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RE: We're Gearing Up Our Garden This Spring
I'm planting right now more herbs and my tomatoes are doing well as well as my peppers, lime, lemons, guava (both trees are almost done bearing fruit). The rest of the edible plants are just relaxing in the cold weather. I had tons of prickly pear fruit, it was so good! Just picked the last of that. For spring im doing zucchini and I maybe grapevines and more swiss chard!
My son loves raspberries too much but they don't do well in our climate unfortunately. Good luck with all your garden goodies this coming season!
@marxrab and I used to live in South Dakota and there was a farm where you could pick raspberries just a few miles from our house (back when I spent $200 on them in one year). I have never grown them myself though and have heard they can be difficult, but I really hope it works out because our daughter (15 months) seems to have the same love for them I do.
For some reason we have never had too much luck with tomatoes, but we will probably try again with those. But we have been successful growing other things so we will see how thing work out this year. Sounds like you have some good things to look forward to. I would try Bartlett pears if we had more room.
That must have been fun! Try growing the tomatoes where they get the most southern exposure and make sure you nip the little straggler vines to get them nice and strong.
Pears don’t do well here as well as anything from the cabbage family :(
South Dakota was an interesting place to live. Definitely a change of pace. Ill try that with the tomatoes. Luckily a guy up the street grows a ton of them and sells them at a stand, so even if we fail again we at least have that to fall back on.
Maybe this will be your lucky year :)
lets hope:) @marxrab just reminded me this morning that we had one beautiful, perfect looking tomato and some animal took a bite out of it just before we were going to pick it.
Oh no! Time to throw some net over the plants!