Do you grow your own?

[BattleNymph]

Since it was brought up in another thread. How many of you LIKE to grow your own garden? How many are doing it this year?

I myself LOVE gardening with a passion but haven't even got a porch where I can container grow this year. :(

Nothing tastes as good as fresh picked tomatoes or peas right from the pod.

[Cranky Dog]

I'm not the one responsible for it, but my folks have a vegetable garden with mostly tomatoes and cucumbers.

When summer ends, we get a couple of pounds of tomatoes each day. Needless to say our tomato consumption goes up, but with can't keep up with the production so we give some of it away to friends and family.

We use several varieties of tomatoes so as to spread the harvesting season over a longer period.

I don't like cucumbers so I don't ask what kind it is.

We also have some chive that's been growing in a patch of garden for years that we cut up on occasion. On the shady side of the house, we have a bit of rhubarb that goes great with strawberries.

For the kids, on occasion we sow some pumpkin and watch it invade the yard. Those pumpkin patches grow fast and large even though the pumpkin itself can remain somewhat small.


Cranky Dog
"I have a home grown vegetable opinion, international!"

[silverwhisper]

while i don't garden, neither do i find the need to mock those who do so i don't really have a poll option i can select. :p

[Paulypalooza]

I have a tiny window box herb garden but thats as far as I am willing to take it.

[SD Anderson]

Once upon a time, a guy I knew from High School started a community garden in two lots where the homes that had occupied them had burned down. He had a small grant from the town this land was in and a shot (successful as it turned out) into turning this into a permanent project on some land the town owned. But he needed people working plots and hit up some mutual friends who got me into the project as well.

He was really looking for town residents and I lived just beyond the city limits but he needed bodies working those plots.

For a growing season or two, I worked a garden, managed to grow small but edible things to eat. I think I mentioned this in a post to a mail list I used to be on. If I'd been at it full time I think I would have done well enough to survive in a post holocaust scenario from farming.

When the town's land became available, the project moved and the residential requirement went into effect. So I went out of the part time farmer role. The garden is still operating btw.

[Kalzazz]

I like grape vines

Anything beyond that is faaaaaaaaar to much work for to little gain

[Cranky Dog]

I like grape vines

Anything beyond that is faaaaaaaaar to much work for to little gain
Do you mean decorative grape vines that you grow on the side of a building or the kind they grow in vineyards?

One asks for much more work than the other.

If you want little agricultural work, how about a rock garden? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_rock_garden) It's much more gratifying that dirt farming. ;)


Cranky Dog
"I have a zen gardening opinion, international!"

[TinSoldier]

My parents always grew vegetables -- and I hated weeding with a passion. Although I still loved the final results of the gardening.

So I voted both "ICK" and "WOULD". It's kind of a love-hate relationship.

I've never actually done it myself, though.

[Kalzazz]

The ones you plant next to your fence and they grow, and aside from being pruned once a year and having the grapes picked they are maintenance free, producing tasty sweet grapes

Actually, fruit trees are also good to

We had grapes and fruit trees for most of my life, and a garden. The garden was a nightmare, but the grapes and trees were good

[Stephane]

Not right now. I've been planning one for two years, now that I own a home.

I've been brought up with a garden. Fresh tomatoes, carrots and lettuce. My father had friends that didn't have a backyard. It was a giant garden patch.

Did I mention that I love Zucchini flowers? Once the garden is up and operation that's the first thing that goes in. I also love fresh herbs and I hate buying them.. they are so expensive.

[BattleNymph]

Yeah, my few potted plants here are mostly herbs. Lemon mint, pineapple sage and calendula.

[Huxley]

2 bedroom apartment with 5 tenants equals no room for gardening. Working on weekends, and often having over the standard 8 hour day equals no time for gardening. So I just go to the grocery when I can. I grew up with a garden, so I'd like to plant one, but it'll have to be in that bright and beautiful place called the pipe-dream future.

[marmalade]

I love gardening, but wouldn't say that I'm really good at it.

There's a tiny garden (3' x 5') with clay soil and not enough sun behind my apartment, and various potted things. My mom has a bigger garden that I help her with.

[Parzival]

I love having a garden, but we're currently renting and the evil home-owner's association forbids it.

<shrug> All I have is a pot of strawberries and smaller pot of rosemary.

My wife wasn't terribly thrilled when I was able to garden, though. <shrug> She's a city girl who thought gardens should look like they do in Better Homes and Gardens. I chose "ugly" plants, I laid the garden out for maximum yield in minimum space-rather than for aesthetic purposes, and used the pragamatic approach to weeding you'd expect from someone who's worked on a farm most of his life.

[COTSBOE]

I have a black thumb and am not permitted within fifteen feet of a garden. Plants shrivel and die at the very sight of me.


I do love me some fresh garden picked vegetables, though. Fortunately, my father-in-law is a farmer. He raises mostly livestock, but he's got a few acres set aside for crops. We can get fresh corn, tomatoes, zucchini/squash, peppers, and whatever else he felt like sowing that year by the bushel for the asking.

[happykat]

I have a very green thumb, thankyouverymuch.

I clicked the "I WOULD have garden if I had more time" option cuz I would have a bigger one if I had more time.

I love fresh squash and zucchini........YUM! (mouth waters)

Tomatoes! Okra! Watermelon!

We also have apples trees and sand plum bushes (not matured yet, but I'm hopeful for that day). But the strawberries don't look very good right now. I think the alternating heat then freeze, heat then freeze, heat then freeze really messed them up.

GROW YOUR OWN!

[Magnus Bergqvist]

Well I don't even have a balcony so definetly no space for any gardening. Unsure if I would even if I could, but fresh veggies would be nice.

/Magnus

[Haze]

I garden and grow fruit & vegetables as well as summer annuals.

Most years I grow tomatoes, courgettes, pumpkins (for the kids), leeks, onions & spinach and a few other things that vary year on year, and have plenty of soft fruit bushes & canes like raspberries, red & white currants, worcestershire berries (black currant/gooseberry cross) and have a couple of rhubarb crowns too.

Can't grow root vegetables at all as the soil is far too flinty.