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We planted a week early this year and OF COURSE it's freezing tonight.
We planted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, kale, spinach, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, banana peppers, cucumber, pumpkins, and will plant zucchini and peas once I find some.

Its a little more than usual but not overly. We did get some laying hens this year also, we've had them on/off in the past but nice to always have eggs! We also have a beef cow we are raising for meat (we do this yearly but it will be extra nice this year with the meat shortage!)

@gotkimchi: Yes, we live in the country and have a small barn. My DH has all the equipment to do our own processing also.
We've done meat chickens in the past - but I can't handle the smell/plucking, so not doing that again, lol.

We are gardening. We garden every year and originally planned to take this year off so we could do some other things this summer. But with the way things are now we decided to do a scaled back garden since we will be home. Our scaled back garden is still a decent size.

We are trying out starting some produce from seeds this year. Tomatoes and sugar snap peas have done well and are outside in containers now. We just started cucumbers, and they are sprouting quickly. Our strawberry seedlings are coming along, but so slowly! If we get the plants outside by the 4th of July I will be surprised. Ah well, I don't know what I'm doing anyway . . .

We did cucumbers, tomatoes and herbs last year. Since that was a success, this year I've added carrots, radishes, lettuce and cabbage. My radishes and carrots and lettuce are all in the ground and doing well. Cucumbers just went in but with the frost might try again if my drop cloth didn't keep them warm enough. Tomatoes I'll wait another week or so since here they don't do great until consistently warm. I'm amazed how much I can put in with a pretty small space. And the kids are loving checking on things.

@josina: I hear you! Ughhhhh.

Love this! We have a bunch of fruit trees (lemon, lime, fig, persimmon), some herbs and blueberry bushes in our back yard. We also have two small raised beds that I grow fruits and veggies in each year.

This year, I decided to try direct sowing, since I wasn’t sure about the status of our nursery, etc. It has gone well so far, knock on wood! ha. Darn rolly pollies have gotten to some of the seedlings, but we are fending them off, I’ve resown some things, and most seem to be coming up okay.

This year, I’m growing a couple different types of cherry tomatoes, collard greens, sweet peas, snap peas, bell peppers, green pole beans, red Chinese noodle beans, strawberries, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, watermelons, and another type of melon. Excited to see what works!