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Are you planning to plant a vegetable garden this year?
| Response | Percent | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | 66% | 472 | |
| No | 26% | 190 | |
| Not sure | 6% | 48 | |
| Total | 710 | ||
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ralphralph (anonymous) says…
If it's a good year, my neighbors will share their excess.
If it's a bad year, my plants will die first.
No garden for me.
grammaddy (anonymous) says…
Hopefully, unless we move out of this house.
labmonkey (anonymous) says…
I heard it might actually be hard to find seeds this year.
KansasPerson (anonymous) says…
We'd love to, if we had space for one. Too shady in the backyard and not enough room anywhere else. Maybe we could plow up the driveway. :)
overthemoon (anonymous) says…
ks person
I have similar problems. Last year I tried planting tomatoes in three very large tree pots in a narrow spot along the driveway, fully expecting them to die before fruiting. Funny thing, watering them really seemed to help and we had HUGE plants with hundreds of tomatoes all season. Worth a shot. Beans and greens can also do well in containers. But you really have to water everyday.
BorderRuffian (anonymous) says…
I'm gonna plant a whole bunch of hot peppers as usual this year. I'll go ahead and plant some 'maters as well, but I seldom have real good luck with them. Summer is too hot or too cold. But the hot peppers seem always go do well. Last summer saw a bumper crop of habaneros, jumbo jalapenos, and those nasty little Thai peppers that burn just looking at them too long.
My only real frustration is with my zucchinis - about the time they get to size, those damn space bugs get on them and the plants wither and die. And I LOVE zucchinis.
This ought to be the year I can start harvesting some of my horse radishes as well. I planted them a couple of years ago and they ought to have nice fat roots now.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…
I just used the last spaghetti squash from my cellar tonight.
sierraclub (anonymous) says…
I got some metal shavings from a shop that turns rotors. I put them on my garden and I had great success last year. The tomatoes were huge!!
cletus26 (anonymous) says…
well i just took some money from the paycheck that i recieved and went to the walmart and the Checkers and bought up what other folks had planted and it worked out pretty good. i think i might try that again this year!!!
oneeye_wilbur (anonymous) says…
I will plant a garden and invite the folks from Topeka with the Chee wa wa who won't be welcome at the Lawrence Farmer's Market to come to my garden and get what they want.
They can come to the garden and not be harassed by the unfriendly Lawrence Farmer's Market vendors who don't like dogs.
The garden will have some pork chop bones buried for the Chee wa was to dig up. After all , in Lawrence is all about "the dogs" or in many cases "the kids".
Pywacket (anonymous) says…
sierra~ I'm intrigued by the metal shavings. What are you combating with them--slugs & snails? (kinda like using diatomaceous earth, w/o the cost?)
I've still got pureed butternut squash, quartered tomatoes, sliced okra, and a few other things in my freezer from last year.
Also have spinach growing that I planted in the fall--it survived the bitter cold and all the rounds of snow and is still green. Unbelievable. I never planted it in the fall before--wish I had. It will have a jump-start over spring plantings and will make for some good early spring salads.
BorderRuffian~ Have you tried dusting the zucchinis with Sevin? That does the trick for me. I don't use a lot of chemicals, but am not opposed to using certain ones judiciously. Hate those damned bugs and the wilts they introduce!