What was your greatest gardening success?

Sara: What was your greatest gardening success?
Most of the trees I’ve planted grew well, and I’ve had wonderful crops of tomatoes, watermelon, peppers, and pumpkins.
What do you remember as your best gardening successes?

Answers and Views:

Answer by John Gaddis
Our greatest success was having vegetables come up that we didn’t plant.

Answer by Ceiling Catte
We grow a lot of our own veggies. This year, to cut back on water use, we decided to mulch heavily with pea straw. Now we have a great crop of peas coming up that we didn’t plant LOL. There’s nothing better than fresh baby peas straight from the pod.

Answer by Devilishly Sexy Eartha™
Strawberries are always a treat for me. And cherry tomatoes. I eat those whenm I’m weeding or propagating…my reward for effort. I have a fine passionfruit vine at present which is providing some very welcome summer shade over the back verandah.

I once grew a square tomato for a bet…I was pretty proud of that. I made a wire box form and grew the tomato into it. Lmao….the guy at work I made the bet with actually paid me out $ 20!!

My favourite to look at were a whole raft of ornamental chillis I grew as a border one year. They ranged in colour through red and green, blue, purple, yello….like a rainbow. And the more you picked the fruit the more it flowered till they looked like a row of little Christmasd trees ranged along the pathway.

Trouble was the chillis were so frighteningly hot that they blistered your lips if you were so much as to touch your mouth to them!!

(((Sarah)))

Answer by cajundude1
It wasn’t me but my neighbor told me he had planted one acre of cucumbers to sell at the farmers market. He had so many that he couldn’t get rid of them all and never again did that again, even though he had a lot of help.

Answer by Bingabells
I’ve always had a modicum of success with most things,but this one astonished me.We moved house & I dug up my ranunculus bulbs and took them with me.I don’t know why because they never did much at my previous home.Five years after moving I came across them in an old box of bits & pieces so I stuck them in a garden near my front steps.Imagine my surprise when they grew & produced more blooms than I’d ever seen on them in the past.I did nothing apart from put them in the ground & water them.

Answer by Christian M
I struggled with gardens for several years and then I made up my mind to not struggle any longer. The first time I dug out my garden beds twenty inches deep and threw away the dirt then filled them up with hand made compost and soil mixed fifty fifty. Each bed was four feet by twenty five feet and there were ten of these. I had two five foot by five foot by four foot high compost bins that I kept going year in and year out and would turn them twice a week to keep them hot and active. When they would cool to where they no longer increased heat when turned they went into the beds and a new pile begun. This went on for nearly five years and when I was done the garden would produce as if it were Wonderland. I gardened there for ten years and when my wife and I sold the house and moved the new owners turned it into a parking lot for their junk cars. But I harvested many memories and much knowledge. I have built two other garden in the same manner during my life and every one was worth the effort because I have never seen another garden that produced or provided more amazing results. And I kept me fit without having to spend money on a gym membership.

Answer by Lindyjn
Actually it was a friend of mine who astonished everyone with some dried up, faded, really old peach seeds that had been laying on the ground. Someone had eaten peaches many years before and had thrown out the seeds. She planted those and they made the most productive peach trees for many, many years. She had an good sized orchard from them.

For myself, I planted some tomato plants in my back yard and they made large tasty tomatoes. My son just dug some holes and we planted the plants, hoed them.

Answer by glenn t
grapefruit tree in zone 7

Answer by gagan_g
you can find some good tips here

Answer by reynwater
Growing 10 + ft tall Cyperus papyrus from seed.

Answer by Just Be
The second year I tried a vegetable garden I planted a full garden & it was amazing!
The corn was beautiful & I had to give away squash!
I had some trouble with the coons eating the melons before I could pick them, but then we started leaving cat food at the feeding stations for the coons & it got better, LOL!
Fresh veggies out of your own garden are so much more enjoyable than anything you can buy in the store.
We once planted a Dogwood tree in the yard.
They are notorious for failure to thrive when planted.
Ours thrived!
I have a 21/2 foot tall Bonsai that is over 10 years old!
I love that Bonsai as if it were my child!
These successes came hard won after several failures.
My first veggie garden was a disaster, but I learned & modified.
Many Blessings!

Answer by DRICH
growing lima beans in a plastic baggy

Answer by Frogon Frogon
When I planted a tree and it grew a bit bigger every day. Now its huge with oranges falling.

Answer by Mark Spencer
burying my mother in it

Answer by Jake L
Running over my carrots with the tiller.