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What is your crop?

14 years ago

Spring:

I have radish, spinach, and swiss chard as a spring crop. I got them out early but with this weather it is like it skipped spring, went right summer!!:)

Summer:

I will have one cherry tomato, countless peppers of a few varieties(jalapeno/cayenne/habanero/hot cherry), some basil, everbearing strawberry and swiss chard are both from spring through fall.

Fall:

Another run of of spinach and radish. I like fall for growing spinach, I grow a lot and blanch/freeze.

Well, I would like to hear what everyone else is growing.

Comments (19)

  • 14 years ago

    Well, I have some lettuce, salad spinach, kale, beets, carrots, snap peas, asparagus, and rhubarb for spring.

    For summer there is sweet corn, tomatoes, lima beans, potatoes, sweetpotatoes. peppers, broccoli, cabbage, squash,watermelons, cucumbers, cantaloupes strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries,

    For fall there is broccoli, cauliflower, salad spinach, and lettuce.

  • 14 years ago

    We have a similar thread going already! My list is in there.

  • 14 years ago

    Very nice. My list is small but maybe I will do more.

  • 14 years ago

    are invasive weeds considered crops?

  • 14 years ago

    "are invasive weeds considered crops?"

    I would not know anything about that, I grow in containers.

    ;)

  • 14 years ago

    I am going to put in some long season corn again this year, I had good success with it four to five years ago, but only if by the grace of God the weather is semi-constant.
    Corn:
    John Haulk
    Warners
    Blue Careage
    Maize Morado
    Goliath
    Cheyenne Pencil Cob
    along with three types of sweet corn but I am not sure if they will be OP or old guard hybrids yet.

    Potatoes:
    Ozette
    Cal White
    Bake King
    Reba
    Belle de Fortenay
    Amandine
    Peter Wilcox
    and left overs from last year that I forgot I had in the storage area.

    Plus-
    Onion
    Brocolli
    Cauliflower
    Radishes
    Lettuce
    Mustard
    and
    at least five types of tomatoes.

  • 14 years ago

    interesting variety's there RpR

  • 14 years ago

    In no particular order in the ground I have asparagus, rhubarb, chives, garlic, sweet peas, strawberries, polish spinach onions. Coming is: *(lol r u ready... keep in mind we feed 8, can, and take rest to local food pantry:
    collard greens
    kale
    mustard greens
    lettuce
    broccoli
    Brussels sprouts
    cabbage
    cauliflower
    celery
    beets
    2 different radish types
    green beans
    other beans for kidney beans (do you just call them kidney beans?)
    green peppers, purple peppers, red peppers, banana peppers and many diff hot type peppers
    corn
    pickling cucs and yellow cucs
    many diff pumpkins like, pie, giant, white etc
    watermelons
    melons
    many squash
    many gourds
    regular mi white poatoes
    fingerlings
    sweet taters
    oca
    okra
    about 80 tomato plants, many romas and others all heirloom
    sunflowers
    basil, parsley, oregano cilantro, dill, lavender

    LOOKING FOR ground cherry seeds!

  • 14 years ago

    In the ground

    Onion- Savannah Sweet 250 And spring onion
    Lettuce- Romaine 9,Red Sails 9 and Butter Crunch 9
    Cabbage 9
    Swiss Chard 9
    Spinach 9
    Broccoli 54
    Zucchini 5
    Green Bean- Early Contender bush 52
    Cucumber- Straight Eight 8, Sweet Slice 8 and
    Sassy pickling 8
    Corn- Gotta Have It (sweet)70
    Tomato- Goliath 24,Best Boy 24, Better Boy 24, Beef Steak 24,Grape 4
    Asparagus 10

    Waiting to be planted

    Tomato- Roma 12, Big Beef 12, Delicious 12
    Cantaloupe- Lil Sweet 10,Athena 9 and Gurney's Giant 8
    Watermelon- Sugar Baby 10, Crimson Sweet 8 and Gurney's Delight 10
    Bell Peppers- Gurney's Giant 12, Cajun 12, Sweet Bell mix 12 and Chocobelle 12
    Sweet Pepper- Lipstick 12, Cubanelle 16 and Banana 16
    Hot Pepper- Jalapeno 16,Cayenne 16,Habanero 16 and Thai 16
    Green Bean- Blue Lake 274 bush (To be rotated with Early Contender) Blue Lake Pole
    Okra- Annie Oakley 24

  • 14 years ago

    Very nice everyone.

  • 14 years ago

    We also skipped spring here. My spinach transplants have already bolted. For summer I am growing:
    Tomatoes (lots)
    Peppers
    Eggplant
    Tomatillo
    Garlic
    Onions
    Shallots
    Cantaloupe
    Zucchini
    Pattypan squash
    Cucumber
    Sweet potato (3 types)
    Lazy wife beans
    Pink eye purple hull beans

  • 14 years ago

    didn't realize how much I had till I wrote it out... now I'm exhausted.

    4 big boy tomatoes
    5 cherry tomatoes
    4 beefsteak tomatoes
    1 black tomato
    1 striped tomato
    cilantro
    basil
    garlic
    red onions
    3 jalapenos
    2 habanero
    2 ghost peppers
    1 chiltepin
    green onions
    cucumbers
    radishes
    watermelons
    pumpkins
    mammoth sunflowers

  • 14 years ago

    This is what is under lights, planted or hardening off:
    Lettuces, various
    Pak choy
    Spinach
    Arugula
    Radishes
    Potatoes (Yukon gold and red)
    Sugar snap peas
    Snow peas
    Tomatoes (heirloom, grape and Roma)
    Eggplant
    Peppers
    Swiss Chard
    Basil, dill, tarragon, chives
    Beets

    Future direct sowing:
    Cucumbers, English
    Bush beans
    Zucchini
    Black cabbage

    And that does not include the flowers: marigolds, allysum (and soon zinnia) under lights. I will also plant some morning glories and sweet peas.

  • 14 years ago

    Looking good everyone.

  • 14 years ago

    SneakyP:
    How many square feet is your garden?

    I am impressed.

    I have to split mine between two, and maybe a third this year.

  • 14 years ago

    Well done all! :)

    I'm a novice vegetable gardener...

    For winter I have brocolli, brussel sprouts, spinach, cauliflower and leeks - also some sweet bell peppers thats still going from september last year...

    progress pics on my blog below?

    Here is a link that might be useful: http://godsediblegarden.blogspot.com/

  • 14 years ago

    It's been snowing all morning, with about 3 inches on the ground...so I guess I won't be planting spring crops this year! LOL

  • 14 years ago

    RpR, I'm not positive on the exact square footage of the garden it is split up between two fairly large plots roughly 30'x40' one plot that is roughly 15'x20' for my crimson sweet watermelon five trellis sections that are each roughly 12' long for my cucumbers straight eights,sweet slice and sassy pickling, lil sweet cantaloupes and sugar baby watermelon, I also have three smaller plots about 10' x 12' for my corn sweet potatoes and Gurney's Giant cantaloupe and I am also using a 20' section of my chain link fence for my Athena cantaloupe.I am going to experiment with my Roma,Delicious and Big beef tomatoes using the single vine method using cable with string to wrap the plant with for support,the others will be in cages with some pruning of the suckers so they dont get extremely bushy and to promote better air movement.

    If you ask me if I know what I am doing the simplest answer is "I barely have a clue" as this is only the second garden I have done. But I had some success last year with my first garden and it grew some this year but not by much.
    . I caught a tree service next door and got an entire truckload of tree mulch to spread around my plants and that should help to cut down on the weeding,at least I hope so.

  • 14 years ago

    Molex, what a question! In my garden, weeds are a main crop, I'm afraid.