What different plantsare you Growing this year?

[2dollarbill]

Seems like late winter and early spring every year thoughts come to me to try something different in the garden. This year is no different and I thought I'd share what I want to try this year, maybe someone is an old hand and can warn me of the "Gotcha's" and save me some grief.
I'd also like to here of something new you're trying this year.

New for me this year is the Spineless Okra, Mexico City Red Amaranth, some tobacco and Artichokes, The above ground type.

2DB

[jolara]

Goodness gracious, nearly all the seeds I purchased this year are new to me. My most unusual one is luffa sponges http://www.luffa.info/luffagrowing.htm


http://www.luffa.info/images/HomegrownLuffa.jpg

I also purchased many medicinal plant seeds. Oh, and horehound! I'm interested to see what that one does. :-D

[2dollarbill]

Well, it seems you have the perfect location for the luffa gourds to grow in.

I let a great neck summer squash dry out once and cracked it open, looked very similar to the luffa, but it turned dust very quickly.

Good luck with those.

2DB

[momof23goats]

luffa gourds are fun to grow.
but right now we are just trying to get through winter . we have a few months yet, before we can think of a garden. the ground is still frozen.

[Sarah]

We are really expanding our garden this year to include: amarath, edamame beans , beets, kiwi, quinoa, flax, rhubarb, honeydew melons, luffas, a bunch of different herbs, several fruit trees, blueberry, raspberry, mulberry and huckleberry. My two older boys have been busy working on the compost/fertilizer pile. So far we have about 60 cubic feet of horse poop so far and alot more to go.:shock:(we have 12 horses and they poop alot).

[Tesla'sMom]

I'm going to try some new things from a place which sells live herbs.

One is Good King Henry, which is a perennial and the shoots and leaves are edible.

The other is called "sea beet" and it's supposed to be the mother of all other beets- curious what it tastes like!

Planning to get some older rose bushes which set rose hips too. They're said to be a better source of Vitamin C than citrus!

[2dollarbill]

Watch out with them mullberry trees. Make sure you put them away from the house and the driveway or you will have purple stains on everything for years to come. Ask me how I know. :}

dang birds

2DB

[outlaw]

Seems like late winter and early spring every year thoughts come to me to try something different in the garden. This year is no different and I thought I'd share what I want to try this year, maybe someone is an old hand and can warn me of the "Gotcha's" and save me some grief.
I'd also like to here of something new you're trying this year.

New for me this year is the Spineless Okra, Mexico City Red Amaranth, some tobacco and Artichokes, The above ground type.

2DB

If you have room grow two gardens. We use the big one for eaten & the small one for trying new stuff. If we find something we like, we add it to the big garden. The two gardens are sepprated by 1/4 mile round about. Its smething my family has do for years.