What are You Growing in Your Garden?

[Enerchi]

Waiting for this to bloom.... (just posted it on Bright Ice's thread but thought might suit the gardening thread more appropriately!)

 

[iLander]

I am growing Mangoes, yes! Three different kinds, and they are full of yummy fruit. Knock on wood that they make it all the way.

We also have 2 navel oranges, a Hamlin orange, a Valencia, a Lemon (anyone can grow these in a pot, and they are SO convenient, since you always need a lemon, and they fruit year round), several Barbados cherry and a starfruit. Barbados cherry are slightly tart, sweetish cherries, that vitamin companies use to make Vitamin C! There is 1000 milligrams of C in EACH one! They're awesome, fruit off and on year round, and they will knock out a cold really fast. The starfruit are also cool, usually ripening in October-November, so they're always on the Thanksgiving table. I also have guava, but they're pretty icky. Raccoon food, mostly.

I'm in Zone 10+, so we are PAST vegetable season already! The tomatoes are about at the end, and the corn already came and went. The corn was a heroic effort, since we do them in huge pots, not the ground. Pretty weird, but you're not supposed to even get corn this far south, we have to cheat. We got 15 ears out of 4 pots! Planting more vegetables at this point, is well. . . fruitless. We start our stuff in February.

My peas didn't come up well this year, either. What is that about? Do you think there is something wrong with the seed stock Minous? Mine never flowered.

 

[minousbijoux]

Spring flush is the best time, by summer everything just looks old and dry even if we water continuously, things are just so dry here (CA bay area).

Doing veggies for the first time this year with my 2 year old, we picked the first strawberries yesterday for him to eat. Growing tomatoes (5 varieties, went a little crazy), summer squash and zucchini. Keep meaning to start the melons and forgetting.... oh and we have a 3 year old blackberry bush.

Don't you hate that? I try and keep everything under control, but by mid Summer, there are so many weeds and the plants look wizened and tired no matter what I do! Yesterday I found some of that white mold on some of my annuals already WTH? NOT RIGHT AT ALL!

I used to love gardening with my kids. I'm sure your garden is all organic, which is really important with little ones around. Anyway, the reason I grow so many peas is because my DS when he was really little would go plant himself in the garden and eat them right off the vine...not a sweeter sight in the whole world. I hope you have many like that too.

 

[minousbijoux]

My peas didn't come up well this year, either. What is that about? Do you think there is something wrong with the seed stock Minous? Mine never flowered.

That is just amazing to think that you can be past vegetable season in the beginning of May! That is just wild! But then again, you can grow things like true yams and we can't (and probably a hundred gazillion other things like all your fruit trees).

Do you know about scarification of the pea seeds before you put them in the ground? That might be part of the reason. I don't think mine was due to bad seeds, but to poor operator error I left them in the six packs too long before transplanting, and then - who knew - transplanted them right before a major storm dumped huge amounts of rain on us in a two or three day period, so my peas were kinda pounded into the ground... I did replant them, but its getting hot now, and they should've been in a while ago. Sigh, there's always the fall, right?

 

[minousbijoux]

I think you all have inspired me to try some fruit trees like lemons in some huge empty pots I have - here's to hoping it ain't $120 at the store...

 

[Lotus99]

I am growing Mangoes, yes! Three different kinds, and they are full of yummy fruit. Knock on wood that they make it all the way.

We also have 2 navel oranges, a Hamlin orange, a Valencia, a Lemon (anyone can grow these in a pot, and they are SO convenient, since you always need a lemon, and they fruit year round), several Barbados cherry and a starfruit. Barbados cherry are slightly tart, sweetish cherries, that vitamin companies use to make Vitamin C! There is 1000 milligrams of C in EACH one! They're awesome, fruit off and on year round, and they will knock out a cold really fast. The starfruit are also cool, usually ripening in October-November, so they're always on the Thanksgiving table. I also have guava, but they're pretty icky. Raccoon food, mostly.

I'm in Zone 10+, so we are PAST vegetable season already! The tomatoes are about at the end, and the corn already came and went. The corn was a heroic effort, since we do them in huge pots, not the ground. Pretty weird, but you're not supposed to even get corn this far south, we have to cheat. We got 15 ears out of 4 pots! Planting more vegetables at this point, is well. . . fruitless. We start our stuff in February.

My peas didn't come up well this year, either. What is that about? Do you think there is something wrong with the seed stock Minous? Mine never flowered.

I think you need to plant peas around October or November in warm climates. I know that's what I'm supposed to do here. Last time was a failure, but I'll try again this fall.

Check this book: http://books.google.com/books?id=BKxn8sYAMUIC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=grow+peas+hawaii&source=bl&ots=y_HFBJRlPn&sig=eHw7M-R-rT7JxkdCxJPpdoqVM0k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nrKmT5muBonkiAKXpv3QAg&ved=0CH8Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=grow%20peas%20hawaii&f=false

 

[hoover]

I think you all have inspired me to try some fruit trees like lemons in some huge empty pots I have - here's to hoping it ain't $120 at the store...

Yup, Canadians always get ripped off on unequal pricing on most products, but it's considered a "tropical" or "exotic" where I live. I'm hoping that was a dead of winter pricing, because I've seen that garden centre get large shipments of lemon and lime plants before and that was when I was able to buy it for less....

 

[Deactivated member 42515]

Korean grapes and strawberries

 

[minousbijoux]

LOVE strawberries - what are Korean grapes and if you don't mind me asking, generally speaking, where are you located?

 

[Deactivated member 42515]

I'm located in the eastern part of Washington state. Basically the desert

Korean grapes are like wine grapes kinda. The ones in my backyard are big and purple. Like double the size of a normal red grape. You don't eat the skin, just suck out the inside
I always gotta make sure I trim them tho so that my dogs don't get to them.

 

[Enerchi]

Have you ever encountered ground wasp nests in your gardens? I've had some last year and their stings HURT. Any one else had them?

Maybe I should ask as a separate thread....

 

[minousbijoux]

I see you started another thread, but feel free to add anything you want garden related - including about pesky critters...