Roto tilled my parent's and aunt's garden last weekend. Now this weekend I planted for my parents (getting old!)

Built a fence around their garden this year as the rabbit issue has gotten out of control.


9 tomato plants:
7 types of "regular size
2 types of cherry

9 pepper plants:
2 jalapeno
2 red bell
1 purple bell
1 habanero
1 banana
1 marconi
1 orange bell

green beans

spring mixed greens

zucchini

cucumbers

First garden ever.

Tomato, green pepper, banana pepper, Japanese cucumber, ice box size watermelon and a strawberry plant.

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I bulldozed mine.

But I had somw good harvests with carrots, peppers, Jalapenos, squash and tomatos. Fresh peppers smell delicious.

Just didn't want to deal with it anymore.

My wife does ours.

Raspberries, lettuce and I don't know what else.

Did that at my grandparents in the fall. They hung up their cleats. They had a beastly 24 foot by 18 foot plot. A fucking pain the ass to till every spring.

They were old country Ukrainians so they jarred damn near everything. Pickling for daaaaaaaays

YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST LET NAS, JORR, AND SEACREST PLANT IT FOR YOU.

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Marconi ? You're growing giardeniera ?

Oh go fuck yourself.

I need something to slap on my shoes!!!

Anyone do native prairie flowers? I grow some tomatos but don't have the room to grow much else besides flowers, which look cool and feed butterflies and birds. <-- that sounds really . . . not tough.

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Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Green Peppers

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We lost our front yard tree, which sucked, and my wife planted a bunch of different prairie flowers in it's place.

Ah, that does suck. Our block has lost four 70+ year-old trees in the past five years. But the flowers will look pretty good.

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Hockey Gay needs to get here immediately to call you all burritos.

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Herbs, tomatoes, and peppers in the veggie garden.

Border plantings with easy to grow, drought tolerant perennials. Daffodils for spring, then Iris, daylillies, knockout roses, grasses, coneflowers, and blackeyed susans. Hostas and pachysandra for the shade.

I use annuals sparingly. Just in pots at the front door and on the patio and marigolds around the tomatoes.

Arborvitae to screen us from our trailer trash neighbors. Little solar lights to give it some interest after dark.

It all works well without a lot of work and need for a lot of watering.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Yep. Just too much food if there was a good yield. Give most of it away, use some and then throw the stuff that rotted in the garbage. We are now just doing some Jalapenos, peppers and a small thing or two in some pots on the deck and planting redtwig dogwoods where the garden used to be.

I have a grocery store near me and value my time

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And men have lost their reason.

Not doing one this year. Last year it didn't seem to be worth the time and we will be out of town the first two weeks of August when the tomatoes usually start popping.
I'm a little disappointed as I have enjoyed doing it the last few years but has also become an all out battle against the squirrels and chipmunks.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Ash trees?

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The dutch have a cool hybrid fig tree, its good for our zone, can handle minus 20. 30$ for a sapling..fruit the next season.

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my garden. 40x50 plot.



6 kind of tomatoes (20 plants total)
jalepenos
anaheims
green peppers
onions
green onion
broccoli
cauliflower
carrots
greens
radishes
green beans
okra
watermelon
pumpkins
zucchini
cucumber
strawberries,
blackberries
raspberries
blueberries
peaches and cream corn
incredible sweet corn

when i'm not gardening, i'm dealing with 12 of these alabamas.

All this rain and hot during the day as well as cooler nights has my plants surging.

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Same here - unfortunately, many weeds have literally popped up over night.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Nice plot hnd, I'm jealous.

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thanks. when we moved in 3 years ago, the plot was there but it was a weedy mess. soil is not very good either...all clay. our first year, my wife double planted everything in hopes we'd get some yield. it didnt' seam worth it. today the garden is just bananas. we've tilled probably 6 truckloads of compost and horse manure into it the last 2 years. Dirt still has alot of clay in it but its getting much better to work with.