What's your favorite thing to have in the garden

Good old Purple Hull Peas and Tomatoes here.

Ditto here. Did the potato stack last year and got 3 potatoes My other hills produced many. Not doing it again this year for sure.

I like beets and turnips cause you can eat the whole plant.

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Tomatoes: We eat a lot of Italian and Mexican food

Potatoes: My son is a meat and potato guy and what can't you do with potatoes?

Yellow Squash: My plants are already doing beautifully in the ground, can't wait for that first pan full. Doesn't feel like Spring until I have had some fresh squash.

Pole Beans: I grow the Kentucky Wonder every year and we love them, I always grow enough to each fresh all season and extra to freeze so we can enjoy them year around.

All my herbs, must have fresh herbs to cook with. I grow them year around, inside the house and in the garden.

That is not what I wanted to hear about the potato stack!

Comfrey . . . . off to google it and maybe get some seeds!

I ordered James McNair's Potato Cookbook from Paperback Swap but, if it's not good, I'll put Potato on my wishlist! Thanks for the suggestion.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Where's the fingers-in-the-ears "I can't hear you, I can't hear you" smiley?

3rd agree about potatoe tires. not worth it!

For me kale and berries of any kind.
Kale has little taste, is highly nutritious and cooks down to nothing, therefore it can be fine chopped and hidden in almost any cooked dish. Zucchini would be second, because it can be chopped and froze or dried and hidden in almost any cooked dish.

Berries are my favorite fruit and I could eat all kinds until I puked, forever.

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Typically each year I plant potatoes, tomatoes, carrots and onions and that's about it for the large crops. An assortment of peppers, a couple dozen cabbages here or there, but those 4 veggies make up the bulk of our diet.

my two absolute faves would have to be tomatoes and yellow squash.

I can't have a garden anymore, since my divorce last year and loss of income. I now live in a low-income apartment complex. I have a small porch (if you can call it that) off my small apartment and maybe I can put a container out there and grow some herbs. Maybe I can also have one of those containers hanging from the overhang that can grow tomatoes.

When I was younger we had a big garden and some of my favorites was summer squash, okra, purple hull peas, lettuce, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, peanuts and strawberries. I dream about it sometimes.

My best friend is living on minimum wage in a tiny 2nd floor apartment. She's saving up every penny to get a good bicycle & she wants to get a space in the community garden, ride her bike there every day with her hand tools in the basket.

I say, "GO FOR IT"! Everyone's experience is different. I was told last year that I couldn't grow watermelons with our soil and our climate and I DID! Darn, they were good too. If you do try it, I would suggest you use good soil or compost to fill the top tires and also consider a potato food. Good luck! Let us know how you make out!

Each year I make the offer to local people to come out and utilize some of my property for gardening. They keep what they grow and the only requirements are that they leave the soil in better condition than they found it (the Forerunner method) and they not use any chemicals.

Maybe you city-dwellers can work out similar arrangements in your own local areas. As of yet, nobody has ever taken me up on my offer.

EDIT TO ADD: Could be that dealing with Ernie is simply too much to bear for your average soul.

I live in a very small town. I've never heard of any community garden around here or anyone that would let you use some of their property for gardening. I think if we had things like that here it would be in the weekly paper or trading post.

Ernie - I can't imagine anyone not taking you up on your offer. I, like so many here, love to read your posts. You are so full of knowledge.

white Potatoes
sweet potatoes
Cabbage
Carrots
Beets
Kale
onions
parsnips
turnips

I call it my 'Russian peasant garden'.

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tomatoes followed by peppers then green beans

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Peppers. Luv 'em.

Sweet and jalapeno peppers, summer squash, butter beans, field peas, and sweet potatoes.

I was going to say a glass of wine!
Potatoes, tomatoes,

Asparagus is #1.

#2 would be Roma tomatoes.

#3 would be Zucchinn.

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Cherry tomatoes. I keep one or more near the kids play area. They are free to snack on at any time for the kids (they are old enough to know about ripe)......keeps their dirty little paws off my garden veg.

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