I am looking forward to a bounteous harvest this summer. How about you?

I spent the spring working my ass off to prepare our first serious vegetable garden. I've got heirloom tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, squash, garlic, green onions, carrots, melons... And in containers on my deck I have a variety of herbs, greens, and strawberries. Oh, and three raspberry bushes in the front yard. The raspberries are already producing. I'm so excited!!

Any other DUers planning on feeding themselves from the own gardens this summer?

THE MOTHERFUCKING DEER RIPPED DOWN THE MOTHERFUCKING DEER FENCE AND ATE EVERYTHING ELSE.

I'm not a violent person, but I want those deer dead.

We have a groundhog I am worried about, and I think the birds have been eating my strawberries...but they don't do nearly the damage the deer can do. I am so sorry!

Check this out:

They ripped into a 20lb bag of seed on my deck and devoured the whole thing. I was just about 4' away taking pictures out the guestroom window with Mick snarling and trying to eat them through the window. They didn't care.









We had about 8 of them in the yard, but these were the brave assholes.

I know it's not funny, but I can't help but smile. That 3rd picture with the evidence on its nose and the 4th picture of the 3 are adorable.

I've heard they can quickly destroy both flower and veggie gardens. We aren't bothered by them but I think it's because we're pretty well surrounded by farm fields with plenty of food nearby.

They're just too damn lazy to go forage like normal deer.

Like I said, they went through 20lbs of seed.

They came back the next day and dragged the empty bag around the yard.

does "borrowing" veggies out of my mom and stepdad's large garden count? I live in a condo, so hey...I loves me some fresh cucumbers...:9

Do they live nearby? They should give you an area of their garden that you can use!

Actually I have a rather brown thumb, so I let them do all the work...;) Although I do take care of it for a week in the summer while they go to the beach...

I started early. We pulled radishes in mid April. The lettuce, spinach, and onions have been providing since shortly afterwards (and still are). The peas are almost out of control. We've been drying herbs for weeks (and will have to all summer to keep up with them). The purple potatoes are flooded with blossoms (no pests yet) and I've got mammoth sunflowers growing in between them. The tomato plants are doing fine, as are the peppers, cucumber and eggplant. I would be happier with the beans if the bunnies hadn't munched on them so much. Carrots and beets are coming along fine too.

It is going to be a GREAT season!

Oh, and the asparagus is in its third season so we got to munch on that too (it is huge now) and the strawberry patch has been wonderful!

Blueberries are close to ripening too!

drool....BEST THING EVER!

What part of the country do you live in?

The things are like a hedge!

Withe rotator cuff surgery two weeks ago, I couldn't even weed my flower beds much less put in a veggie garden. And with the deer eating the pansies in the bed at the front porch, I suspect a veggie garden wouldn't survive anyway.

The way I get the best of both worlds - great veggies and get the large pile of manure hauled off!

Nice gardening, Fran! :hi:

onions, scallions. Herbs and various other. Lot's of rain here.

We moved into or new house a little too late to start. But, I will be putting a garden in this fall for next spring. In the mean time, I will be frequenting the farmers market. It is the next best thing.

already harvested some radishes and planted anew.

Also potted:

carrots
cucumbers
cherry tomatoes
Early Girl tomatoes
pumpkins
red onions
white onions
red bell peppers
green bell peppers

YUM!!

Can't wait!

I didn't read past that.

:smoke:

Meh.

I grow is a couple of habanero pepper plants in large pots.

Right now I am locked in mortal combat with the local squirrels over the harvesting rights for my habaneros. The funny thing is the squirrels only seem to take one very small bite out of the bottom of the pepper, leaving two little parallel groove marks in the bottom. I like to think that they scorched their little tree-rat tongues, never to return. But there are a lot of squirrels living in the oaks around here.

I have not yet loosed the catz upon the squirrels . . . .

because I am to old and out of shape to take care of one alone. We get strawberries, asparagus, blueberries , sweet and sour cherries, peaches,apples and whatever we can find at farmers markets , orchards and road side stands. I still have a load of produce in my freezer from last year. I will share with my daughter and grand daughter

Theres an Amish farmer not far from here who sells chickens that actually run around a barn lot. I aim to get some of them too!

seasons so I will wait until next year. I miss MI's predictability.

Peas were good, taters great, onions FANTASTIC (dixondale farms for sets). Tons of green 'maters, peppers setting, eggplant in progress, Romaine all done. All in all for us old folks, its about taste and pleasure. I'm not trying to feed the world, nor trying to grow everything, we've done that. Oh forgot, had a bounteous strawberry crop, blueberries half done and picked the first of the raspberries. Anything else we want we get at our local 'county grown only' farmers market.