Hi everyone!
I’m interested in making my own garden (someday) and it got me to thinking about what everyone grows or would like to grow in their own home garden.
Personally, I’d like to have some fresh seasonings like garlic, dill, and basil. Currently, I’m in a more temperate zone, so maybe some seasonals like tomatoes in the summer and having squash or pumpkins in the fall.
I’ve never actually worked in a garden before so it would all be new to me.
If there’s one variety of tomato I can recommend, it’s Cherokee purple. I swear to god I didn’t know before stumbling across it that tomatoes could be so good you could just pluck it off the vine and eat it like an apple. You will not regret it
I’ll check it out! It sounds delicious from what you’ve described.
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I got some mesh netting to put around my tomato bed, and it’s been working great to keep the critters out. It’s a bit of extra work, but worthwhile IMO.
Thanks for the insight. It sounds like you’ve worked on your garden for a while.
I didn’t even think of using pots for various plants and moving them around, that’s a good idea. I wonder how far you could take it.
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Tomatoes are my #1 pick. They’re just so much better than store bought. Most other produce doesn’t have nearly the same quality gap.
Otherwise it’s mianly for convenience and sustainability. I’ll be doing mostly lettuce and herbs this year I think. Lots of basil, and dill then some thyme and rosemary as well.
I started to appreciate tomatoes more recently after making homemade sauce for pasta. It’s so much better having fresh ingredients!
If you want to make sauce, definitely grow a paste tomato like San Marzano. More flavour, less goop. Check out an heirloom seed website like this one founded by vegans for more paste tomato options.
Dill and chives is easy.
Cherry tomatoes and chilli peppers as well.
I am currently trying to growing ginger, but that needs a somewhat warmer climate.
The chinese cabbage that I planted in the autuum is also still growing well in the small greenhouse I build.
Generally speaking you want to have a small greenhouse in a temperate climate so that you can start planting a bit earlier.
Cherry tomatoes and chill peppers sound good too.
A greenhouse would be great to have. How did you end up building yours?
I just got some transparent corrugated plastic roof and build the rest from stuff I had around. But for a small garden project I would just buy a small ready made one.
I only have a balcony, but you can already grow some things with a small raised bed.
As others said, tomatoes work great (if there’s enough sunlight), especially on balconies, as tomatoes don’t handle rain too well often.
I had some good results with green beans (special cultivars for pots), salads, herbs (like basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary) and cabbages, but there are cabbage butterflies that really love to eat them (and a lot of it). But I sill had some success, especially when planting pak-choi in fall and harvesting it in early winter.
Tomatoes are always a winner. Growing lettuce is also easy and fun, and you don’t need to harvest the whole thing at once
