I'm in the UK and moved earlier this year so I finally have a garden. At the moment I have several varieties of tomatoes, spinach, radishes, onions, lettuce, and strawberries. The tomatoes and radishes are doing very well, but we've had quite a dry spring so far so all the others are struggling a bit.
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Nothing :( Had a baby and have no time this year! There is an alotment across the road from me. Will get a whole plot next year!
Winter's just begun down here. I just have broccoli, kale, lettuce and rocket.
I've planted and harvested some radishes; got four tomato plants, each with an accompanying basil; two blueberry bushes; and several strawberries. Gonna grow cucumbers later and I'm very excited for home made pickles. Built my own raised beds this year so I'm putting them to use! I've got a tiny yard and deck so I'm trying to be as space efficient as possible but still enjoy my garden. Good luck with your tomatoes! Ours are already huge :)
Urban raspberry bed! Im looking forward to making an excessive amount of jam in the next couple years
Several tomato plants, the walking onions that keep on coming back, mountain mint, two basils, oregano, green lettuces, lavender, the sunchokes that keep on surviving.
We've planted an Indian/Malabar Spinach Vine in our garden, and it's grown a lot. Their leaves are pretty watery, so it always feels cool around the plant
The dal made with these leaves tastes delicious
I managed to start growing some various spices like Ghost Peppers and Carolina Reapers, I set up my own planter for it and been hoping that by August I would have some pretty nice harvest for it now that the spices have spouted.
I've unfortunately only got a balcony to work with, but I've got cherry tomatoes in two spackel buckets and three pots of strawberries on their second year. we got one single strawberry last year from the one strawberry plant we had then but the other two were runners that are now covered in flowers, and we got our first tomato flowers today too. i love this time of year!
I’m on my second sunflower after the first seedling got ripped out by some manner of varmint. I think I planted it too close to the bird feeder so this one is going to live in a pot until it’s a little larger.
Groundhogs aggressively pursue my attempts at sunflowers.
Where I am at I have a squirrel that will climb the sunflower when It is about to bloom and chew the head right off. The bastard little squirrel then determines that there are in fact no seeds and leaves the head of the sunflower there on the ground uneaten to mock me.
I only have one outdoor plant, a basket of petunias I got as a belated housewarming gift - it's blooming such a pretty color! The rest of what I'm growing is various house plants. My favorite is a peperomia that I propagated from a leaf last summer, and it just grew its first tiny little flower spikes!
I love the weird little nosehair-like inflorescences that Peperomia get! Their weird flowers is why I bought my first plant, which snowballed into plants taking over our house and yard.
which snowballed into plants taking over our house and yard
That certainly seems to be how it goes 😂
I grew a load of stuff last summer and it was a bit of a pain with the water shortage and heatwave.
This year I'm growing chilli's because they are aesthetically pleasing.
Last year was AWFUL omg!
Tell me about it! I got into in the spring and by the end of summer I was done.
Hopefully that didn't discourage you. This year has been much more forgiving, at least in my area. I know last year was the 2nd longest period without noticeable precipitation for 67 days. Went from June to August with nothing. I was so angry. This year I made sure to put at minimum 7 inches of mulch in every bed >:(
Good effort. I didn’t use any mulch last year. This year I just have one chilli plant. I haven’t got the time to tend to a veg patch at the moment.
The backyard is now lousy with dinosaurs (chickens), so everything that's growing is in the front yard this year and I pared back the edibles. For food, lots of chard, beets, peppers, okra, and eggplant, since that's what we end up using out of the garden. The street-visible bit has zinnias, snapdragons, strawflowers, the more attractive herbs (fennel/dill, hyssop, perilla), and four o' clocks.
Food wise, not much. Just one tomato, bell pepper, jalapeño pepper, and cucumber plant each. On the other hand, plenty of flowering plants and my hardy water lily has just bloomed, but I can’t seem to get it to upload.
Edit. Got picture uploaded.
Corn, green beans, yellow onions, and lettuce. I also more than doubled my strawberry and raspberry plants.
I'm trying to overrun the rest of my back yard with either clover for walking paths or wildflowers for the wildlife.
My front yard is a little more tame with just a couple apple trees.
My wife has been growing banana and bell peppers as well as trying to get some lettuce and cucumbers to take root.
So far I've got a regular tomato, cherry tomato, herbs, strawberries, and sunflowers!
We got tomatoes, bell peppers, and squash in the garden beds. We also have a couple blueberry bushes that we planted last year with some solid fruiting
Not so much this season, kind of neglected planting in the garden this year. But my raspberry bush is thriving so I'm hopeful for a lot of berries! And I have some strawberries that are coming back from last year and my blueberry bushes still kicking, so hopefully some more berries from them as well.
My wife planted some pumpkins in our front yard this year and they're really growing! We're planning on letting people in the neighborhood just take some for Halloween since I'm not sure what we'd do with a ton of pumpkins...
Oh I have quite the list. USDA Zone 8 if any one is wondering.
-White Horehound.
-Richmond Green Cucumbers.
-Natsu Fusinari Cucumbers.
-Buzz Buttons or other wise known as Toothache Plants.
-Noir Ananas Tomatoes.
-Brandywine Tomatoes.
-Some kind of Strawberry.
-Artichoke.
-Yamato Cream Melon.
-Jelly Melon.
-Sunflowers. (Titans and Lemon Queens.)
-Habanada Peppers (habaneros with no spice)
-Star of David Okra.
-Butter Crunch Lettuce.
-Hopi Blue Corn.
-Wasabi Arugula. (Aruggula that natrually has a kick of wasabi flavor)
-Eggplant.
-Cardenal Basil.
-Lavender. (French, Spanish, and English)
-Some Carnivorous plants.
-Thai Basil.
-Scotch Bonnet Peppers.
-Lesya Sweet Peppers.
I think that is Just about it. It sounds like a bunch but my garden is pretty compact.
Oh if anyone knows of good measures against Squash Vine Boring Moths I would be extremely grateful!
I am spraying the root stems with BT spray already.
Looks awesome! Toothache plants are wild.
When ever I have guests over it's fun to have them try a piece of one of the leaves. Watching their face change brings immense joy lol.
I'm also trying to grow ananas noir this year, but the seedlings don't seem to be thriving when everything else is. Oh well, you'll have to let me know how it is!
So I started mine indoors under a grow light. I used Miracle Grow Moisture Control potting soil. Got a large bag from Sams club, https://www.samsclub.com/p/miracle-gro-moisture-control-potting-mix/prod1640077.
I also mixed in a good amount of crushed up eggshells. My Ananas Noir are producing a bunch of tomatoes so far.
Getting a good windowsill set up in my flat this year. Parsley, Chives, Basil, Chilli Peppers, Succulents.