What's in your garden ?

**Maximus** · 05-17-2011 02:39 AM

What are you growing or plan to grow in your garden ?

In ours:
- few varieties of salads
- Chives
- Radish
- Varieties of berries

Plus the trees (apple, apricot, cherry)

**spurzzz** · 05-17-2011 06:13 AM

Hi Virgile,

I would love to learn how to grow my own supply of fresh fruit and vegetables so that I do not have to depend on the capitalist corporations that are the feeding puppets to all things bad in this world.

But it is made difficult when you have no house with a garden.
I do not see where else I could grow my stuff.

One day though, a definate aspiration of mine is to grow many things

...and no not what is in my trousers to all those with a wild imagination on here

**MarkT** · 05-17-2011 06:41 AM

Weeds at the moment! Still haven't bought a disc for my tractor yet.

But I'll get one soon and get it planted. I just hope I don't wait until it's too late. If that does happen, well... I'll just have to put out a food plot for the animals for winter. They have to eat too!!!

**caterpillar79** · 05-17-2011 07:30 AM

I have planted strawberries next to my ornamental plants as part of the landscape in my front lawn. In the backyard, I have snow peas, a wide variety of peppers, tomatoes, cilantro, stringed beans, more strawberries, onions, garlic, bok choy and a couple of trees that NEED to be planted really soon - apple and peach. All the veggies are organic. I also have some Asian mint and Thai basil in pots indoors by my bay window close to the kitchen, hoping it could withstand the next winter.

The Asian mint , I just grew from what I bought) cuttings from the Asian store's veggetable aisle. I soaked it in water until it grew roots and potted it. I have a lot of them now. Want some?

**KMonte85** · 05-17-2011 08:11 AM

V! I totally forgot about chives, thank you! Now I'm off to the nursery after work to get me some (too lazy and too late for me to start my own).... I knew somethin was missing from my gardening repertoire!

**caterpillar79** · 05-17-2011 08:19 AM

Hey guys, I haven't used fresh chives in my cooking - would you help me out so I can include it in my potted indoor herbs as well?

**KMonte85** · 05-17-2011 08:47 AM

sure thing Cat! What would you like to know?

Chives are pretty easy to grow - they need a pretty sunny spot and like to have the soil kept moist. Cut them at will for use in cooking. When flowers start to grow, cut the whole plant down and they'll come back fresh again (just like leaf lettuce if you have any experience with that!)

Cooking with them is easy as pie, anything you'd use onion in - feel free to throw some fresh chives in!

**caterpillar79** · 05-17-2011 08:50 AM

Gotcha, KMonte. I will do that. Thank you so much.

**ItsASecret** · 05-17-2011 09:08 AM

I got some carrot and radish seeds right now. The weather is not yet good enough to go plant them in the box. But inside I bought my herbs! lol. I love to cook, I am not very good at it but I still love to do it, and I have always wanted to grow herbs instead of going to the store and buying the fresh packaged ones that die in a week. I have chives, sweet basil, parsley, oregano, and thyme. They are in nice little bushels right now cause I bought them at the greenhouse already like that, saves soooo much growing time.

**Little** · 05-17-2011 09:11 AM

I have a container garden of vegetables (that I keep killing, and my husband keeps replanting. Bless him!) So, my whole garden is on my front porch. You don't need a lot of room or fancy pots to make it happen - half of the vegetables are in converted paint buckets, and my potatoes are growing in a RubberMaid tote!