The 90% ers

[steff bugielski]

This really should be a sub forum of it's own .
I am starting a new thread and thought we could list what we all are planning to grow this coming spring. (Or now for you ungrateful warm weather growers)
Maybe we can post pics when we get the garden ready or planted.
Then we can go from there, new pics and talk about any issues we are having.

I am in zone 5 so I really can't get anything in till April.
But I am starting a few flats of Peppers and eggplant next week.

I have an asparagus bed, plans to expand it.
Beans, 3 types of pole and 2 types of shell
Beets red and gold
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage red and green
Carrots
Cauliflower
Corn
Cucumbers pickling and slicing
Eggplant,they never do well
Kale
Lettuce
Melons
Parsnips
Onions
Peas shell snap and snow
Peppers
Potatoes
Summer Squash
Winter Squash
Swiss Chard
Tomatoes 5 types
Sweet Potatoes
Garlic
Small patch of Wheat, Oats and Barley to test.

I also have Blackberry bushes, a few apple trees and 4 new pear and peach trees.

My biggest challenge this year is the corn. I am planting Sweet corn, Field Corn and Pop corn.
I have only grown sweet corn in the past.

[Fire-Man]

Originally Posted by steff bugielski

I am starting a new thread and thought we could list what we all are planning to grow this coming spring.

My list looks about like yours but I am also Growing Rabbits, chickens and hogs to go with all them vegetables!

[crwilson]

Heres what my goals are zone 5 canada , 4 usa
Beans bush 60lbs
beans dry 50lbs
Broccoli 100 lbs
Cabbage 300 lbs
Chinese cabbage 40lbs
Carrots 200 lbs
Cauliflower 60lbs
Celery 40' row
Corn sweet 20x20 patch
Corn dry 40x40 patch
cucmbers 30lbs
cucumbers pickling 40lbs
Eggplant 10lbs
Kale 300lbs
Kohlrabi 20' row
Lettuce as much as i can eat from april to dec.
watermelon 100' row
Cantaloupe 50' row
Onions 300lbs
Pakchoi 300lbs
Parsnip 75lbs
Peas 60lbs fresh in shell 30 lbs dry also
Peppers 50lbs
potatoes 600 lbs

pumpkins 300lbs
Radish 50'
Rutabaga 300lbs
Spinach "same as lettuce"
Squah summer 150 lbs
winter 400lbs
Swiss chard 100' row
Tomatoes 300 lbs
Herbs lots and lots medicinal, flavouring, and teas.
Oats 300 lbs
Wheat 400lbs
Barley 20lbs
buckwheat 20lbs
Rye 20lbs millet 20lbs
flax 20lbs

Grapes 20lbs
Rhubarb 10lbs, pick from local property, wild blueberries 20-30lbs, wild blackberries 10-15lbs, wild raspberries 5-10lbs.

100 chickens, 15 turkeys,25 quail, 2 pigs, half a steer from my father, eggs two dozen a week. Brook trout in season 10 per week, two brooks running through familys property with good supply of trout. Also would like to get a milking cow in the spring.
Will be planting at least 15 fruit trees this spring no harvest for years though

If anyone sees any holes in my plan suggestions are welcome. Some pics of my past gardens and harvests http://postimage.org/gallery/6264kotq/

[7thswan]

I'm in zone 5,on a hill so I have "zones".
Planting what I always do, and some extras.
Potatoes, need 450 lbs michigan whites
Reds,need 100lbs Reds
Russina Fingerlings-1 row.
Green Beans and yellow wax/purple-need 125 canned pints.
Pole beans,purple pole 16' trellis
Sweet corn, need 60 canned corn.
Sugar Snap peas 2 rows(40 ft.) for freezing and fresh.
Broccoli 2 rows Di Cicco(40 ft.)
Sweet Onions, Granex,Walla Walla,Golden Grande 3 rows.
Cucumbers-only picklers,10 hills with 4 plants each hill.
Tomatoes, Black Krim, Red Siberian,Speckled Roman,Aunt Ruby's German Green
Tomatoes-main crop-San Marazno, need 200 Qts. sause
Malabar spinach-1 tower (climber)
Fennel, 1 4x4 block
Cantalope Hales best,Hearts of Gold 4 hills
Lettuce Romaine,Red Romaine,Chrispy Frills, Mesclun,Black seeded simpson,Asian...
Spinach, Bloomsdale 1 4x4 block
Beets, Golden ,Detroit,1 row
Celery,1 row
Dill part of row,Parsley rest of row
Sweet Peppers-Red,Yellow,Orange only.,(not sure how many,but all that germinate in the GH get planted.)
Hot Peppers-Jalip. Habinero,Wax, ?(homemade chilpolti powder)
Turnips,red top.
Parsnip- I never do good with these,but still try.
Carrots,never do well,some kind of worm in the soil,so I've planted it in the hoophouse-we'll see.
Zuchini-a mix of summer squash, 1 row, 2 plantings
Patty Pan-1 row
Luffa 4 hills
Acorn squash 4hills
Pie Pumpkin 4 hills
Butternut squash 4 hills
Spagetti squash 4 hills
Buttercup squash 2 hills
Watermelon, usally Sugar Baby, might try a new one I saw
Cabbage 8 plants
Cauliflower,early snowball,8 plants
Swiss Chard Bright Lights 1 row
Leeks,1 row
Chinese cabbage 1 row
manny many sunflowers and flowers of all kinds

The hoophouse is planted with carrots,spinach,leeks,lettuce(musc. and romaine)radishes,parsley,chives. They are alive but not thriveing. Our sun will start to come back in Feb. so will the thaw,and I will tap the maple trees then. I usally get 3 gallons of Syurp from 3 trees(the neighbor kids use my trees for the rest of the sap run). I'll plant seeds in the Greenhouse for the gardens and beds, counting back from June 1st.
Hopefully we won't have a freeze that killed all of the buds on my fruit trees( 30 something mixed) the only thing I got this year was hazelnuts and mulberrys. I have 4 kinds of grapes, 6 Blueberrys,Black,Red,Golden Rasberrys,2 Blackberry bushes, big patch of Jurslum Artichokes, row of Rose Hips, large Herb bed,many medicianal plants,2 Rhubarb plants,Nettles,too much to name. Beef cattle-about 10 right now, and one 2300 lb Bl. Angus bull that needs to go, might sell,might burger him??? Butcher rabbits-red New zeeland and Angora rabbits for fiber for spinning(sold the sheep and angora goats my back can't shear anymore) ? French Black Copper Marans and ?Lavendar Orpingtons for eggs/meat/chicks Arucanas for blue eggs; our eggs for sale make a pretty dozen. Soon I'll be seperating the flocks to get purebread eggs.
I would like to move 2 of my cherry trees-Sweets,that were supposed to be semi-dwarf-that's a joke on me.Might raise some more piggs with the neighbor. I will be building more raised beds again this year, and have about 30 4x8 1/2" sheets of lattce,so maybe another Arbor.

[am1too]

Looks like well established gardeners with huge gardens. I am just getting started.

[crwilson]

Originally Posted by am1too

Looks like well established gardeners with huge gardens. I am just getting started.

everyone has to start somewhere, and every growing season is a chance to learn many new things. I find the two best ways to learn when gardening are huge disasters and huge successes. Mother nature pretty much ensures that huge successes are hard to duplicate two years in a row with changing weather, pests. and I find its my job to insure huge disasters never occur two years in a row. "speaking in terms of crop type.

[Vickie44]

Originally Posted by am1too

Looks like well established gardeners with huge gardens. I am just getting started.

I am only four years at my place , doubled the garden size last year . The furthur along you go the easier it gets . Just do what you can

[K.B.]

Here is my list of perennials that I have planted in our garden/orchard area:
List of Total Perennials
Type Variety
Aronia Raintree Select Seedling
Autumn Olive Delightful
Autumn Olive SweetnTart
Autumn Olive Brilliant Rose
Autumn Olive Charlie's Golden
Autumn Olive Amber
Blackberry Tayberry
Blackberry Chester
Blackberry Triple Crown Thornless
Blackberry Thornless Loganberry
Blackberry Boysenberry
Blueberry Duke
Blueberry Elliot
Blueberry Toro
Blueberry Darrow
Blueberry Draper
Blueberry Bluejay
Bush Cherry Jan
Bush Cherry Joy
Currant - Black Tsema
Currant - White Imperial
Gooseberry Black Velvet
Gooseberry Glendale
Gooseberry Hinnomaki Red
Gooseberry Hinnomaki Yellow
Goumi Sweet Scarlet
Goumi Raintree Select Seedling
Grape Marechal Foch (wine, juice, leaves)
Grape Leon Millot (wine, juice, leaves)
Grape Semillon (wine)
Grape Swenson Red (table, wine)
Grape Muscat Hamburg (table, wine)
Grape Vanessa (table, jelly, pies)
Grape Flame (table)
Grape Reliance (table)
Grape Neptune (table)
Grape Interlaken (table, raisins, frozen)
Grape Centennial (table, raisins)
Grape Beauty Seedless (table, raisins)
Grape Black Monucka (table, raisins)
Grape Venus (table, wine, juice)
Jostaberry Orus 8
Raspberry - Black Native
Raspberry - Red Autumn Britten
Raspberry - Red Caroline
Raspberry - Red Rosanna
Serviceberry Regent
Serviceberry Thiessen
Serviceberry Autumn Brilliance
Musk Strawberry Capron
Musk Strawberry Profumata
Musk Strawberry Male
Strawberry Earliglow
Strawberry Jewel
Strawberry Shuksan

Apple Enterprise
Apple Evereste (crab)
Apple Fiesta
Apple Williams Pride
Apple Arkansas Black
Asian Pear Hosui
Asian Pear Shinko
Asian Pear Chojuro
Asian Pear Ichiban
Asian Pear Korean Giant
Asian Pear Tsu Li
Asian Pear Yoinashi
Cherry New York 518 - Nugent
Cherry Utah Giant
Cherry Stella
Citrus Improved Meyer Lemon
Citrus Trifoliate Orange
Fig Black Mission
Fig Dessert King
Fig Texas Blue Giant
Fig Sultane
Fig Italian Honey (Lattarula)
Fig Brown Turkey
Fig Hardy Chicago
Fig Violette deBordeaux
Fig Cantor
Jujube Lang
Mulberry Beautiful Day
Mulberry Kokusa Korean
Mulberry Oscar
Mulberry Pakistan
Nectarine Necta Zee (dwarf)
Olive Frantoio
Olive Saracena
Peach Autumn Rose
Peach Q18
Peach Rick Landt
Peach Fourty-niner
Peach El Dorado (dwarf)
Pear Early Homestead
Pear Bosc
Pear White Doyenne
Pear Conference
Persimmon Chocolate
Persimmon Coffee Cake
Persimmon Giant Fuyu
Plum Elephant Heart (japanese)
Plum Howard Miracle (japanese)
Pomegranate Parfianka

Almond Bounty
Chestnut Collosal seedling
Chestnut European seedling
Goldenhorn Seedling
Siberian Pea Shrub Seedling

Asparagus
Horseradish
Rhubarb
Jerusalem Artichoke
Rosemary
Oregano
Winter Savory
Thyme
Mint
Garlic (elephant, hard & softneck)

Since we are still in the process of building the house, it is hard to say how much time we will have for annuals this coming season.

We will certainly plant some of the easy/low maintenance crops such as potatoes, carrots, beets, sunflowers and lots of greens. I already have tomato and pepper plants growing in pots on my windowsill so they will keep getting potted up as we move into spring before they move outside. Beans from each major species will also get planted (common/garden, cowpeas, soy/edamame, chickpea, lima, runner, etc...).

If there is time, I'd like to put in test patchs of a few hundred sq feet each of grain amaranth and sorghum. I'll probably hold off on planting Carol Deppe's corn varieties again until next year.

I will be adding in a couple of walnuts to the orchard area this spring. Our current walnut was not looking good at the end of last year. Also, I want to transplant in some small native filberts from other parts of the property and try them for grafting next year.
If time permits, and we are living on the property fully time by fall, I'd like to get back into raising meat rabbits.

[crwilson]

wow K.B that is an amazing list, what zone are you in?

[K.B.]

Thanks - we're just getting started

Our zone is on the border of 7/8.

[PrairieBelle22]

Originally Posted by K.B.

Thanks - we're just getting started

Our zone is on the border of 7/8.

Holy cow, K.B. just getting started! We moved to a new place and started our orchard in the fall but our getting started was 2 apples, 2 pears, 2 plums, 1 peach, 2 fig, 2 raspberries, 2 blackberry. Also last spring was 70 asparagus plants. I can still go to the old place and harvest my established asparagus until my new ones get old enough.

am1too: I am jut getting started with the garden this year since we moved. It was sad to leave my garden that was 35x65 and made into raised beds, well built with compost to find that the new place only had 2 8x8 raised beds full of sand. sniff. We tore those down and are tilling up the whole back yard!

I will work on my list and tonight and report back tonight. Onward we march!

Belle

[K.B.]

Sounds like you're off to a great start, PrairieBelle! It is really nice that you are able to still go back to your old place. It was really hard to leave our old place behind after all we had planted.

[Hannah90]

For you guys that had your list in terms of lbs... how do you figure that? For example, how do you plan for 450 lbs of white potatoes or 100 lbs of broccoli?

My challenge is an acre plot of feed corn. Most of this will be kept for seed corn the next year to help cut the feed bill for the animals. I would LIKE to test my skills at oats, but I don't think I'll get it done in time. I plant in large quantities in hopes of selling some produce to friends/family/whoever I can con into it Otherwise, my plans are for:

Tomatoes: 25 paste tomato plants, 10 slicing tomatoes and 3 cherry tomato plants
Beans: 6 rows of green beans and as many rows of mixed variety dry beans. they are a staple for my house.
Onions from seed. If I don't get them started soon I'll be looking for sets in the spring. Planning to get seed medium and grow flats tomorrow.
3 different lettuce varieties succession planted until it's too hot.
60 cabbage plants
60 broccoli plants
15 different variety peppers. Anywhere from bell, sweet, medium to HOT (Boy friend is thai, gotta give him his hot peppers)
Kale for the house and extra kale for the animals
Spinach mmm my favorite
brussel sprouts eh, maybe 10 plants. Don't like these much
Going to attempt trellising:
Cucumber, watermelon, musk melon, butternut squash, decorative gourd mix, and pie pumpkins.
Carrots- never have any luck with these
beets for the house and animals
Zucchini
Culinary herb mix
Flowers interplanted with the veggies
Alpine strawberries
Lowland bush blue berries.
potatoes
swiss chard

I would like to get a few raspberry canes started

[BobbyB]

We have 1 peach tree and 1 plum tree bearing age. The plum took a hit last year from the drought, so I dont know yet how it will come out.

We will be planting more peaches, and plums as well as a couple each cherry, pear, fig and apple.

We have 4 Mustang Grape vines we planted this year. Plan to plant more grapes as well as blackberries.

We do have strawberries planted now.

As far as the garden, I have 16 varieties of peppers in the green house now. Will be starting tomatoes in another week. 6 paste varieties, a couple of slicers and 2 yellow pear.

Then we will be shooting for 100 pounds of black eyes , cream and purple hull peas.
100 lbs green beans
500 lbs potatoes ( Kennebec and Red Lasoda )
500 bulb onions ( will have planted about 700 onion plants as well as walking onions and multiplying onions. )
10 lbs garlic
150 lbs of corn either frozen or canned as well as all I can grow for feed and meal.
Greens, turnips, beets, I am not sure about, but we'll plant a bunch of several varieties.
Zucchini, yellow crookneck and yellow patty pan squash
Cushaws, pumpkins and winter squash

Karla has a couple of herb beds and I always have a bunch of dill planted in the garden.

25 fryers ready for the freezer
3 tom turkeys ready for the freezer
12 ducks for the freezer, all these ready now or soon

Goats will kid in March or so and then there will be cabrito in the freezer. Karla plans to make yogurt and cheese and well as having the milk to drink.

Will be buying 2 calves in a month or so. Be next year before they are ready.

Will get 2 pigs late Spring for butcher next Fall

And we are still thinking about a lamb or 2.

I am sure I left out some things, but as we get into planting, I can make changes.

[Big Dave]

Still planning it on paper

[hippygirl]

I didn't "officially" join the challenge, but I'm with you all in spirit!

[Whisperwindkat]

Here is our list:

carrots
broccoli
cauliflower
cabbage-red and green
beets-sugar and eating(Bulls Blood)
sweet peas
field peas
peppers-hot and sweet
sweet onions
ginger
spinach
kale
patty pan squash
sweet corn
pumpkins
butternut squash
yellow squash
zucchini
watermelon
canteloupe
honeydew
tomatoes-lots and lots of tomatoes
green pole beans
lima beans
cucumbers
eggplant
turnips
mustard
collards
okra
culinary herbs
medicinal herbs
blackberries-not yet producing
pears
figs
muscadines
strawberries
sweet potatoes
irish potatoes
asparagus
lettuces-5 different varieties
broccoli
cauliflower
kohlrabi
oats-hulless and regular
sweet sorghum
quinoa
Sunflowers (black oil variety)

Meat-
Rabbits
Pigs (hopefully)
Goats
Chickens-we will butcher our old layers and plan to grow out about 25 meat birds
Tilapia-we are converting our unused hot tub to a tilapia pool
Deer-so far we have put 5 deer in the freezer and hoping for at least one more before season ends.


Most of the grains/seeds will be for livestock peas. We are planting loads of field peas for the same reason as we don't eat tons of them, but the livestock will. Same thing with the sugar beets, turnips and sweet potatoes. Even though we eat some the excess are being planted for livestock. Essentially we are planting as much extra as we can get away with to help decrease cost for the livestock. If I can cut my store bought grain needs down to 1/2 on the rabbits, pigs and goats then I will be happy. Just supplementing the horses will be fine with me. The chickens already fend for themselves. We have had our breeding trio of pigs for 4 months now and if we don't have piglets by this coming fall then they all will go in the freezer. We feed the dogs and cats with our butchering scraps and bones (prey-model). We fish during the summer and they get all the heads and cleanings from the fish along with whole fish so that helps stretch the other meat. The tilapia pond will help with that also. We are planting and harvesting both right now. We grow through the winter and the winter crops are being harvested. We planted spring oats and carrots this week. Trying to get more beets in the ground before this weekend and then next week we will start planting brassicas along with more turnips and mustard. Blessings, Kat

[7thswan]

Originally Posted by Hannah90

For you guys that had your list in terms of lbs... how do you figure that? For example, how do you plan for 450 lbs of white potatoes or 100 lbs of broccoli?

As for me, I know how much I need to put in my Pantry and I know how many rows I have planted to get what I need. 4-40 ft rows of whites give me close to 450 lbs.This is one row.

[Hannah90]

How do you harvest your potatoes? I pulled/dug up each plant by hand.

I get the poundage is just from experience, huh?

[Hannah90]

I guess I forgot to add...

Come march I'll have a cow and two goats in milk. I'll be using the cow milk for the house, "donating" to friends and family and making butter, cheese, etc with all the goodies. Goat's milk will be mostly for soap and feeding other animals. A little drinking too. They aren't the best milkers, but I'll have two more coming into milk in september to take their place.

I have beef on the hoof to be processed in December. Last year I did WAY too many chickens. Put 40 in the freezer between october and mid november. I now realize we really don't eat a lot of chicken. We are definitely beef and pork people. I'll probably do a batch of 25 and hope to put in 20. I always plan to lose some.

I would LIKE to get a few pigs to feed out and butcher in the fall, but I don't know if that will happen. How long does it take to feed out a pig? I've never been able to get an exact answer. I figured I would try to find one about 50lbs. Grass, forage, milk, eggs, I work at a bakery, so bread and maybe grain if they aren't getting enough.