Anyone grow their own veggies?
#324669 - 02/13/08 02:16 PM
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Erilyn
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Does anyone grow their own produce? I've always wanted to start my own garden, but ever since I've been on my own I've lived in apartments and didn't have my own backyard. Last summer I tried growing a tomato plant on my balcony but I didn't get nearly enough sun. I've just always thought it would be fun to grown my own veggies. At least you'd know they were organic, you'd save money, and you'd be helping to save the planet too because you be cutting down on buying produce trucked in from God-knows where at your grocery store. When we buy a house I hope the backyard gets lots of sun! 
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I do!! And I grow all of my veggies in pots. I don't have an in-ground vegetable garden. Just pots on the patio. I grow tomatoes (who incidentally don't like a lot of sun, just enough sun), peas, lettuce, onions, peppers, carrots and herbs.
I'll be happy to help you "pot" garden (NOT the smoking kind!:)
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I also grow veggies. It is my passion. This year I am renting a field to garden in because my garden is too rooty, shady and small. I hope to buy a farm in the next two years to start an organic vegetable business.
I started small. A place we rented had a little raised bed about 3 feet square. I also put some tomatoes in pots. One quick piece of advice I always give is to grow what produces well in a small scale. Do not try to grow sweet corn or melons unless you have tons of room. Grow what tastes better from home or what you can't get elsewhere and always grow herbs!
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I do, but I live in Southern California and they practically grow themselves. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, beans. In the winter lettuce and different herbs at different times. We can grow veggies here in the winter. I've seem tomatoes grown in big bags of Amend or compost. You don't even need a pot. Cutting lettuces grow well in pots and they don't have to be all that deep. Good luck and I hope you get a yard soon as in ground gardening is so much easier. At least for me it is. It is sooooo exciting to produce something you can actually eat.
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I have been growing veggies in my gardens - I have had more than one - for the past 40 years or so. It is a lot of fun but it can be back breaking work. And it can limit the amount of time you can take away from home for summer holidays. Lots of things to consider. Personally, I get immense enjoyment from my garden.
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Thanks Cassandra! We're hoping to have a house by late May/early June, but by then it may be too late to get some things going. Not everything though!
I've read that tomatoes only need about 6 or so hours of sun - not really a whole day. But my balcony faces north-east, so I only got sun for about 3-4 hours first thing in the morning - weak, early-morning sun at that - then it would disappear around the front of the building. The poor plant tried though - it actually started blossoming during the last week of July, but I didn't see any tomatoes start until about 3 weeks later. Then they took forever to grow, and none of them ever did grow big enough to ripen before the weather turned to crap.  Oh well, here's hoping for next year!
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Little Minnie, how exciting! I don't think I want to grow veggies on that scale - LOL - but I do think it would be fun to get something really small-scale going, like selling tomatoes and homemade tomato sauces and stuff at a local farmer's market or something.
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I've heard of growing things in bags - particularly things like potatoes. In fact the tomato plant I tried to grow last summer was in an upside-down hanging bag! I can't wait to be able to grow my own veggies - home-grown stuff tastes so much better! Plus you can be proud of the hard work you put into it!
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Yes, I can imagine the hard work that would go into it, but at least it would be productive work! I've always been much more of a hands-on person - I love to do crafts, cook, and generally do things with my hands. I think it's why this desk job of mine drives me so batty. I'd rather be doing something REAL - where I can see a result!
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I absolutely love my garden! Any questions ask, I live in the midwest so that is what I know about best when it comes to the conditions of our area. I have never done the pot kind but turning up the ole' soil kind of gardening! I grew up on an organic vegetable truck farm! Extremley hard work but well worth the time if you have the time, energy, love and people to help you.
Oh, I also can/freeze a lot of my produce so I can enjoy it all winter long
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Avjens, this is exactly what I want to do - start canning and freezing and enjoying all my own veggies year round!
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Canning/Freezing is not all that hard either! Can be time consuming depeding on the veggie. Green beans are easy! Tomato juice a little messier but whole tomatoes are pretty quick too. It seems that it is a long last trade.
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My husband and I have had vegetable gardens in the past. We didn't have one last year because we were out of town a lot. But the fresh, home grown produce always tastes so much better than store bought. It's a lot of hard work, but well worth it. My husband is a better veggie gardener than I. I prefer flower gardening. Plus, any garden or yard work helps take my mind off my stomach.
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My mother did a veggie garden last summer. She was in a co-op. It was located at her work. A bunch of people took care of the ground and then split the ground up into sections and started thier garden. Everyone picked what they wanted and really enjoyed themselves. They also traded what they grew when the harvest was good. You could look into something like that, a community garden. I have heard of large cities doing that because nobody has any room to plant except the lucky few.
Or maybe your local botanical gardens. Ours has a fruit/veggie garden. I believe thay donate the harvest to a shelter and use some of it for the summer camp program. But you never know. They might let you have a plot in excange for some work.
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