton
on Mar 17, 2014
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