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2026 garden season, what are you growing?

So far my seed order has 2 types of lettuce, spinach, carrots, broccoli raab, cabbage, beans, peas, taters(seed taters), onions(sets)... I will pick up tomato plants in May, and pepper plants. Maybe some strawberries to start in a raised bed. Cukes and squash/pumpkins too have been ordered. Cutting back more this year, my back is not happy with me lately!

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #1 –
Mary B;
We grow our veggies from saved seeds.
Got 12 Beefsteaks 12 heirloom 12 sweet 100s. All in 6" pots just waiting for this weekend's snow before they go outside to harden off.
Butternut Squash 3 plants for us, 2 plants for Marsha the Marsupial :_)
two types of cucumbers 1 for making fridge pickles :-)
Trying out 3 different types of Okra this year.
Couple mild peppers
Tons of flowers
3 1/2 meter flats of leaf lettuce.
trying out indoor planting of spinach , held up well over the winter in our basement.

Cheers
Bruce S

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #2 –
I have grown spinach in winter is my south facing bay window, lettuce too! Gets a LOT of sun and lettuce does okay with shorter days. Slower to bolt. It just bolted 2 weeks ago and got bitter! Small 24 inch by 12 inch flats but I am just feeding myself and lettuce regenerates after being picked. Beginning of March I think it starts to get to much sun heat during the day...

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #3 –
We do leaf lettuce in containers now , can't keep up with the rabbits! freezers currently full.

We found out the hard way , our resident marsupial (Marsha) likes young spinach leaves.
 Don' t mind too much as she hates squirrels and runs them off, right up a tree and out of the area if she sees them, but those leave looked so good,,, right up till she ate them.

We've done spinach in our cool basement in different years, always does really well, but the local Farmers were all but giving it away so we stopped. We're now back doing it since prices are going nuts for this stuff.

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #4 –
Most of my seed order came in, squash I like was out of stock already... then I need to buy 4 tomato plants and 2 jalapeno pepper plants, seed potatoes, and onion starts

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #5 –
Weather here finally settled down so we can get the tomatoes and squash out to harden off.
Okra along with herbs are staying inside for the time being.

Cheers
Bruce S

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #6 –
Thought about okra but nobody else will eat it... I like it in gumbo in the fall...

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #7 –
We use OKRA in a variety of things, good in a gumbo, great as a soup thickener and if ALL HELL breaks loose it's a half decent substitute for coffee. Takes a boat load of seeds to make even a 10 cup pot, BUT when 1 plant will make pods until the freeze kills the plant  ;) .

Cheers
Bruce S

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #8 –
Nice 80 degree day yesterday(I am NOT used to heat LOL ) so I cleared all the winter debris out of my raised bed, dug up crab grass roots as much as possible(impossible to get them all). One bed is a mess, need to turn all the soil over and sift out roots. Just half a 55 gallon barrel so won't be to much of a back killer...

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #9 –
Didn't get much done lately.
A nice short vacation to KC that met us with a tornado , then another down in Belton, MO.
Weather that had all kinds of warnings going off headed into StL once again causing our tomato stakes to end up outside of the yard.
Luckily they're still to short to stake up.
Squash and Cucumbers all have pretty flowers on them so we had to quickly erect rabbit barriers.
Still no room in the freezers for more rabbits  8) .
Here's hoping the weather gets back to normal soon!!

Cheers!!
 

Re: 2026 garden season, what are you growing?

Reply #10 –
I hear you on weird weather... it was 95f in my part of MN yesterday!

Checked raised bed soil temps at 4" deep... still a touch to cold to plant. Another week will do it. Smaller beds were 55f, big 12x4' bed 49f.