Any gardeners? (other than pot)

I love to garden but unfortunately don't have much space. This year I grew a few types of tomatoes, cucumbers, and several types of hot peppers. We also have a pretty good herb (legal) garden. We've got a long growing season out here so I'm still pulling tomatoes off the plants. Nothing like an omelette made with tomatoes and herbs straight from the garden. Plus, especially with the tomatoes, anything you grow is so much better than anything you can get in a grocery store.

This year I was pretty proud of what seems to be a cross of Thai and Italian basil that just came up out of the ground. We grew both types last year and my guess is they pollinated each other to come up with this hybrid. It's got the same licorice like taste and purple stems of the Thai but big leaves like an Italian basil. Plus unlike most Thai basils this one doesn't put out ridiculous amounts of flowers. I'm hoping to collect some seeds from the hybrid to continue it next year.

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Originally Posted by Fengzi

I love to garden but unfortunately don't have much space.

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That's how it used to be for me. For the longest time, I didn't even have a backyard, only a balcony. But that was enough room for 2 strawberry jars. For the first time in my life, I now have enough room to grow anything, even trees. I'm even thinking about building a huge industrial size greenhouse.

I quite possibly might plant too much for me to manage next year. I look through all the catalogs and see all the different varieties I've never had before, and I want to try them all.

I watch all the gardening shows, especially "Gardening By The Yard" with Paul James. I have that one programmed into my DVR so I never miss it. That man has a passion for plants that I've never seen in any other human being, and best of all, he's not boring like most of the other gardening shows.

Paul James' jokes are corny, but I love the show also. I've been gardening for a lot of years (Master Gardener) but almost every show I learn something new. Sorry, but I just noticed your question about heirloom seeds. Seeds of Change already mentioned is a good one, also Heirloom Seeds (go figure), and heirloomtomatoes.com. JL Hudson, Seedsman is not specifically heirloom seeds but always has interesting things.

I grow apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, crabapples, grapes, figs, lemons, oranges, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, mulberries, currants, wintergreen, tomatoes and WEED :D

I will be adding more fruit in the spring. Blackberries and more blueberries at the least. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by GrowinGranny

Paul James' jokes are corny

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They sure are. But I tell you what, I would rather he be corny than stuffy, like those gardening shows on PBS.

The New Victory Garden book is really good I have it. Also, the original Victory Garden is a great book also. It was a tv show probably one of those stuffy ones you refer to. I never saw it but the book is extremely informative with great pictures and step by step intructions and diagrams on building everything the personal gardener could want. Also I am interested in making apple cider and I think I will get a press and try that next year. The FDA has made it unlawful to sell unpastuerized cider wich is really too bad because it is so much better.