First Garden Tour! What Is Growing? 2023

Lets share what we grow in our gardens to let other people see different varieties. I have learned so many different things watching other people do their garden tours. What are you growing this year?

[@mandazeba9958]

Good 👋👋👋❤️❤️

[@lloydtomlin3506]

Nice.

[@kayla2093]

love it!!

[@canadacuocsongdoithuong-hw9gm]

looking great❤

[@leighmonty13]

Marigolds are a good companion plant they help bees polonate tomatoe,peppers, squash,courgette, cucumber and help keep bugs and beetles away.

[@DaveCollierCamping]

Awesome tour, looking good!

[@fruitfulgardening]

Thanks!

[@thechakkim7993]

Looks like a food factory.

[@eduardtibet]

Probably, what you haven't ever expected here, in comments, is a hobby gardener from the other side of the planet Earth :) Greetings from St. Petersburg, Russia (Köppen climate zone Dfb)! I have a set of questions about your garden and your location-related climate issues (if any): 1. What is your climate zone and gardening zone? I heard that US has its own gardening zoning - so called USDA Hardiness zones. What is yours? I see somehow similar looking environment/trees/spices to the one I live in but living outside US it's very hard to match the visual signs of environment to the actual one. 2. I haven't seen any bushes and/or trees (apples, pears, ...). Do you plant them? If yes, which ones? 3. Are any of these bushes/species that are widely grown all over Europe are banned in your area (AFAIK some species from the list are banned but some states/locations have more relaxed rules on planting them): gooseberry, black currant. redcurrant, white currant? 4. Have alot of other questions but trying to not overload a comment section :)

[@fruitfulgardening]

No problem. Yes we do have zones for hardiness of plants, which basically tells what the lowest average temperature is in the winter. I am in zone 8. I do have 2 apple trees(johnathan red and red delicious) and two pear trees( I dont remember their name but they are Asian pears). I also have blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and loganberry bushes.

[@eduardtibet]

@@fruitfulgardening I prefer to use the current thread to continue asking my question rather than creating another one. 5. Seems that you doesn't need any greenhouse to grow tomatoes, paprika, etc. - I haven't seen any. FYI: I'm within an equivalent of USDA zone 4 so it is much colder than yours - greenhouses are a must thing here even for cucumbers (almost for all vegetation period of time) despite the climate has been changed recently to more warm/dry here. 6. What do you use for tilling the soil within beds? Seems you have extra wood chops as a soil cover, so either you have to till then cover every year or ... (?). 7. Are there any restrictions that you have to follow when growing crops (we don't talk about cannabis, here. Ha! :) AFAIK there is a legally binding so called special code of conduct that every plot owner should follow or troubles are possible from code enforcement. Probably I'm wrong here and it only limits to a residential area (i'm unaware about what exact location you film on - is it a residential or an agricultural area with less (??) restrictions/rules). 8. What about watering? Do you have an artificial watering system (what kind of?) or just rely on general rainy days? 9. What is a vegetation period in your area (from.. till ...)? 10. What amount of sunny days usually are within a vegetation period in your location? Thanks!

[@fruitfulgardening]

@@eduardtibet No I do not have a greenhouse. I would like one to be able to have a longer growing season but I dont absolutely need one to be able to grow what I grow. I do not till my beds I just add more compost to the top every time that I take a crop out and use a hoe to mix it into the bed. I do not use woodchips on top its just the compost I get sometimes has more woody parts in it. I do not have a watering system I just water with a sprinkler or by hand. I have no idea what amount of sunny days are in the growing season, but I do know my growing season is around 180 days of the year that I can grow crops.

[@fruitfulgardening]

Oh here is the one about the gooseberry. No I cannot grow gooseberry or currents because of a disease they can transfer to certain trees grown for forestry.

[@eduardtibet]

@@fruitfulgardening Is your state within a list of states that ban planting these species (i.e. NC)? Why I ask you, because I heard alot of times from US-located people, that they _heard_ about _federal_ ban but aren't aware about state-specific regulations that, in some case, are more relaxed.

[@jeffreythomas2787]

Beef heart, oxheart makes the best tomato juice.Rutgers are good canners 🎉❤😊 f j b 😊

[@fruitfulgardening]

I am still trying to perfect growing enough tomatoes to can LOL. I canned a few jars last year but I need a lot of jars to last a year.