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Anonymous wrote:I started 12 years ago with one cherry tomato plant, two varieties of zucchini, and bush beans.
This year, my kitchen garden is designed with different varieties of basil, cherry tomatoes,
four varieties of zucchini, beets, sweet onion, lettuce, lemon scented herbs, rosemary, English thyme, cantaloupe, and beans.

What's your sun situation? This is similar to what I'm trying to plant but it seems like the bed only gets 5-6 hours of direct sunlight. The rest is dappled or shade.

The square where I grow most of my veg and herbs gets 6 hrs of sun, from 11-5.

Anonymous wrote:I started 12 years ago with one cherry tomato plant, two varieties of zucchini, and bush beans.
This year, my kitchen garden is designed with different varieties of basil, cherry tomatoes,
four varieties of zucchini, beets, sweet onion, lettuce, lemon scented herbs, rosemary, English thyme, cantaloupe, and beans.

What's your sun situation? This is similar to what I'm trying to plant but it seems like the bed only gets 5-6 hours of direct sunlight. The rest is dappled or shade.

I started 12 years ago with one cherry tomato plant, two varieties of zucchini, and bush beans.
This year, my kitchen garden is designed with different varieties of basil, cherry tomatoes,
four varieties of zucchini, beets, sweet onion, lettuce, lemon scented herbs, rosemary, English thyme, cantaloupe, and beans.

Oh, and I'm the immediate PP. I also grow swiss chard in and around my flowers. They are pretty and also tasty.

I mostly grow tomatoes.

I've tried squash many times but they keep falling victim to squash borers.

I started with herbs and they come back most years, which I love.

Lately I planted blueberries and am using mesh bags to keep the birds away.

We've had volunteer mulberries for years and the birds always take all of those.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you protect your tomatoes from squirrels and rodents?

We trap and shoot them.

And then fry them up?

Squir-au-vin

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Anonymous wrote:I grow different types of beets but don’t know what to do with the green top.

It’s good sautéed with garlic and shallots.

Thanks! I’m curious to see how it tastes in quiches.

I only grow a few things: lettuce (spring), cucumber, tomato, basil. But we eat garden lettuce all spring, and usually have more tomatoes and cucumbers than we need.

I don't like squash, but I planted pumpkin one year and found it too space-intensive for the harvest I got. Broccoli is also too space-intensive. I used to have strawberries and they do okay, but my dog eats them so I stopped. Other fruit (berries, apples) didn't really take.

Anonymous wrote:I grow different types of beets but don’t know what to do with the green top.

It’s good sautéed with garlic and shallots.