I am going to have a good garden this year.

sounds great. i'd love to have a garden but since i live in a flat we just have a shared one. it is basically just grass and trees with a washing line - people mainly use it to let their dogs out. i don't think there would be much point me trying to grow things in it. i am growing lots of herbs inside though.

Hi Garden Gerty shall I be ordering my tomatoes from your background garden next year :) ? This posting remembers me when I tried to grow strawberries. After so much care and time only one came out... A single one who was eaten by my beloved brother without my knowledge LOL

Not to worry about the tomatoes, we made green tomatoe preserves last year and they were a very big hit. Also salsa takes many tomatoes off your hands.

Before the winter set in, we dug out a garden area in the backyard of our new apartment. At the time it looked "big enough", but now it obviously needs to be expanded. This year we plan on a variety of tomatoes (of course), cucumbers, and peppers. We haven't decided where to put the sunflowers, and we haven't decided what else to grow this year. We tried zucchini last year, but it didn't go to well. We only got one zucchini from a very large plant. Maybe some cabbage and lettuce this year.

Hiya Gardengerty, The "garden" we have here you can´t plant anything in it as it is cement made to look like soil. Of course the weeds still grown in and around the grass. The grass is the kind of grass they usually use to grow on Rooftop yards or patios I think you call them those that are top of those high buildings so the grass here has very little depth as there is very little soil. I would so love to grow things like that too. Our tomatoes are getting a bit better now we have them from all over the place too. I have not explained that there is a huge Garage underneath us so that´s why the grass is not very good and you can´t grow anything else really. Those tomatoes with stems on them well small branches those are nice too. Believe it or not I have never tried a tomato from Jersey. Next door grows some wonderful blackberries though but they are his not mine. Sometimes we have rosehip berries come out on the Roses as they grow up the walls but I have never eaten them not knowing whether they are safe or not. Good luck with the winter onions and the tomatoes wish I could try them.

Good for you to have your own garden. I wish I had the guts to get out there and start one. Im so afraid of bugs that Id spend all of my time running back inside haha! Im looking into a suspended garden. Then Id be closer to the door!! If I were your neighbor, Id want to buy some tomatoes from you!! Keep us posted on your garden

The garden is all my husbands project. We live on 5 acres and our garden has shrunk a lot since the kids have all growed up and left. Funny thing is 3 out of 5 of the kids (2 live in town!) have gardens!! Something they said they 'would never do!" in fact I think our son has even planted a very small one! Anyway, the garden is all his and he plants it and works it and the deer eat it!! loosing battle there!!!!

i WOULD LIKE TO BE YOUR NEIGHBOR WHEN THOSE TOMATOES COME IN, LOL, i LOVE THEM. gOOD LUCK W/YOUR GARDEN.

I wish you real good garden not only this year but all throughout the years to come. I love seeing good gardens and I myself love to garden. I love seeing the fruits of my hands and would love seeing others reaping bountiful harvests too. Best wishes!

My grandmother used to save her favorite seeds from year to year. Don't you have to keep them damp? I would take all the tomatoes off your hands that you don't need. Haha. I would love to have a little garden. Maybe by next Spring I can plant my favorite cherry and pear tomatoes, some ornamental lettuce, english cucumbers and such as that. I would to have them to munch on.

Hi Gerty! I have not done a garden this year. I have put in four strawberry plants as well as only six tomatoe plants and all in containers. I'm afraid my poor back can no longer handle a garden:(

Hi H..You are so lucky to be able to have a garden..I would so love to have one but the soil here on this sandbar I live on is all sand and it would be to costly (for me anyway) to lay all the soil I would have to in order for anything to grow. I have a lot of herbs in pots that I grow for cooking and it does save me quite a bit of money when you consider how expensive herbs are, but I'd love to have vegetables, especially tomatoes. The tomatoes in the supermarkets here are terrible. It dosen't matter what kind you buy either, they all stink. They look great on the outside, then you cut them open and yuck..The only ones that are half way decent are the plum tomatoes. At least they taste like tomatoes, unlike the beefsteak and the vine grown etc. A lot of them are brought in from Chile and other South American countries and not only are they lousy, they are expensive too. Best of luck with your garden..If you want any good vegetarian dish recipes, you know who to ask!!! J

I'm behind this year. So far I only have some broad beans, peas and potatoes in the veg plot. Some of the permanent crops are doing okay - the rhubarb is going well and the fruit trees and bushes have a lot of blossom so we might get a good year. This year I'm concentrating on beans, potatoes, sweetcorn, various squashes and some salad leaves. I've pretty much given up with brassicas because we have acid soil and carrots attract carrot fly here and I don't like to spray chemicals so I've given up with them. The good news is that the squashes do well and I do like eating them.

I hope so too. The prices are getting so high. I thought about drying some of my garden. I also thought about having a small table out for a little spending money. My tomatoes & peppers are started, but my garden is not tilled yet, hopefully soon. Maybe we can do well this year.

Well I hope you really do It has always amazed me how People grow things lol when I tried the only things I managed to grow where Peas and they never lasted lol as I ate them lol

Oh boy! So since you won't be able to share the abundance of your garden with any of us I hope, at least, you will share pictures. Have fun, my friend. One more thing, I'm really excited but a couple of my friends have started a community garden in our church . . . well, on our church property. It's gonna be great. The kids are involved.

That sounds so nice. I really envy that you have a good garden as I live in the apartment and I don't have a garden at home. It is so nice that you can plant something in your garden. If I were you, I would also plant so herbs as I like cooking:) I love China

I guess you'll be eating a lot of spaghetti sauce! I haven't put in my garden yet, we'll be having frost tomorrow. I've been so busy I never even started my seedlings so my garden won't produce as early as I would like. I need to start digging now that the rain has stopped, there is so much to do outside!! I'm getting a food dehydrator this year so it should be an interesting harvest! I hope yours is abundant!

hi gardengerty that is really wonderful all those fresh veggies' and tomatoes, sounds like you will have a lot of great salads too come harvest time. I don't think one can have too many tomatoes, too bad you could not teleport some to all your mylot friends here he he. I do miss that most of all gardening and doing my own cooking. here at Gold Crest we are pretty much at the mercy of the dietitian here who does not seem to be much for fresh veggies but we do get a lot of frozen ones and really they do have more vitamins than some so called fresh p roduce in the stores that have set in several places before reaching our markets. when we were still in tustin we could get fresh veggies from the Irvine ranch as they sold to the chain grocery stores and we did get fresh produce and that I did like. Anyway if you could teleport us ripe tomatoes I bet a lot of us would love to pay you, but that is sort of shades of Star Trek. Hope you planted some strawberries too, always nice to have your own ripe berries.

i determined to have a nice garden this year also,i haven't had one for nearly 5 years,but now we've moved the garden is smaller and not much needs doing to it,i'm just going to level out the soil,take up 2 rows of paving slabs and gravel it,nice and simple