Do you grow any of your own food? (landscaping, mushrooms, growing)

[it_serpent]

I've been thinking about planting something like a fruit tree in the yard. I don't know what really, but something that would be easy to take care of and provide some delicious snacks from time to time.

So I thought I'd see what you guys grow, if anything. Any suggestions?

[SATX56]

I'm growing lemons and key limes. Freeze almost killed them a couple years ago or so. I've got a dozen or so bell peppers in a two gallon pot waiting for the picking. Check out Square foot gardening in Garden forum!

[Almrausch]

In summer I grow all our vegetable for eating. What ever I harvest we eat, freeze and can enjoy year round.I grew tomatoes,carrots,beans,okra,herbs,mint,peppers,chi lies,zuccini,cucumbers,and the list goes on...

[ylisa7]

I love growing my own food. Summer time is wonderful.

In my garden I grow onions, lettuce, spinach, green beans, peppers, tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, peas, strawberries and this fall I grew more lettuce, spinach and turnips.

I also have many apple trees and blackberry bushes on my property. Next spring I am adding peach, pear, cherry, plum trees, and blueberry bushes.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

For Thanksgiving, we ate a home raised turkey, home grown parsnips and onions.

I've got about 40 fruit trees and a veggie garden. My freezer is full of home raised chicken, rabbit, and turkey.

I've got herbs, citrus, figs, and pomegranates growing in pots inside my house.

[greatblueheron]

For many yrs I had large gardens...last yr, moved to a townhome. At first I thought fresh vegetables and herbs were out for me...but then I had an atrium indoors/4 walls but NO roof.

This yr, raised potted tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, green beans and a large no of herbs....pots allow no weeds, little to no pests. Easy to pick too.

[mainebrokerman]

I feed the deer across the street to fatten them up....thats pretty close to growing your own food..

[kinkytoes]

Originally Posted by greatblueheron

For many yrs I had large gardens...last yr, moved to a townhome. At first I thought fresh vegetables and herbs were out for me...but then I had an atrium indoors/4 walls but NO roof.

This yr, raised potted tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, green beans and a large no of herbs....pots allow no weeds, little to no pests. Easy to pick too.

An atrium? Sounds beautiful.

OP if you are planning to grow a fruit tree, I would pick one suited to the climate, amount of sun and soil you have. I would actually recommend growing 1 -3 smaller trees if you have the room. Fruit trees do not always produce fruit depending on the weather, etc...so it would be nice to have a couple of choices.

I am attempting to grow my own food. I planted fruit and nut trees, berries and herbs. I put in a veggie garden and grow things organically. Honestly, to me veggie gardening is a lot of work, but I am hopefully getting better at it.

My favorite "food" to grow is ornamental edibles. These are perennials and shrubs which are included in my landscaping, but can be "food" in a pinch. I include blueberries, aronia, pawpaw, camassia quamash, daylilies, lilium henryi, roses w/ hips...etcetera. I try to include medicinal plants, as well.

[Submariner]

We have an orchard which has: Almond, Apples, apricot, Cherry, Chestnut, Elderberry, Ginkgo biloba, Hazelnut, lemon, Mulberry, peach, pear, Pecan, Plum, Walnut, and Witch Hazel.

Our garden produces: asparagus, Beans, beets, Bell peppers, Blackberry, Blueberry, Carrots, Corn, Cranberry, Cucumber, Eggplant, Fig, garlic, Ginseng, Goji, grape, Horse radish, Kale, Lavendar, mint, Leek, onions, oregano, parsley, peppers-hot, pumpkin, Radish, Raspberry, rosemary, sage, Spinach, Squash, Strawberry, tea [Camellia sinensis], thyme, Tomatoes, and zucchini.

I also harvest a marketable amount of fiddleheads, medicinal mushrooms, and resveratrol that grows on my land.

[kinkytoes]

Originally Posted by Submariner

We have an orchard which has: Almond, Apples, apricot, Cherry, Chestnut, Elderberry, Ginkgo biloba, Hazelnut, lemon, Mulberry, peach, pear, Pecan, Plum, Walnut, and Witch Hazel.

Our garden produces: asparagus, Beans, beets, Bell peppers, Blackberry, Blueberry, Carrots, Corn, Cranberry, Cucumber, Eggplant, Fig, garlic, Ginseng, Goji, grape, Horse radish, Kale, Lavendar, mint, Leek, onions, oregano, parsley, peppers-hot, pumpkin, Radish, Raspberry, rosemary, sage, Spinach, Squash, Strawberry, tea [Camellia sinensis], thyme, Tomatoes, and zucchini.

I also harvest a marketable amount of fiddleheads, medicinal mushrooms, and resveratrol that grows on my land.

Ooooh! I love it! I am growing some of the plants you have. Sadly, I can grow "tea oil" camellia, but not camellia sinensis. It is too cold up here.

Do you actually eat the fiddleheads? And what do you do w/ the witch hazel? Is it the native witch hazel?

It makes me feel really happy to see so many people planting things in their yards.