With price increases are you considering....

hello kareng i hear ya about the high prices of groceries these days. and good luck to you on growing your own garden this spring as well. i am thinking about putting a small garden out, with tomatoes, okra and maybe one more thing. but i guess that tomatoes and okra are two of my favorite things that i enjoy eating. i love eating a ripe tomato on about anything, salads, sandwiches, hamburgers, you name it. and i like fried okra as well as pickled okra. i can find a recipe for some pickled okra somewhere on the internet. i do not want to grow anything veggie wise that will spread out and get into my lawn. i want to grow something that will be easy to take care of as well. i do not have much of a green thumb at all. the only houseplants that i have right now, is a vine, and a poinsettia flower that my brother gave me in December last year. lol they are both doing good thou, knock on wood. take care and have a beautiful afternoon.

With the prices of food going up and all the recalls on everything I think its wise for everyone to start a small garden if they have the space. I have a small garden in my side yard but so far have only grown potatoes and wild strawberries. My sister bought my daughter a really cool gardening book for kids that tells how to grow each type of food and also comes with a packet of seeds for each item. Its really neat. I am going to try to enlarge the garden and plant more things this year. In the past I remember my grandfather growing peppers and potatoes. I tried doing peppers before with no luck but I will try again differently this year. My daughter loves to help me in the garden so it will be a nice time for us. Hopefully we will be able to do it without my son eating to much dirt in the process. I also want to grow tomatoes and cucumbers this year. I think anything that I can grow from home will be wonderful to do something with my own hands instead of paying for it at the store. It will give me a better sense of accomplishment. I need to get the soil checked because I am kind of concerned with if there could be lead in the soil or other impurities that could affect our health. Down back of our house nothing but grass will grow as its all old railroad ash underneath the soil so although its a big piece of land that would be perfect for a garden I cant use that spot.

I'm sure going to plant a garden. My food bill is sky high. I haven't decided what I'm going to plant this year right now.

We victory gardened last year, when we were in the city. This year, we're farming. And...well, it's a long list, a little bit of everything really. Several kinds of tomatos, some potatos, edible flowers, some greens, several kinds of peppers (some hot,some sweet, some regular bells...and novelty peppers..like mini bells and such), melons, pumpkins, squash, soybeans, a couple kinds of corn, greenbeans, planting some berry bushes, and we're getting a few trees...dwarfs mostly, fruit trees, since we've only a little more than an acre here. I'm also hoping to get some lemongrass and a dwarf banana. None of the seeds are terribly expensive. The trees are the biggest ticket item. But we got lucky, getting this place, so we can afford a few extra plants than we otherwise would have. Because we refuse to pay those high prices...and to make sure we have an actual choice, we're growing our own food -- this is also our way of protesting the stagnanting job market around here, we're also going to be selling any extra produce we have this year (as well as giving some away, because we know people who need everything they can get). By next year, I might be selling seeds and baby plants as well, if all goes well. I'm taking what I can get and I'm trying to turn it into something that can go on and only get better over the next couple years...'cause I can't change how the economy is or will be, but I can work with my hands, you know?

I wish I could but I'm in an apartment and my balcony is not big enough to put all kinds of plants out there. I've been wanting to get some of the tomatoes that you can grow inside by hanging them upside down in a basket.

Hi Karen, I planted on last summer. I froze all my veggies, or ate them fresh or in summer meals. Don't forget to plant some head lettuce to for salads and sandwiches and for fresh eating. Onions, potatoes, different kids of squash, pumpkins, broccoli, kohlrabi, dill, cucumbers, etc. I will planting on again this year too. It sure has helped.

I would love to put in a garden and I've always wanted to do so again, but I just can not do it! You see, I cringe just thinking about digging in the dirt! To me it is just like nails on a black board, I simply can not do it! Years ago I did put in a tiny little garden and enjoyed my carrots and tomatoes, but it was pure HELL for me to do it, my nose was running, my eyes were watering, I had chills all up and down my spine, it was hell! It was like sitting right next to a dirty old black board and having to listen to chalk squeak and scrape all day, so no way can I ever do it again! My thumbs even curl up into my palms just thinking about it!

I think before I do that I would need a load of topsoil to make it a good garden. I would love to have tomatoes for sure. I want a permanent place that I can plant some blueberries. I love peppers, of various kinds. I like cucumbers, and fresh green beans and peas of course, though it is pretty much too late for them already. I know that if I do not garden, I will go to the farmers market.

I wish that I had the room for a nice garden in the backyard. There just is too much shade and not enough room for a nice garden; I might plant some giant sunflower seeds, though. I love flowers.

last year we planted tomatoes and some herbs and whatnot and this year we will probably do the same. we dont have a large garden but i find during the summer, the prices of freshly grown local produce to go down a bit in price.

Yes, i do want to put in a garden this year. i would like to plant some green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, jalapenos, maybe some lettuce, and a few other things. I love to garden but haven t done it for a while . this year is my year.

i dont mind doing my gardening but the problems is we have no garden

Hi Kareng, I don,t have garden because I stay in apartment. If I have my own garden, I would plant some bitter ground, tomatoes, aloe vera, onion, amanrath, and I would like to feed some chicken too.

everybody should grow some stuff them selves, I have kids and they love it when we plant and grow seeds, I currently have a lemon tree apple tree's a pear tree, we are also growing tomatoes in window boxes and maybe have some pea's strawberries and maybe carrots aswell. its all good fun and healthy too

well let's see... my dad used to have a garden at his house and it was a lot of work. Now at my house I've already killed about 25% of the flowers the previous owners left. Second, there are tons of bunnies around my property already... so... no garden for me thanks :) My dad still plants things randomly like cherry tomatoes, beans and cucumbers. I get plenty of free stuff from them b/c they grow so much of it so I guess I don't need to plant my own :)

I would if I had the room for one. It would be a lot cheaper.

I grow vegetables every year - so it'd not a new thing for me - it's mainly since they taste much better when I grow them myself. This year I'll get my green hose (hopefully) and will grow tomatoes. I always grow lettuce, potatoes and onion - that we eat as long as we have some left - I don't have a big space for the potatoes so it's just for a few weeks dinners. Dill and parsley I grow so I have all year - I just freeze it and uses it during the rest of the year. Since we're allowed to pick barries in the forrests here in Sweden even if we don't own the land I pick blueberries and lingonberries so I don't have to by jam in the store. This year I'll try to grow more potatoes and onion so it'll last all year.

My husband and I have thought about planting a garden. We did plant one a couple years ago and we got tomatoes out of it. But we live in South Florida and it does get pretty hot here and either it is very dry in the summer or it rains constantly. Plus, we really didn't know what we were doing. But you are correct in thinking about doing it to save money. Maybe we will plant another one as well.

I know what you mean about food prices and with 6 of us it can get pretty expensive. I already planted my seedlings and am getting ready to transplant them in the ground. That's what I'm going to do tomorrow. I have cantalope, cucumbers, tomatoes, jalapenio peppers, radishes, and spinach. I didn't know that spinach was a winter veggie though, so I don't think it's going to grow. Anyways, gardening is such a pleasure. Happy Mylotting!

I will be planting one too. I have all this time on my hands because I have no job anymore and I can use some to of that time in a garden it will be a good work out too so I can kill two birds with one stone. I will have vegetables to eat for my health and get some exercise to boot.