Goats,chickens,pigs,rabbits and dogs. Soon to come quail and chuckers. As far as animals go and flowers I have iris of many colors and four or so rose bushes. Tulips and daffodils and daisies and what they call potato ivy in many places.

Oooooo heaven, do you milk the goats?
What is a chucker?
My bro-in-law raised Quail (cutest little eggs you ever saw)
but they ate them faster than they could raise them.

Is there always enough stuff for pigs to eat on a place like yours?
Can pigs eat bush and flower detritus?

Do you bring your flowers indoors?
Georgia is pretty humid ya?

There is already a pear tree here that previous owner planted. It is a small tree, so it will probably take a while to bare. I am fertilizing it and trying to help it grow and prosper.

Many apple trees are self-fertilizing, like the one I recently planted.

I have cactus in the house that I have had for a very long time. When I moved, I put it in a box and carried it on my lap in the car, to make sure it didn't get hurt. I also ordered a blooming cactus the other day.

You sound like me, in that you love to grow stuff. I also love house plants. I had a pretty big fruit orchard in the city, but never hardly got any fruits because of the wild animals taking them all. Same with my tomatoes.

Everything I have planted in the past four weeks is doing great. I also love taking care of everything, and get so excited when I see the first fruits and flowers.

Pigs eat almost anything you feed them lol I bring alot in during winter but spring and summer most is outside.


Ruby I love growing everything! My tomatoes are putting out already I love it. Love working in it just to see all I will grow.

Nawty, I have a few green cherry tomatoes already. I believe I will have some regular tomatoes growing soon. I am happy at how fast they are growing. I can't wait to have a homegrown mater sammich!

I have a large garden planted with native trees.., grapevines , citrus .. cherry .. plum , olive .. avocado and walnut trees ... my favourite is a big beautiful old oak tree .,

Most of the plants are native and medicinal herbs , edible flowers .. wild flowers ..native flax and ferns . It is a work in progress

That sounds lovely. I had a beautiful, old oak tree at my last place. I am guessing it was well over 100 years old. Developer that bought my property said he would have to cut it down in order to build a much bigger house there. That made me sad.

I know it gives me much joy to watch things grow

Living in Colorado, when answering "tomatoes and squash" to this question, people look at you funny.

Tomatoes, watermelon, okra,and honeydew. My rose bush is doing very well this year. It's a lot taller than I am. I have lilies, and other flowers that I'm not sure what they are called. My peach tree is doing well. I have pear and pecan trees also.

I envy those with a green thumb, I like gardens but don't have one. I don't know much about plants either.
I do have a big apple tree in one corner of my property and sometimes when they are ripe I will sit in my gazebo early in the morning and drink my cup of coffee as deer come down to get the apples. I try not to startle them.. just watch them.

So relaxing

My veggie plants are producing very well already. I guess I'm strange to be excited when the first one's come in.

I really do miss growing an organic veg garden. Too many little critters and cannot (choose not to) compost because of bears.

The wild flowers are starting to look lovely though.

It's raining like crazy here in Ga so it's Great for gardens.

I have a crop of 'old' growing. Hopefully it won't be harvested for years tho.
I do harvest 'fingernails' regularly and I am due for an early summer harvesting of 'hair' as well.
Plus, I grow 'weary' like weeds, constantly trying to stay ahead.
In my younger days I managed to grow a 'set' but it seems they're withering on the vine.
I have always had a heathy crop of 'appreciation' for integrity that seems to be yielding better crops as time passes.
I completely stopped growing 'animosity' and 'resentment' they are just to expensive to maintain.

Hi, Hope it's OK to join on in the convo?

Well, out of memory and respect for my late grandfather, who I always got "stuck" working with?/for? in his vast gardens at his old house up in northern N.J. all day, every day, all summer long, starting from age 5, til he passed on at age 92 when I was 12, I have kept it going from Spring til Autumn each year ever since, no matter where I've lived, and it has sorta become my seasonal "hobby" and "therapy and I really do thoroughly enjoy it all very much.

And mind you I am NOT really a veggie eater, never have been, but I'll usually grow, and give away too friends and family, loads of Beefsteak (some years my plants are as tall as 16 to 20 feet high! I will often set up rope between some long lengths of pipe for them to cling to and grow along horizontally once they reach 10 feet or so), Big Boy, Better Boy, Roma, Plum and Cherry Tomatoes, Cucumbers (some 2 feet long), Eggplants, Bell Peppers, and some herbs like Oregano, Parsley, Basil, Rosemary, and Thyme, as I am growing this year, and if I have any space left over I'll also throw in Kale, or Jalapeno, or whatever I can possibly find at the nurseries and fit in, like this year I am trying a few Yellow Corn plants, since I couldn't find a couple other plants I has hoped to grow this year.

The only thing I ever feed the veggies is a light, bi-weekly dose of "Miracle Grow" for edible veggie plants and the only pesticides I use are Diatom. Earth powder, Neem oil and live Praying Mantis, they are great for keeping Aphids and some other harmful insects away.

While I don't have the huge property my Pop-Pop had, I make do with what little space I have quite well.

One year I also grew "seedless" Watermelon they didn't have the hard black seeds, but they did have the soft small white seeds in them, they were the size of bowling balls, and almost as heavy as one, they were very juicy and sweet, but they took up and needed lots of room.

One year I tried doing Romaine Lettuce, but that was a huge failure, they attracted zillions and zillions of those nasty little Pincher? bugs, or whatever they are called, and they just tore it all up on me and I ended up pulling it all out halfway through the growing season.
(I tried Diatomaceous Earth, Sprays, Powders, even live Praying Mantis' to rid the problem, unfortunately nothing helped.)

One year I tried doing a Strawberry patch, they were very large and sweet, but really got out of control and took over my entire yard and rooted everywhere!

Three years ago I tried "Black Cherry" Tomato for the first time, the plants grew to around 6 or 7 feet tall and yielded at least 150+ fruit on each and they were very moist and tasty, they were great for everything and everyone loved them.
It's kinda sad that I have been unable to find them again.

I tried Carrots one year, but they didn't do so well in my soil and came out at harvest time looking like short, scrawny, pale, little orange mummy fingers and were hard as stone! lol
Naturally I gave up on those and have not tried that again.

I have wanted to try growing Potatoes for a number of years, but I know nothing about growing those, nor what they need (soil-wise) to grow successfully.

I also grew "Gagootz" (Italian Squash) a few times, I just can't seem to find those anymore.
You cn't find stuff like that at Lowe's, nor Home Despot, and since they only sell the "popular" stuff and they've also pretty much killed the "mom and pop" nurseries near me I am stuck growing whatever I can get around here.

I do have a lone self-polinating "Celestial" Fig tree, but this is only it's 4th year now and he's still kinda small (he's only around 7 or 8 feet tall) and doesn't give too much fruit, yet, just about a dozen or two small figs the past two years, none yet this season, and it looks as if he is only now growing new foliage along one side, oddly on the side that isn't facing the sun.
Is that weird? Because it normally is in full bloom by June, or could it be due to the very long, rough Winter we had here in NY?

I do give it a minimum of 5 gals. of water per day from March til Oct. and feed the tree every 4 weeks with "Dr.Earth's" "Organic Fruit and Nut tree food", but I feel "Figgy" needs something else or more.

I also have an 18' wide, but 3' narrow flower and shrub bed/garden along one portion of the back of my property, in there I have a couple Azalea and Hydrangea that I planted around 30 years ago, a load of Day Lilly, Calla Lilly, Tiger Lilly, Easter Lilly bulbs that always come back, Hosta, Geranium, Pansy, Posies, Daisy, Viola, Dianthus, Rhododendron, Gerberer Daisy, Tulip, Daffodils, Mini Daffodils, and a couple other perennial flowers.
I keep a bird bath at one end and a small fountain at the other.

Wish I could post some photos I have of past gardens and harvests, Maybe I can add some shots to my profile photos?

Anyway, I hope I haven't bored everyone to death with too much info and I do wish all you fellow green thumbs out there the best of luck this year!

i have started growing mint,this year.

i just love the smell of it,especially when you run your hands through it.