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What're you growing this year? Last year we had great luck with cherry tomatoes, serrano and anaheim peppers, less luck with large tomatoes, bell and jalapeno peppers, and no luck with squash.

This year we're trying tomatoes of all sizes again, peppers, squash, and going to be trying some container herb gardening as well (basil, maybe rosemary).

Just got the garden beds cleaned up last weekend, thinking about planting this upcoming weekend.

Pictures of my garden beds after 6 months of neglect:



After 1/2 day Sunday of work:



We're ready to plant! As last year, I will be blogging about my successes, failures and frustrations with the garden (link in my sig line):thewave

So what're you growing this year?

I live in zone 7A so we just planted our spring crops of spinich and strawberries. I had good success last year with Cherry tomatoes and a disease resistant Early Girl. After that my other tomato plants all got diseases

So we are changing out the garden to other plants and will put in an additional plot for the tomatoes this year. I am also doing all disease resistant (but open pollinated) tomatoes. After our spinach and strawberries I will be planting the three sisters (Corn, green beans, and various squash). But that won't happen till mid may.

Hoping for another year of good growth on my citrus trees. RIo Red grapefruit, Cara Cara pink navel orange, Miho satsuma mandarin, Moro blood orange, Bloomsweet grapefruit, Ujukitsu sweet lemon, Kishu seedless mandarin, Meiwa sweet kumquat, and sweet lowquat.

I've been thinking about planting Edamame, which yields soybean high protein seed pods every 77 days during the warm seasons.

Edamame is very good! We had a fruit tree orchard at the house I first grew up in with Apricots, pears, little green apples...

But we may be moving in 2 years, and living in town so I'm holding out on fruit trees until we're living out in the country.

We planted today!!

Branching out a bit this year. We have squash, watermelon, cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, jalapenos, serranos, anaheim, poblanos and bell peppers....

The big pot has sweet basil, rosemary and cilantro in it, the little pots both have strawberries.

Hope we have another good year of crops!

We're growing, new potatoes 80 plants, tomatoes 10, jalepenos 4, squash 5 hills, and purple green beans about 100. 6 peach trees and 1 plum. Got some wild blackberries growing too.

1 week later, things are looking okay. Squash are starting to poke their heads out, 1 watermelon plant is probably dead, and I have 2 pepper plants that are looking sickly.

But its only early April, so no big deal if I have to replant.

I also had to throw up a fence, because we have friends bring dogs over...and those dogs try to use the garden as a toilet/digging box if you don't have a fence up.