Are you going to plant a garden?
 

Notwithstanding the wind and chemicals here in western Kansas, I have Mae really nice raised beds. It has set dormant for several years but I can burn all the weeds and plant it. I just can’t figure out if it’s worth it.
What do you think? Do you plant a garden? Is it worth it? Thoughts?

you might get more traction if you have the mods move this to the Lounge and not Fantasy haha.

Is it worth it? Yeah, absolutely. Only depends on if you are willing and able to put the time in to mange weeds, water it, and so on.

Every single year. Torn down last years’ last weekend. Put in lettuce, garlic, and radishes Saturday. I’ll wait a few weeks for the big stuff.
Absolutely love this time of year!!!

I kinda miss planting a few veggies. Hard to raise anything in phx without spending a ton of $$$.

I thought this was a Farmville thread or something in here.

Been doing one for around 20 years or so; there’s just no comparison between home grown produce and store bought stuff, even the expensive organic stuff.
This year we have blueberries, two kinds of strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, sweet peppers, snap peas, broccoli, asparagus, and sweet corn for fruits and vegetables.
Wife will have her flowers: zinnias, four o’ clocks, sunflowers, hyacinths, marigolds, columbine, clematis, crocus, and of course her roses. Girl’s been going nuts with those, she’s probably got over a dozen different varieties.

We have a great assortment of fruit trees, one each: Oranges, lemons, Meyer lemons, limes, Cherries, Peaches, Apples.

The citrus grow constantly and in December we have hundreds of oranges for fresh juice every day. last year there were only about 12 oranges on the tree, right now there's about 2,000 blossoms so I am expecting bumper crop this year.
The cherries and peaches are the same way: massive beautiful crop every other year, bupkis on the off years.

Squirrels are a huge problem here so I am like Donald duck trying to scare, block, and fight them off my property each spring. I put metal ducting around the trunks and nets over the trees.

Ground gardens in raised beds I have tried various things, the tomatoes and cucumbers and beans are the easiest/best crops. Watermelons took over massive area and did not grow sweet or edible. Strawberries were few and not big enough.

Radishes are easy. Carrots are good but if you overwater them they grow short and fat. carrots need dryness for the root to dig deeper to find water, so they grow long.

This year I am trying lettuces.

I grew broccoli but it was fair, not great, a little hard.

The cherry tomatoes are awesome, I just eat them like a snack off the vine all summer long.

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Yes, I believe I will. Lol

If Mr. Wizard would like it returned to CasinoPlanet, I absolutely will do that for him!

Dang, that cucumber is almost as big as my wang

I'll probably plant a small one but we've had bad luck with ours. One year all our tomatoes got blight and the next year my wife accidentally treated the garden for blight with spray for non fruiting plants.

Really looking forward to the blackberry bush paying dividends this year.

Someone transplanted this thread to a site where it could grow more easily.

I found a way to kill a cactus I planted here in AZ.

I am a black thumb......

Ha, yeah, that cucumber got offensively large. They aren't good to eat when they get that big they dry out.

But it's cool to have the lemons and the cucumber going in the summer we can keep pitchers of iced "spa water" (cucumber and lemon slices) on the counter all weekend long and feel hella fancy for little to no effort.

Spa water sounds outstanding, light and tasty on a hot day

Didn't bother last year, but I just might do some five gallon bucket bell peppers and tomatoes this summer

The secret trick for tomatoes I learned from an old client, is banana water... soak banana peels in water for a few days then dump it on your tomatoes

Miracle-Gro doesn't have jack on that water, this old gal consistently produces more than she could ever use with that trick

Let me know what you are trying to grow. Lots to grow but timing here is just weird.