Have you started a garden this year?
By AmAllen
@AmAllen (119)
United States
April 29, 2009 7:39pm CST
Normally my husband and I just do flowers in the front yard. (I love morning glorys) This year though my glorys are on hold. My husband convinced me due to his current unemployment we should maybe plant some food.
We started Zuccini squash, Yellow squash, pumpkins, watermelon, cantaloupe, tomato and cucumbers. We are also planning to start green beans, peas, carrots, eggplant, and possibly potato.
If ou have a veggie garden yearly or just started on this year, please share what you are planting and any gardening tips.
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2 responses
@KupoSin (680)
• United States
30 Apr 09
we have actually killed off all the grass in the backyard and converted it to a farm. its a lot more beneficial. its organic veggies and it requires almost the same amount of water that you would usually use for maintaining grass. the only problem is maintaining the plants once you eat them.
@AmAllen (119)
• United States
30 Apr 09
Wow how much land do you have to do this? I have 2 young kids (7 and 5) so turning all our property into a "farm" isn't really an option. You recommend anything for healthy strong plants. (other than miracle grow) What do you mean about maintaining the plants once you eat them??
Thanks for your response.
@KupoSin (680)
• United States
30 Apr 09
well my backyard is large enough to get a couple dishes each week, but its not big enough to live off of.
after we eat them, we have to replant and add fertilizer if need, so it takes a bit of maintenance
theres also been a lot of bugs eating our crops =/
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
10 Aug 09
I wanted to, but we were going to do an addition and we would have had trucks and stuff all over the back yard so we thought it would not be wise, and then we didn't do the addition after all. so we could have but we didn't. It is a real shame we couldn't do one this year. I am kind of bummed out about it. Last year at this time I had gobbs of tomatoes.
