Anyone have a home vegetable garden?

[mcsoul 10+ year member]

I'm not talking about your chronic

plants. Or a couple of tomato vines.

Does anyone do a veggie garden at home that yeilds

enough to feed a family of four thier daily dose of

veggies? What ya got and how much space does it

take up? What seasons does it produce less (just winter?)?

I got like a 60' by 90' back yard, I would not want to use all

of it.

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[GearGuy2001 10+ year member]

Well you would have to pick tomatoes that grow at different rates like Early Girl (to start the season) and some Beef Master (they take longer to grow) if you wanted to have tomatoes for the whole season. I imagine its the same with some other plants, also lettuce isnt good later in the season.

My dad has a 15'x25' Garden that was enough for him and my mom, There was like 5-6 tomato plants, some green beans and lettuce.

Basically all but some of the beef master tomatoes are done for now but it doesnt produce year round (cold as hell in northern IL)

 

[▼)Ñ╩fZΣµ& 10+ year member]

dad every year grows a bunch of different shit

like we have like 5 beds 3x7x1 feet, we rotate the beds manually every spring/end of the crop/fall.. he puts tomatoes of all kinds(early girl, cherry, pair, mainly all tomatoes come up in the same area just the larger fatty beef ones dont come in numbers mayybe 3 or so will come legit off the plant.. in 3 of the beds put them in around like may and when it comes august and still now we have ridiculous amounts of tomatoes, im gettin sick cuz they are bein put n all the home dinners lol we have too many

and then the other 2 beds will be changed every year, onions, radish, carrots, peppers,green beans, cucumbers, and other little herbs and stuff like basil and parsley..

and we always try to grow some pumpkins for that halloween thing lol but for a fat plant takes too much water n never grows right here,, sometimes w get like 5 per year some 0 but w/e

and if you live in areas where u have deer, small birds, rabbits, or any other wildlife that would think that tomatoes, and your crop look good, you probably should create a small little fence around your growing area, just with plastic chickenfence stuff and put a layer of it on top and that stops all things that kinda want to explore your garden

and makes it ez to cover the whole area if u have a frost comming

growing your own garden is basically useless if u try to save money on foods, but its kinda nice to just open the door go outside and have it all right there

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

...hope this is dumping, but I do believe there is a thread about this already..if im wrong correct me.

 

[mcsoul 10+ year member]

...hope this is dumping, but I do believe there is a thread about this already..if im wrong correct me.

I hope not, I did search. Apologies if there is.

 

[craigzter 10+ year member]

I hope not, I did search. Apologies if there is.

hmm..i could have sworn there was.

 

[mcsoul 10+ year member]

Thanks guys. I have a 17x25 patch of bad grass where the last

owner had a playset. Maybe I could build three raised rows there.

Thanks for the ideas.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

The thing about tomatoes I learned is you get a bunch at one time.....so some of mine rotted on the vines.

I grew tomatoes, watermelon, cantelope, beans, okra, eggplant, habaneros, and bell peppers.

Next year I will try some corn, less tomatoes, less hot peppers, more beans, and bell peppers again.