Do you have a garden 🪴, grow your own food?

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Lliam · Accepted Answer

My wife and I have 18 fruit trees, all on dwarf stock. The apple, pear and cherry have 3 varieties grafted on the same tree. One tree has peach, plum, apricot and nectarine. We have an almond, persimmon, avocado, two fig and two pomegranate. a navel orange, two Valencia orange, two improved Meyer lemon, a pink grapefruit and a Mandarin.

We have two long raised beds. Those and the trees are surrounded by deer fencing.

We have some thriving herbs - lavender, oregano, thyme, coriander, cilantro, marjoram, mint, a variety of sage, a huge rosemary bush, and some others. We grow basil in the house.

Our problem is with voles.
We grow lots of our veggies in pots and fabric grow bags to keep the voles from coming up beneath and killing the plants. We have wire fences around the ones that aren't inside the deer fence.
We live surrounded by acreage, so the wild animals - deer, ground squirrels and voles in particular - are our biggest problem.

We've had success with cantaloupe, zucchini, crook neck, acorn, butternut and spaghetti squash, peas, snap peas, green beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, chives, garlic, and carrots.

We don't use ANY chemicals but we do use come commercial fertilizer on the trees. We make our own compost, grow red worms, and supplement the compost with wood ash. Sometimes we get aged chicken, horse and/or steer manure from local people who give it away.

CubaPirate · Accepted Answer

A fairly large garden but only grow a few tomatoes

msmissydc · Accepted Answer

Yes, we have a few tomato plants, zuchinies, pumpkins, various herbs, apple trees and cherry trees. Than we have some things that we intervhange every year. Sometimes eggplants sometimes other vegetables like cucumbers etc.
We also have a small lemontree but its not the rightmclimate here, it does surive if we put it indoors in winter but it doesn't grow consumable fruits.

XXblack88 · Accepted Answer

Yes, I can't put them in the back yard yet with Oklahoma's bipolar weather but instead of mowing the back yard this year I'm going to plant a bunch of watermelon and tomatoes. and put my potted cactuses around it

Hawkes_Lady · Answer

My sister and I have grown things in the past, but in the last few years, we haven't done any growing. We like growing cherry/grape/pear tomatoes, jalapenos, cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, rosemary, thyme, chive, and strawberries.

Wiredone · Answer

We used to have a pretty big garden but the pesky animals used to eat our vegetables before we got to them. I had to build wooden container gardens that are off the ground to keep them out. They all sit on our patio now. We have 3 now. I'm going to build another one next week.

We usually plant beefsteak tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, cucumbers, romaine lettuce, red and yellow peppers.

Drew-1990 · Answer

I don't yet, but have plenty of room for one. I own 10 arcs of land so plenty of room at the moment only thing I get is eggs from chickens working on cows after so I'll have meat covered. I'll probably have some kind of garden one day.

el_Te_de_la_Rosa · Answer

Not now. I used to have kale, Swiss chard, etc. but I don't have a green thumb for actaully planting... My hand are too warm though I kinda like seedling. It's fun to see them change every day.

Agape93 · Answer

Just started mine. Potatoes, bell peppers and beans

OlderAndWiser · Answer

My fiancée grows some Chinese vegetables in pots. After we buy a house, she will have a larger garden in ground, and I will also grow some more traditional vegetables.

Likes2drive · Answer

in the summer, my stepdad grows tomatoes and zucchini, so it’s a little garden that we have

Iron_Man · Answer

no, I don’t have a garden that’s high maintenance and you always have to keep checking for bugs and make sure they’re off of it and fertilizing and raking and it’s a lot of work

12karen · Answer

yes, we have a vegetable garden with pumpkin, carrots, green beans, zucchini... and we have persimmons, apples and peaches growing in our garden.

exitseven · Answer

I have had a vegetable garden every summer. The last few years have been dismal. Now that my cats are gone the critters have take over the garden. I am thinking about building a fence around it.

Alex-Snow · Answer

I'm at college and thus no garden but when I get home for the summer we have a small garden that I like working on,

DJB72 · Answer

Tomatoes, peppers mainly. Got a couple of melon seeds planted at the moment.

MsBrie · Answer

Sort of, my in-laws have a small sustenance farm on their land.

Xia1994 · Answer

Yes, we just have flowers, trees, green plants and herbs.

nawtee_me · Answer

Will be planting this weekend. Planting after Good Friday gives a better chance of missing any late frost.

Clyde_123 · Answer

My mom planted pandan leaves, bitter gourd, aloe vera and I planted chili.

OtterMan68 · Answer

I grow my own cayenne and tabasco peppers to make pepper sauce

LiamS95 · Answer

Yes, I have a 40' x 95' veggie/fruit garden.

Nice222 · Answer

Yes I do. I grow carrots, green beans tomatoes and peppers. This year I might add some more stuff.

JonesT10Apr · Answer

no we don't have garden at home.. but we wish to have

RebelinSteel · Answer

Yes I have a veg plot and an allotment

Nifrayu · Answer

I wish. I rent so I can't do that.

serious · Answer

The answer is No.

LunarEclipse433 · Answer

Nope. Just a poor guy.

LavLavLuv · Answer

Cayenne pepper tree

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

No but my mom always did

Arik_jade · Answer

Yes, I have some 🪴

BigBootyKay · Answer

No but if I did

eagle1951 · Answer

nope

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