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I have some basil, lemon verbena, lemon balm and rosemary sitting in the sunroom. I didn't realize I bought to early  . Hopefully, I'll get them in the ground early next week.
I also want to do some hollyhocks, sunflowers, and a butterfly garden.
I will probably do 4-5 tomato plants, I'm the only one who eats them.  Some peas, and a few pepper plants.
And hopefully some raspberries
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Mmmmm...sounds great Mary Chris!
Right now we have a small garden - maybe 4 by 6? We have some spinach and arugala growing pretty well, and some lettuce that just sprouted. Tomatoes are peeking out, carrots and basil are still hiding. I have some flowers too, I think zinneas and marigolds?
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We're still deciding! For sure tomatoes, sunflowers, potatoes, onions, corn (no luck last year), peas, beans, squash, maybe melon, watermelon, and pumpkins.
I'm thinking about trying herbs.
We're not going to add anything new to our flower gardens -- just divide I think.
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We are growing tomatoes, peppers, 4 kinds of squash, watermelon, canteloupe, marigolds, basil, oregano, cilantro, parsley, cucumber, peanuts, heat resistant lettuce, and snap beans. We have sunflowers growing already. I am going to plant some herbs in three tier baskets for healing and homeopathic uses: lavendar, lemon balm, chamomile, verbena, and some others.
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I just put in my lettuce and carrots on Saturday. Soon as I can turn over the rest of the garden I will plant some Roma tomatoes, basil, pumpkins, butternut squash, peas, and watermelon. Not all go in the vegie garden--the squash and watermelon go in some spaces in the gardens around the house since they take up a lot of room. I hope the bunnies don't eat them.
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Our stuff is coming up on the widowsill (still much too cold for planting!)
I have three different tomatoes planted (about 6 of each), jalepenos, green peppers, heaps of basil and cilantro, buttercrunch, romaine and red leaf lettuces, morning glories, foxglove, and I think that is it.
When it gets nicer we will plant spinach, kale and peas outside. Later the beans go in.
We live right downtown so I have to be pretty creative with space. I think a bunch of our tomatoes will go in large pails this year as a sort of fence to our bean and squash area.
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We'll do tomatoes, peppers, squash, carrots, lettuce, cantelope, watermelon, some basil, more strawberries...
It's too cold for much yet, but I am starting some seeds inside.
We're also putting in some fruit trees & bushes!
Don't get me started about flowers! 
BTW--if you want to read a perfectly delightful gardening book, I HIGHLY recommend Down the Garden path by Beverly Nichols. He is called the PG Wodehouse of gardeners....
Enjoy!
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We planted cabbage, romaine lettuce, spinach, onions, tomatoes, broccoli, eggplant, squash, corn and carrots.
We also have strawberries, grapes, a cherry tree and a peach tree. And we also planted sunflowers for our sunflower house. 
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We bought seeds for gourds, cantaloupe, brussels sprouts, lettuce (two different kinds), spinach, bush beans, snow peas, swiss chard, sunflowers, zinnias and pumpkins. We'll buy starts for tomatoes and peppers too, probably a couple of different kinds for each. I hope we're not doing too much...
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52 cloves of garlic
Egyptian walking onions
Black kabouli garbanzo beans, just because
Blue Coco pole bean
lettuces and other greens, rainbow chard
Purple Broccoli
cauliflower
peppers
garland chrysanthemum (a vegetable used in Chinese cuisine)
poppies
celosia
cilantro
rosemary
lavender
and too many others (I've got about 26 kinds sprouts that hopefully will survive the week until I get back home)
The other day I was planting up front -- neighbor goes, "Planting? What kind of flowers?"
Me: No, purple broccoli. I thought they might look good with the muscari and brunnera here....
Neighbor goes, ahhhh.... looking at me as if I were nuts.  It seems a cottage garden where there's a nice mingling of veggies-herbs-flowers is unheard of here.
We have a big enough yard, but not enough beds, and no time right now to dig more beds, so I'm taking every space that I see and just putting something in it that needs planting. So I've got zucchini in front, and a lumina pumpkin that I hope will bear good fruit for the fall.
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tomatoes
pototoes
peppers
green beans
onions
watermelons
pumpkins
strawberries
lavender
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Pumpkins, zucchini, tomatoes, LOTS of basil, oregano, bell peppers (lots of them; they did well), strawberries, wildflowers...
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Stef,
Garlic in the spring? I thought I'd missed the boat when I didn't plant in the fall. Could you give a garlic mini-tutorial?
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So one clove a week? That's your estimate?
And how do onions walk?
I don't know what I'm planting except the 3 heirloom tomato plants I have in my kitchen. I don't think any vine plants this year. Mostly herbs, tomatoes, peppers. A few carrots maybe.
I find lettuce and spinach season is short around here, since it gets so hot so early.
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We are container gardening. I have containers with tomatoes, strawberries, green, yellow and red peppers, cilantro and rosemary on the deck. Also dwarf sunflowers for the littles. Matthew has a wading pool with corn and jack-be-littles. Andrew has a wading pool with zucchini, Nick has a wading pool with Easter egg radishes and mini carrots. Abby has our old sandbox filled with flowers - snapdragons, marigolds, hollyhocks, sweet peas and phlox. My broccoli in containers died in all the rain last week
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We planted about a week ago and already have a lot of sprouts! We are cautiously excited! (this is our first year gardening!!) :)
We planted:
tomatoes
spinach lettuce (can anyone tell me if this is difficult? Ours doesn't appear to be doing well?)
cucumbers
squash
zucchini
watermelon
canteloupe
corn
Oh and a sunflwer garden that we planted a few weeks ago! The "mammoth" ones are already about 3-4 inches tall!!
I will say that we let the kids pick out something to plant, thus the canteloupe and watermelon, I would not have likely been that adventurous in our first year!
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Candace,
I remember watermelon being easy and had some cantalope freebies from our compost--also easy care. Hope you have the luck we did.
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Oh what a fun topic. We've been talking about it over here, too.
We're blessed to be able to use Brian's family's farm for some of our needs. Here's our list:
Homestead (Brian's family's farm):
Sweet potatoes
Corn
Beans for drying (interplanted with the corn)
cukes
squash (winter and summer)
pumpkins
melons (maybe)
beets
Home:
'maters
eggplants
peppers
green beans
peas
cabbages
broccoli
cauliflower
salad greens
herbs
I'm also looking forward to establishing the flower beds this year - SO much gardening, so little time.
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Peas, lettuce and onions are in.
Rasberries are moved and the rails on the rebuilt fence are up--pickets to follow.
With the fence rebuild we had to dig a few more post holes so I can say that we have already harvested a good crop of rock-shale this spring.
Broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, and brussel srpouts later today.
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Nothing yet, it's too early in the Northeast. But I do have some basil on my windowsill growing, and I love to smell it! 
What I will be planting in another month (hopefully less) this year is our Mary Garden (usually Impatiens, Pansies, some Marigolds, Petunias, and I just love Dahlias). I want to also look for some more perennials this year. She also has two rosebushes, one white, one pink on either side of her....well, when she comes out for from the garage after the winter.
My hyacinths already bloomed, and my lilac bushes (one purple, one white)are just beginning to bloom now. They were Mother's Day gifts that I just love!
This year, I also want to do some veggies (though it's usually a gift to the rabbits  ), but I'd like some tomatoes, zucchini, and not sure what else I may try this year. I may try container veggie gardening, in hopes I may actually get something to USE this year!!! 
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