On Easter Sunday we planted a half dozen big boys and a half dozen big beef tomatoes along with peppers and cucumbers in our raised beds. I will greatly anticipate their fullness, richness, and succelency (is that a word?). I just LOVE fresh homegrown tomatoes. So have any of y'all planted yet? Do any of you have the horrible probs we have with bugs about mid-season especially different types of weevils? I bought some "kill soap" to help me with this hopefully. As some of you know I bought a NICE Beeman air rifle with a 3-9 AO scope on it to "give me a hand" with the birds. Do any of you use "netting" for birds? What are y'all planting if anything? Ohhhhhhh the anticipation of a tomato sandwich....
a little salt........a little Hellmann's mayo............MMMMMMM
Wilson

Not planted yet, but sown seed, now pricked-out and a couple of inches high, Tomatoes, capsicum/peppers both sweet and hot and a couple of aubergines. Most will end up in my greenhouse, some in pots outside. I had an excellent year last year with the "plum" tomatoes much beloved by the Italians. Much easier to look after, none of that pinching out side shoots that you get with the larger round varieties. Apart from occasional whitefly not many bugs here to trouble any of these crops and I can barely see them let alone shoot the little sods! Another two or three weeks till I plant in the greenhouse and mid-May outside but I might risk a few earlier. Basil and other herbs doing well, crusty bread, red vino, sliced toms with thin cut onion and rough-torn basil with olive oil. Paradise man! I wish I had room (and time) for more vegetable crops. I have about a dozen fruit trees, mainly apples & pears with a couple of plums that I have high hopes for this season. I won't shoot the bees but the old Webley might come out to scare off pigeons now and again.

I got seeds started - inside!  We don't dare put things out before Memorial Day.  
No veggies started just some annuals and perenials.  Delphinum, hollyhock, larkspur and some small sunflowers for the nephews.  When the time is right they will come on over to plant peas.   :mrgreen:

I'm jealous! I wish I had room for a vegetable garden. Fresh, homegrown tomatoes are one of my favorite things about summer. I like them sliced with a little salt, or on a BLT, or sliced with olive oil, basil, and fresh mozzarella or parmesan cheese. Mmmmm. Or in fresh pasta sauce.

Laura, absolutely right, there is nothing like a pasta sauce made from fresh tomatoes, keep a ready-made jar in the cupboard by all means but there is nothing like summer-fresh toms to make a sauce. If you get an Autumn glut, as I do, and I've given loads to neighbors I chuck them in poly-bags and freeze them as they are. In the depths of winter take them out, rub the skins off and use them in any cooking that calls for toms.

I use to plant a pepper garden, around 6-10 varieties.  Could never grow tomatoes though. Got those from a friend when I used to make salsa. Have not messed with it for several years. Still have plenty of dried peppers.

Ha, I don't know of any other 20 year olds that plant a garden....

But, sadly this year I won't get to plant one, as I moved into an apartment. But when I have one it's tomatoes and okra. Nuff said

Do people eat fried okra outside of the south?

Do people eat okra at all outside the south?

I love the funny stuff we talk about on these boards.  

I've got a small garden (~25ft^2), it's all prepped and ready for planting.  We've been cultivating some strawberries and corn inside the house.  We'll plant those along with some tomatoes this weekend.  

Mr. Wilson you are right, home grown tomatoes are ridiculous.  We also grow a basil plant to go with 'em.  For the tomatoes we just buy the pre-grown little plants and put 'em in the ground.  We had some minor issues with tiny bugs last year but nothing serious.  We used that soapy stuff , seemed to keep 'em down.  Note, that stuff has to go right on the bugs, so you've got to be out there with it every day.  

jeff

planet what lol :nana: