Aside from figs, what do you enjoy growing?

So far this year, I've got 5 varieties of heirloom tomatoes (Keeping them away from my figs this time. Lesson learned the hard way.), 6 types of hot and sweet peppers, bamboo (Phyllostachs nigra "Bory"), bananas (first time trying those), various medicinal and culinary herbs, cabbages, onions, collards, bitter melon, cucumbers, irises, taro, key lime, kumquat, mandarin, cannas, callas, Mexican marigolds, several ornamental grasses, annual and perennial flowers, heliconias, anthuriums, papyrus and tropical waterlilies. Whew! I've been busy.

John

NC Zone 8a/8b

Is there a problem with tomatoes and figs growing near each other?

I grow the "Italian trinity" (tomatoes, peppers, zucchini), along with an assortment of greens, broccoli, cukes, Jerusalem atrichoke, onions, garlic, herbs, grapes, apples, raspberries, strawberries, and cherries.

We have lots of things...

Seneca Plum
Karmijn De Sonnaville Apple
Dolgo Crabapple
Comice and Orcas Pear
Several varieties of currants and gooseberries, and one currant x gooseberry cross
Huckleberries
Tasmanian vines
A couple Quince bushes (fruiting, theoretically)
Lingonberries
Strawberries
Hostas
Couple rose bushes
Aronia
Raspberries
Grapes
Goji berry
A couple hydrangeas
Then there's the raised veggie beds and potato planters, misc bulbs and flowers...

And obviously figs ;)

Apples: Honeycrisp, Fuji, Lodi,Fireside, Wolf River And Chehalis & 2 UNK

Pecans
Crandall black currants
Grapes
  Thompson seedless grapes
  unknown grape variety [labeled Flame Seedless but has seeds and tastes better than flame seedless so no complaints]
Quince
Pomegranates
Three varieties of apples:
  Newtown pippin [I fear this was mislabled because they are mushy],
  Arkansas Black
  Hauer Pippin

Being funny:
Many (unwelcome) weeds on my lawn seem to grow just
by themselves, with no effort on my part...

On the bright side, my canary birds do love them dandelions!

A long list of veggies including zukes (early ones in pots, just about to bloom), tomatoes, chiles, Romano beans, corn... But never okra. ;)

It's too warm here for most stone-fruits, but I have one good peach (Babcock), one each stuggling plum and apricot.

I do have about 50 low chill blueberry bushes just ripening now. Yum!  :) :)

Plums, lots of tomatoes, potatoes, celery, spansih onions, storage onions, french shallots, lots of garlic, yard beans, green beans, fava beans, asain cucumbers, summer melon (fuzzy green italian one), asian squash, okra, sweet potatoe (for the leaves) bitter melon, bird chilies, pardon chilies collards, kale cabbage, mustards, corn salads, peas and this year planting nectraine and paw paws so far. 

If you've never planted Okra, its great when it's hot out, if it gets cold they stall and won't produce much, and they hate cold feet in the soil, this has been my experience anyways.

edit:  I forgot beets, carrots, radish (regular and daikon) and musk melons.

Each spring I plant a vegetable garden with snap beans, okra, tomatoes, cucumber, and southern peas. Some years I plant eggplant, watermelon, cantaloupe, and anythings new that catches my eye. In the fall I start all over again with snap beans, cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts,  cauliflower, english peas, and onions. Because of our mild winters gardening is a year round hobby. Besides figs and more figs I also have mulberry and plan to put in some low chill blueberries soon.
"gene"

Goji berries, red currants,apple seedlings for rootstocks, heritage raspberries, rhubarb, papaya seedlings, trying to sprout noni and arctic kiwi seeds, I'll order cacao seeds when the lows get above freezing, granadilla, Jujube seedling in a pot, dragonfruit both red and white, unknown purple grape, and a peach seedling.
The vegetable garden will have the regular stuff in it besides tobacco. I just like the looks of tobacco.
I think I need to move south.

chivas - are you growing paw paw in ground? where do you buy one?

This will be my first year with exploding cucumbers:)

My apple trees should have some fruit for the first time, and I'll have the usual veggies.

In the middle of town and growing some bodacious deer, which are feeding on my apples, roses, hosta. Raspberries are behind a hurricane fence, so the are safe. Garlic seems not so tasty to the Cervidae.

I guess I am a general plant freak. Just keeping to Fruits and Nut.    Listing Vegetables and ornamentals would probably break me as I think in Japanese Maples alone I have around 50 cultivars and 200+ trees. Assuming all of my new grafts on to existing trees take on fruiting plants below will be pretty close.

10  type apples, 7 type Euro Pears, 6 type Asian pears, 5 type Japanese plum, 4 type Pluot, 24 type Asian persimmon, 7 type PawPaw, 22 type Blueberries, 6 types Pomegranates, 10 type bunch grapes, 11 type Muscadines, 3 type peach, 4 type Kiwi, 4 type JuJube, 1 Apricot,  2 type Sour cherry, 1 sweet cherry, Nanking Cherry, Bush Cherry, Goumi, Pineapple Guava, Gooseberry, 4 type Pecan, Chestnuts, Heartnuts, Black Walnuts, Carpathian Walnuts, Butternuts, Hazelnut hybrids, 9 type citrus, Blackberries, Raspberries, Mulberries, Che, Loquat, Mayhaw, Miracle Berry, Honeyberries

I am waiting for my paw paws to come, one from rhoras nuts in Niagra and one from tropic to tropic in vancouver.  I guess I am actually growing paypaya and guava as well, I will plant out the paypaya in the ground and see if it will produce, it's over a year old so I'm really hoping.

Strudeldog,
     I would love to know where you live and help you with your harvesting every year, you could pay me in produce.

Trees- 3 apple, 2 peach, 2 pear, several plum, apricot, nectarine, cherries(all semi or full dwarf) plus my neighbors mulberry tree
Veggies etc- tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, potatoes, lettuce, swiss chard, onions, zucchini, yellow squash, pumpkins, eggplant, several winter squashes, cukes, celery, several herbs, pole beans, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, grapes, horseradish, rhubarb, asparagus.
and the beat goes on.........

Sammy ,[QUOTE] The vegetable garden will have the regular stuff in it besides tobacco. I just like the looks of tobacco. [/QUOTE]

Hi Cody.
 I grow wild tobacco. (no not wacky tabacky) I believe it's nicotiana rustica.  It doesn't get to tall and has broad leaves and yellow flowers. I'm also going to grow another type of tobacco that I got from a seed giveaway on youtube. The guy didn't know what type it was. I saw his on his video and it was a tall one. Here is the link about of what it looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jJEAzz_ab0&feature=plcp&context=C443e6afVDvjVQa1PpcFPc_pEY-sAgWg0aQUKOOFdn9MSlgv93nkw%3D Start watching at 2:54.
I like the flowers and the shinny sticky leaves in the hot summer sun.

I grow,

Oranges
Plums
Blackberries
Blueberries

In my vegetable garden I grow,

Onions
Carrots
Southern Peas
Water Mellon
Green Beans

It does not sound like alot but it sure eats up alot of time. Always something going on.

first time growing figs

3 poms

Apples
Peaches
English Walnuts
Pecans
Hazelnuts
Blueberries
Roses
Cactus - winter hardy prickly pear and small barrel cactus
Bamboo (even though I don't want to) been trying to get rid of it for years
VooDoo Lily - Amorphophallus konjac
Typical veggie garden -tomato,pepper, beans etc
Jerusalem artichoke
Rhubarb
Hardy Banana - musa basjoo
Grapes - Concord and Fredonia
Magnolia
Mimosa

I can't grow enough dandelions. Like George, I have critters to feed

Linking previous thread with same topic. http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/What-else-do-you-grow-5009908

Good link Jason ;-) .

Question to Paw-Paw growers:....

I never had the pleasure of tasting a paw-paw, nor have I ever seen one, except in photos.  Why are they not in stores?  Are they more perishable than a fresh fig?  There has to be a reason that this fruit is not more commonly found in stores.  Maybe it can't be shipped?

I wish I could taste this fruit, and for that matter, many other exotic fruits that will never hit the stores.  My loss.

Frank

Pomegranates

@Frank.

Plum (green gage)
Quince (havran and aromatanaya)
Cherry(lapins)
Dogwoods cornelian cherry (black plum and kazenlak)
Pears (bartlett and ubileen)
Grapes (concord seedless,glenora seedless,baco,machreal foch)
Peaches (red haven and flaming furry)
Gogi berries
Tea
And then all kinds of vegtables in the garden.

Roses  (heirloom roses, not grafted)

Previous years:
Tomatoes
Peppers (Jalapenos, Habernos, Bell)
Basil
Parsley
Rosemary
Mint

This year:
Tomatoes
Bell Peppers
Ghost Peppers (maybe)
Zucchini
Eggplant
Dwarf Bananas
Dwarf Oranges
Olives
Basil
Parsley
Rosemary
Mint
Oregano

Previous years:
Tomatoes
Peppers (Jalapenos, Habernos, Bell)
Basil
Parsley
Rosemary
Mint


This year:
Tomatoes
Bell Peppers
Ghost Peppers (maybe)
Zucchini
Eggplant
Dwarf Bananas
Dwarf Oranges
Olives
Basil
Parsley
Rosemary
Mint
Oregano

Meyer Lemon

3 types of pomegranates.

2 Owari Satsumas
2 Key Limes
1 Meyer Lemon
Blueberries:  Sunshine Blue, Tifblue, Premier, Climax and Brightwell
Thornless Blackberries:  Arapaho and Navajo
Herbs:  Garlic chives, Thai Basil, regular Basil, Mother of Thyme, Oregano
Bell Peppers
Celebrity Tomatoes.

i grow figs, and my wife enjoys roses. he used to have this tiny rose garden when we lived in different house. however, with our two sons and working schedule she stopped doing lot of rose things. now in this house, we only have 3 rose bushes. she is thinking about increasing the numbers. we live very close to weatherspoon rose place. they have some beautiful plants.

i also enjoy looking at japanese maple trees. have 3 of them. two of them, we planted when our sons were born. one we planted when we moved into this house. the oldest one 11 yr old is for our elder son. when we moved into new house, i pulled it out of other house and brought it here.

pete

What else do i grow.
hmm
Older ?

Hearing about all the cold people are having to deal with, I hate to mention it.. but today I'll be harvesting the first zucchinis. They are growing in large black plastic pots in a protected, but full sun area. And I have to hand pollinate, but there are two ready.

The first green beans are ready too. Also in pots.

I decided to try to push the season, and it seems to be working, at least in my warmer part of the world.

I used to grow bonsai trees - then I moved to Texas and the heat got the best of them.  I didn't do much of anything for years (rented a house), was working.  Then 2 years ago we bought the rent house and I put in a garden to compliment the fig tree!

Edibles -
Tomatoes - 2 heirloom and 4 others
Peppers - 3 varieties
Cucumbers
Green Beans
Radishes
Beets
Lettuce - 4 varieties
Herbs - Sweet Basil, Red Basil, Bush Basil, Rosemary, It Parsley, Oregano, Thyme, Lemon Thyme, Dill, Lemon Verbena, Lavender - 2 varieties.

Flowers!!
Marigold - critter prevention!
Double Knockout Roses
Encore Azalea
Gladiola
Impatiens
Begonia
Canna
Oxalis
Caladiums
Geranium
Petunia

I also have a few orchids inside.

This is my experimental year to see what can take the heat here in the DFW area.  Last year we had 71 days of 100F or better and 40 were consecutive.  The goal is to have a perennial flower garden  and accent with some annuals.  I would like to keep the tree smallish - under 10 ft(?) I think and see what happens. Here are a few pictures.

This view is from the driveway
[IMG]http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f130/jomarotti/P4295377.jpg[/IMG]

This is herbs and flowers
[IMG]http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f130/jomarotti/P4245328-1.jpg[/IMG]

The fig tree
[IMG]http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f130/jomarotti/P4245334.jpg[/IMG]

With Fig-lets!
[IMG]http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f130/jomarotti/P4245337.jpg[/IMG]

Sorry about the size of the pictures - I don't know how to do thumbnails.

Jo-Ann

Looks great. However, figs near tomatoes are bad news. Root Knot Nematode risk. I learned the hard way.

John

Aside from the figs, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Valencia Orange, blueberries, olives, and many varietals of wine grapes.

Martin said:[QUOTE]What else do i grow.
hmm
Older ?[/QUOTE]

And wiser, right?

I notice no-one is growing Kohlrabi, you all are missing out!

What is Kohirabi?  See, what I'd really like to grow is Hickory Nut trees injected with truffles.  They don't grow here.  :-(
Suzi

We grow kohlrabi.  That came under the line 

Kohlrabi is related to broccoli, it tastes like the inside core of a head of broccoli. The really nice thing about it is that they keep for about 6 weeks in the fridge.

Hoosier types
Martin said:

I also grow kohlrabi. It's great raw.

There are a number of important crops (cruciferous/cole crops), all cultivars of the same species - Brassica oleracea.

We like to experiment with different kohlrabi recipes.  One involves grating it (raw) and then add grated apples to make a slaw salad.  Can add mustard (very little) and heavy cream (gotta mix those before adding).