Gardeners, what are you growing this year?

The last two years were a bust for my garden so I went really light this year. Tomatoes, leaf lettuce, radishes, basil, globe basil and spicy oregano.

We have these MONSTER Jack-in-the-beanstalk-looking tomato plants with really thick "limbs" & nice green foliage, yet very little actual fruit started on them so far.

That happened with a lot of stuff last year too--thinking lack of honeybees because we have really fertile soil in our raised beds & tending to everything properly.

We have just a small, raised bed garden.

Red Romaine Lettuce, which we've been enjoying already
Three tomato plants, one heirloom, one beefsteak, one cherry
Jalapeño peppers
Green bell peppers
Purple bell peppers
Cauliflower
Cucumber
Watermelon
Onions
Carrots

Currently I've got some standard and cherry tomatoes, jalapenos, assorted sweet and bell peppers, fairy tale eggplant (small plants that make tiny teardrop shaped eggplants that you can eat skin and all), Ichibon eggplants, cucumbers, a few more blueberries ripening on the bushes, both the lemon trees and orange tree made fruit, various herbs (basil, dill, parsley, oregano, thyme, mint, chives, and rosemary). The bay leaf tree is doing well and growing like mad. Also some small striped melons that end up about the size of a softball, and can be trellised. Green beans are over and done for the season, as is anything remotely cool weather related like cilantro, kohlrabi, and lettuce. And the zucchini didn't do much for me again this year. I always hope against hope that I will beat the squash vine borers, but never manage to get much of a harvest before they do their damage. 

I cut back variety and added more plants this year. 

50 tomato plants for canning  
15 basil plants
6 various types of squash
3 small herb gardens with assorted herbs
20 various types of peppers

I also have a mystery garden.  My greenhouse blew over in a storm and I was left with a muddy mess of destroyed seedlings and mixed up roots.  I salvaged what was left and planted those sorry little seedlings in a little spot in my back yard.  Can't wait to see what comes up! 

I have a few small green tomatoes and some flowers but I was concerned this morning when I realized how few flowers there are.  The plants are doing awesome but I'm not sure we're going to get a lot of tomatoes.  

A mystery garden!  That is kind of fun!  Hopefully the compatible plants ended up by each other!

Not much, didn't plant one of the raised beds at all, just too busy .


I did put in tomatoes, peppers and basil. All are growing great. Also planted a raspberry and blueberry bush, curious how those go.