2026 gardening thread, whatcha got going on in the yard this year? Even house plants are ok.

Saltwater60 said:

I have to say I like my grow bags much more than my raised beds or 5-gallon buckets. I think things perform much better.
I do a lot with a little space honestly. I have really great soil and management practices so I get high yields. I grow in an area that is maybe 15’ by 25’ and one other area that is maybe 8’ by 8’.i also have some fruit trees and a strawberry patch then two large raspberry patches so maybe it is kind of larger. I guess it’s all relative though. I also rotate and pair plants together really well. Also once I’m done with something I add something else in so I’ll do lettuce and spinach in spring then do carrots, then in the fall head back to lettuce and carrots. I push the envelope and get really big plants in the ground. I’ll start my peppers in about 2-3 weeks. Then my tomatoes and some herbs in the second week in March. They are producing by the time I pop them in the ground. Some last year were 24-34” tall by the time they were put in the ground.
I want to get rid of my raised beds and 5- gallon buckets and get those self watering grow towers.
the other thing I will add is I do have a big garden. Almost my entire yard is gardens, patios, and ponds but a lot of it is ornamental flowers. I have a double lot and almost no grass. I can cut my grass in under 10 minutes.
I think 3 of these will fit me more space back and be more productive. They also have a wheeled base. I just don’t have a spare $1,000 for them right now.

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GTN said:

Oh it sounded like you had a really really big garden. I have-
16 27gal boxes
5 10 gal bags
20ish 5 gal buckets
2 100 gal livestock troughs. (No idea why I thought I needed something that big)
A bunch of 1 gal grow bags for herbs

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S&W Fan said:

That’s a fair amount of real estate for growing vegetables. You could grow an awful lot of veggies, especially using the square foot method.

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