What are you going to plant this year...

[alotofgooddeals]

All the things going on in the world right now has made me realize that i want to know where my food comes from so i plan on putting in a huge garden....
I would like to can some veggies...make my own tomato sauce and make lots and lots of pickles....but i am just a beginner and am not sure what needs to be pressure cooked and what does not....so


I would like to can

carrotts
string beans
spinach
lots and lots of fiddleheads
beets
peas and corn...however i know you have to grow lots of peas to get just a little.....
I want to can them because you never know and i would hate to lose all that produce in something should happen to the electricity.

I want to make lots and lots of pickles and would love any recipes anyone is willing to share

[brenda67]

I'm planting a huge garden this year..Hopefully it will not get diseased so I can at least harvest something for all my hard labor so here's my list..

Plum tomatoes
Beefsteak tomatoes
Cherrie tomatoes
Green beans
Squash..yellow..green..acorn..
Green peppers
Jalepeno peppers
Brocolli
Red potatoes
Silver queen corn
Onions
Chives
Cilantro



I will be harvesting fruit from my brother's orchard..I also intend at trying my hand at making my own Apple juice from his apple trees..

[fairydana]

small garden here.

tomatoes
bell peppers
okra

I was thinking about maybe planting some herbs. I am not sure about this yet!

By the way, what are fiddleheads?

[alotofgooddeals]

Can this be frozen....?

I'm planting a huge garden this year..Hopefully it will not get diseased so I can at least harvest something for all my hard labor so here's my list..

Plum tomatoes
Beefsteak tomatoes
Cherrie tomatoes
Green beans
Squash..yellow..green..acorn..
Green peppers
Jalepeno peppers
Brocolli
Red potatoes
Silver queen corn
Onions
Chives
Cilantro



I will be harvesting fruit from my brother's orchard..I also intend at trying my hand at making my own Apple juice from his apple trees..

[alotofgooddeals]

You pick them when they first start coming out of the ground and before they grow into a full size fern... they are so yummy.......and we all love them....the kids and i that is...

small garden here.

tomatoes
bell peppers
okra

I was thinking about maybe planting some herbs. I am not sure about this yet!

By the way, what are fiddleheads?

[madjen]

We always plant tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. Hoping to expand more variety this year but need to figure that out closer to planting time.

[brenda67]

Can this be frozen....?

If your asking me about the Squash..I do grate the zuchini sp? and put it into small freezer bags..the yellow squash I cook up with onions and butter/olive oil and put that into plastic containers and pop them in the freezer..hth...

[Missy]

i plant a huge 4 part garden.
garden 1
3 kinds of corn, onions, potatoes, garlic, green onions, established yellow raspberry patch, carrots, beets, peanuts, leeks,

garden 2
grapes, roses, cucumbers, easter egg gourd, luffah, 3 kinds of green beans, two kinds of peas, zucchini, summer squash, pattipan squash, pumpkin, tomatoes (few varieties), butternut squash, eggplant (2 kinds), artichokes, spagetti squash, acorn squash, watermelon, cantelope, cherry, plum, apple

garden 3
hot peppers, bell peppers, established black berries, established blueberries, established red raspberries, Sunflowers, apple, cherry, peach, misc annual flowers, lilac, strawberries, roses, grapes, chard, two kinds of cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuces, asparagus, passion fruit,

garden 4
all my herbs, rose, chickens, quail, ducks, aquaponics project, flowers,

my container gardens
mulberry, dwarf apple, apricot, lemon, lime, clementine, star fruit, aloes, vanilla, banana, sugarcane

the containers are interspursed among the 4 gardens. those items come inside in the fall through until it's warm enough for them to go outside again.

i am sure I am forgetting about a lot of things. that's just what we did last year. We'll probably add to it this year...and i can't get anything in the ground until april-may ish

[Missy]

oh, gosh....i miss fiddleheads. cant get them here!

[dschipman]

We are planting more this year then last:
Tomatoes (big boys and cherry)
Bell Peppers (red, green and yellow)
Green Beans
Onions
Potatoes &
maybe garlic???

[madhen]

I usually plant a big garden, but then end up giving away half of it, so I am going to pare it down this year and try to have it contained in an area where I can fend off the evil ground squirrels. My plan right now is to put in potatoes, onions, tomatoes, peppers (a couple of varieties), beans (dry), and possibly some flowers. I plant garlic every year, as well, from cloves from last season's head, and I have a small asparagus bed that I've been nursing along a few years now.

[brenda67]

I planted over a 100 onion bulbs last year only to find when i went to harvest them they weren't any bigger then a gulf ball size or smaller...What did I do wrong? I need to figure this out so I can succeed and this years planting..

p.s. they were in the ground for the alotted time plus more..

[Trishagirl]

I want to plant Tomatoes, plum tomatoes, banana peppers, green peppers, cucumbers, potatoes,green beans, carrots,

[madhen]

I planted over a 100 onion bulbs last year only to find when i went to harvest them they weren't any bigger then a gulf ball size or smaller...What did I do wrong? I need to figure this out so I can succeed and this years planting..

p.s. they were in the ground for the alotted time plus more..

Wow, it could be a whole lot of things, from lack of moisture to overcrowding to just the variety that you planted. Did you let the stalks die on their own, then wait to harvest? Were there any onions in the 100 that DID reach a full onion size?

[summer breeze]

Green beans
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Watermelon
Pumpkin
Hopefully some herbs not sure what