What will you grow in your garden this year?

United States
January 8, 2007 5:09pm CST
My husband is fixing his dad's tiller and is going to work out a large garden plot this year. My first year for a BIG garden!! What shall I grow? I'm thinking green beans, watermelons, tomatoes. Have you grown nay of these? What else have you had success with? I live in zone 7.
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@kaka135 (14916)
• Malaysia
9 Jan 07
I have a yard in front of my house, and I make a small section to be my garden. I usually plant some vegetables that are easy to grow and that I like to eat. I don't know the names of those vegetables in English. Those I know are spring onions, ginger, aloe vera, chilli. This year I'll continue to plant all these, need to put more efforts and pay more attention to my plants. Those vegetables I plant usually keep growing everytime I cut them off, so I can always eat the vege. :p
• United States
10 Jan 07
Thats great! I have really good luck with green onions as well. I couldn't grow aloe vera outside but I do have some doing well in my kitchen window planter.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
11 Jan 07
I can't grow watermelons here very well, but tomatoes, squash, beans, corn and salad veggies like lettuce, radishes, green onions are fairly easy to grow. Corn takes a lot out of the soil, I'm told, so you'd probably want to add fertilizer to it. I used to have a 50 X 50 foot garden and I grew almost all the vegetables we ate for the year. Tomatoes were by far the most prolific, but grow what you eat.
• United States
8 Jan 07
I don't have a garden but I wish I did. My MIL does a garden every year and she gives us stuff that she has grown. She does beans, squash, cucumbers, etc...
• United States
9 Jan 07
cucumbers grow really well in this area too I think. I've never actually cooked squash from scratch - I wouldn't want to grow anything I wouldn't actually use. Thanks for the input.
• United States
10 Jan 07
My garden has been fallow for 3 years now and this is the year we will have another vegetable garden, we have a medium sized garden, its only the two of us, but we plant enough to share (I think that is one of the great joys of gardening to share the fruits of your labor with others) -- We will have the green beans I love snaps, and tomatoes, watermelons I'm not sure about they can take up a lot of space. We usually grow peppers, reds,yellow,green and chilies, lettuce, lima or butter beans, I try my hand a cantaloupe 1 year, they grew but were the smallest cantaloupe I have ever seen :) - we usually stick to a salad garden for the most part. Happy gardening! A Green thumb to you :)
• United States
24 Jan 07
One year we accidentally grew a pumpkin vine from a stray seed that planted itself after we sprayedoff the deck from carving pumpkins for Halloween. It grew only one pumpkin - this huge vine sprawling all over the backyard and only one little pumpkin grew. But man we were so proud of our "accidental pumpkin" as we called it. I think I was 7 or 8. **laughing**
• United States
28 Jan 07
I planted two beautiful rose bushes last year and many other plants I am hoping that this super cold blast and the fact that they are under 6 feet of snow hasn't killed them. I love flowers I plant tons and tons every year. I can't grow veggies because they attract the dear and as the saying goes "where there is prey there is predators" so I like to keep the deer away.
• United States
30 Jan 07
Try growing a tossed salad. You know, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, cucumbers, and to go with the salad some sweet corn. And for healthy eating, green beans, peas, squash, and for fun, pumpkins for Halloween. I live in New York and they've all grown good for me. Good Luck!
• United States
11 Jan 07
mostly it will be day lillies and a few tomatos
@123mosco (629)
• Nigeria
9 Jan 07
a lot,like rice
@torrent (145)
• India
11 Jan 07
i 'll grow roses & lilies
@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
25 Jan 07
I Love Gardening - The Joy of Gardening.
I am planning a container garden this year. It's too hard for me to get down and weed due to my current disability. With the weather so wacky, I'm not planning on anything that needs an especially long growing season. I always plant tons of annuals and a couple new perenials. This spring I'm adding two butterfly bushes to the front of the house for sure. For veggies, the plan so far is: Grape tomatoes, big boy tomatoes, eggplant, various squashes both summer and winter. I may try watermelon but need to find one that doesn't need too much time growing. This year it would have done wonderful as we didn't get cold weather until a few weeks ago. But that is not the usual. I'm in zone 7 also.
@yogirl87 (98)
• India
25 Jan 07
im growing beans, ladyfingers, tomatoes, mint, spinach etc in my garden now.. they're growing really well so far, da only problems im facing are due to pests and rodents, otherwise they're growin really well..
@angelco (345)
• Philippines
25 Jan 07
actually i have avocado, banana, jackfruit in my garden... i plan add more fruits and plants this year like mango, mangosteen, pomelo :)
@seanymph (10)
• United States
25 Jan 07
Wow, I just joined and you are my first question. I grow lots of tomatoes, but I have a unique way of acquiring the seeds. I find a great tasting tomatoe, say beefsteak, cut it in half and squeeze the seeds into a pot of dry soil, allow the seeds to dry out for a couple of weeks, then hit it with the fertilizer, I may have as many as 50-60 plants from a single tomatoe. Allow the stalk to firm up a little before dividing. I do the same with cucumbers, bell peppers, melons, any thing with a seed. Good Luck