How does your garden grow?

[ralgith]

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I love some fresh, home grown veggies! Tomatoes especially...always better than the stuff in the stores.

*cough* Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable. *cough*

Twitch got screwed on them a bit last year, but the best sandwich tomato ever is the "Park's Whopper". Huge tomatoes like Beefteaks and Beefmasters, but with a more solid firm flesh like a Roma and a delicious sweet flavor. Yum. You can buy plants or seeds (from the link above for the plant, and just search their seed section for seeds) on their website, or you can buy plants at Lowes stores and some other places. I've been growing them every year now since 2006 and I love them. 5xPark's Whoppers, 5xRomas, and 3 Hanging Baskets of 3 plants each Sweet 100 Cherries. Yes, I have a huge garden. 25'x25' for 625 sqft. I also grow a bunch of peppers (mult-colored bells, jalapenos, habaneros, red chillie, and cayenne), several types of squash, broccoli, corn (new this year), lettuce, bush pickles (yes I actually make homemade dill pickles), cukes, bush green beans, canteloupe, and red, early green, and late green cabbage (for my gf, I hate the stuff - though IIRC we're dropping the red this year) in my garden. I'm dropping watermelon this year for the corn.

Yeah, yeah, but what about my layout and the asparagus dilemma?

I never saw them make bushes like they say in that second posts link either. All I ever saw were the shoots popping out of the ground.

I don't see where it says they make bushes. It just says they can grow to 5' high. No one lets them get that big because you want to harvest them young and tender. Yes I think you should swap with the tomatoes for location because they are a perennial and you want them "out of the way" to grow for a couple years. Strawberries are also non-harvest the first year. They will probably grow fruit, but you shouldn't pick them during year 1.