Just wondering how many other fellow pixies put in veggie gardens? We planted tomatoes, squash, cukes, radishes, cabbage.. oh the list goes on...

Can't hardly wait for a cucumber and radish sandwhich... yummy.

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I had a garden the size of 30x100 ft. a few years ago and I had everything under the sun in it. The ONLY thing I thought each time I came home was....."Garden of Eden my ass.........this is the garden of weedin!"

So.........we've cut back (to say the least). I now have one single tomato plant in a side flower garden. The plant stake stated it was "the worlds largest tomato" and would grow a fabulous crop. I love tomatoes on a sandwich in summer and I can shop for all the other stuff I get an urge for! My back was killing me after the two years of the humongous garden we had! I'll just push a cart from now on in.

My flowers are my passion......but another thread..........yada yada!

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I have a grape vine growing that I hope will produce some grapes this year. Hubby has a small tomoato patch he tends to.

Oops! Forgot to mention the concord grape vine I have (as it was here when I moved in). I cut it back every winter......in a dormant state........and the grapes are abundant each and every year I have been here! A grape vine has to be at least 5 years old to begin to produce.....and should never be 'cut back"......but can be pruned of it non producing branches.....during it's growing stage.

When I say "cut back"......I mean......to nearly nothing......everything off the top (when it's dormant) and all non producing shoots. My vine is about 25 years old......and so it's given many a good crop. Hope this helps Scarlett!

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I ate cherry tomatoes from my garden tonight! The romas are big but not yet blushing even. Have some jalepenos already picked as well...gonna stuff those with cream cheese and bake them. I have habeneros growing too.

My passion however is my herbs(like any good white witch ):
echinacea
basil (4 kinds)
chamomile
feverfew
dill
fennell
lavender (4 kinds)
oregano
marjoram
bee balm/ monardia (makes Earl Grey)
sage
thyme (2 kinds)
pineapple sage
mints (chocolate, apple, spear)
tarragon
rosemary
cilantro/corriander
mexican corriander
there's more but you get the point......

When I die I want to be burried under a bed of corsican mint so when people walk on my grave they leave smelling minty fresh

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HEHEHE Lixy... we had the same for many years... "garden of weedin'" is right.. we have cut back considerably as well...

We don't have a grape vine, but did put in a lot of raspberries, gooseberries, and currants, 2 apple trees, 2 plums (yet to produce), and a strawberry bed (which by the looks of it will be massivly producing berries this year)

I have longed to start an herb garden.. have lots of books........... which seem to be geared more for the southern climates.. not the north where we are at.. The only herb that I have been successful with is chives and parsley..... would love to achieve a list like yours Lilith...

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ohhh! I have those too and strawberries......yummm...have eaten those already!

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Thanks for that info Lixy. I won't be looking for grapes this year. I have a good 3 years before I will get any from my own vine At least now I know and I won't be cursing my grape vine for its lack of grapes lol

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LOL Sharni.....................

Damn.. that is one thing I didn't plant this year.... hmmmmmmmm wonder if it is too late.. LOL

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LMAO@Sharni!

They say corn should be "knee high by the fourth of July" for those of us in the North Eastern states......and farmers around our way are rip roaring mad at all this rain. Some corn crops aren't even a foot tall yet and they doubt that by the 4th it will be anywhere near their knees! Too much rain and not enough sun this year.

Strawberries did well in raised beds.....but for those still on the ground, the crops mushed out. Beans aren't doing well and neither are cantelope....to name a few crops. We've never had this much rain and not enough sun this long into spring before. Looks like prices will rise for the crops that do make it this year.

I also have 2 pear trees....which I forgot about as we were talking veggies till we turned grapey.

I am surrounded by folks who have apple trees out the wazzo in their yards and an orchard is just down the road. My house used to be one of only two houses on this street. It was the main caretakers home for the orchard that went on for miles round here. It's also the only home with no apple trees in it! We are only the third owner of my 100+y/o house and the first owner was the caretaker of the orchards. Guess he saw enough out in the fields and didn't want any apples in his own yard. Curses to him! LOL! I'll show him........I'm getting a pair of trees this year. Would also love a pair of mini peach trees. But....flowers are still my passion.

P.S. Does anyone have myrtle planted by their "garden gate"? A place where when you come home or guests come over.....it has to be passed to get to your house? It's spose to be good luck for all who pass it and bring warmth and love into your home. You should know about this Lilith!? Yes? No? Or maybe I am the only one with this secret knowledge!?

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Crepe Myrtles~ have 3.....

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I have 3 vegetable gardens.

One full of my perenials, stawberries, rhubarb and lots of asparagus. So it doesnt take a ton of work except in the spring and then again in the fall to get it ready for winter.

My second one is my Corn/Pumpkin/Sunflower Patch. It is at the edge of a 80 acre field I plant the pumpkins 1st and then when the plants emerge I come in a start planting corn. I plant 3 rows and then every other week plant 3 more until the 4th of July when i stop (usually 18 rows) then as the corn grow taller the pumpkin vines climb the corn and the pumkins themselves grow larger by being shaded below the grown corn. The sunflowers I ring this garden with, mostly for the birds in the fall.

My last garden is my largest. It is about 50 x 80 but is very spread out. I keep a tillers width around everything that way there is less weeding. I am also big on using grass clippings to keep the weeds down. I put about 3" inches thick of clippings around the tomotoe plants. This year I have 4 types of tomotoes, two long rows of potatoes, green, red, purple mild peppers; cayenne and banana peppers; 8 rows of green beans; about 6 types of squash, zukinini, sweet potatoes, okra, cucumbers for eating and some for pickling, brocoli and cabbage.

I do manually hoe around the beans and the mounds of all the squashes and such, but I enjoy it. I can a bunch in the late summer and fall and I made a cabinet in my garage with wire shelves and a updraft air flow and it keeps my potatoes fresh until about february. I tried carrots last year to much failure, there is just too much clay around her for them to work...oh but the shapes I got of them last year

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Dayummmmmmmmmmm........................Now I'm Hungry.............and I smell Mint.

Wellllllllllllll I'll be dipped in Ranch Dressing.

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I have herbs and a lot of weeds. Not much of a gardener I confess.......but Fussy and I did have fun with the garden hose out there at the weekend.

We called it gardening but I think it was just an excuse for me to run around in a wet bikini on a hot day! Lol

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