catherinew said:
Nmlarson - whatcha got growing in your new garden?
Good morning! I'm growing whatever I can! Ha! I gave up my community garden plots and was finally, after 25 years and the removal of seven large trees, able to put a garden in at home.
It's a small (26' x 8') container garden in an enclosure on the side of our house to keep deer, groundhogs, etc. out. There are two raised beds inside it, along with a LOT of fabric grow bags. The grow bags are working out great, with all the rain we had last month! Things have sort of outgrown the enclosure, and I just finished a second, much smaller, and closure to house the eggplants in the squash.
So far, I've picked sugar snap peas, a variety of spinach and lettuces, am now picking pole beans, some peppers are coming in, cherry, grape, roma and slicing tomatoes, bush beans, cocktail and slicing cucumbers, zucchini and yellow squash, along with a couple of eggplant plants. The yellow storage onions rotted out from so much moisture and there's not enough time left in the growing season for regular onions, so I'll put in some bunching onions where the lettuce was. Peppers are Aleppo, Piment d'Esplette, Frigatello, Piquillo, NuMex Primavera, NuMex Sauve Orange, Mad Hatter Bishop's Hat, peach and yellow biquinhos, a couple of Gypsy plants and an Inca Red Drop.
Along with all my herbs, two tropical Hibiscus trees, some perennials I never got planted last fall, some Cardinal Flower vines for the hummingbirds and a Passion Flower vine I've been trying to pollinate for passion fruit to make some hot sauce with.
It's lovely being able to walk out the back door into the garden!