I’m in NY spring is steadily approaching and im getting ready to start my outdoor vegetable garden this year im planting
2 types of tomatos early girl bush and Cherokee purple an heirloom tomato as well as some cucumbers and pumpkins
Im getting new tomato cages last year i jyst planted some of the early girl bush tomatoes and they outgrew tge cages by probably triple this was pic was before they got completely out of controll they’re about double the cage here
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We live so high up that we are limited (7,100 feet) so mostly root vegetables like potatoes, onions and carrots, but we will do some lettuce as well which is a treat. I used to live in SoCal and you could grow popsicles by planting the sticks haha. We had avocados, apples, strawberries, lettuce, beans, etc. It’s definitely different.
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I generally plant tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and corn. I like onions but I can’t get them to close.
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We will plant, Peppers (sweet, hot), califlower, broccohli, chards, maters, taters,dill, bazil, onions, more wild leeks, (our patch is rocking) more horse radish will be spread out, cilantro, could go on, then the other grow so far planned out door, Hash plant, Whitetruffle, Hindu kush, so far…
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Love the garden threads. Doing 8 kinds of tomato, slicer and pickle cucumbers, corn, sweet and hot peppers, zuchinni, 30 pumpkin vines, spinach and lettuce, asparagus, try and fail again watermelon, and 10 rows of carrots all planted 7 days apart. And strawberries anywhere there is bare earth. It’s my cover crop.
I only got 5 new trees this year.
Veteran peach ( replaced rabbit girdled death)
Avalon pride peach
Lucy gem apple
Spice Z nectaplum hybrid
Khaffir lime
Kinda (seed I traded for) sumo orange sprouts
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30 vines should give you a few pumpkins.
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Yep, I always pull my own seed so it’s like a pumpkin pheno hunt every year. lol
We always do a neighborhood pumpkin patch for all the kids in our neighborhood. It’s great fun. My 2 raised beds are both 20x10 and run parallel to the creek. I plant the 30 most vigorous sprouts across the long side parallel to the creek. It’s about 30-50ft down to the creek depending where in the drainage. So I let the pumpkin vines sprawl down to the creek. They naturally will root down vine if the tips make the creek. And drink water by the vine load.
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I have maybe 6 different tomatoes started and some jalapanos.
Also doing potatoes, cucumbers, luttuce. Sure Im forgetting something.
Got too early of a start on the tomatoes.
This pic is from a couple weeks ago. Some are falling over now. Already cut a few clones that also have roots.
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We are growing San Marzano and Roma tomatoes, serrano, jalapeño, and some other peppers for sure, May grow some peas, butter beans, and okra. I’m going to grow tomatoes and peppers in my tent and outdoors to see which do best. Ought to be fun to see how they compete.
Edit: I bet the tent plants outperform the outdoor plants.
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We’re growing tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, corn, beans/peas, okra, gourds, squash, a metric ton of herbs and flowers, taters, melons.
You name it, We’re probably growing it.
Our season starts in just a couple weeks. We’re expecting cold temps tonight but i believe this will be our last cold snap.
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All the basics to many to list
This is the start for my 2 daughters and I
As soon as I post this I have more veggies and flowers to plant.
Nice seeing everyone’s gardens
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Nice I’m doing it with my niece I’m planning to start germinating the seeds on sunday then by mid april they should be ready to go outside the pumpkins I’ll probably start a little later probably early april and plant them outside just before may I’m hoping to plant 4 of them I have one large flower bed on the side of the house I want to be a pumpkin patch
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I start my pumpkins at least 4 weeks before planting outside or they are to small
Chicago area
What area are you in?
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I’m in NY but I’m in southern NY honestly were probably past the frost this year but its still a possibility till mid april so it should be fine any time after about the 14th
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Our last frost date is may 20 here
Maybe we should start a contest on who grows the best tomato?
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Gardened most of my life in the Southern tier of NYS.i grew some giants.Biggest was 742 lbs.We carved one out for Halloween with a sawzall .In the pic are my brothers daughters,all grown up now.
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I’ll play; what the heck. But you have the define the parameters and metrics. I’m growing Roma and San Marzanos. Most of the yield will go to can tomato sauce/gravy. We cook a lot of Italian food.
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Just like bud of the month can be any strain it can be any tomato strain just the best looking?
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Works for me.
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