How did your garden do?

[wayne foundation 07]

Summer here in Ohio was rough on our garden. The peppers all did pretty good but the tomatoes were a battle that we lost I think. We've done way better with them in the past. The pumpkins stay small no matter how much the got watered and the beans grew like crazy, atleast the vines did, we had very few beans to pick. The cucumbers never got bigger than pickles, but hey the weeds grew good
How did your garden do?

[Mikey]

Too many bears around here to have a garden.

You'd need prison camp barbed wire with manned gun towers to keep them out

[thunderbolt]

I'm throwing in the towel on veggies, I have 4 blueberry bushes in place of them and a couple dwarf Bananas, too. A Papaya tree showed up on its own where I had one that got wiped out by Hurricane Charley in '04

[Hector]

I don't have a garden, but have lots of fruit trees.

Avocado, granny apple, fuji apple, orange, lime/lemon, prickly pear (cactus)...had a plum tree...but it was growing unto the house foundation...so it was sadly cut down.

I'm thinking of getting a little greenhouse...and start growing some cool thingies such as cilantro, chili peppers, tomatoes, onions...you know, salsa ingredients, lol.

[Hector]

Too many bears around here to have a garden.

You'd need prison camp barbed wire with manned gun towers to keep them out

I have racoons and possums...also a lot of unwelcome neighborhood cats...I hate them all...wish I could keep a pack of hyenas, so they can happily feast on them, lol.

[Random Axe]

Hec, with all the personal food pics you put up here, I figured you at least had a BBQ rib garden. Someone needs to invent one, cause that would be a goldmine.

[wayne foundation 07]

I don't have a garden, but have lots of fruit trees.

Avocado, granny apple, fuji apple, orange, lime/lemon, prickly pear (cactus)...had a plum tree...but it was growing unto the house foundation...so it was sadly cut down.

I'm thinking of getting a little greenhouse...and start growing some cool thingies such as cilantro, chili peppers, tomatoes, onions...you know, salsa ingredients, lol.

cilantro is great and comes back each year. We have a small herb garden with mint, cilantro, tyme and even cat nip for your friends Hec

[Hector]

Cats, my mortal enemies, lol.

I have an awesome Santa Maria BBQ grill, does that count?

[Mikey]

I'd be happy if we only had stray cats and possums around here.

Not long ago a bear broke into my brother-in-laws barn and killed his goats.

That sucked because they were cute as hell...

[cjefferys]

Our soil isn't that great, so we've struggled with a garden for the last few years (except for the leafy green stuff, like lettuce, kale, chard, etc which always seem do great. Tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant and peppers just do so-so). This year we tried a raised garden for tomatoes, and they went nuts! We had so many tomatoes from just two plants that we didn't know what to do with them all. Next year we are expanding the raised garden, it worked great.

[Rallygirl]

Our corn, potatoes, beans, watermelons, and muskmelons all did very well. My first round of cucumbers was awesome, but I planted them too close to the melons and the later ones cross-polinated with the melons; my little round cucumbers kinda sucked. My pumpkins usually do very good, but I couldn't keep the squash bugs out this year and they ate all my vines.

[Duncan]

My tomatoes did fine, though they were a bit late. I wound up with 16 Green Zebra plants, and probably took 4 good tomatoes off of each one before the weather turned. I probably lost 6-8 tomatoes per plant to the cold.

I had one pumpkin that rotted before it matured; the peppers, melons & berries did nothing; the carrots were small but otherwise OK. Next year I'll start plants indoors earlier in the year, and I might expand the size of my garden. The kids were into it, too...it's pretty cool to eat something we grew, ourselves.

[Splitty]

I have racoons and possums...also a lot of unwelcome neighborhood cats...

Same here. They keep pooping seeds in the back of the backyard!

But at least there's less rotten fruit on the ground.





..it's been quite obvious a couple of times there's a skunk around the neighborhood too.

[megojim]

our year was mixed but overall good. Onions, garlic, peppers and maters' were great, still getting peppers and maters'. Lettuce was good early but quickly faded, other greens and gords didn't work out at all. Herbs are always rockin; thai basil, thyme, rosemary etc . . .