Hi raebear! Sounds amazing that you can and do grow everything! I would love that but our season is super short and it is way to cold for a lot of stuff.
Thanks for the comment on horseradish. I think you just convinced me! I definitely will start it in a pot and see how it goes!

Dirt Therapy - I LOVE it!!!

New gardener here!

I don't know my zone. I live in TN.

My husband and I found lots of old lumber in the yard, and used it to construct a veggie planter. We're not done yet. We still have to saw some more wood to make some stubby legs. lol. And we need more nails, to secure the sides better, and maybe make it deeper. We also need to drill some holes in the bottom.

I plan to buy some pots and trays for other things. We're going to grow vegetables on our back porch, since the deer will take anything in the yard. Also, ticks are BAD. You can't even go outside without them getting on you. My back porch is high, so it's not so bad.

I plan to grow:

Spinach,
Arugula,
Cilantro,
Cat Nip,
Sugar Snap Peas,
Eggplant,
Bell Peppers,
Hot Peppers,
Strawberries,
Beets,
and Radishes.
I would love to grow dragonfruit, but I'm not sure if it would grow out here. I might still give it a shot.

There's a huge amount of blackberry bushes that grow around the fields by my house and parents' house every year. I may venture to harvest them this time, but I don't know. Seed ticks prevented me last time. Maybe I'll just get a good tick spray, and try this time.

I currently have (I believe I'm zone 8...nice, frost-free Sacramento valley. Our last frost date is in late March, so I've had plenty of time with plants in the ground. This is prime tomato-growing country, as evidenced by the commercial tomato fields that SURROUND the city and the tomato processing plant downtown):

8 VERY happy tomato plants in 8 different varieties (Black Plum, Green Zebra, Pixie Stripe, Brandywine, Hawaiian Pineapple, Druizba, Cherokee Purple, and Sungold).

A small pot of strawberries, plus blackberry vines I'm training up my gardening shed.

Two sweet pepper plants and one hot pepper plant (all of them have fruits already...so excited!)

Onions and iceberg lettuces

Two cucumber vines that will hopefully yield me some pickling cucumbers (I've never had a lot of luck with cucumbers, but I try every year!)

A variety of dwarf citrus trees (lemon, key lime, blood orange, and tangelo), plus a gigantic orange tree.

Rosemary, basil, oregano (which is HUGE after overwintering a little too well...anyone need any oregano?), tarragon, chives, and parsley.

We also grow calla lilies to put on our table in Springtime, and some other floral greens for Sarah to bring into work.

I live in a Canadian Zone 6. I also live in an apartment but I have a fair sized balcony where I do a lot of container planting. I grow all types of lettuce on my railing planters mixed with pansies. Right now I have sweet peppers and lettuce started in the house. I will have several herbs, parsley, onions, garlic, lettuce, peppers. Sitting on the deck in the evening with the smell of oregano, sage, rosemary...nothing better.

First off if you dont know your zone check here http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html

Secondly im a new gardener myself. Ive lived in my home for 2 years now and only had a small flowerbed that contained mint and hostas that was from the previous owner. I transformed the 1 flowerbed next to my trailer to hold 2 beautiful lilac bushes and a christmas bush of some kind that we transplanted from the back side of the property. And there is another small one by our electric meters that is a beautiful purple honey suckle!

This year i decided i would create a new flower bed. Ive never been one to really do yard work because im allergic to grass ugh. But im taking some otc allergy meds and getting out there and just doing it! I planted a hydrangia bush, 2 hostas, some impatients, some salvia (i love butterflys) and then in a planter in the center i have lavendar and rosemary. Im not sure how well ill do since this is my first time. Not to mention where i live its really sandy (we got lots of garden soil to help).

My mother who is also my neighbor uses the area behind and around my shed to plant veggies. This year shes doing tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, squash, and beans. She has some awesome luck with this stuff even makes her own pickles! mind you she is 5"3'ish and she had tomato plants over her head the first year i moved in! lol

WoW! You people really grow a lot!! My gardening consists of planting things, fighting with burdock that tries to take over and eventually chokes out everthing, then I quit and start again the next year. It's not too bad this year. I have chive growing and mint that has really taken off.

My clematis is growing beautifully. I bought some red trumpet vine looking thing for the other side of my arbor.

I was given a bunch of hyacinth and I slapped them in the ground... we will see if they come back next year. I also planted some rhubarb.

Peonies are awesome b/c they require no maintenance from me.

Then I have shade plants growing in my front. I found some Lamium (dead nettle) at home depot and danced around in excitement. I also have vinca minor I am trying to get to fill in a large area. Hosta, bleeding heart, jack in the pulpit, toad lilies, primrose, astible.

I have herb seeds... but I haven't started them yet. I was just going to do them in pots on the deck.

I also want to grow asparagus...

Oh! And I am Zone 5.

My yard is completly fenced in, so I am planting more grapes all around the yard. I make grape concentrate and juice every fall and freeze it. It can be canned also, but I have a lot of room in my freezers by fall, so I just freeze it all.

I have Concord, Mars, Niagra, Catawba, Moldovian Red, Moldovian White, Canadice, and wild native grapes. As I prune the grapes and blackberries every spring, I root the cuttings and give them away in the fall. It's all a lot of extra work, but I need the exercize. And the flavor of homemade juice is wonderful compared to the watered down and chemically enhanced store brands.. I drink 8 ounces a day. Various fruit juices thin the blood and prevent heart attacks and strokes.

My strawberries are blooming. I have a bumper crop of new plants blooming, so will have to make juice out of my extra strawberries also..and save the mash to mix with my Kefir.

My weight loss is coming along just fine. I lost another pound last week.

Bad News -

There is a problem with the spigot in my garden. In checking the drip system, BIL and I discovered there was not enough force in the water to push the water out at a decent rate (1 gal/hr). I have to dig down 4 feet to the junction of the spigot to the main and replace it. This is gonna delay getting the garden planted. Its also gonna be a pain in the...well, every part of my body.

Goodness I am jealous of all gardens you all have. We are just building a new house on a giant sand dune. It has natural grasses all around the property but not very much topsoil. But grasses filled with ticks. Ugh. Anyways. The neighbors have bison manure and we'll get a bunch of topsoil trucked in. I'm also putting in some raised beds and we have about ten planters to fill. Lots of work but we don't generally plant until the end of may. Zone 2 here in Sask.

Phew, I am exhausted. Just came in after a few hours gardening for a little break. It is cloudy but really nice temp out. Light breeze! Perfect for gardening. I am preparing the different beds for flowers, zucchini, square foot garden and containers for peas and beans. I also planted my horseradish in a pot and seeded some lettuce in eavestroughs we installed on one garage wall. I still need to buy some seed potatoes but the tires are out and ready for them.
And I haven't started in the greenhouse yet! Good thing tomorrow is Victoria Day! I just hope the weather holds up. They forecast t-storms. Ugh.

How is everybody doing?

my sugar snap peas are producing...yeah...

I think I'm zone 8a (Dallas/Fort Worth, TX area). We have a great long growing season, but I was really late getting stuff in the ground this year so I don't have as much as I'd like. But, I have 5 tomatoes (2 slicing, 2 cherry, one cool zebra striped one, lol); 3 varieties of jalepeno, a red bellpepper, a green bellpepper, 2 slicing cucumbers, 3 pickling cucumbers, 2 squash, 2 zuccini, 2 varieties of pole beans, 2 kinds of mint, and a couple other herbs. Oh, and cantelope and watermelon. Pumpkins will go in later in the summer for a fall harvest. I will also have a pretty big fall garden this year since the spring one was so late.

The stuff I started from seeds are just sprouting and my seedlings are pretty young, so I won't have food for a while. I also have wild muscadine vines all over the property so I plan on making jelly and maybe wine this year.

Next year I want to get asparagus and artichoke (both perennials) in the ground, some blackberries, and some fruit trees.

It's cool to see what everyone is growing Anyone do any canning or pickling? I love pickling and making jams. My jalepeno pepper jelly is legendary in my circle! I also got a nice Excalibur dehydrator for my bday so I'm going to try drying some stuff.

I can AND pickle AND dehydrate. We go to an awesome farmer's market that lets us get jam and pickle fodder for cheap (in high summer, we can get bags of peaches enough to can a whole batch of jam for a dollar or two).

My tomato plants are very, very happy and most of them have fruit. Yay!

We can and freeze our tomatoes each year. We only got one canning run last year because of the weird weather last year.

We bought some ginger for a couple of recipes. After using it, we forgot about it and it sprouted. We planted it in a small container. Low and behold, it started growing. It is now in some planters. Does anyone know how to grow and harvest this stuff? It'd be neat if we could just pull what we needed at the time.