I am ready to plant my veggie garden. I have been ready for weeks......I have had the plants for weeks......the actual garden is ready to go......I just need to get back to it.
I have experimented the last few years with the garden and this year the fun continues. I always plant a few tomato plants and have perennial chives, onions, mint and oregano that come up. I was planting lettuce the last few years as well and some other herbs.
I have 2 different kinds of tomato plants this year, 4 varieties of peppers, zucchini (which took top prize for best veggie in my garden last year), lettuce and herbs.
I decided to use a giant wicker basket I have to plant the lettuce in this year and keep it on the deck as a big salad bowl of sorts. The lettuce takes up a lot of valuable room in the small veg patch. I am also planting some of the herbs in pots to keep them on the deck as well. They were throughout the back gardens last year.
Once the garden, basket and containers are planted I will post pictures.
Any suggestions on some extra veggies??
6 comments:
Potatoes!!! They are the best fresh from the garden. My fav for sure!
Christa
Potatoes? I never thought of them as potentially exciting...
I look forward to the pictures.
Garlic!
Carrots!
I love carrots from the garden, they taste so good!
Amy
my garden is a raised bed....I need to know how to grow potatoes. I like the idea of garlic.
Potatoes: dig a hole, put seed potato in hole, cover it up, water every few days, when the plant goes into blossom you have to "hill" the potato plant - meaning take dirt and hill it up around the bottom of the plant so that when the potatoes under ground start growing they don't start peeking out (they would then start turning green which is not good).
Not sure if this will work in a raised bed or not, but if you do go for it, plant the garlic around the potatoes, it keeps the bugs away.
C
Thanks for the info and tips. I plant marigolds around my tomato plants for the same reason.
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