How many of you garden?

[LCADolby]

I hated gardening so much I paid some gypoes to tarmac the lot.

[Dragon]

Upside down maters are just as weather and strain dependent as those in the ground, gonna have good years and bad years.

[NatCigg]

I plant in pots

I planted sweetcorn to see what colonials eat

I was amazed to see that they grew by not at the top but the sides of the plant, it amazing what colonals eat

Bruv show us a picture of your garden

Corn was one of the first genetically manipulated plants.  Native americans bread the plant from something almost incomparable to what we know today.  They then introduced the plant to the colonials.
Truly a amaizeing feat of early man that helps sustain life today.  Traditional Maize is a awesome plant and grows much taller than modern varieties. 

[Bizman]

If there's too much water, a kiwi plant might be the solution. My aunt lives in Alsace halfways of a hill and she had problems with water in her cellar until she planted that kiwi. Now it also shadows her south porch nicely.

[morfiend]

 I garden,infact Gman posted a pic of my garden in this forum awhile back....






   

[BluBerry]

I garden,infact Gman posted a pic of my garden in this forum awhile back....

 

[TheBug]

Just finished breaking my garden up...I'm going a little bit bigger this year with it...my plot is about 50' X 30'...I couldn't make it any bigger due to a drainage issue I have to resolve first...of course I'll have okra, green beans, assorted peppers, squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes...If I can't figure out how to divert the water that will most certainly wash away the south side of my garden, I will have to find another spot to break up and turn it into my salsa garden  so who else in here has garden, what do you grow and how big do you go? 

You were just complaining about winter ending and you're already tilling your garden?? 

Yeah, I feel sorry for you.


 

[HL117]

I have had peppers live 8 to 10 years by bringing them inside when it gets cold in the fall and then again back out in the spring when it warms up.  The pepper plants take on an appearance of small trees after the first few years.

This is great MrGeezer, do they produce any fruit in the off season?

[steely07]

Posted this in a thread we had on gardening last year, reposting here as I'm a bit of an aquaponics fanboy

I don't have a conventional garden, I do have an aquaponics system however, growing fish and vege's together in my backyard.

Here's a pic of the actual system :





Basically a large fish tank below a grow bed for the plants, water is pumped from the tank to the grow bed, and returns to the tank through a siphon type device, the fish waste feeds the plants and

the plants clean the water, all I add is fishfood and the occasional top-up of water when evaporation takes a toll.

Here's a couple of trout we pulled out last year :





Beans and pumpkin growing :





corn and tomatoes that are growing at the moment :





Last years harvest of silver perch :





It's a great way to grow healthy food at home, this is just a small system as we have a small yard, but it can scale to any size, have even seen people running tiny ones using a normal goldfish bowl

some small system examples here

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1617

and large ones!

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1619

[TheBug]

That's pretty cool Steely! 

[steely07]

It's pretty great, no weeding, everything is at waist height, so no bending over, can grow anything, at the moment, I have a passionfruit in there, it's going great guns, has fruit all over it, just waiting for it to ripen.

Also, no chemicals involved at all, purely organic, I'm not a hippy or anything, but I have to say, I can't eat hydro tomato's anymore, mine taste about 500% better

Currently I have about 12 foot long tandanus catfish in there, I have to borrow a deep-fryer so I can cook em up properly

[zack1234]

Fish plants

[NatCigg]

It's pretty great, no weeding, everything is at waist height, so no bending over, can grow anything, at the moment, I have a passionfruit in there, it's going great guns, has fruit all over it, just waiting for it to ripen.

Also, no chemicals involved at all, purely organic, I'm not a hippy or anything, but I have to say, I can't eat hydro tomato's anymore, mine taste about 500% better

Currently I have about 12 foot long tandanus catfish in there, I have to borrow a deep-fryer so I can cook em up properly

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This could be the single greatest idea on the internet. wow  maybe add some rocks, crayfish, and snails

[zack1234]

Hippy

[Lusche]

Does cultivating fungi in the underpants count?