What's in Your Garden?

[Dotch]

Been a long winter, I'm gettin' sick of it and we're staring down the barrel of a snow storm. Was just curious what everyone plants in their own plot. Since it was my bright idea to ask, reckon I have to go first. Here's what I have planned so far, subject to change of course:

Early Garden

Radishes - Comet or Cherry Belle and Sparkler

Peas - Sugar Snap (variety to be named later)

Onions - Whatever Edna has uptown for sets

Main garden

Indian Corn - 100 day but if I get pinched grow up to 110 day.

Sweet corn - Bodacious, Incredible and Supersweet Jubilee

Green & yellow beans - whatever I find locally

Tomatoes - Early Girl, Jet Star, Roma's, Sweet 100's & whatever wife grows at the greenhouse

Green Peppers - Whatever the wife grows at the greenhouse

Zucchini - 1 plant (if I have to, I guess)

Muskemelon - Superstar, Athena, Alaska or Fastbreak, Magnifisweet maybe Honey Rock. Haven't seen Saticoy for awhile but always liked that one.

Winter Squash - Buttercup, Mooregold, Ambercup, Sunshine hybrid or other like type, Spaghetti squash, Heart of Gold hybrid, Turk's Turban

Cabbage - red and whatever else the wife grows at the greenhouse

Cucumbers - Munchers and Straight 8's

Pumpkins - Autumn Gold, Jack O'Lantern, Jack Be Little & Wee Be Little + whatever transplants the wife has leftover

Gourds - Small mixed, Crown of Thorns, & whatever else the wife wants for decorating.

Sunflowers - Usually Mammoth, a dwarf type & Sunspot or other decorative types. Keeps the birds entertained.

Whew! And the wife wonders why I take naps when I get done planting and harvesting all this stuff.

[sparcebag]

Whats in my garden? snow and right now I cant see the 150 ft,to my dock its snowin so hard

[tigertrout]

Hierloom tomatos - Amada Orange, Black Prince,Sasha Altai, Elfin, Yellow Cherry

HOT HOT Peppers ! Red Savina, Red Caribbean, Chiletpin, Hanoi Red, Kung Pao and the Grand Daddy of them all....Bhut Jolokia!

Numerous herbs, and 4 flats of assorted annuals all doing great.

Come on Spring!!!

[Walleye Guy]

Mine is primarily garden that I use to help fulfill my salsa fix.

12 tomato plants of mixed varieties including 6 Romas

12-14 pepper plants including green, jalapeno and a few others

Red and whites onions that I plants from onion sets

Cilantro

A few hills of cukes

A few rows of red radishes

A few rows of carrots

A separate small patch for pumpkins

A couple rows of peas for the wife (yuck)

Chives & rhubard that I cannot kill

Things I have tried that didn't grow worth a darn:

White icicle radishes

Dill (grew like a weed but the bugs were unbelievable-how do you get rid of them?)

Garlic-Had no idea what I was doing

[KEN W]

Cantalope.....Earligold,Athena,Diplomat

Watermelon....Mickey Lee,Sweet Beauty,Yellow Doll,Starlight

Romaine Lettuce......Little Gem,Leprechuan

Onion.....Candy,Red Bull

Radish.....Hailstone,Easter Egg

Tomato.....Beaver Lodge,Saucey,Legend,Health Kick,Baby Girl

Beet.....Red Ace

Sweet Corn.....Polka,Xtra Tender 277A

Peas......Mr. Big,Knight

Pepper.....Red Ace,Early Jalapeno

Cucumber.....Marketer

Squash.....Aristocrat,Early Butternut,Sunspot

Spinach.....Melody

Broccoli.....Packman

Carrot......Bolero

Kohlrabi.....Early Vienna

Strawberry.....Ogalala,Fort Laramie

[Dotch]

Ever get dug out sparcebag? Geez, you guys off that direction got clobbered. Never had very good luck with icicle radishes either walleyeguy. Usually go over the fence to the sheep. Have you grown those Sunspot squash before Ken and how did you like them if you have? Ordered some (I think).

[KEN W]

This is the first time I am trying Sunspot.I have always grown Buttercup.Thought I would try something different this year.Plus they take up less space than Buttercups.

Test plots in Indiana rated them superior to buttercup.

[sparcebag]

 Originally Posted By: Dotch

Ever get dug out sparcebag? Geez, you guys off that direction got clobbered. Never had very good luck with icicle radishes either walleyeguy. Usually go over the fence to the sheep. Have you grown those Sunspot squash before Ken and how did you like them if you have? Ordered some (I think).

Yep dug out 10-12" Just heard more on the way!Looked at last years calender the bay I live on was opening as of one year ago,was catchin crappie April 6th!! This year their yet driving out on the ice!

If you can find White Globe raddish there the best I've grown,close to icicle only round.

[polarsusd81]

I wish my yard had room for a garden. I have a small 1/4 acre lot, with a 2 1/2 car detatched garage plus a shed behind it, then the house plus a good sized deck, and the rest of the yard is a bunch of trees. Mixed between pine and silver maples, in my small yard last year, I bagged 60 bags of leaves. I just want to cut down all the trees, but they do provide nice shade on a hot summer day.

I only had a bit of space for a small garden last year, just 8'x12', the only spot that got sunlight, and grew mainly things for salsa. Jalepenos, red and white onion, green and red bell peppers, Habaneros. It was all I could fit, but it worked alright. This year, the neighbor wants to put up a big privacy fence, which will now block the sunlight that the one tiny spot in my yard was able to get, so probably no mini garden this year.

[Sandmannd]

Tom how about trying to pot some plants. I got my wife a couple of half whiskey barrels and she puts tomato plants, green peppers and cukes in them. Works great.

[Dotch]

 Originally Posted By: KEN W

This is the first time I am trying Sunspot.I have always grown Buttercup.Thought I would try something different this year.Plus they take up less space than Buttercups.

Test plots in Indiana rated them superior to buttercup.

Thanks! Yup, I did order some so might be interesting to compare notes on how they do under MN conditions. We have room so we try several varieties of winter squash but have always grown buttercups as a standard for comparison. In the past have grown ambercup and mooregold. Mooregold kept better than either buttercup or ambercup, flavor was very similar on all 3. Needed a jackhammer to get the mooregold's open though.

[wishing for walleyes]

My garden is full of strawberries.This will be the 3rd year for them and i am hoping to get more of them then i can handle.

[KEN W]

Dotch.....I live in ND.A few miles west of Fargo.One other reason I chose Sunspot is they are smaller.I'm the only one that eats squash in my family.Will eat them first since the Butternuts keep much longer.I am still eating some of them from last fall.

Dan.....what variet of strawberries do you have.I just planted Ogalala and Ft.Laramie last fall.

[wishing for walleyes]

Ken..I have all kinds.Cavendish,Honeoye. My june bearing have done the best.The everbearing plants did not do as well.