How does your veggie garden grow?

It is still 3 or 4 weeks until average last frost here in my part of the Ohio Valley so tomatoes ,peppers,squash, beans are still out in the distant future.
We've begun harvesting some spinach that is thriving after wintering over. Initially, it didn't seem to be growing much, but then I noticed some hoof prints nearby. Damn deer!! Once a bambi deterrent was in place and I stopped providing them with a free lunch, the crop is going bonkers along with a newly planted row.
Leaf lettuce has germinated, but probably a few weeks from harvest.
Garlic has sprouted and seems to be doing well.
Decided to be lazy this year and didn't sow any peas.
Planted some raspberries and a few blueberry bushes this Spring, but they will take a year or two to bear fruit.

What's happening on your "farm"?

French Tarragon is up, Thyme, German and English made it through the winter, although a bit rugged (I am trimming tomorrow) . Sage, Italian Parsley, and Rosemary doing well. Tomorrow I am planting spinach, lettuce, watermelon radish, cilantro, arugula, savory, and maybe peas. I'm a bit late with lettuce, and arugula but I have two raised beds that get morning sun and afternoon shade and usually the spinach does very well there. I have all my tomato plants, grown by our Turtle Bay Arboretum for this area, a mix of hybrid and heirlooms. Their beds are ready to go, I need to wait until April 20th, our last frost date. Of course, I will need to check the weather forecast before planting. I will plant Chinese Long Beans that I dried and saved from last year at the same time.

We gave up many years ago in having veggie gardens. Every time we had a nice crop, right before time for picking, some of our local deer ( and I know they were scouting the area ) would come by and take a single bit at of almost every fruit. I would wake up to see 20 tomatoes with one bit taken, same with much of the rest. At that point, I gave into nature and now use the many farmers markets to pick up all the veggies that we want.

However! since we love to cook, and having fresh herbs is the best, we concentrated on doing this. Since I have so many spinal issues, I really cant (or shouldnt) get down in the dirt, so my wife had us plant over 30 container vessels of herbs. My son comes in from NYC each spring with a new set of herbs. My favorite is the rosemary bush. We can get it to about 4 feet high and 4 feet around, but have never been able to get it through the winters. So we have so many fresh herbs, besides smelling great, I can just walk out into our patio and snip some fresh ones for cooking. I combine this with some fragrant jasmine vines/plants to sort of remind me of Tuscany, Italy.

I send away each year for some special Arugula seeds from Italy. We love Arugula. I've planted about 10 different types, some spicy and peppery, some mild, but all good. The problem is that once it starts to grow, there is no stopping it. I wish I could find a way to manage these plants. My son (the chef) also does a lot with micro-greens. So we have a number of 1 inch sprouts of almost every type of veggie you can think of.

And now, here in the CT area, its time to start the ball rolling

[Jenise]

We're picking chives and chervil generously now. All my other herbs made it over the mild winter we had, and my tarragon is just starting to leaf out. Two rows of mixed lettuces and mustards have sprouted, and a third row planted the same day has yet to. I think the third row was the arugula, but I don't know because hubby removed my marker. A row of chard is ready to go in. Several asparagus spears are up, but I haven't picked any yet: this year I get to pick for two weeks. Bluberries are budding out. Though our daytime temperatures are routinely gettting to 50ish now, nightly temps are still in the 30's so we're not out of frost danger yet. I'm a long way from even thinking about planting tomatoes.

Look forward to a better year than last, when we picked our first tomato on September 11th!

Am thinking of building a green house on the west side of my home.

The two ordinary Thymes we planted as a last resort last year, made it through the winter and are ready to harvest. We have one good looking Rosemary in the cellar by a glass door. We have French and English Thyme plants on order along with a new French Tarragon. We have a gigantic Oregano that is mostly for flowers that True Love wants me to keep at least a piece of, that is going to be lifted and mostly given away or destroyed. I fully expect our trusty ole Sage plant to come back soon.

Other than that, where our veggies are going is still covered with snow!!!