What are your most successful homegrown vegetables/fruits?

About a pound total yield on some S5 hybrid.

 

aggie?

 

anybody knows where to get that small asian lemon plant?

 

I love homegrown tomatoes.

 

When I lived in SugarLand, I grew Tomatoes, Delicious Watermelon, Lemon, and cucumbers.

Yes, I have a green thumb. Love growing stuff. I have 3 potato plants growing on my balcony right now.


Watermelon by far was my favorite fruit to grow. It takes a long time (6months IIRC) for them to grow / ripen but when they are ready, it's so nice. Everyday seeing them grow. Loved it, and so did my neighbors.

 

I've picked 25 tomatoes from 6 plants since May 15th. I've also picked 20 sweet banana peppers, a red bell pepper and a yellow bell pepper. Cucumbers are starting to spread but nothing picked so far (planted them late). Eggplant are starting to set but they don't get cranking until late July when it gets really hot.

Those are the veggies I grow in the spring. In the fall and winter I grow broccoli, cauliflower and sugar snap peas.

I have a 12 foot by 12 foot plot in my backyard that is enclosed by a structure made of plastic PVC pipe with bird netting attached to it with kite string and tucked in under the paving stones at the bottom. It's a pain to get inside of there but it definitely keeps the birds, squirrels and possum out.

I bought my house in SW Houston in 2001 and I've been doing this year round since 2002. It tastes so much better than store-bought.

 

I stuck a couple of potatoes in cups (tooth picks to hold them up) with water touching the bottom. (these were potatoes that were kept too long in the pantry and weren't eaten) They grew some roots, and began to grow leaves then transplanted them to pots. (I don't have a yard till I move next month).

I've been growing them like that since I was 5 or so.

 

Oh yeah, my last year I lived in SugarLand I found out by experiment....that you can grow a pineapple plant by taking the cut off top of a fruit and putting it in a pot on top of the dirt maybe just covering the bottom of it with a half inch or so of dirt.

I haven't seen the one plant of mine that is still alive in a year or so, but it was getting really big! (it's in a pot in my grandparents backyard). Left it there when I left to go to school in Switzerland, and now I'm in Nacogdoches.

 

Wait, what are we talking about here ?

 

In SF, we've had good luck with broccoli. The climate is very similar to its homeland in Europe, apparently. But we can never do tomatoes or peppers. Just doesn't get warm enough.

 

In Houston.

Great succuess with grapefruits, lemons, figs, and pomagrant...all planted

Chilcutt

 

We've been growing strawberries in two different plots in our backyard for years now. They are ripe pretty much all summer and are so much better than store bought. We live in the NW, so I think Houston might be too hot for strawberries, but they are so good.

 

Aren't tomatoes harvested in the winter?

 

Nerds.

 

Home Depot has the 87 day watermelons and they're great. Seedless to boot.

 

The most successful fruting plant that I have is the one that I most wish I didn't have.

I have a giant Loquat in my back yard. I've never eaten the fruit, but it fruits like mad in the spring, and all the fruit gets eaten by the squirrels and birds, or it rots on the ground.

 

I've never really tried growing stuff at home (well ok, once, but I don't count that). I'm trying to grow peppers this year... bhut jolokias, charleston hot, and thai sun peppers. I'm sure they'll all die, but hey, I tried...

*EDIT* : Oh, and the above are all being grown in containers.