I think tomatoes are the most rewarding - they taste so much better from your own garden & and you get a lot of them. I also find growing herbs and chives to be among the most useful - they can be used in so many recipes.
I have a raised-bed herb garden that is a real pleasure for me. I love going out the kitchen door at dinner time and harvesting basil, cilantro, mint, oregano, etc....
The seven tomato pants in large pots on the patio are another story. I'm averaging about one tomato per pot per week. They appear to have wilt disease. WHAT am I doing wrong?
lori in Pittsburgh
I always have lemons and herbs growing in pots on my cement patio, but only once did I grow tomatoes. The Early Girls were delicious, but by the time I purchased the cages and special food and all the other stuff I needed--not to mention the acquired compulsion to roll the pots around every afternoon to catch the most sun--they probably cost me $5 per pound. So much more relaxing to go to the farmers' marekt....
Having a small herb garden in the window of my downtown apartment has quite honestly changed my cooking and refocused me on using farm-fresh and seasonal produce as the BASIS (and not just an occasional "frill") for my food. I'm now looking to buy a plot of land for no reason other than to plant a garden. Your book, as with much of your writing, helped inspire the dream.
I would like to plant cucumbers,garlic, basil, squashand any veggie I could possibly grow.
Fruit trees and tomatoes. Something other than cacti.
Since my lovable 67 pound labrador likes to eat my tomatoes, I have no other choice than to buy them, and all other produce, at the farmer's market. However, I do grow basil, sage, rosemary and mint; herbs that in my opinion, go with just about anything regardless of the season.
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