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What's growing well for you this year?

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Hi everyone,

I’m new to the forum and just wanted to say hello 👋

I’ve been working with food forests and low-input systems for a while now, but I’m always looking to expand my ideas and get inspired by what other people are doing on the ground.

So I’m curious - what’s been growing really well for you so far this year?

Any surprises, standout performers, or crops that have just absolutely thrived with minimal effort? I’m especially interested in anything that’s doing well in low-input or more resilient setups, but I’d love to hear whatever’s working in your gardens right now.

Looking forward to learning from everyone here.

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John F Dean

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Cabbage! The one vegetable I can never get to grow is doing great.

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This year it has rain 3 or 4 days out of each week.

The grass is growing like weeds, the rose bush has taken off without any roses or deer eating it, and the dog now at 5 1/2 months weights 12 pounds.

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Tomatoes are the standout for me this year. Put in some Sungold and a couple of paste types and they've just gone mental, barely kept up with the staking. Also having a really good year with runner beans which is unusual because they normally sulk if it gets too hot here. Think the slightly cooler start to summer suited them.

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Tromboncino for the win. Absolutely beyond expectations this year. I've grown it the past few years but never got a crop like this year. I have many many pounds in the freezer already of the summer variant and I'm looking forward to letting some big ones harden up for winter squash.

Also called zucchino rampicante.

My growing medium is mostly composted horse manure that a neighbor delivers daily. I finally ran out of rain water this weekend. In Texas if I can use only rainwater (from my storage) this long, it has been a good year. Now to survive the long dry summer!

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An unidentified species of grass - luckily very shallow roots, so easy to pull and drop. Rhubarb - it's winter here in the Southern hemisphere, and it's supposed to be dormant, or at least slow down. However, neither of the plants got the memo. Rampant self-sown loose leaf lettuce. Everywhere, but not in the garden proper. Madder, the colder weather doesn't seem to have slowed it down much, and I'm wanting to harvest the roots.
On the other hand - total failure with the snow peas. They are supposed to be planted round about St. Patrick's day - only one sprouted, and something ate it!

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Garlic went well, radishes went well, day lilies, and I finally convinced my liatris plants to grow flowers!

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