Have you ever tried growing plants on your own?

Worst thing you can do it not try it, because you simply never know how it will work out. In the spring I started a potted veggie garden, I wasn't in a house yet and had no garden space to plant stuff. I started indoors, upon transplant of seedlings however, many of them didn't survive, which is to be expected when you start inside, they're not used to being transplanted, nor are they used to daylight since everything has had artificial light. But of those that survived, I did ok this year for this kind of planting. I had a couple of decent cucumbers, about 8 peppers and some cherry tomatoes. Now I've moved to a house with a garden and can expand on my gardening skills and plant more next spring. I will be transplanting some flowers that I got from a client, and dealing with the flowers in the front gardens, to help spruce up my home. Next year I'll be planting the following veggies: Peas, beans, corn, cucumber, peppers, lettuce, and probably more since I have the room for it. I will expand my Seedum plants by splitting them up, and will be trying to grow Rose of Sharon from seed, with expected germination time of 2 months. Those seeds can be planted in February in pots left outside, and I will be trying that and hopefully something starts to grow. Start small if this is your first time, no need to disappoint yourself if it doesn't work out as well as you hoped. It's not easy growing the perfect garden, unless you're a pro, which I'm far from.

I enjoy gardening a lot and try to have a garden each year. Generally, I will start seeds indoors two or three months before it will be time to plant them outdoors. This way, my plants are good and sturdy...generally producing more. When I do plant them, I make sure to till the ground well so that the soil is no longer hard and the roots can grow well. Then, I am sure to place them where they will get plenty of sunshine and make sure to water them daily. After a couple of weeks, when I am sure the roots have taken to the ground, I begin fertilizing my plants every week or so. Normally, when all goes well, I have a fruitful garden.

Yes, I have grown many plants in my lifetime. The most recent was I grew some sage, which I better go and harvest the rest before the cool sets in..lol I always found one of the easier flowers to grow are marigolds, plus you can take the seeds to replant them year after year..:)

I grew tomato plants once in one of those plastic greenhouses. It was a lot of work and cost a lot more than going down to the super market! The best plant I grew was a capsicum (pepper) which grew in a plant pot on the dining table. Best indoor plant I have ever seen. It did produce a single, but very reasonable pepper which was very tasty!

Yes i have tried and i did so with a resonable amount of success.I planted some daffidels and some sunflowers in my backyard and they really liven things up and add a nice amount of color to my lawn.I also grow vegtable in my garden such as pees , carrots , strawberries and potatos.I love to experiment when it come to gardening an will try different plants every year in order to find out which ones are the best for my lawn.

I have only had real luck with my cherry tomato plant. It does not need a ton of water, and we had a pretty wet summer. I got the seeds for free from a program at school. I did not want to tear up my yard to put in an actual garden, and the tomatoes could be grown in a large bucket and with wire to support the plant.

To be able to grow vegetables, depends on where you live and the kind of soil you have, so you have to take that into account. I live in Australia where we have plenty of sun (vital for growing), but my soil is very sandy and so lacks the essential nutients. Therefore, over time I have added lots of manure and mixed it with bags of compost which you can buy from the store. So now I have a healthy, growing medium in which to plant. That's the first step - unless you are growing plants inside and in pots - which is another story). Buying seeds is cheaper but takes longer to get a decent sized plant to put into your veggie garden, so I always buy healthy looking seedlings. The easiest plants I have found for a beginner are the cherry tomatoes. Pumpkin are also easy to grow but need a lot of room as they crawl all over the place! Green beans are also easy to grow. Try some of these and see how you go. In my veggie garden at the moment I am growing tomatoes, capsicums, lettuce, rhubarb, green beans, cabbage, cauliflower, onions, leeks, strawberries and parsley, and they all seem to be doing really well. I have pumpkins growing near my chicken pen so they can grow up the fence and not interfere with my other veggies! There is nothing tastier than vegetables straight out of the ground! If you start growing some vegetables, you should post a pic on here and let us know how you are going with it all. I for one, would be very interested! Good luck!

I grow a lot of things in my garden. This year I had tomatoes, squash, peppers, green beans, cucumbers, and corn. It takes a lot of practice to see what works. Some things won't grow in my garden even though they should. I see people growing stuff in town and I just can't get them to grow here. The soil must have a different PH level or something. I don't pay attention to that technical stuff. You can't really mess gardening up. You just plant stuff and it grows. Sure you need to weed it out every once in awhile but that's no biggy. I fail to grow things all the time. I don't give up. I try again the next year. If it still fails then I try something else. It helps to read about what your growing first. You want to know what kind of pest and disease they might get. As well how much sun and water they need.

I have enjoyed growing my own plants in the past. They usually turn out fine as long as i give them the care they need. if i neglect my plants, they let me down as well.

Hi Puccagirl. I really addicted to gardening now after my first tomato thats I plant in container really success. You will really noticed the different of supermarket tomato and your garden tomato, your garden tomato really taste better, sweeter. Its no chemical fertilizer and pesticide too. I think you can start with vegetable thats will harvest in a month like spinach and kale. You must pay attention to the soil, watering and sun exposure because there plant who love sun exposure while others like lettuce loves shades not direct sunlight.

Yes I did, when I was in Elementary we have a garden. We grew vegetables.

yes i do,it is my first time to make and grow a plants.It was a month of April on this year i started to make a flower bed and plants different kind of flowers.and i made it,they grow up healthy and produce beautiful flowers!so by month of June i decided to make a small vegetable garden,i planted..tomatoes,bell pepper,hot pepper,cabbage,beans,squash&zuccini and corn!all of them grow and produce good fruits except the sweet corn,it grow good but it dont give us good fruit!until now my bell peppers and hot peppers still producing flowers and fruits!!you can try some cabbage,peppers and squash.