What’s going on in your garden (2025)?

Wombat457 said:
So what would you guys suggest to start with in southern NYS?

I would be thinking Peas and Tomatoes maybe?
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Zucchini are great - very easy to grow and prolific. Tomatoes are also great, really nothing better than a home-grown tomato.

If you don’t want to fuss about with starting seeds indoors, then you can always buy seedlings and stick ‘em in the ground after the last frost. Do you have a spot that gets full sun?
 
Herbaceous said:
Zucchini are great - very easy to grow and prolific. Tomatoes are also great, really nothing better than a home-grown tomato.
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We both love tomatoes so they will be a go at some point. I love cooked zuchinni, onions and tomato so yep - they'll be in as well :)
Herbaceous said:
If you don’t want to fuss about with starting seeds indoors, then you can always buy seedlings and stick ‘em in the ground after the last frost. Do you have a spot that gets full sun?
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Oh yeah, the entire side of our home gets sunlight from dawn to dusk.
 
Wombat457 said:
We both love tomatoes so they will be a go at some point. I love cooked zuchinni, onions and tomato so yep - they'll be in as well :)

Oh yeah, the entire side of our home gets sunlight from dawn to dusk.
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You should be good for the sun situation then.

Beans are also super easy to grow - if you get bush beans, you won’t need to provide a trellis or any support. The first year I planted them, we were eating beans at least twice a week all summer! The variety “royal burgundy” is very nice - the pods are a beautiful purple colour and turn green when cooked.
 
I’ve been thinking or mentally making a list of what to plant next year. Jan 18 is our last frost date, so I can start the seedlings indoors.

Here is my list so far, everything else is added later if I have time or space
Tomatoes
1 Sun Gold Cherry tomato, only one plant because one is enough, however, I might try sowing a few more as backup. Last year the birds ate my tomatoes and left my blueberries alone. Have to have something to distract them. Sun Gold tomato is very sweet, prolific, and good. The only problem is I have to pick them frequently, I get tired of it.
1 Black Krim, my favorite black tomato variety, I need to have a few plants for back up
1 Beefsteak type, I need large size tomatoes for BLT
1 red Japanese variety, someone online recommended this variety for me last year, but I was only able to get the orange variety, I want the red
EDIT to add - 1 paste variety for sun dried tomatoes
Cucumbers
1 pickle variety, last year I had none, I used something else and the pickles were not good
1 Japanese variety
1 crispy crunch like Diva
Zucchini
A yellow squash
A green variety, last year I had 6-7 sprouted, it was too much
 
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SoCalZone10 said:
I’ve been thinking or mentally making a list of what to plant next year. Jan 18 is our last frost date, so I can start the seedlings indoors.

Here is my list so far, everything else is added later if I have time or space
Tomatoes
1 Sun Gold Cherry tomato, only one plant because one is enough, however, I might try sowing a few more as backup. Last year the birds ate my tomatoes and left my blueberries alone. Have to have something to distract them. Sun Gold tomato is very sweet, prolific, and good. The only problem is I have to pick them frequently, I get tired of it.
1 Black Krim, my favorite black tomato variety, I need to have a few plants for back up
1 Beefsteak type, I need large size tomatoes for BLT
1 red Japanese variety, someone online recommended this variety for me last year, but I was only able to get the orange variety, I want the red
EDIT to add - 1 paste variety for sun dried tomatoes
Cucumbers
1 pickle variety, last year I had none, I used something else and the pickles were not good
1 Japanese variety
1 crispy crunch like Diva
Zucchini
A yellow squash
A green variety, last year I had 6-7 sprouted, it was too much
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Wow, that's a fantastic last frost date. I can't gety plants in the ground until the middle of April.
 
Barriehie said:
Wow, that's a fantastic last frost date. I can't gety plants in the ground until the middle of April.
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It’s plus and minus with our weather, I don’t get enough chill hours for some fruit trees, so now I just grow more tropical fruit trees, we’re sub-tropical, not quite tropical either, so some will die like my recent wax Jambu.
 
Here is my first blueberry of the season, it was good, very big fruit for blueberries, this variety is Emerald, early season, Southern Highbush variety, very low chill requirement.

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Better view here for size, the size of a nickel or quarter even

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Here is my first Atemoya ever from my garden, variety is African Pride #2, maybe from Australia
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My lone grapefruit, the size of a pomelo, I don't really like to eat grapefruit but I grow grapefruit for the fragrance, I put a beach chair near here and just enjoy the fragrance.

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This is Gold Nugget, the first year it’s productive because I mistreated it before
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