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What will you plant in your garden this Spring?

Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

Roma, Cherry, and Regular Tomatoes, Okra, Crooked Neck Squash, Italian Summer Long Zucchini, Straight 8 Cucumbers, Hale's Best Cantaloupe, Purple Hulled Peas, Crimson Sweet & Sugar Baby Watermelon, Onions, Jalapeno & Serrano Pepper, Yukon Gold Potatoes, and I've been thinking about adding an additional 25 to 50 Asparagus crowns. :D

Of course for my personal use I'll be planting, Sweet Basil, Sage, Rosemary, Dill, Chives, Cilantro, Peppermint & Spearmint, all of which will be in containers.

I'm so excited! (!)
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

I am buying my first home. I close March 28th. The back yard is all gravel. :( the front yard it maintained by the subdivision. :( i want to put in a stream/fall/pond but we'll see how much of the gravel i get out first!
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

4 O'Clocks, more Hollyhocks, more acanthus, and we'll probably plant some 'maters. I'd like some more moon flower bushes.
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

Anything that will make the neighbors wonder
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

I live in an apartment, however my parents have 40 acres that I play with. Not much into vegetable gardens. However I have an extensive shade garden of hostas and companion plants. I hope this year my collection will grow to near 350 varieties. I am almost to 300. Not sure how much you guys know about hostas, however if you want to check them out you need to go to this website www.hostalibrary.org. It is a hostaholics dream. I also have a pond with koi. Would love to expand the bog garden on that to have lotuses, however I know that will not happen any time soon.
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

brooked said:
I live in an apartment, however my parents have 40 acres that I play with. Not much into vegetable gardens. However I have an extensive shade garden of hostas and companion plants. I hope this year my collection will grow to near 350 varieties. I am almost to 300. Not sure how much you guys know about hostas, however if you want to check them out you need to go to this website www.hostalibrary.org. It is a hostaholics dream. I also have a pond with koi. Would love to expand the bog garden on that to have lotuses, however I know that will not happen any time soon.
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I ddin't know that they flowered. :D

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Are these all shade plants?
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

Hosta are pretty much all shade plants. At least they seem to grow very well in morning or evening sun. The hot afternoon or burning hours of the day normally will burn the leaves and discolor them and brown their edges. However there are some hostas that can take a little more sun like
Sum & Substance (a massively huge plant)
Patriot (bright white margins, green centers, medium size plant)
Allan P. McConnell (small white margin, green center, small plant)

Here is a quick little sales pitch. Hostas are not just green leaved plants anymore. There are several thousand registered plants and many more that are not. Their size ranges are huge from clumps that reach 3 feet tall X 6 feet wide to just 3 inches tall X 4 inches wide. These are just rough numbers, they might be smaller and larger ones by now. Yes the colors are all ranges of blue, green, yellow and white. But it is amazing the different patterns. They also have different textures for instance Niagara Falls, Marilyn Monroe, Foxfire Bamm Bamm, Praying Hands, are just a couple. You also mentioned flowers. Personally I don't care for the flowers and cut them off, however there are a few I leave on because they are fragrant. Actually the fragrant ones are so sweet and large it is amazing. Try plantaginea, Fragrant Blue, Guacamole, Stained Glass. The flowers on hostas range from bright white, purple, lavender, deep purple reddish, and many streaked. They also come in single, double and a couple triple. Check out Fujibotan for a beautiful multi petaled pinkish flower. By the way the people that hybridize these things are working on bringing red into the leaves. Take a peak at Purple Haze. The veins are reddish. This weekend I am actually going to Hosta College to take classes on Tissue Culturing, hybridizing and to see how this red is coming along in the leaves. As you can see I love this plant species. I don't have a real favorite, however I do have a special place for Edwin Bibby. It is my first name, the plant is streaked, fragrant flowers and I had to have it shipped from Ireland and it is not on the market yet. I will see if I can figure out how to post pictures on my profile of some of my plants. My gardens are only a couple years old so the plants have not gotten to full size yet.
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

roma,grape and cherry tomatoes and bush cukes for me !
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

Grape tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, bell peppers, hot peppers, corn, zucchini, peas, flowers, potatoes, carrots, asparagus. I just read about something I think they called "grid-gardening", where you arranged your garden in 9 ft squares. Anyone familiar with this? Sounded like a good way to garden in a small area.
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

I live in the tropical north of Oz and we are just heading toward our dry season when vegies will grow. The season is a bit like summer in southern Australia but with no rain whatsoever.

I'm looking to see how my roma tomatoes go. I kept them all through the wet and grew them into a 2 metre high vine. I am hoping that they will start ripening soon. During the wet the fruit starts rotting as soon as it colours.

Also about to harvest snake beans, amaranth, pak choy, rocket and various herbs. Corn on the way.

Otherwise I am learning to use my new shadehouse to grow seeds and cuttings of local plants from the surrounding bushland.

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Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

Thanks for your comment Buttons
It is a buzz for me to grow all sorts of things especially plants that grow around where I live and in many cases are very little known.
:D
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

my mom just gave me $100 to "buy some eggplants" this year ;) So I'll be making a trip to the feed-n-seed tomorrow. I have a few potted shrubs that I may finally put into the ground, but I live on my brother-in-law's land.... In particular, an oak leaf hydrangea and a nice thick clump of aspidistra (cast iron plant). some sago palm "goat testicles" I threw under piles of leaves two years ago are, surprise surprise, finally sprouting. I'll need to move some of them around, but I'll probably just pot most of them up to sell by the roadside on my days off. For my OWN yard, I'd prefer coontie palms, as they are native, rather than the sagos.
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

I wanted to do some gardening this weekend, but it's freaking 40 degrees! Maybe next weekend.

We should all do a seed exchange in the fall.
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

Well I finally got round to planting the Lilies of the Yalley underneath the Skimmias I also got for the shade garden and I planted 10 Aconitum (or Wolfsbane as it's also known) as well as some Japanese Anemone that I dug up from another part of the garden. Tomorrow I hope I can get some more summer bulbs planted and I'd like to sow some sweet peas.
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

Be careful with Aconitum, it can be dangerous to handle as it is extremely poisonous.

I planted my herbs in February, and during the rains this weekend I swear you could watch the cilantro grow!

Unfortunately, so did the weeds, sigh, so I'll be UNplanting this weekend.
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

For this past 7 years i've been goin for the cottage/wild garden look however this year i wanna throw some Echinacea into the mix, ( echinacea bein summit i've never tried before ) i garden on pretty heavy clay tho it has been worked and re-worked for 7 years.I'm also south facin so other N/American plants have and do grow well, anyhoo i've sowed the echinacea inside and they've sprouted and are commin along nicely,gonna give them a month or two before plantin them in the borders but any advice or tips would be kindly appreciated....;) also how appealin are they to slugs/snails ?
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

Echinacea's are some of my favourites, as are Rudbeckia's.
They should do fine, I've been growing them for some years now and the slugs don't seem to care much for them. Hosta's and slugs however are like a free salad bar :(
 
Re: What will you plant in your garden this Spring

Thanx Buttons i'll keep me fingers crossed hopefully they do ok! Got some rudbeckia commin through atm aswell ( black eyed susan ) all my hosta's are in pots, keepin them off the ground seems to keep the slugs at bay! ;)
 
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