I plant one every year because home grown tomatoes are the best, I prefer salsa fresca to jarred, and I also use it to hone up my “survival” gardening skills.
Who else is in the garden planning/planting mode?
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I’m not. Tried gardening once, it didn’t work out to the extent that it was no fun to keep trying.
I am, however, interested to try your fresh salsa. Let me know when it’s ready, please.
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As a result of past experience, I have discovered that I have the unfortunate ability to KILL anything God made green.
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I have a let’s see what comes up Garden around my house. I will let some cucumbers, squashes, sugar pumpkins and tomatoes stay on the vine at the end of the season and usually I get lucky and get a couple plants, if not, my GF has a large garden and orchard on her property that I am always working in. She has the green thumb, I am just the labor.
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Planting tomatoes and jalapeno peppers next month.
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Welcome to the community, John! We’re thankful you’ve chosen to join and hope that you enjoy your time online with us.
Take care & be well
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I wish I could grow Jalapenos, tomatoes grow amazing where I am in Oregon but Jalapenos just die. My GF has a Greenhouse so maybe I will talk her into seeing if they will grow in there.
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I have four different gardens. The more the food the merrier I am, good meals come from good produce. Even fine dining restaurants know this. What is in season and what is fresh. Like, it is halibut season now.
I have peppers of all sorts, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, cucumbers, cilantro, rosemary, sage, thyme, tomatoes of a variety of types, and shishito peppers, and more.
I also grow microgreens of many types too!
It is great being married to the farmer’s daughter.
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I have some salad greens started out side in a cold frame and Tomatoes, peppers, box chop, more lettuce, and spinach in the basement grow room. Will plant more outside in may.
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The plandemic was an eye opener so I started a garden in 2020. It didn’t make it past 30 days. Lack of soil preparation, etc. and just plain ignorance were the culprits.
I gave it another shot last month. Broccoli and lettuce look promising. I think I’m off to a good start.
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I’m starting to work on a proper garden bed this year, but it won’t be productive for at least another year. 
First thing first, there’s still a bunch of river rock and pea gravel in the soil from the former landscape, I’m gonna build a small trommel to separate the rocks from the dirt, then I need to add back good stuff like peat and composted manure because Colorado clay is not good for growing jack squat!
Edit, my garden at my last house took about 3 years to get rolling… and it was 1/3 the size of what I’m setting up here!
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ugggh. Worse than green peppers, which I can’t stand. Now, if you plant Habaneros, I am all in.
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Absolutely! I can’t imagine not having a garden. It is quite a challenge in New Mexico. Too cold and dry then too hot and dry. There seems to be no soil, only rocks so I have raised beds. Have to shield them from the hot summer sun. But in a bad year I can pull 100 lbs of tomatoes from the back yard. I grow peppers, squash, onions, potatoes, beans, herbs and whatever else I can fit in. Also have apple, peach and nectarine trees and a cherry bush. A single grape vine that has taken over the neighborhood has been a blessing. It produces between 70 and 100 lbs of grapes from just that one vine.
It’s time to put the greens outside and I have pepper seeds starting indoors soon to be followed by tomatoes.
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Clay soil where I live so I also use raised beds.
Broccoli however can be in containers.
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What size container? I tried broccoli at my old house,…. Grew some GIANT plants,…. Got not a whole lot of product 
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Riding stables usually have a huge pile of well rotting manure and bedding they’ll give away for the asking.
If tomatoes are on the menu, I recommend a good dose of calcium, I used oystershell, but any calcium should work, to prevent blossom end rot.
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I’ve been raising a victory garden for 24 years, but it got a lot bigger during the fabricated famine…er, pandemic, I mean. Also got back into canning after the garden area became so large. It’s quite gratifying to eat a 100% self-sourced (except seasoning and butter)
meal, especially during the winter months.
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i use mirical grow fertalizer had great tomatoes last year 1 sponful to 5 gal water to the plants try it.
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Welcome to the community! Ever planted onions and garlic also?
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