Do you have a vegetable garden?

[MickZagger]

Whats in it?

I got carrotts, about 5 different varieties of peppers to do my own salsa, onions, garlic, cilantro, 2 different cherry tomatoes and a brandywine tomatoes... Strawberries, raspberries and even tried watermelon this year. Even though it didn't turn out last year.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Herbs

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

No.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Geez Mick . . . starting thread about cooking and a garden . . . if I ever meet you I don't know if I should offer you a beer or to propose to you.

 

[jlprk]

I bury the neighbors' cats in mine.

Alive.

 

[crandc]

I am an urban farmer - meaning I grow a significant portion of what I eat. Lucky to have a lot of area although when I moved in it was weeds and garbage (not nice compostable garbage; old booze bottles, used car parts, broken shoes, etc.) I have fruit trees - 2 plum, 2 apple, cherry, 2 orange, lemon, fig, peach, avocado. Strawberries, blueberries. Vegetable garden (salad stuff, carrots, greens, beets, tomatoes, peppers, corn, pumpkins, melon, etc), herbs. Also drought tolerant ornamentals, cactus garden, about 2 dozen roses. Guess how I spend weekends? Weed, water, prune, weed, water, prune, plant, harvest, preserve ... and kill snails.

 

[Natebishop3]

Zags forgot to log into his BGD account to post this.

 

[Stevenson]

Corn, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, peppers. The easy things to grow (except corn maybe.)

Fruit: This year we are trying cantaloupes. Also blackberries.

I also rototilled an area and planted a dozen rose bushes. We already have blooms up the wazoo (insert your joke here.) Surprised, but very satisfying.

 

[Eastoff]

Tomatoes, yellow squash, bush beans, carrots, kale, spinach, buttered lettuce, beets, potatoes. Strawberries in the front, and some thorn-less raspberry/blackberries

edit: forgot the broccoli!

 

[MickZagger]

I don't understand the appeal of kale? I know its good for you, but its gross.

 

[MARIS61]

Without a greenhouse, preferably a dugout style, the occasional freeze and constant bunny/deer pilferage makes it hard here. But we've done some greens and small stuff.

The greenhouse is a year or 2 away still, but it will make all the difference.

Meanwhile Zags, I suggest you plant an l, to be perfectly clear.

 

[THE HCP]

Mine has tacos, and 40s of beer!

 

[Hobbesarable]

I don't understand the appeal of kale? I know its good for you, but its gross.

Kale is great with fruit smoothies. You can easily mask kale's mild flavor with bananas, apples, and other fruit.

 

[Natebishop3]

I don't understand the appeal of kale? I know its good for you, but its gross.

Dude, the zuppa tuscona from Olive Garden is fucking money, and it has kale in it. I made my own version of it and it was great. The Kale gives it some extra texture.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Next time grow some Carolina Reapers.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

I don't understand the appeal of kale? I know its good for you, but its gross.

Stir fry some kale and carrots (maybe throw in some sweet onions) . . . tasty stuff

Also as mentioned, great in fruit smoothies (Recently got a vitamix from costco and loving the shakes and smoothies life)

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, cabbage, zuchini, and strawberries.

 

[crandc]

Maris, don't laugh, have you tried fox urine granules? My fruit trees were being decimated by squirrels and raccoons. Traps didn't help because the fruit was tastier than the bait. Then I got fox urine granules, sprinkled a circle around each tree, renew every week or so. Works like a charm - animals won't go where they smell a predator.

I wonder what unlucky minimum wage person gets the fabulous job of dehydrating fox urine to make that stuff?

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Do they make bear, cougar, or T-Rex urine granules to keep my cats from using my garden box as their littler box?

 

[Eastoff]

Do they make bear, cougar, or T-Rex urine granules to keep my cats from using my garden box as their littler box?

supposedly acorn shells keep cats away, because they are painful to walk on. But that's an expensive solution.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Do they make bear, cougar, or T-Rex urine granules to keep my cats from using my garden box as their littler box?

Here is a book that could help . . . thinking outside the "litter box" a little

http://www.amazon.com/101-Uses-Dead-Simon-Bond/dp/0517545160

 

[BlazerWookee]

Zags forgot to log into his BGD account to post this.

Yet he still remembered to misspell only a single word...

 

[SlyPokerDog]

This forum is a vegetable garden.

 

[PapaG]

I am an urban farmer - meaning I grow a significant portion of what I eat. Lucky to have a lot of area although when I moved in it was weeds and garbage (not nice compostable garbage; old booze bottles, used car parts, broken shoes, etc.) I have fruit trees - 2 plum, 2 apple, cherry, 2 orange, lemon, fig, peach, avocado. Strawberries, blueberries. Vegetable garden (salad stuff, carrots, greens, beets, tomatoes, peppers, corn, pumpkins, melon, etc), herbs. Also drought tolerant ornamentals, cactus garden, about 2 dozen roses. Guess how I spend weekends? Weed, water, prune, weed, water, prune, plant, harvest, preserve ... and kill snails.

Sounds like you're a 1%er with a set-up like that in the East Bay. Good for you!

 

[crandc]

Hardly a 1%er. I live in a very working class neighborhood in a rented house. Everything in the house was substandard when I moved in. I have done everything in the past 18 years to fix it up. I turned a junkyard into a garden. When I went knocking on doors to look for my cat, my neighbors on one block spoke four different languages aside from English.

Bad try, PapaG. Again.

Try coyote urine for cats. I've also heard they dislike citrus but depending on the size of the yard you'd need a lot of oranges.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

I'm shopping for a few raised garden beds. 6'-8' L x 2'-3' W x 24" T(min).

Anyone buy any in the last year or so you are happy with? sooo many options online.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm shopping for a few raised garden beds. 6'-8' L x 2'-3' W x 24" T(min).

Anyone buy any in the last year or so you are happy with? sooo many options online.

Bought my mom one from Bi-Mart last year.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

Bought my mom one from Bi-Mart last year.

Okay. Do you like it? is it working well? size? Link?

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

Thinking about doing it myself just like this. I think these look nice.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/how-to-build-raised-garden-beds/

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Okay. Do you like it? is it working well? size? Link?

They were two 4'x4' ones, I think 18" tall. My mom used one for flowers and one for 3 different varieties of tomatoes. Seemed to work fine.

Bi-Mart is a local chain store, I think the nearest one to you is in Oregon City.

Are looking for them for landscaping? Veggies? You have wild deer or rabbits?

The aluminum water troughs are good to use for vegetable beds if you have animals that want to eat what you're growing or if water is scarce.

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Free wood pallets can make great garden beds.

https://www.google.com/search?q=woo...LEDwgIHEAAYgAQYGMICCRAAGIAEGBgYCg&sclient=img