How many plant a garden to save money on food? What do you grow?

We do. Last year we planted:

Zucchini & Yellow Squash
Cucumbers
Corn (just a couple rows)
Green Peppers
Jalapenos
Habeneros
Red Chilies
Tomatoes
Cantalope
Basil
Oregano

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Marcy
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and angels Nathanial (8/6/97-8/8/97) and Benjamin (8/6/97-8/21/97)

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Last year (my first year ever growing anything) I planted a couple tomato plants. They didn't get staked properly and I lost half the crop to rotting (laying on the ground). But what we had was wonderful!

This year I am planning on doing a garden with the Square Foot Gardening technique. I'm hoping my MIL sticks up for me doing it when my FIL inevitably has a fit LOL.

I want to grow some squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, corn, herbs, and some berries.

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~~Amanda~~ Mommy to one Little Man (3 1/2 yrs old), TTC #2

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I typically just do herbs each summer...

We plant:
tomotoes (three different kinds)
jalapeno peppers
habaneros
chili peppers
banana peppers
cucumbers
dill
basil
thyme
parsley

I had a pretty big garden last summer, and plan to make it bigger this year. We're still eating tomatos, peppers, zucchini, beans, sweet corn. I don't can, but I froze or dehydrated everything. It was a lot of work, but now I'm really glad I did it. I've already got tomato, pepper and watermelon seeds started for this year.

We have just tomatoes in the past, but we're doing a "full" garden this year.

Lettuce (Romaine & Red Leaf)
Tomatoes
Bell Peppers
zucchini
Broccoli
Swiss Chard

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We grow a large garden every year. We freeze and can almost everything we don't eat right away. If one of our crops don't do well, then we buy from local farmers when the crop is in season to can our winter supply.

We usually grow:

tomatoes (a lot...we canned 108 quarts this year, plus 50 quarts of spaghetti sauce)

cherry tomatoes

green bell peppers (a lot, we put them in the tomatoes)

jalepeno peppers

summer squash

acorn squash

winter squash

potatoes

onions

cucumbers

pickles

kohlrabi - (we feed it to our livestock in the winter, I'm not so crazy about it)

sweet corn

romaine lettuce

carrots

cantaloupe

watermelon

sunflowers

pumpkins

That is our typical garden. We are still eating on the tomatoes, winter squash, spag sauce, potatoes and carrots. We've used everything else up already and are hoping to plant more of those things this year.

We also hope to add a couple apple trees, blueberry bushes, red raspberries and strawberries this year.

DH is also building a root cellar so hopefully we can keep the root veggies longer than we can now...right now we just store them in the basment...it's cool, but they don't last as long as we'd like. The potatoes and carrots are getting soft at this point.

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Lancelotacres. Do you have any advice for the newcomers to a garden..

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Yes, I have a garden it's not a very big one since I live intown, I call it my mini one, it's about 4 ft x 24 ft. Last year I planted:

Tomatoes
Onions
Spinach
Loose leaf lettuce
Cucumbers
Potatoes
Zucchini
Chives that come back every year.

I do can and freeze some of this plus sweet corn that I get from the local canning company. I hope to do some expansion this year.

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