Do you have your own fruit/vegetable garden?

Question

Do you have your own fruit/vegetable garden?

Answer 1

Yes, this will be my 2nd year...and I have expanded the garden into my neighbors yard. I love it. I love being able to do something myself...and the kids seeing that food doesn't always have to come from the store. And, I like them to see how the earth is so wonderful and bounteous.



*broccoli, peas, corn, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, watermelon

Answer 2

not yet but the wife is making me pull out some bushes + extend the fence so that she can have this massive garden with the kids. Im about 50/50 on it we will see how it turns out. Very good chance it gets trampled in the first 24 hours or forgotten in a week.

Answer 3

Potatos

Onions

Corn

Beans

Peas

Peppers (all different kinds)

Cucumbers

Squash

Zucchini

Tomatos

Watermelon

Canteloupe

Strawberries

Pumpkins

I am sure I missed something - the ground has been plowed, needs to be tilled, and potatos and onions need to be planted maybe this weekend.



This year for the first time we are trying to grow popcorn - neighbors will give us apples, pears, and peaches - we have our own trees but they don't bear fruit yet. I will can/freeze several hundred quarts of food.



Oh yea, wild blackberries and raspberries - the kids don't help with that though.



The kids like watching/helping things to grow - they really just like getting dirty

Answer 4

No, I tend to kill anything that lives in soil. I've tried.

Answer 5

Yeah. We some sour cherry trees, some raspberry, blackberry, and mulberry bushes and a basic salad garden. Lettuces, spinach, collards, beets, tomatoes, carrots, onions, cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, beans, probably a few things I forgot. We also have wild ramps and rhubarb that grow on the side of the hill.

Figured why not. We have the space, we have the time, and the stuff tastes so much better when it's that fresh. Plus it saves money, which is always a nice bonus.

She's still too small to really help. She helped last year mostly by picking things, eating some and depositing others in the basket. This year she helped dig the trenches and she'll probably be a better picker too.

I think the garden may help some, I think just us eating a variety helps the most. I'm pretty sure she'd still eat the same way if we stuck to just markets and didn't grow our own, but it's still nice to have.

Answer 6

No, but I really really want one. I watched Nightline years ago and someone in California turned their front and backyard into a garden with fruits and vegetables growing all over the place. If I had a house I would probably steal that idea and do the same.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

In the summer I grow tomatoes and and herbs. However we moved in the fall and there are a ton of deer around her so I am not sure if I am doing it this year. We did it because we like the taste of fresh stuff.

Answer 9

Yes, we have a small garden in our terrace and a larger one on the backyard. On the terrace we have strawberries, squash, beets, radishes and carrots. On the garden we have tomatoes, several kinds of chili peppers, peas, beans, cucumbers, garlic, watermelon, zucchini and cantaloupe.



My husband and I grew up in homes with veggie gardens and fruit trees. It was a natural thing for us to have since we both had wonderful memories of working with our parents and siblings, harvesting, planting and cooking the fruits of our work.



The kids help, the are very knowledgeable on garden keeping and think/talk often about their garden. They are good veggie and fruit eaters, even foods from the market, but they get excited about preparing meals that include our own veggies and fruits, and either eating them or giving special meals to friends and neighbors with our produce.

Answer 10

We're going to try again this year, and this year I think we'll be using mostly pots. The fireants and the soil here is just too hard to deal with. I plan on tomatoes, some pumpkins, sweet-peas, squash, some carrots. Because I grew up with a veggie garden and loved it as a child, and it's sort of a nudged thing in my religion in order to be more self-reliant. My kids will help, and in the past every time I've done this every child I've had help (from my own to nieces/nephews) ALWAYS ate more veggies because they helped grow them.

Answer 11

We grow apples, plums, cherries, raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries as far as fruit is concerned. As for vegetables I grow tomato's, cucumbers, sprouts, onions, garlic, carrots, asparagus, cabbage, leeks, melons, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplants, beans, peppers, lettuce, pumpkins, rhubarb, corn, peas and potatoes. I also grow a variety of herbs. I also grow a variety of each type. The kids enjoy growing purple potatoes or purple cauliflower. It stays fairly mild here all year, we get an excellent growing season. I'm hoping to try planting some more fruit. I'm thinking of trying grapes.



My grandfather owned a farm. He had this HUGE vegetable garden that he took a lot of pride in. It was how I was raised. He fed our entire family with it and gave 80% of it away. It was a good feeling. I wanted my kids to experience what I grew up with. Besides, nothing tastes better than a carrot freshly pulled from the garden or garden potatoes..mmmmmmm! I'm drooling a little thinking about it.



My kids are fascinated to see where food comes from. The process is exciting to them. They can't wait to try something they grew themselves. My kids don't care for potatoes, but go nuts over the purple ones... which taste exactly like regular potatoes.

Answer 12

I have plum, apricot, and apple trees, raspberry and blueberry bushes, and strawberries. I usually plant peas, green beans, lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, lemon cucumbers, and herbs. I stubbornly keep trying to grow cantaloupe, but our growing season is just too short. My spinach is starting to poke up (through the snow!), and we planted the peas last weekend.



Freshly-picked produce is just so much tastier than the tired stuff we get in the stores around here, and I've got the room for a small garden, so it makes sense to do it. My daughter does help, and she will munch on a few veggies straight out of the garden (mostly peas and cilantro). She's more of a fruit kid, though.

Answer 13

We have a garden, it was small last year and we just had tomatoes, okra, corn, watermelon basil,and cantaloupe. This year it has green beans, corn, tomatoes, squash, bell peppers and cucumbers. We also shop at the farmers market for whatever we don't grow ourselves. I grew up and my grandpa had a huge garden and I used to help him water it and weed it everyday. I wanted my kids to know that that's where vegetables come from not walmart. They do "help" I give them little things to do and my son loves to water the garden and spray everybody with the hose while he's at it. I think it does make them want to try what they helped grow and I love for them to help me cook because it makes them more likely to eat what they helped make.

Answer 14

yes and I have grown at some point strawberries, peas, runner beans, lettuce, tomatoes, perpetual spinach, coriander, basil, rosemary, thyme, parsley, rhubarb, sorrel and chard. Our street has brayeburne apple trees all the way up the road and a cherry tree stands outside.



I grow things I will use, or things that I like or we like to eat a lot of. My kids love all things grown and this has encouraged them to eat other fruits/vegetables.

Answer 15

Peas, cucumbers, zucchini, slicing tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, peppers. I think that's what it was last year- never the same 2 years in a row!



My mother has always had a vegetable garden when we've lived in a house, and I just love fresh veggies. I have fond memories of jumping out of the pool as a child and snacking on some peas and cherry tomatoes before jumping back in the pool :)



Yes I do think it helped me eat a variety of foods and has helped me appreciate raw veggies.



We've done carrots, potatoes, pumpkins, rhubarb, and a lot more!