Do you have a garden? Yesterday I picked some tomatoes and peppers.

[i]ohhh...it is very rewarding really to have our own garden and to just pick up when we want to eat and cook it..LOL! I can imagine you have a big garden there,,,lol! We have also tomatoes, peppers, okra, broccoli, melon and raspberry this year and we are enjoying eating it...It's very inspiring and motivating to harvest after all the effort we have exerted from the very beginning![/i]

I think your tomatoes and peppers must be very deliecious! You can eat the vegetables which are planted yourself! How I admire you! In my memory! I had ever plantde some pachyrhizus and taros in front my house, when I was just a kid . When they came to matuity, we can eat baked taros and pachyrhizus. How delicious they are! But I have never planted those for long time.

Share please? I love homegrown food. My parents have their own little garden this summer, and every time I go visit I come back with cherry tomatoes, squash, and an occasional tomato or two. They planted butternut squash but those didn't make it, and the jack rabbits we have running around everywhere keep eating their green beans, so there's hardly any left for us. I wish I had my own yard to grow my own veggies in - unfortunately I don't have a green thumb, and I can never get my spice plants to grow.

I've still got tomatoes and banana peppers coming out of my ears, and I don't even like either one of them! (good thing my husband does) I've never done much of this sort of thing, and my tomatoes have done extremely well, and I started them all from seed - in eggshells no less. I've got a few things in containers and then a few things alongside the house and that's it. I'm renting, so can't do anything more than that. There's no telling what might happen if I have a proper garden space, but with my luck it would all flop.

In the apartment right next to me, there's this very small lot - about 7 by 7 square meters. Our neighbor had turned it into a garden. This is a city, so almost all portions are in concrete so when he started cleaning it up (It was supposed to be a part of his garage), I was skeptical that anything would grow into it. But as days passed,I watched as his plants - eggplant, tomato, red pepper, string beans, and lettuce grew into big green plants. He had a green thumb!. Now they're eating the fruit of his labor. Very fresh veggies-while I buy mine from the market not even sure where they came from. Your tomatoes and peppers are apparently well grown, and yes they definitely would taste better because they're fresh from the roots. I used to garden too when I was back in the province, where there are lots of soil to plant on. I miss those days. Now if I would want to have a garden, I will have to buy soil and place it into a wooden crate perhaps? or in pots? lol...All the best.

Hi, nice to meet you here. Your tomatoes look so red and fresh. Its color made me so interested in them. MY home only have small garden and only plan some tropical vegetable and fruits and red chili pepper. Have a nice day and happy my lotting.

We don't have a garden this year. We had one last year though. My parents put out a garden this year and have supplied me with everything I could want from a garden and need..zuchinni,cucumbers,tomatoes,potatoes,onions,cantaloupe, and watermelon,peppers,green peppers,corn,green beans. and still more to come..I have put some in the freezer for this winter. It has saved me alot of money on the food bill as well and a good plus is that I have been eating healthier because of it. So that is a win-win situation..

oh yes... i do have a small backyard behind my house... but it is left untreated as i simply don't have enough time to look after it and i don't know much about gardening... so i can only leave it until i have money to hire a gardener to do something to it... i would prefer to be able to grow my own fruits and vegetables as well in my backyard as it will save my grocery bills as well on top of having the satisfactions of eating your own grown food... your tomatoes and chilli peppers look so good... you must be a very good gardener... well done... take care and have a nice day...

I have a container garden and I am just starting to build raised beds in the backyard. I have grown tomatoes,zuccinni,squash,cucumbers,onions,peppers,and herbs all in containers. Once the beds are built then we will be growing almost all of it in the garden beds with potatoes growing in tires. I will still do some container gardening just cause I like to. I have seeds started right now that I will transfer to the garden when they are ready. I live in FL so I can garden all year round.

i just miss the times i used to pick tomatoes in our backyard... and you can enjoy eating them tooo....

In our garden all we have is tomatoes and sweet corn. We have some herbs growing around the shed. We have basil, sage, thyme, and oregano.

i would love to have one if someone else did all the work because i so do not have a green thumb. i had a vegetable garden in the past and it was a semi disaster. i really do not have the time to tend to one to be very honest. but it is a great way to cut down on your produce bill so good for you!

yes, I have a garden in my husbands farm.LOL, I call it that way because I want to take care only of a small place which surrounds my little hut. I have flower beds and vegetable beds. My husband planted 200 mango trees all over the place in the year 2000. Now, all mangoes are fruit bearing. i cannot be enjoying such "gardening", so I claimed my own spot. unfortunately, the farm is in Antipolo City, Manila. We had to move here in Davao City because of my husbands work. His office sends him to different places. The office says, we will be here for a year, so we left the farm to the caretaker and our house rented. We are in Davao City where the climate is hot, hot, hot! I have a little plot and I planted onion leeks, lemon grass, basil and tarragon. I would like to have a garden that is like yours where I can plant lettuce, brocoli, etc, but they are not suited for the climate here. I can only grow veggies like eggplant,okra,squash,gourds. The soil isnot very good too because we are only 300meters away from the beach resort so it is sandy. It is much better here than Manila because Davao is a typhoon free area, but I still want to go home to my garden with the little hut.

We used to have a small garden at home just enough for the common vegies to grow and ripe. I dont know what happened to it but its no longer there. Basically because it needs so much maintainance. But i really love vegies. They're my favorite:) If i will have my own house soon im sure i'll make a garden full of vegies, flowers and fruits:)

We used to live in an area where we had a place with a lot of room so we had a really large garden with all sorts of veggies. It was almost too big. We had beans, peas, corn, squash, cucumbers, and some other stuff I don't remember.You are so right. Home grown veggies taste so much better than store bought.

That is quite a grocery list. No I don't have a garden. Haven't grown tomatoes in my yard since I was a child. It may be an activity I pick up to do with my children. I think that would be a nice idea.

Mmmm your veggies look great. I would love to be able to have a garden, but I can never seem to keep any plants healthy. I am a plant killer!! My mother has a garden and shares her peppers with me and her other veggies such as squash, but she doesn't have tomatoes this year, unfortunately. Maybe I will start small next summer with just one type of plant and increase my garden yearly so it's not as overwhelming. It's a great money saver, a good hobby, and good for the environment -- so healthy! Thanks for the tips with tilling and weeding. I will try tomatoes next year and work my way up to a variety if I can! :)

I have a garden this year but it hasn't done well. I use to live on a farm when I was a kid but I must not have taken much away from our huge garden lol. I had help planting this year, well I don't know how much actual help it was, but my 4 year old and 10 year old helped. I had labeled what I thought were green peppers as that but after the plants became huge and starting putting out tomatoes I realized that my helpers were a little wrong lol I have since lost those plants they collapsed under their own weight. Something killed my yellow squash, I'm not sure what but the same thing happened to my mother's plants as well. I have a few tomatoe plants that I had caged because I knew they were tomatoe plants (my son grew them in 4-h), there's carrots, peas, green beans, and corn. Next year I will probably do all the planting myself lol

Lloyd, we grew yellow squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes this year. It was the first time we've had any sort of garden in years. But I think next year we will have a much larger one. I want to grow okra since it's so high to buy. Sounds like you had a great garden this year with a good turn out. I think our garden is about gone with the exception of a few tomatoes. I think not having enough rain really hurt our garden production this year. The cucumbers put off lots, but they were also very bitter at times.

we have a small farm near our house, we got mango tree, banana trees, jackfruit tree, tomato etc.. it's really nice to harvest fresh tomatoes & fresh fruits rather than buying them in the market