So are you getting volunteers in the elderberry patch? They are definitely trying to take over a flower bed at my garden!

To plant Arugulu for me last year. After several bags of Arugula as big as Pillow case, he is still trying to get it out. Over took his garden.

I planted 4 tomatoes 2 years ago. None last year, but I had enough 🍅 last year to give them away.

After years of a big garden, I just planted lettuce in my flower bed, plus sage and Basil in pots.

I may have to buy Arugula this year.,)

to find a place where if it overtakes the whole place, there will still be room for other things.

He has that too. First year, not hot,last year,really hot!

Lives where they have horse Race tracks. Last year, bitter vegetables. I told him to lay off the horse manure, use lime. My Dad did every year. Of course he and my Grand Dad had a farm. He made fun of my gardening, but I wised up over the years. Railroad ties, lots of bagged manure plowed under,all covered with black plastic. Cut out a hole,fertilize, then stand back and watch them grow! No weeds.

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I weed the "volunteers" out to keep the main plants robust and from spreading out too much.

Unless you live in FL.

I've planted seeds in December and harvested in March in previous years. Florida is weird.

I’m in the middle of planting my garden in containers along with building some cold cases since Cottonwood roots run under my yard. This is extremely helpful!

I have never planted a garden until this year and I got it all set out over the weekend. I am so excited!!!!!

it is poison.

and I hope their basil does better this year than it did last year because I lean over to snip some!

Already have it growing from seed.

HOPE to find some decent tomatoes around; maybe neighbors will be good this year!

Even one, you will have enough. And probably more next year.

I actually bought my seeds at Dollar Tree, 4 for a dollar. lettuce, Basil, Sage and low growing Curley chard. Doing just fine.

I am out of the big garden business.

Eggplant is coming along nicely too.

Well, I've rested, I'm back into the garden. We brought in one yard of compost soil and it is so beautifully black and rich and I can hardly wait to sink some little plant babies into the earth.

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two years ago and the fruits never got any bigger than an avocado, then they would rot if I didn't pick them. I'm wondering if they do better in southern climes. Do you do anything special with yours?

climate is way too cold.

And for the first time I planted onions all over the place. Might have kept pests away. Lettuce and arugala just have up the ghost, but were fabulous January-April. Butternut Squash and Zucchini growing like crazy. Cucumbers too.

Those poor, desperate creatures !

I still need to buy my vegetables to plant this year. This is good to know.

...and I don't see anything about okra, black-eyed peas or collard greens.

the use of "courgettes" for zucchini is a giveaway.

British gardening guides are what I call vegetable porn: I like to look at all the pretty pictures, and fantasize about what they'd look like in my garden. However, the planting etc instructions have little to do with my California climate - I'm sure their "full sun" is a bit different than the sun-blasted plot my garden becomes in late summer.

On the West Coast we have the Sunset Garden Guide, a must for anyone who actually wants to garden in a non-British and non-East Coast environment. There must be something equivalent for Texas and vicinity.