Eating food is great, but do any of you grow your own food? I have some onions growing right now along with my chili peppers

I grow green beans and zucchini every year. So sick of green beans and zucchini desu

I threw a Halloween jack-o-lantern into the backyard a while back, forgot about it, and now have a pumpkin plant that I occasionally make pies with. I also have wild native dewberry and strawberry plants that I like to pick before the squirrels and rabbits get to them.
Zero effort farming is cash money

>>21431443
Let me see

>>21431455
That's called volunteer gardening and I agree, it's very cool

>>21431437 (OP)
>implying i own land
nigga i aint rich

>>21431545
I don't have land either but I do have a house

Pumpkins and avocados mostly. Grew a pineapple too, and it was delicious. I havent been as successful with other things because I have little green area in my yard and even then the soil is fucking terrible and more like mud.

>>21431545
It still counts if you grow mushrooms in a plastic tote.

>>21431437 (OP)
Pigs, chickens, and cows. I have a tiny garden for the time being, but I used to have a pretty big one when I had more time.

>>21431437 (OP)
I've grown cannabis and tomatoes for 8 seasons.

>>21431437 (OP)
I have potatoes which are soon ready. A couple tomato plants, 14 pepper plants of different varieties, carrots, 4 green bean plants, 4 cucumber plants. Also a whole bed of strawberries which I will probably pull up next year.

>>21431437 (OP)
Need to try to build a protected enclosure and then I think I’ll do cucumbers and squash next year

>>21431615
>a whole bed of strawberries which I will probably pull up next year.
I’m doing the same this year. They’re nice but for me the output didn’t justify the space and effort.

Peppers, tomato, dosakai and some herbs. I wanna grow hopniss and regrow my lovage after my plant died a few years ago but I haven't found a reliable source for either.
>>21431443
>zucchini
We grew squash one year but we have an abysmally tiny garden, 14ft×14ft and only half that is usable for grown. The squash took over everything. We already knew the flowers were edible but we started to eat the young leaves, too, just so that it wouldn't choke out our other veg. >>21431545
Bro, I'm not some rich dude. I've got my small-ass house with two fruit trees, one of which isn't even really mine as it's on the border between my property and the neighbour's but it mostly overhangs on my side (which is why half my garden is unusable).
I just was lucky and bought my house when I did because it's a decade later and it's now worth over 3× what was paid.

Herbs and 4 lemons

Yes I have a bunch of different tomato plants, zucchini, sage, thyme, basil, serranos, thai chilis, chives, a fig tree, a blood orange tree that doesn't produce any blood oranges. i'm probably forgetting something

>>21431437 (OP)
the road is right there put it in the backyard tf.

Swine.

>>21433035
you're poor lol

Ive been trying too bit it seems Im either too poor to afford the supplies or working too much to put the time in at any given time
I planted a couple plum trees this year so thats a start
I have a steady job now too so NEXT YEAR i will really try to get some raised beds in for pickles and preserves

>>21433065
>NEXT YEAR
It's always next year until you actually do it. Even if you start now, late in the growing season, it's better than waiting for next year because it'll get you in the habit. Just plant something that's edible even without fruiting, like squashes or cucumbers.

I pay £90 for a 250x250m plot in an allotment. In the winter I grow kale, leeks, onions, carrots, parsnips. Currently growing / have harvested potatoes, spinach, peas, broad beans, lettuce, shallots, garlic. Have tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, rhubarb in a polytunnel.

>>21433112
>spinach
You better be letting that shit go full grown before harvesting. Young and baby spinach are fucking tasteless

>>21431437 (OP)
On my patio raised containers:
basil
rosemary
thyme
thai basil
lemongrass
green onions
cherry tomatoes

Also on my patio is a hybrid grafted potted tree which is half dead, but still produces Persian limes (neverr enough) and Calamondins (which I use to make pies)

Champagne mangos
Haas avocados

Pro-tip: If you can, feed your plants rainwater only. They love it. Run a tube from your gutters to a container. An hour of heavy rain can collect 100 gallons easily. I use milk jugs and keep them in the basement where it's cool and dark because FYI rainwater does go bad. Your plants will thank you.

>>21431437 (OP)
i just bought my house and i plan to grow some things. issue being, we have extreme weather in both major seasons so i'm not sure how to work around that. my original idea was to get some kind of greenhouse, but we had 70pmh winds last night so that's probably out of the question.

I have a bigass deck in the backyard the previous owners built for their hot tub. some of the planks are starting to lift because of the excessive heat, but i reckon i could stave it off if i put a bunch of planters on top. but again, the extreme weather will probably make this journey pointless. even my hanging planters all died because of the weather.

if there's anyone here that lives close to/near northeast Oklahoma or has any suggestions for extreme temps/weather and how to grow around it i'd love to hear it. we went from 95F and ball sweatingly hot yesterday to now i'm under a flood less than 12 hours later. the entire yard is underwater, but at least the deck is high enough to avoid it.

>>21431437 (OP)
Basil

What's the trick to keeping basil plants happy? They quickly wither and die on me no matter what I do.

>>21431437 (OP)
I have 3 months each year to grow food before it gets too hot. so not really.

>>21433631
A shade cloth works wonders

>>21433348
Basil will wither/wilt if you overwater it.
Basil will wither/wilt if you underwater it.
Basil will wither/wilt if it doesn't get enough sun.
Basil will wither/wilt if it gets too much sun.
Basically, it's a finicky bitch and sometimes, it just gets fed up with living. When I used to grow it, I'd taken to planting multiples away from one another. At least one would always die for no discernible reason.

>>21433276
Are there any agricultural colleges or mom and pop gardening stores in your area? They'd probably have much better advice than whatever some rando on here could offer

>>21431437 (OP)
How long does it take from planting to being able to harvest?

>>21431437 (OP)
I have corn, tomatoes, green beans, potatoes, peppers, and cucumbers currently growing. They seem to look healthy and everything is coming along nicely but visually its such a shit show and nothing proper like that pic. I feel so retarded for not knowing how to properly maintain my garden and make it all look nice and neat :( but stuff is growing so I guess thats all that matters...

cilantro is the main one I use

>>21434367
Chilis are 3 months
Onions 4.5 months

>>21431437 (OP)
I have apricot, peach, mandarine, nectarine and cherry trees in my yard, a habanero and a cherry chilli plant, a bunch of herbs, basil, thyme, chervil, dill, oregano and parsley. Nothing better than going out the back and grabbing a fresh fruit of your own tree.

>>21431437 (OP)
It's not really worth it except for herbs because the seedlings cost more than the actual item at the supermarket. It shouldn't be like that but it do.

>>21435233
wut
Packet of a kajillion pepper seeds: $2
Single pepper seedling: $2
Single pepper: $2
A packet will grow a kajillion peppers, a single seedling will grow about a half dozen over its season and a single pepper is a single pepper.
In no universe is it cheaper to buy a vegetable than to grow it unless you live in Murmansk or Nouakchott or someplace like that.

>>21431437 (OP)
Where is the food in that pic?

>>21435291
The spinach and onions look pretty edible in that picture. There's a row of some kind of brassica, too. Though I'm not sure what it is, exactly, I can tell you that all brassica are edible. Marigolds are also edible. Can't really make out what the purple leaves in the planter bed are, but as I can't think of any plant grown for its botanical fruit (eggplants, tomatoes, Zachary Quinto) that isn't itself green, my guess is that those are also edible.
So the answer is in the front three rows of the planter bed, the back row of the planter bed and the back basket-pot of the decorative bicycle planter.

>>21435284
In communist Germany a vegetable seedling at a home depot type store costs 4-7€. Since you have to water the plants daily, buy soil/fertilizer and you lose a lot of produce to vermin, the final product costs you about 1,5-3,0x as much as buying the same vegetable organic at the supermarket. There's some exceptions such as certain pumpkin varieties, but you definitely lose money on average if you grow common items.
It's perfectly valid as a hobby but the notion that you can save on grocery costs with a home garden is absurd (spices and herbs excluded).

>>21435405
I find that extremely hard to believe because despite living in America, I'm originally from Italy and have family in CH (Swiss mum) and Munich who are tightwads yet still garden. They wouldn't garden if it cost them more money than buying the vegetables.

I'm too lazy to grow anything.

I do forage when the season is right though. Elderflowers are blossoming now so I'm making a big batch of Elderflower lemonade. Also blueberries, field strawberries grow aplenty here right now.

>>21431437 (OP)
I have around 100 tomatoe plants, some Pepper, cucumber,squash, lettuce, garlic, onion, etc. I grow rare tomatoes that are difficult to grow. I usually give then away to 100s of people during harvest.

>>21435456
Also I have every spice you can imagine from 6 different types of Basil to Summer Savory. Having fresh stuff makes cooking at home 10x better.

>>21435405
You just suck at gardening Kevin

>>21435578
>Kevin
lmao
Do you think he's really one of those? It would make sense. The German equivalent of American white trash, eating money and lying about how it's actually /more/ expensive to simply put effort into something instead of subsisting exclusively on convenience.

>>21435603
>eating money
lmao
WASTING money