With a newborn... weeds, and whatever came up from last year - chives, mint and cilantro.

I have two edible gardens in the front of my house. I have a hill that leads up to the house and I didn't want to mow it as it's quite steep. I ripped out all the grass (only semi successfully) and replaced it with Mediterranean herbs (thyme, oregano, rosemary, lavender, mint, basil, sorrel, tarragon, camomile, and a few others) and some peppers for fun. Up top, I've started a small (5x5) veggie garden that has raspberries, tomatoes, squash, and eggplant. I've already harvested two squash and the tomatoes are starting to produce. Next year, I'd like to plan it out a little better and grow some different things. I love harvesting things that come from my own garden.

My raised beds totally exploded in the last two weeks: berries, tomatoes, radish, carrots, snow peas, onions and zuchini. My arugula all bolted before I could use it, so I replanted. Herbs that I thought had totally died in my herb bed (not shown) came back (and in many places). Flat leaf pasley grows like a weed!

Should you not eat the arugula and spinach once they bolt? Also, did you start the eggplant, zucchini, and peppers from plants or seeds? My eggplants and peppers are slow to get going.

Can I ask a question -- in that picture of a zucchini, I see you've cut off something from the plant. Are these some of the blossoms that don't seem to be fruit bearing? On my zucchini plant I have a few of those blossoms (ie non-fruit bearing) and I'm not sure if I should leave them be or if I should pluck them.

As for the question itself: I've got zucchini, crookneck squash, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers (jalapeno and poblano), mint, sage, and basil. This is the first year I've ever planted anything, so I'm pretty eager to watch everything grow and start to blossom and bear fruit. So fun! (So tasty!)

I live in a suburban townhouse. I have an herb garden in my front yard and 15 gallon pots on my deck for my vegetable garden. This year I planted:
Tomatoes: speckled roma and jaune flamme.
cucumbers: lemon cucumber
Peas: sugar ann snap peas and green arrow english peas
carrots: cosmic purple
peppers: cherry bomb
lettuce: thom thumb

And here I was so proud of myself for planting two tomato (Early Girl and Sweet 100) plants and a sweet red pepper. We would do more but iIn years past, our labrador would eat the vegetables off the vine. One morning the fruit would be there, later that afternoon they were gone. It wasn't until I caught her in the act until we were on to her shenanigans. Now that she's pushing 11, we are hoping her veggie theft is behind her (fingers crossed).

ek76, some say that arugula gets bitter when it is bolting, but I still find it just fine to eat.

You name it, I am growing it. I am battling the birds to pick the tomatoes and berries (I'll create cages next year because bird netting is a pain). My spinach, lettuce, arugula, peas, and favas have finished up with the onset of summer, but cucumbers and winter and summer squash are taking their place. Peppers and eggplant are coming in. I have black eyed peas and lima beans, various herbs, and rhubarb that I'll harvest next year. I don't stop when summer ends, I use cold frames when necessary, but a lot of things thrive in fall/early spring--even in winter you can get greens with a little row cover in a lot of places.

@ek76 my arugula got pretty bitter & super spicy - not necessarily because it bolted, but because it has been hot here. I need to find a good summer lettuce - any suggestions?

And yes, I bought the eggplant and peppers as starts. Like I said, I don't have a good setup for starting hot weather plants, and I've had poor success. Buying the plants isn't much more costly than buying seed, especially when I am just planting a few things, and the convenience is worth it for me.

@laetitiae I am actually having raccoon problems, and this zucchini is right by a little ramshackle pond in our yard. I think it steps on the plants every night when it goes to drink. So this and the zucchini next to it have had a lot of snapped off limbs the last few nights.

We're going to start setting a humane trap for the critter...

@ek76 - like ValHalla said, bolting of greens can cause bitterness

@laetitiae - the flowers without fruit are the males; you will need male flowers to provide the pollination for the female (fruit-bearing) flowers in order to get a crop from your zukes so you don't want to pluck them all. If you want to make stuffed squash blossoms, feel free to pick some, just know that it might impact your overall yields. Good luck on your first garden!

I am growing: artichoke, rhubarb, strawberries, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, garlic, onions (about to harvest), corn, beans, herbs, winter squash, summer squash/zucchini, cucumbers, chard and lettuce. That's it for now...

I love your photo of the geraniums!

I just read "My Antonia" about how hard the immigrant women worked in the fields out west in the 1880's, and I'm feeling like a total slacker. All I did were flowers this year--not even a tomato plant.

Thanks so much for the info! I pruned a few of the bottom leaves that were wilting/turning yellow but have left all the male flowers. I want as many zucchinis this season as I can handle!

This year the goal of my garden was to plant stuff that you can't get at the grocery. I also went a little overboard with the tomatoes, I just kept on seeing ones that I wanted to try. I also planted some stuff from seed for the first time, very exciting!

Tomatoes:
sun gold (the sweetest orange cherry tomatoes ever)
yellow cherry
Tangerine (got at a plant fair, an orange beef steak that is supposed to be even better for you than a traditional one)
a pink tomato (also bought at the plant fair)
Black krim
green zebra
pineapple

Eggplant:
Rosa Bianca
Millionaire Tycoon
and then another one, not sure what it is, lost the tag

Beans: yellow, purple, green
Peas: super sugar snap
Cucumber: lemon (round and yellow)
Peppers: cherry peppers, Pinot Noir, and then a pepper that is like a jalapeno but doesn't have the spice
Tomatillo: purple
Carrots: kaleidoscope mix
Lettuce: red leaf mix, romaine
Onions: Vidalia
Squash: light green and bright yellow patty pan

Herbs: chives (out of control!!), pineapple sage, cilantro, basil, Thai basil, pink creeping thyme, garlic chives, Greek oregano, flat leaf parsley, lemon balm, Kentucky derby mint

Wow! I don't know how I made the room, but I somehow did. My garden is mostly in raised beds that used to have flowers. Also had to get some pots to make more room. I can't wait for more to be ready to harvest!!

I've got 4 amish paste, 2 big boys, a yellow pear and a sweet 100 tomato plants, zucchini and summer squash, green and yellow beans, radishes, beets, tomatillos, onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, 2 kinds of lettuce and a bunch of herbs. I'm trying to grow potatoes in a 5 foot high round tomato cage that I keep filling with composted leaves, hopefully I'll get a good crop.

i have a big balcony, so far the only things that are actually growing are cherry tomatoes, green onions, mint, and cilantro. I had some other stuff but it didnt make it! :(

I also have a lot of flowers: Nasturtium (one of my favs and also apparently edible!), marigolds, zinnia, dwarf sunflowers, morning glory vines, black eyed susan vines, cardinal vines, coleus, lobelia, and gazanias.

We are only two, so I don't plant a ton of edibles. I do have tons of herbs because that is mostly what I plant--I love herbs as filler and ground covers. So you name it: tarragon, oregano, mint, lemon balm, dill, bay, rosemary, thyme, chives, savory (winter and summer) parsley...we have it abundance,

In terms of "on purpose" edibles, I planted three kinds of swiss chard (six plants total), two different kinds of kale (four plants total), 12 different kinds of chiles (20 plants total), six or seven lettuce mixes, and eight different kinds of basil (12 plants total). We're not huge raw tomato people so no tomatoes (we get enough from our CSA and neighbors) and otherwise, our veggies come from our CSA and the farmer's market.

As we move to the fall, I will plant more greens for cooler weather--last year I harvested our last greens around Thanksgiving (in Wisconsin).

We moved this year and have a lot more space. Our garden did go in a bit late but we live in San Diego so our growing season is pretty long, almost all year long!

corn, about 75
zucchini, about 7-8 plants
yellow squash, about 3-4 plants
watermelon, 15 plants
potatoes, two trash cans
artichokes, about 12 plants
jalepeno peppers, 4 plants
tomatoes, about 25-30 plants plus a few volunteers
bush beans, 5-6
pole beans, 10 or so
rosemary
basil
cilantro
strawberries, 8 plants
1 raspberry plant
greens (kale, chard, etc)
not sure if I'm forgetting anything else...

Needless to say we're doing some canning/freezing this year!

@rosebud, starting small is still starting! I don't have a yard, but my wonderful husband built custom "window" boxes onto our 2nd story porch for my herbs and flowers, and I have a 5-gallon container with a single roma tomato plant. It's still fun and exciting to eat my own produce!

Faith, when you say "reseed" what do you mean? Do you cut the dill/cilantro down and let it grow back up or....?

Just got back from my community garden this morning and everything is on STEROIDS! Doing square foot gardening for the first time this year and bringing in our own soil mix over the depleted clay soil there has made all the difference.

We've got 6 heirloom tomatoes, peppers, Lebanese cucumbers, zucchinis, peas, beans, carrots, turnips, beets, radishes, 3 kinds of lettuce, spinach, swiss chard, artichokes, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, ground cherries, rhubarb, dill, 2 kinds of basil, thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano, chives and red onions.

Already harvesting radishes, lettuce and chard. Always tastes so much better when you grow it yourself!!!

I had big plans for my first summer in an apartment with a really small balcony. I was thinking of covering half of it with pots of vegetables. Space, money, and knowledge constraints has kept me to indoor plants, so all I have are a lemon balm that I got as a gift and cilantro which has just sprouted it's first real leaves. Hopefully next summer I'll have a house with a yard!

@Heatherbelle I actually put down more seed every couple weeks. Cilantro and dill go to flower/seed rather quickly, so if you want a continuous crop all summer/fall you need to reseed. (As opposed to basil, parsley, etc that just keep growing after you cut them, and are slow to bolt.)

We live in a condo and have a small concrete patio. I just started growing some things in pots! So far, so good!
Roma tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, jalapenos, and sweet basil (which is doing amazing!).
I don't have a green thumb, but I also started my own little compost box :)

We have a small space in our terrace and growing parsley, chives, mint, sage, thyme, rosemary for the moment. Also have french and british lavenders and pink cloves.