What are you growing this year?

For us we're growing lots of new varieties.

Tomatoes, we're growing Costoluto Genovese, Fiorentino, Gardener's Ecstacy and Millefleur to name a few. They're growing well so far.

Aubergines - all new for us. Organic Diamond, White Sausage, Black Beauty and Raspberry Ripple.

Trying Khol Rabi again - we didnt get to eat it last year!

And I'm going to town with Squashes and Pumpkins. Excited to see if my Pacific Giant will work out this year!

I always try to add at least a few new varieties to my garden. I had a lot of luck with Aunt Molly's ground cherries last year and this year I am trying Strawberry ground cherries. I could not get any of my pineapple ground cherry seeds to germinate and I tried from 2 different vendors. I am also trying Blott Peppers, Hamik Peppers and Shishito Peppers for the first time ever.

That's great! I had no idea Physalis were called ground cherry. I only knew them as Cape Gooseberry. We had quite some success with those last year and this year we have quite a lot of plants starting to take off as well (including some that self-seeded in the greenhouse). I have no idea of the variety though.

When you start to get a harvest I would be interested in seeing pictures!

I am trying a new tree, Algarobo Europeo, they grow this tree in Spain ..the fruits can be used to replace cacao. About eight years until first harvest .. :-( , I bought twenty seeds ( 1 US each) and only three germinated so far.

I will absolutely share pics. My two "strawberry" ground cherry bushes are HUGE and I can see fruit starting already. Here are a couple of pics from my recent YouTube video showing my ground cherry plant with my first ground cherry of the year. The white is Surround Kaolin Clay i sprayed on to help deter insects and help with the heat.