gad33

I haven't done anything in our garden here, although I had a very nice veg garden in Calgary. We have just returned from a trip so it is time to plan my garden but first I need to get some good top soil in place.

rallybug

We've built two elevated 2' x 4' square foot gardening boxes (legs are around 28" tall, plus sides of 8", roughly) and will be planting various things - carrots, cantaloupe, kale, lettuce, rocket, chives and some others that I've forgotten in there. Then we're going for tomatoes and bell peppers in Topsy-Turvys, and courgettes and red onions in the ground.

We tried herbs last year and they didn't work, but we'll try again. Bugwife is somewhat proud of her black thumb

Bob

Our basil is taking off like crazy...okay, they're still stumps at the moment, but there are a lot of them.

Some tomatoes have sprouted too, quite a few even.

Not seeing anything from the mint or lavender yet.

Uncle_Bob

good luck but I got to guess you are too late for lettuce and the deep root veg such as carrot are better off planted in the winter. I planted tomatoes and bell peppers in Arizona from plants in March, I see the buds growing already.

My county has a plating schedule that I follow, you might want to google yours.

Uncle_Bob

Nice, do you think as Brits we will have a mine are bigger than yours situation going on

Bob

I'd just be happy not to kill them when I move them outdoors

ironporer

We do a garden every year, 20' x 10'. This year we have planted to rows of Swiss Chard, 1 of potatoes (never grown them before but wth), a jumbo cabbage plant IP jr. brought home from school as part of a contest, a 4' x 10' trellis of cukes and another of pole beans, zuccini, yellow squash and about 6-8 tomato plants of various varieties and maybe a few pepper plants.

Holliver

We finally got round to it this year. We decided to start off slow - we have tomatoes, basil, spring onions and parsley. I think the parsley is almost dead already. We rent, so don't have much room on the balcony.

The tomato plants have grown a lot since we bought them, but I don't know when to expect any actual tomatoes. The spring onions were taken from MIL's garden, they were delicious. I cut them off near the bottom/white part and they seem to be growing again, but don't look so thick as they were.

When we get a house we hope to plant more stuff, but I'm not sure how a good a gardener I am! Just waiting to see what happens with this stuff.

rallybug

We do (here), but as our last frost date is down as April 17, we're still just within range for planting the early, hardier crops.

Bob

The one bunch we got months back just on the window sill, in a pot with water has been growing like crazy. Quite impressive.

Holliver

I read a blog about doing that but it seemed the person had trouble getting them to stand up the right way and also that they went mouldy.

The ones I have in the soil are slowly growing again. What is te bulb like thing that grows on the tip of the green part? Are they seeds, can I cut them off and plant them?

Yorkieabroad

I've done a few herbs in pots - the Basil spreads from pot to pot like crazy and is pretty nigh on impossible to kill. Rosemary got transplanted into a flower bed and is going wild. I struggle with all the others...even mint which grew like a weed in the UK.

I picked my first tomato last week (didn't plant any plants, but put a load of compost on my roses and tomatoes grew!) and have a whole load more just about ripe now. Maybe this will be the motivation to get a real veggie garden going this year.....

Bob

We've got them in small pots, pretty tight fit so they stand in them and grow up against the window.

Don't have any bulbs growing out of ours, but they're probably a flower?

Bob

I've tried growing mint before, at the last place and it didn't do so well either...but we finally have a sprouting of mint now.

Basil has always been a bit meh in the previous place, grew but didn't flourish, but the stuff the neighbours grew last year did well.

Not had much luck with chives or rosemary before either and we've never really bothered with parsley as we don't really use that much of it.

GeoffM

Back in the UK we had way too much basil and mint: both spread like weeds. Best kept in pots.

Good news: the stuff I planted a week or two ago is starting to sprout. When (if) they actually show vegetables, I might actually remember what I planted where!