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I can see DF out in her garden with the whip and smacking fruit planets if the get too close to the vegetable plants.

We can't grow anything, the grounds around our house have a really nasty soil content and nothing survives in it.

I won't be planting anything this year except decorative flowers and maybe a few herbs...I was hoping to be in a new place this summer, but that's not going to happen, and there's no point investing in a bunch of plants here since I'm hoping to sell it soon.

Eventually, if I'm ever able to move, I want raspberry and blackberry bushes in right away since they're great after a few years...maybe some high-bush blueberries but I need to look into it. In the veggie garden, I want squash, zucchini, roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and one of a more roundy-traditional variety but I'm not sure yet, cucumbers, bell peppers, hot peppers of some sort, some lettuces, spinach, carrots, onions, garlic, rhubarb, watermelon, pumpkins, green beans, and perhaps a small strawberry patch (strawberry rhubarb pie...yummmmmmmm). I may consider some variety of potato or sweet potato if we have the room...but I'll have to look into it since I've never grown either before. I hate growing corn, and I think it's ugly, so no.

I've also been toying with the idea of growing soybeans to try making my own soy milk (they have a neat press that's not horrifically expensive). Has anyone made their own soymilk and/or grown soy beans? I'd be interested to hear about it.

Nexa

I am so sneaking into Moe's back yard and stealing basil.

We'll probably do container tomatoes and herbs again. We only have a couple tiny patches of yard that get enough sun to grow much, so we're pretty limited. Last year our tomatoes got all diseased which was a big let down. I'm more enthusiastic than skilled in the garden.

You can sneak in to my yard any time.

Last year my squash all had something. I had 6 or 8 plants and got 1 cucumber, 3 zucchini and no yellows. I was so mad. I love making bread with the squash or cooking it up with some risotto.

Maybe your blackberries in Chicago are different than ours, but around here the problem isn't getting them to transplant, it's getting them to stop taking over your entire yard. there are acres and acres of wild blackberries all over the place around here.

They grow insanly fast too. Easilly 6 foot of growth per day on new vine shoots for a larger plant.

I bought mine from here, specifically I picked up five Encore and five Laurens. I would have gone with the transplant option, but all of the wild berries around here are deep purple to black, and I really do prefer the reds.

Hey, they are!

Not that ours aren't invasive.

It's common knowledge that Joph knows nothing about horticulture.

Nexa

You dissin Flea?

Nexa

We're planting 1000lb pumpkins this year.

Oh man, Smash and I watched this crazy documentary last fall about people who grow giant pumpkins and treat them as children and cry when they cut them off the stem and take them to the crazy-hick-people-who-grow-giant-pumpkins-festival on a giant truck. There was sabotage and intrigue and motion sensitive security cameras and night-goggled-shooting of deer and whatnot.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is, ever shot a deer that set off your motion sensitive anti-archnemisispumpkingrowingsabateur camera whilst wearing night vision goggles?

Nexa

Oh, well in that case, want some of the evil invasive fast growing ones of doom? I'm always up for scientifically unsound attempts to introduce a highly competative invasive species into a new area! i'm pretty sure i could ship them to you in a sealed box and leave it in there for a few months and they would still survive. that would probably only **** it off!