What kinds of vegetables do you grow?

Question

What kinds of vegetables do you have in your garden and where do you live?

I currently have tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, radishes, carrots, onions, and a bunch of herbs, but I'm always looking for new ideas for plants that are easy to grow. I live in a suburb of Chicago, so the climate here is mostly moderate.

Answer 1

I'm in Joliet, IL.  I have 6 tomato plants(4 of them are growing in Straw bales this year as an experiment). I also have 2 Italian Roasting Pepper plants, 2 Jalipeno Pepper plants, 2 Red Sweet Pepper, 2 Green Sweet Pepper and 2 Yellow Sweet Pepper plants and 3 bush -style Cucumber plants.  My garden is raised by RR ties(about 6-8 inches) and small-about 6ft x 6ft only.  I have a boss that owns 4 horses and I got about 5 garbage can loads of dry horse manure and I tilled this in and also started my own compost pile this year with just about composted leaf and grass clippings from last year & the horse manure from this year.  It seems to be darkening up real nice.  Hope this helps you.  Where are you from?  Oh, and I have some wild fresh Mint plants that had just about over ran my garden the last two years that I thinned down to just a small patch and it is under control.

Answer 2

I live in southern Arizona and have been expanding my garden for the past four years.  The better we get at this, the more we grow and we are having fun.

We have tomatoes, pole and bush beans, snow peas, spinach, cabbage, beets, turnips,sweet corn, butternut squash., cucumbers and Spanish onions.  We have them all growing in various stages of growth for successive harvests.

Although peas are a cool-weather vegetable, I have had success growing my peas in hanging containers in the shade in the northside of our house.  The peas are weighed down with the growing fruit.  We pluck the peas when they are ready.  I tell my other gardening friends about this trick and they say "Wow, what a neat idea!"

We have sweet corn growing in a small patch with pole beans and squash and call that our Indian Garden.  All three vegetables grow great together, the corn providing much-needed shade for the beans and squash.

We also use all-organic fertilizers, utilizing coffee grounds for added nitrogen (corn loves that), egg shells and carrot peels directly added to the top soil.

One thing I had to learn the hard way is that here in the desert vegetables can get by with less than the ideal six hours of sun.  The heat can get so intense here that vegetables will wilt when it gets hotter than 90F over a period of a few days.

Answer 3

Lots!! actually i love gardening!

-mint (grows soo well and smells soo good)

- cucumbers (Japanese variety cuz it tastes better)

-tomatoes (regular and cherry)

- parsely

- basil

-rosemary

- pumpkins (mini)

squash



Gardening is alot of fun and i love food! the stuff you grow always tastes soo much better than the grocery store stuff. Good luck with ur gardening its always worthwhile in the end! hope i helped?? <><

Answer 4

I like 'Heirloom' tomatoes.  I have a friend that starts the seeds for me.  You can google heirloom tomato and find many sites to sell the seeds.

Answer 5

I grow potatoes, and I live in Australia.

Answer 6

Yellow Squash, zucchini (delicious grilled), tomatoes, cucumbers, also fresh herbs, a couple of pumpkins, eggplant.

I love the summer, there is nothing better than fresh vegetables!

Answer 7

I live in Maine and grow,cucumbers,carrots,broccolli,caulifl... 3 kinds,green beans purple beans,peppers,red cababge,green cabbage,summer squash,pumpkins,sweet corn,4 kinds winter squash,zuchinni,watermelon,swiss chard,beets,onions,peas.

I love gardening and it is a great hobby and once you grow it you knwo where it camr from and what was sprayed on the food.

Answer 8

I  live in southern Colorado and I grow:

Tomato

Eggplant

Cabbage

Garlic

Onions

Broccoli

Zucchini

Cucumber

Radish

Green peppers

Tabasco peppers

Answer 9

zucchini  cantaloupe water melon broccoli cauliflower green beans peas  pumpkins eggplant peppers

Answer 10

I'm in the Cleveland area, (sorta the same climate), don't have the carrots and radishes, but have the rest.  Also planted some zucchini, eggplant, lettuce, and pole beans. With all the rain we've had, the gardens doing just fine.  Hoping yours is also bountiful.