The Easiest Plants to Grow in My Garden.

asian pears come in their own plain brown wrapper. don't plant a whole orchard, duh, just a few. They are best in salads. (peeled)

cabbage, but keep it up away from the bunnies. ditto on cukes.

tomatoes (so called white ones grow best for me and i think are better for you)

potatoes

garlic

raspberries, blackberries

hot peppers

for a while I had a self-sowing lettuce patch. You have to put it in a place where it is close enough that the rabbits won't eat it, but you don't mind it looking like crap when it goes to seed. arugula and curly lettuce...

johnnie jumpups to decorate salads

asparagus

parsnips

chives and scallions

sage, rosemary (put it somewhere sheltered), oregano

basil

Dill is a weed and I have a bunch of it coming up already. It's over 4 bucks to buy a small container of it at the grocery store. I need it for my pickles.

I refuse to spend good money on weeds...

I grow a lot of those to make my own salsa. I don't follow a recipe, I just make it from experience. Only thing I add that isn't fresh is a little tomato paste to thicken it up.

I am.near Daytona Beach. Planted 5 kinds of tomatoes Valentine's Day. Already have 40 big green ones. Picked.4 deep orange to ripen in window before butthead squirrels get em. Radishes harvested. Blue.lake bush beans too.

This is my best tomato year in ten years
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I don't have that kind of weather here so it takes a lot longer. I also don't have crocodiles or snakes... so I'm good.

I recently got hooked on the AeroGarden! My herb garden is a jungle. I got another one for Tiny Tim cherry tomatoes and jalapeno peppers, and the tomato plant sprouted in four days. The pepper seeds are germinating already. I'm having trouble with cilantro, but I will keep trying.

I got another one for lettuce, spinach, etc. I haven't started it yet. I also want to try the Kratky method with a few things. I live in an apartment, so this is very fun to grow things indoors.

I have a large balcony, so my outside dirt garden consists of three geranium plants (bought and re-potted as full grown plants) and six small to medium box containers of flowers from seed: godetia, morning glory, nasturtium climbing, verbena, moss rose, and nasturtium dwarf. They all sprouted!!! We will see if they grow and bloom.

Any advice is appreciated.

Comfrey and Nettles.

They make a great fertilizer - it does stink though but it's worth it.

Rhubarb.
Couldn't be without that.

Sage.
A lovely one for gravy and stuffings.

What are you looking for from your Garden?

I had pumpkin vines one year that grew up into a cedar tree and produced some pretty big pumpkins. Next door neighbors kid thought I had a pumpkin tree.

I gave a cherry tomato aero garden to my father for a Christmas gift but he wouldn't mess with it. So I ended up with it. It worked well. I learned to only give him stuff he can eat for gifts.

I thought about buying rubber snakes to keep the garden pests away but I haven't tried it yet.

That's awesome, I didn't know that they could do that! I just grew mine along the ground.

What fun is a garden without venomous reptiles?

If you have snakes you wont have rabbits or squirrels. Not for long anyway.

I like to make pesto, salsa and pickles. I've had pretty good luck so far with my recipes.

I'd like to make hot sauces and dried herbs. I always talk about it but never do it.

they usually dont. I had them in a corner surrounded by a privacy fence on one side and a cedar on the other. The vines grow toward light.

A tip I can give you for planters is cut up some disposable nappies, put that under the soil to retain water for dryer days later in the Summer.

Keeps them going if you have to go away for a few days.

I have a love hate relationship with my garden pests. On one hand they are entertaining to watch... On the other they can be unpredictable when it comes to my garden and bird feeders. I feel like Bill Murray in Caddyshack.

That wild Garlic makes a great pesto, I'd imagine.
Nice on Pizza & is very good for you.

Thanks, good tip! I rigged a garden hose from my kitchen sink out the window. My landlord pays the water bill so we have no outside water faucets for hoses. My system works pretty well, just a little more work than normal.

My dill plant (in the AeroGarden) is huge! So pretty. I don't eat it, so I will attempt to dry it and give it away.

I usually buy local garlic at the market. I have no luck growing it.

big mistake to kill a snake. they wouldn't be there if there wasn't something to eat that is munching down on your garden.

Check out Khang Starr on YouTube. He grows peppers and a lot of other things in Texas. I love his videos.

I bet it's a hot mess with those crap plants.

Make refrigerator pickles. So easy, no cooking needed. Just water, kosher salt, vinegar, spices, dill and cucumbers.

Could you please give an exact recipe? Asking for a friend on another thread. Thank you! :)

I've never seen a snake in NY since I was a little kid. We have them, but they don't like the towns I guess.

Thanks. I grew them out of planters last year and they did well. I've had no luck with habenaros though.

I know a guy whose dad had his own relish company. I was one of his last customers. He brought me some personally and then I picked up a jar from a local grocery store. He stopped the business soon after.

Radishes and spinach.

If I grew spinach I have a feeling the rabbits would be all over it.. I like it though.