Spring Planting For Your Family

[Bowsnbucks]

What things have you gents planted so far for eating this spring & summer? I know it depends on your location. If nothing yet .... what plants are planned?

I have 2 kinds of lettuce just sprouting in long troughs, and a small forest of basil popping in a pot - all inside our south-facing sliders. Preps have been made for hot peppers and grape tomatoes. Gonna start some pots of parsley, thyme, and dill for my wife. Itchy to see things growing!

EDIT: I forgot our pots of chives and sage which have been overwintering on our patio for the last 10 years. They come up every spring.

 

[Telemark]

I have radish and lettuce direct sown in my raised beds.

I've sown in pots that are inside germinating. So far I have about a dozen pots each of:

Moneymaker tomato
Cherry tomato
Zucchini
Celery
Cayenne chili
Bell pepper
Physalis
Palm kale
Sweet peas
Spinach

The radishes and lettuce are generally completely done by late June. In May I will sow root vegetables and plant summer crop starts between the rows. When the early crop comes out, the summer crops take over and usually last the rest of the season.

I have a lot of other crops to start indoors, but it's a little too early here for beans, pumpkins, herbs, etc. Plus I need to get the greenhouse built so I can make space in the house for germinating the new starts.

 

[jsasker007]

About all we ever end up doing is growing some tomato, rhubarb(from the in-laws) and of course apples(always adding more varieties). That's about it. Kids are grown and I spend way to much of my time and energy at work to do a REAL garden. The wife has her flowers that give her something to do in the summer.

 

[Telemark]

I also have my apples, cherries, honeyberries, black currant, red currant, gooseberries, rhubarb, plums, raspberries, blackberries, garlic, and chives that are in the ground all winter. I used to have Jerusalem artichoke, but they got smoked this winter, so I have to replace them. My sage might need to be replaced, too.

I have pear trees, but they don't like the Norwegian climate, so I've only had one so far.

I planted a patch of stinging nettle which I harvest from every year. I like to add it to my kale soup.

I tried lovage, but it failed the first winter.

 

[bigboreblr]

Mostly raise deer.

Do a few tomato buckets on the porch. The lady chef isn't a huge veggie person.

Been thinking of using part of my plot for food. Exclusion cage. I got 15lbs ofMilpa blend left from greencover.

Redo in fall turnips daikon radish.

Deer get weird with new fencing. 100ft of fencing is 31dt diameter circle.

 

[Barndog56]

I've got garlic just sprouted in the last couple of weeks. First time growing it. Will probably have enough to wage a vampire war! Lol

Just started bell peppers in a seed tray indoors. In a couple of weeks I'll start tomato and broccoli seeds. It'll be time to sow lettuce, radishes, peas, and carrots in their beds then.

Picked up 5 lbs of red potatoes this past weekend. Will set them out to eye up and then cut into pieces.

A couple weeks away from asparagus starting to poke through the surface.

In a month I'll be starting green beans and corn. And some cantaloupe and watermelon inside at that time.

Last up will be pumpkins. Big Max is my favorite.

All of that sandwiched around planting 1,500 dahlia tubers and about 300 seeds. Shipping out about 50 orders of tubers a week for the next month.