Anyone planting a vegetable garden this year?

[fiveandtwo]

I noticed some daffodils starting to pop up yesterday and I’m already planning on my garden.  I have an old metal raised bed that I dragged out and found a spot for it.  I plan to plant some green beans and bell peppers in it.

Also have a couple of ground beds for tomatoes and onions that I tilled and added manure in September and have been dumping fireplace ashes in.  

I stopped by Tractor Supply yesterday and holy moly, their store brand soil is 10 dollars per bag.  Last year it was under 6 dollars.  I reckon I’m going to have to go in the woods and take the cart and tiller and get my own dirt. 

[FlyersFan]

We have a few neighbors who have veggie gardens each year.
The gardens produce so much that they give half of it away.
So we get fresh veggies from them during the summer.
They give it to us without us asking.
And we don't have to work for it.   
Makes me feel like a democrat.  

[andy06shake]

Me, we plant a garden every year.

Peas, Tomatoes, Rhubarb, Blackberries, and Raspberries.

Plus scores of Sunflowers.

I give half of mine away also to neighbours, family, and friends. 

[fiveandtwo]

We have a few neighbors who have veggie gardens each year.
The gardens produce so much that they give half of it away.
So we get fresh veggies from them during the summer.
They give it to us without us asking.
And we don't have to work for it.   
Makes me feel like a democrat.  

[fwki]

We've been learning for years now, inner city Houston, limited direct sun from all the big houses going up around us, but we had our best crop ever in 2025. The big aha! moment was realizing our primary problem was varmints, especially opossums. A year ago we started trapping and relocating and we have removed 85 possums, and counting...like one or two per week. It's crazy. We use leftovers or marshmallows. They still do some damage, but yield is MUCH higher.

[David64]

Absolutely !

I plant every year, but tomatoes are my only consistent crop. There are over 3,000 varieties of heirlooms, so I plant at least 5 different ones each year and save the seeds.
This year it will be : Beans, butternut squash, cucumbers { I'm running low on pickles } jalapenos, bell peppers { those little mini snack peppers 'cause my wife likes them } watermelon, cantaloupe and of course tomatoes along with whatever my wife thinks of between now and then.

My fruit trees do so well I'm always giving away apples, peaches and pears. Good luck getting the cherries before the birds do and I honestly wish some of you lived closer 'cause I have BUCKETS of walnuts to shove off...er...gift to you. My Walnut trees are producing overtime and they are hell on lawn mower blades.

[quintessentone]

I have decided to add to my small prepper/forage garden, so I have on my buy list seeds for Good King Henry (leaves like spinach, stalks like asparagus), Salsify (parsnip like), Purple Coneflower (Echinacea, for medicinal purposes as well as being edible), Aunt Molly's Husk Cherry, Earth Chestnut, as some of these plants are perennials and hardy survivors from the past, but were long forgotten by gardeners. I can start all these seeds indoors in February, which will be here before I know it. 

I originally wanted to look for plants that are multi-purpose (food and medicine) but now I am leaning more towards buying the dried roots/leaves and making medicines at this point in time; alcohol infusions perhaps. My herbal garden should provide me with the right kinds of plants to make medicines to deal with bacterial, viral and inflammatory issues.

I will be installing 12' x 2' raised planters with lattice and can't decide on which climbing plant I want. I want year round leaf coverage/privacy on 6 foot lattice panels so it seems I am limited to ivy, which does not give me food or medicine. But there is room to grow food there and I can't decide on sweet potato or a mixture of root veggies or a food crop that is year round and self seeding. 
 
I am also trying to decide which mushroom grow kit or spores to buy. I have a pile of wood in the backyard that I could start the mushrooms but I don't want it spreading everywhere. The kits seem the easiest and fastest way to start this mushroom growing craze I'm in right now.

[LeeroyTheRooster]

We've been learning for years now, inner city Houston, limited direct sun from all the big houses going up around us, but we had our best crop ever in 2025. The big aha! moment was realizing our primary problem was varmints, especially opossums. A year ago we started trapping and relocating and we have removed 85 possums, and counting...like one or two per week. It's crazy. We use leftovers or marshmallows. They still do some damage, but yield is MUCH higher.

A peanut butter sandwich works great in a live trap as well.  One piece of bread, slather with peanut butter, and fold it over.  That's all I use.

[argentus]

I look at a thread like this and realize that gardening is the universal salve, the complete unifier.   We all speak the same language when talking about gardening, even though we do so from vastly different cultures and locations.   

I am thrilled that I have yet another chayote plant growing.   They can't really handle the blasting sun of the western Caribbean, and I have sadly killed six of their ancestors.   This time, I rooted the thing in my windowsill, resting a Chayote in a salvaged Bananaquit nest that fell to the ground during a storm.    It rooted!!!   I put it into rich soil in a drywall bucket, and it has sent up three vining runners.   I set it under a Naseberry Tree, where I hope it will run up the trunk and along the branches with the Passionfruit vine that has found a home along the same tree.   

The Naseberry Tree, the Passionfruit vine, the Chayote vine seem analogues of the world situation.  They are all different and yet they have learned to get along and prosper.   The Chayote vine has already crossed over the Passionfruit.   They appear to be friends, or at least not enemies.  

At the base of the Naseberry Tree is our buckets of Aussie Black Krim tomatoes, and cucumber plants.   Further out are pumpkin, cassava and water spinach.  17 Coconut trees.   I have Culantro, Rosemary, Jamaican Thyme (oregano), Thyme, Scallions, Basil, more Basil, ginger, and Irish Potatoes.

[Oldcarpy2]

Rhubarb for wine, apples for cider, chillies for pickles but given up on tomatoes