What are you planting in your garden this summer?

[OtterMan68]

Flowers, veggies, berries?

I'm growing cayenne and Tabasco peppers

[WindAtMyBack]

I have a small vegetable garden. Maybe five tomato plants in the ground, and another 3-4 in containers. A little less for peppers. i always have at least two varieties of tomatoes, and at least three varieties of peppers.

I've had peppers in one gallon containers for several years. The ones in the ground produce a lot more. I need to find more five gallon buckets - that should be big enough for peppers. The one gallon containers should be big enough for carrots, radishes, lettuce, etc.

Last year the beefsteak tomatoes were a bumper crop. I heard the same from other gardeners. I think I ate at least 150 tomatoes last fall.

This year I want to plant horseradish. They will be in a container. They have deep roots. I think I'll use old plastic trash cans and punch some holes for drainage.

I've been wanting to pant strawberries for a long time, but my soil is not the best. I might go for it this year. My neighbor got fruit the first year.

I was looking at blueberries at the store yesterday. They are supposed to grow in my climate, but I have my doubts.

For flowers, I plant Impatiens, snapdragons, irises, peony, lilac, and some others.

[LiamS95]

I always plant tomatoes I start from seed, any plants I put in my garden I start myself with new seed the rest is either a perennial or direct sowed. I always include beets, parsnips, carrots, spring onions, cucumbers, green pole beans, zucchini, Jalapeños, dill, various herbs, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, lettuce, sometimes kale, some years I grow corn but you have to grow a fair bit of it for it to grow properly a bare minimum of four rows, some type of winter squash such as butter cup, butternut, acorn. My rhubarb, strawberry patch and raspberry canes and asparagus bed are all perennials that come up every year. I have apple trees and a pear tree. I may have forgotten something but thatscabout it.

[LazerBean]

I have a variety of random perennial flower bulbs and roots that I've already planted for summer blooms. I've had normal flower beds in the past, but this year I've started a vegetable garden and a pollinator garden as well. I have peas, lettuce, and carrots that have already sprouted in the ground. Indoors, I've started jalapeno, celery, some herbs, and broccoli. Today I'm planning on transplanting my little strawberries into a more long-term home. And I might go ahead and start some other flowers from seed indoors, depending on what mood I get into later today. I'm getting tired of waiting for the last frost date to pass lol

[OtterMan68]

Perennial flowers all the way! I never got the appeal of annuals you can't eat!

[LazerBean]

Yeah I totally feel that 😂 I've been forced to change my view just slightly though. After several years of trying and failing to plant (and keep alive) flowers directly by the mostly shaded front and north side of our house (just to make it look a little cuter) I have only found a handful of things that thrive enough to make it worth the trouble. So far the best thing for that situation that I've tried were the cheapest annual flowers that I could find at Walmart

[OtterMan68]

yeah, I have a lot of shade in my front yard, so I just planted some lavender in my front planter as it gets partial sun. I had a rosemary plant that lasted years and grew very big but died for some unknown reason last year.

[LazerBean]

That's so sad. Rosemary is one of the main things that I'm going to try and start and keep alive this year. We use it a ton for cooking, so it would be amazing to just have a big bush. The smell is amazing

[OtterMan68]

it's usually pretty hardy

[dolemite58]

What do you plant as pollinators? I’ve heard it helps out the whole garden in general.

[LazerBean]

What I have/plan to have to attract pollinators are chamomile, allium, borage, gladiolus, crocus, and a few other annual things that I don't remember. The most bees I've ever seen at one time were all over allium

[dolemite58]

Ok I’m gunna write those down, thank you!!

[LazerBean]

My pleasure, good luck!

[Apple1996]

Planning on growing cherry tomatoes, snow peas, jalapeños, carolina reapers, loofahs, cucumbers, spaghetti squash, strawberries and blueberries, onions, sunflowers, tulips

I also have a hydroponic herb garden in my house right now. Had some pink mushrooms but we recently ate them

[OtterMan68]

going to make super hot sauce?

[Apple1996]

Maybe. Last time with the reapers we made jelly and dried and grinded the rest into a powder

[JacobJordan]

Reapers are one of my favorite spices

[jennifer_bloom]

My mother does the gardening, my dad does the cooking, and I do the cleaning and we do not overlap our duties. But we plant tomatoes and kale in our garden each year, along with zucchinis and we attempted to plant fava broad beans too this year. It worked but our harvest is small.

[Iron_Man]

I don’t have one and that takes a lot of work to keep it professional like that and I don’t like insects on my vegetables so that requires a specialty program, but I don’t want poison on my food either

[OtterMan68]

there are all natural insect repellents. I bought some for aphids last season. I usually don't have a big pest problem. Keep the bed free from clutter reduces snails and slugs.

[Iron_Man]

I’m in Miami it’s all tropical down here

[OtterMan68]

I live in Louisiana. Hot humid summers and lots of bugs!

[Iron_Man]

Yikes 😳

[dustybiker2]

I was thinking sunflowers (for the birds), melons and pumpkins this year.

[OtterMan68]

I love planting sunflowers. I used to live in the country and would plant rows of them and leave them for the birds!

[dustybiker2]

It is enjoyable to create something then watch others enjoy it, especially wildlife.

[JacobJordan]

Absolutely everything I can. I still need to make a greenhouse for the wife (she asked 2 years ago) I know bad me bad! But between working on our houses haven't had the most free time to start that.

[dolemite58]

I grow oyster mushrooms outside I’m going to attempt wine caps and almond mushrooms this summer too. In terms of vegetables I’m still a bit of a beginner so I’m just going to start small with easy stuff like radishes, potatoes, tomatoes etc.

[V_Injector]

I hate the idea of growing grass unless you have meat in your yard eating it so that you can eat them. I have no use for "pretty" plants that don't do anything for me. I want food, and I want production.

[Dnice1]

My mom is, I don't know what all she's gonna plant this year but usually it's a whole lot of different things and I mean a lot.

[andreasderjuengere]

Here, summer never ends.
I'll plant nothing in addition - it's 'too full' already.

[OtterMan68]

full of what?

[andreasderjuengere]

Carambola, cannabis, mulberry, basil, ginger, ginseng, papaya, thai chili, aloe vera, rosemary, and some local herbs of which only the Missus knows what the name is.

[NathanDavis]

onions came out of nowhere... weird...

[robhazelnut]

My plan is banana peppers! Soooo tasty.

[12karen]

I have two little cactus 🌵

[Nice222]

Green Beans, Carrots and Tomatoes.

[strateguy632]

nice