Greetings, people.
Migrant from Chowhound here.
Happy to see this thread. We are avid kitchen-gardeners here in Zone 8b of the USA. We live in a urban area, but have a lot of space. We garden mostly in raised beds and behind deer fences. We have two cats, both of whom are diggers, and from which everything also must be protected.
Tomorrow, March 12, is average last frost for our area. Given the current forecast, I imagine we’ll be taking off the winter cloches sometime early next week. We have wintered over a good variety, and started seeding this year’s annuals, both indoors in a greenhouse and directly into the ground.
The current status of our 2022 culinary garden is thus:
Seeded in the greenhouse: tomatoes, onions, leeks, spinach, lettuce, kale, cabbage, basil.
Growing outdoors under cover: shelling peas, spinach, lettuce.
Growing or seeded outdoors without cover: kale, asparagus, broccolini, scallions, leeks, carrots, snap peas, a variety of berries, a variety of stone fruit, apples, pears, grapes and a good herb garden.
As the season progresses, we’ll be adding potatoes, a variety of beans (shelling and green), squashes (summer and winter), corn and cucumbers.
I love cooking from our garden, and try to utilize our bounty as much as possible. What we can’t consume fresh, I will preserve, dehydrate or freeze. If at any time I bore the community with too many photos or too many posts, feel free to let me know I’m being a pest (of the two legged variety).
Here’s a shot of our first, emerging asparagus.
Happy gardening!
