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If so, how big is your garden?

What foods do you grow?

What is the best crop for you every year?

Do you can the food you grow?

We grow our own food.
Currently living with a large family while we're trying to find land to buy so there is a rather large garden!

I also have a little herb garden going for our favorite herbs and I'm waiting for DH to finish his 2liter of pop so I can grow some herbs in there

We grow... all the typical stuff. Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, melons of all types, onion, spinach, lettuces, broccoli.... and a bunch other

I have never canned before but I plan on giving it a try this year!!

How big is your garden? Small.... it's about the size of a two car garage. I only know that because it's right beside our two car carport. lol

What foods do you grow? We just planted corn, carrots, red, green and jalapeno peppers, a couple varieties of onions, several varieties of tomatoes (beefmaster, cherry and romas), cucumber, cantalope, watermelon, pumpkin, green beens and potatoes. I started them all from seeds this year instead of buying plants.

I am starting over again from seed with lettuce, spinach and some more cucumbers. They didn't work out so well the first time around.

What is the best crop for you every year?

Do you can the food you grow?

not this year...next year we are gonna do a raised garden...not sure how big we are gonna make it...but the dirt is so bad out here it was very hard to get one going last year and within a week of rain for a couple of days it all got drowned out....so yeah we want to do the raised...aand then get some good dirt to fill it with instead of the nasty clay we have to deal with lol

I saw a pretty cool raised bed that is bordered by haybales instead of wood. It was pretty cool!

ohh cool! never thought about using hay bales...i'll have to see about looking into that!

We have two smallish raised gardens up by the house. At the moment there is spinach, lettuce, spring onions, snow peas, celery and onions growing in them.

Then we have our larger garden down in the orchid. That's were we currently have all our cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower... and a lot of weeds, lol!

Then, out the back of the house in another raised bed, is our strawberries and herbs.

This last summer (we are going into winter in NZ) our best crops were strawberries! Oh my goodness, we got sooooo many Our potatoes were the worst, most went green

No, I don't can, but I need to learn too... or at least learn to preserve food more!

We have 6 raised beds, each about 3'x9'. We mix manure with natural soil and potting g soil and grow tomatoes--cherries, Roma's, beefsteak and black krims, sweet and hot peppers, melons, egg plant and herbs (Basil, purple Basil, rosemary, lavendar, mint and calendula) This is our first attempt at medicinal herbs so we shall see if I can find a way to use those in some preserved way. Hoping to make some good oil and salve. Yes, I can some. Mostly salsa and spaghetti sauce. Also use hot peppers in raspberry pepper jam. Great with cream cheese and crackers!

If so, how big is your garden?
Well, we have several beds around the yard and some pots, etc. We have one 10x10 bed; 2 15x2 beds; 1 25x4 bed; and a bunch of huge pots with stuff that grows on the deck.
I'm working on making a small window farm out of soda bottles my parents saved up for me and we have some pots in the house as well.
We have plans to make two more 10x10 beds plus another 15x2 bed plus tires for strawberry beds and I want to expand my medicinal herb garden.

What foods do you grow?
Typical stuff - tomatoes (a bunch of different types), bell and cayenne peppers, onions, garlic, lettuce/spinach/kale, summer squash, zucchini, asparagus, herbs (culinary and medicinal), radishes, carrots, pumpkin, cucumbers, melons, berries, sunflowers, ginger, beans, peas, a little corn, eggplant, pecans, potatoes (sweet and white), and muscadines.
Gonna add some cauliflower, brocolli, brussel sprouts, strawberries, figs, and something else next year. I'm sure I'm forgetting some things

What is the best crop for you every year?
Tomatoes, summer squash, zucchini, herbs, garlic, lettuce, blackberries

Do you can the food you grow?
Yes ma'am! I have done all sorts of tomato based canning - sauces, stewed, relish, paste. Pickles - sweet and dill. Monkey butter. Applesauce. Apple butter (my newest). Strawberry and blackberry jam, cheese, and syrups. I also dehydrate everything and can the dehydrated pieces. I'm getting a pressure canner and I'll be canning all sorts of things plus meat! (which is really why I want the pressure canner)

This looks like a neat group.

I garden every year, I would say it is a good size garden

We grow, Tomatoes, Peppers, squash, Zuchinni, corn, melons, green beans and a bunch of herbs.

I do quiet a bit of canning, we have a very small orchard as well.

My best crops are tomatoes and pepper - I can a ton of tomato sauce and pepperonccinies. Also many jellys and fruit preserves. Of course as most country places we have some black berries at the far end of the property and I use them as well.

This year we are growing a few pigs for the freezer and some chickens.