Who Here Grows All/Some Of Their Own Food In Gardens?

[Trouvere]

Originally Posted by Ron

On another thread their was talk of growing your own food.
Who here does that & what is your success?
What do you grow?

I have an herb garden that I grow just for cooking.The basil is awesome right now and so is the oregano.I also grow mint and pineapple sage.The sage has some beautiful leaves.It all smells so nice and fresh.I make my own pesto and
herb dressing to marinate chicken.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Ron

On another thread their was talk of growing your own food.
Who here does that & what is your success?
What do you grow?

I have a 23' x 27' garden.

I have 36 tomato plants because we want to put up a lot of tomatoes this year.

Beyond that we have planted...

Corn
Okra
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
Bell Pepper
Jalapeno
Potatoes
Eggplant
Crookneck Squash
Straightneck Squash
Purple Hull Peas
Cucumbers (doesn't look like they are going to make it)
Loofa
I am mentally running over the garden and I can remember what else is in there at the moment.

We also planted..
An apple tree
A Valencia Orange tree
A Nectarine tree
A grape vine
A blackberry vine
A blueberry bush

I also have a small herb planter with...
Curly Leaf Parsley
Onion Chives
Basil

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Ron,
It costs more to water a huge garden than to buy the vegetables. We only grow tomatoes and peppers.

Have you priced veggies lately?

Also... I know what went into it.
I know what was sprayed on it (Nothing)
My land is not devoid of any minerals so the veggies are better for you.
And there ain't no satisfaction like walking out to the garden and picking something.... walking right in the house... and cooking it up.

And this year... I have only watered my garden twice other than the first 2 weeks when they were getting started. We have had great rainfall this year.

When it is raining outside I will tell the kids... "No sense in praying....Jesus is outside watering my garden right now"

Of course it sleeted the other day... I told the kids..."No sense in praying... Jesus is outside beating my garden to a pulp"

But...we fared well... the sleet didn't do us much harm.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Rico

I have been thinking about growing some banana peppers this year. Because of where I live I would have to do it in a 5 gallon bucket, but I love the taste of those sweet banana peppers. Yummmy!

Yes sir.... it is amazing what you can grow with a few buckets.

[Destiny2]

Garden all planted.............peppers ,tomatoes,carrots,peas,yellow beans,potatoes,squash,cucumbers,also have a raspberry patch so in due time fresh veggies and raspberries,and of course right now lots of rhubarb.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by PaPaDon

its time to drag out the old roto-tiller and get that plot ready once again.

I borrowed a guys tiller to till the garden this year. It was a nice self propelled rear tine tiller but it didn't dig down near far enough for me.

A friend told me that you will never get down deep with a rear tine till so I was on the look out for a used front tine tiller.

I bought one off ebay for $95.

It is a 1973 model Snapper tiller that was owned by a rental place so they kept it up nice and kept the oil changed etc.

It is one sweet machine.

A friend of mine has all the attachments too so I will be able to replace the times with tires and mount a middle buster on it etc.

I had one row that just didn't take this year so I was going to till it up with my new tiller before replanting. ( I use a wide row gardening technique... 4' wd rows)

That 34 year old tiller dug down deep and I am looking forward to tilling my other rows.

I planted more purple hull peas in the row and they came up great and I need to get some okra down too.

It is late to be doing it but okra will put out until the frost so it will still make good okra for us.

[Theresa]

ok, I have a question..

my herbs are growing like mad. I planted them in a pot and lost my rosemary b/c the oregano took over and choked it out..

I used miracle grow organic soil and now I have enough basil in one pot, oregano in another and chives to choke a small country

what in the world do I do with it all??? Now that I have the basil and oregano, how do I, well - what do I do?

my lettuce looks like it's on steriods - my whole garden area was planted in that miracle grow soil for veggies - my peppers are HUGE - not quite ready to pick, but HUGE already....

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Theresa

ok, I have a question..

my herbs are growing like mad. I planted them in a pot and lost my rosemary b/c the oregano took over and choked it out..

I used miracle grow organic soil and now I have enough basil in one pot, oregano in another and chives to choke a small country

what in the world do I do with it all??? Now that I have the basil and oregano, how do I, well - what do I do?

my lettuce looks like it's on steriods - my whole garden area was planted in that miracle grow soil for veggies - my peppers are HUGE - not quite ready to pick, but HUGE already....

There's lots of info out there on storing herbs. Here is a google search

No hope for saving lettuce.

[Theresa]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

There's lots of info out there on storing herbs. Here is a google search

No hope for saving lettuce.

this is why we pick it an eat it

[Theresa]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

There's lots of info out there on storing herbs. Here is a google search

No hope for saving lettuce.

Thank you, that answered my questions..

I also stumbled on the how to to make your own sun dried tomatoes...which sounds easy enough

I love sun dried tomatoes and seeing as how I'm going to have a TON of several different kinds, I'm going to try the process on them all to see which has the best results LOL