I went against my better judgement and planted a few things in the garden. Cross your fingers. 
My neighbor and I tilled up the original garden yesterday and added a 12′ x 12′ section.
I dug one long row the whole length of the kids’ play yard and planted three types of Sunflowers; Velvet Queen, Gray Striped Mammoth and Sungold.
In the garden addition I planted 5 rows of Walla Walla Sweet Onions and 5 rows of Idaho Red Onions. Plus a border on one side of Grey Striped Mammoth Sunflowers.
In my original garden area I planted the North border with Snap Peas and a 8′ row of cilantro.
Please, please let the weather cooperate!
Have you started planting? What’s your favorite thing to plant? My favorites are Sunflowers and Green Beans.
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I am so so jealous of you having a place to plant things. That’s one of my favorite dreams to dream about.
Really? That’s something I didn’t know about you.
What would you plant if space was no issue? In the mean time you can plant some cool stuff in containers and hanging bags. Strawberries, cucumbers, bush beans, window sill herb garden etc.
As food I would plant tomatoes, onions, beans, peppers, carrots, strawberries, bluberries, blackberries, raspberries (do you see a theme here), and a orange and avocado trees if I were living in the right climate. For flowers I would plant whatever was regional. I hear you should plant flowers near your food plants for pollination? Is that true?
Hmmm, I’m not sure. I know the flowers can attrack pollinators like bees so makes sense to me. I plant marigolds for pest control. The deer won’t eat them and I think they do a good job repelling bugs. Though that’s probably only opinion.
Those stinky yellow flowers are good for somethin’
I truly hope you have good weather. I love gardening and about 4 years ago I transitioned from a plowed garden to raised beds. Most of my beds are 4×4 feet, but some are 2×8. It has greatly reduced my water consumption and it’s very fruitful. My favorite things to grow are loose leaf lettuce and tomatoes. I also have strawberries, corn, beans, potatoes, okra, asparagus, Jalapeno and Cyan peppers, and sweet potatoes. Last year I added a herb bed for cooking spices.
Can you tell I like to garden
There’s nothing like walking out the back door and picking vegetables for dinner. And knowing it is fresh and insecticide free.
Amen to that! I forgot about lettuce, tomatoes, cilantro (anything for fresh salsa), corn, strawberries, bell peppers, squash… Okay, I like to plant EVERYTHING! I won’t eat it ALL but that’s what the kids are for. Eat your veggies. Haha!
Okay so, you need to mail me some asparagus starts.
Think they’d make it? Ha!
I’m sure asparagus will grow where you are. Mine are new starts. Well, they are two year old roots I bought. Hopefully I will only have one year to wait before harvesting. The forth year is supposed to be the time they are big enough to harvest.
I only grow vegetables I like to eat. I figure if someone wants yucky things in the garden, they can grow it.
Onions are pure evil. Most people don’t realize this, but I feel their cold, sinister presence each time I pass one. Some time back, I tried to learn to like onions, but then I realized that they were the cause of Adam and Eve’s fall. Now they are cursed and underground, but still just as evil.
Ya, I pretty much cant stand onions either. Its the texture for me. Come on Eddie, just one lil’ bite! Haha!
I grow the red and walla walla kinds for salsa. I discovered with those varieties I dont’ mine the taste just the texture so I pretty much have Matt puree them and wa la! Or walla la.
I’ve planted peas and greens…various lettuces and kale. We LOVE to fry bacon and then fry the cut up kale in the bacon grease and then crumble the bacon over it when we serve it. Yum…I can hardly wait.
Oh yum! Better yet, home grown bacon!
Now what’s kale look and taste like? I’ve not had it.
Wow. That sounds good. And healthy, too! I forgot about Kale. I think I may still have some seeds. Then I can try your recipe.
I mostly do flowers in the front yard
but we’ve always done an herb garden – we added blueberries a while ago
and this year, we added 2 kiwi bushes that yield grape sized fruit and 2 cherry trees.
we are also planting garlic
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Aw…I planted early last year and had to replant in May.
I will pray your weather holds out. We might live close enough I’ll be praying for my own weather as well. 
I told myself I wouldn’t rush again…and went out this week and bought 4 different types of tomatoes. I bought lettuces a couple weeks ago along with strawberries and planted those then. The tomatoes are just sitting here until the garden is ready for them. I don’t know what I enjoy most the shopping/planning the garden or the actual planting process; I can tell you, tomatoes are my favorite to grow w/ green beans 2nd. I can’t seem to figure out when to harvest onions/garlic so they continue to reseed themselves.
Onions are supposed to be harvested when the tops fall over, though I pulled mine early last year and they were fine. Garlic, I’m not sure about.
Oh I do hope the frost holds. For small plants you can cover with milk jugs. As for my garden I’m thinking that by the time the seeds emerge 10-14 days I’ll be in the clear! Plus as Eddie pointed out, the onions aren’t much of a loss. LOL! Cilantro takes so long to come up that I’m sure it will be fine. You can even leave seeds on the ground from last year.
I don’t have much garden space this year so I’m going for tomatoes and maybe peppers. Everything else, I’ll buy at the local Farmer’s Market. I’m hopeful some of my friends will share from their gardens. Have a great weekend. Blessings, SusanD
Oh too bad I am not close enough to share, I’ll have way too much!
Jess~ I want to come see your place some day!! It sounds glorious!!
I just started some seed in the window a few weeks ago & they are huge already!! I’m going to have to either transplant or plant in ground! Hopefully not going to freeze…..lots of love to you~ Jo
Jo, you should come out after work today!
When you plant those in the ground, cover with half a milk carton at night.