Is anyone starting to make plans for a vegetable/flower garden this year?

We always plant a vegetable garden. Nothing fancy or extensive.

Usually we plant tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, zucchini and squash. We have a horseradish plant that comes back every year too.

I don’t do flower beds, just lots of porch pots.
 

We have horseradish that has been moved to 3 different locations in the yard & keeps coming right back. The start was given to us over 30 years ago from a neighbor.

I'm lucky to have a local garden center that does heirloom plants. I'll get my tomatoes, peppers & some other things from them. The rest I'll plant directly in the garden. This year I'm going to try getting my lettuce out early & put a frame/cover over the top of the one raised bed.
 
We've been talking about it since December, yes! There are flowers (seeds and bulbs) that will be planted around the house, but the main thing is the vegetable garden. We'll be putting a lot more out than last year... I just hope it's a better growing season than it was last year!
 
Georgiagranny said:
Genius! Why didn't I think of that?

A while back, someone on SF showed pix of seeds she'd started in containers that she'd saved from takeout food. Another great idea.
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https://thehomespunhydrangea.com/diy-rotisserie-chicken-greenhouse-seed-starter/
 
Duh. I keyed in a response that disappeared while I was looking at another thread.

Years ago I had the bright idea đź’ˇ that I'd be doing DD a big favor by planting a perennial garden. Nope. Perennials require year-round care, and I'm tired of 'em, as I'm sure she will be someday. What's there will stay, but this year there will be only annuals planted. At least when they're done, they're done.
 
Sharon will try yet again this year to grow backyard vegetables. Tomatoes and green peppers seem like all that will grow - sort of. Picked up two different types of radish seeds at the hardware yesterday. Be nice to have slices of them in a salad again.

We're using planters as vegetables won't grow in our soil. Coming from Nebraska, never thought I'd live in a place where I had to buy dirt. Seems unnatural doing that.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Duh. I keyed in a response that disappeared while I was looking at another thread.

Years ago I had the bright idea đź’ˇ that I'd be doing DD a big favor by planting a perennial garden. Nope. Perennials require year-round care, and I'm tired of 'em, as I'm sure she will be someday. What's there will stay, but this year there will be only annuals planted. At least when they're done, they're done
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I do like a perennial garden but they're not work free. Especially if you do like I've done and add something invasive!
 
we lucked up on free mulch...from 10 year piles of hardwood from local sawmill...
lots of vegetables...wild flowers already in place...raised beds with cover...
 
Lilac said:
We have horseradish that has been moved to 3 different locations in the yard & keeps coming right back. The start was given to us over 30 years ago from a neighbor.

I'm lucky to have a local garden center that does heirloom plants. I'll get my tomatoes, peppers & some other things from them. The rest I'll plant directly in the garden. This year I'm going to try getting my lettuce out early & put a frame/cover over the top of the one raised bed.
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Yep, horseradish is hard to get rid of once you have it going.... But so good if you know how to properly use it.
 
Yep, I cut four by four-foot rough cedar wood beds. I made a new set for this year as I am down to only using two beds. I have them made out of 15" high cedar boards and I sealed them with food grade Tung Oil. I am setting them up close to the house and will grow Spinach, Lettuce, Tomatoes, and Cucumbers. These beds will produce more of each product than we can eat, so we will freeze some of each except for the cucumbers, which may become pickles at the end of the season. These cedar beds will at last me....
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Yep, I cut four by four-foot rough cedar wood beds. I made a new set for this year as I am down to only using two beds. I have them made out of 15" high cedar boards and I sealed them with food grade Tung Oil. I am setting them up close to the house and will grow Spinach, Lettuce, Tomatoes, and Cucumbers. These beds will produce more of each product than we can eat, so we will freeze some of each except for the cucumbers, which may become pickles at the end of the season. These cedar beds will at last me....
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You can make freezer pickles! Someone from, I think, Minnesota gave me a recipe. There kind of a bread and butter style, sweet.
 
I expect a run on seeds. Starts may be expensive this year.
Short and relatively cool summers in Seattle area. Will do Sweet 100's cherry tomatoes in son's beds, romaine lettuce, radish, mustard greens and collards. I like zucchini 3-4 inch diameters for my soups, baked/grilled and hopefully not seedy which is caused by warm temperatures.

I have already have picked mustard and radish greens 4x this winter which I seeded in late Sept 2022. Each picking is a thinning process so by March the remaining plants will have huge leaves.
 
My vegetable growing now consist of a few things grown in flower beds and pots but even that is rewarding......tomatoes, squash and peppers mostly.
 
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