Does anyone here grow their own vegetables?

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I'd take a pic of my garden but it's night time, so have to wait 'til later. Here's a pick from last year's pumpkin patch. We planted about 2 acres of giant jack-o-lanterns but because the drought was so severe, we only got about 40 out of the whole plot, and only three of them weighed more than 40lbs.

Here's a pumpkin flower:

I will someday..

And never eat another processed thing ever again!!

I've tried to insert pictures but it's not working. Posting the link to photobucket doesn't display the photos here.

Anyway, if anyone wants to see pics of my garden, here are the links:

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I have a large, flat, treeless, astro-turf-like back yard, so I tried vegetable gardening for several years. However, Atlanta's imprenatrable red clay, 100f summers highs, 0f winter lows, and humid-yet-rainless summers hampered my efforts.

Instead of vegetables, I decided to plant carnivorous plants, which do fine as long as I keep them watered.

My venus flytraps just woke up from their winter dormancy.

If I had a garden, I would grow all of my own herbs and most of my own vegetables. I grow, in pots, mint and basil. Maybe after the next time I move I'll grow my own potatoes.

I have started growing vegies for a few months now. My successes were a great big wall of parsley (650 g worth), lots of lettuce (although it is hard to grow them now because it is late spring and the sun is fierce) and a few potatoes. Right now, I am growing a line of carrots and of beetroot, some tomatoes and pumpkins and a strawberry.

i grow chile peppers and some herbs(parsley and basil). i tried green onions but those stupid tiny green things! gah! fribble shnibble!

My parents grow raspberries, black currant, chokecherry, rhubarb and peas in our backyard.

In my house in France, we have a small garden where we grow carrots, tomatoes, orange trees and olive trees (we're in the south side of France).
In my uncle house, he likes growing a green vegetable that you can smoke (He's a hippie)

My garden is very young. We expect our first grapes this year, and our passion-fruit vine is currently carrying its first real crop (we got two fruit from it last year lol).

We have a thornless blackberry in the ground that produced about half a dozen berries last year. We have some ebony raspberries that I propagated from a mother plant last year, we will plant them into the ground when they die off at the end of the season, so I do not expect fruit from them until probably the season after next. We have another berry of some kind that will probably give half a dozen fruit this year, we'll propagate from it at the end of the season and plant the results in at the end of next season. We also have a logan berry which seems to have set fruit well this season.

We are currently harvesting strawberries, although not many. We have not quite got them right yet, but expect to have them sorted in a couple of seasons. We have been constantly harvesting silver-beet for months. We think our garlic failed this year though, and all our rocket salad has gone to seed.
We have lots of parsley, a little mint and a couple of varieties of tyme. Our baby bay-leaf 'trees' have been pitiful for two years, but have grown heaps this spring for some reason. Our rosemary does not grow fast enough, so I'll have to get more I think to keep up with our use-demand. We also have a couple of 'curry plants'.
We have a few beet-root dotted about the garden, our success with beet-root has been mixed.
We've tried carrots, but our soil is not suitable.
We've failed with potatoes twice before, but are giving it another go. We are also trying buttercup squash this year, water-melon and rock melon. We are retrying zucchini after an unsuccessful attempt last year, and another lot of cucumber (which worked well last year) and a different variety of cucumber (apple).
We had poor results from capsicans (bell peppers) last year, but are trying again this year, they seem to be doing better. My partner's chilli/hot peppers (he has two kinds) did well last year and look good this year. Our lime bearss citrus tree which only held one fruit last year looks like it will hold onto a few dozen this time.
Our spring onions are ok, some have bolted, as has our bok choy.
Lastly, our tomatoes (we are growing a regular size and a cherry variety this year) are doing much better than last season (we were super clueless about what we were doing, and still are mostly fumbling our way through things).
We also have corn planted this season for the first time, we're not sure if they'll work.

[quote = "Greyhound] Do you live in the southern hemisphere? [/quote]

Yes I live in the southern hemisphere.

I'm sure some do,But I do not.