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?

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.

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, rosema…

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.

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.

I’m starting to work on a proper garden bed this year, but it won’t be productive for at least another year. :pensive_face: 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 dir…

[image] John1682: jalapeno peppers ugggh. Worse than green peppers, which I can’t stand. Now, if you plant Habaneros, I am all in.

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 bac…

[image] Will_B: Colorado clay is not good for growing jack squat! [image] CandeT: raised beds. Clay soil where I live so I also use raised beds. Broccoli however can be in containers.

What size container? I tried broccoli at my old house,…. Grew some GIANT plants,…. Got not a whole lot of product :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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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