What will regrow in my garden and what do I do with everything else?

Question

Okay I need specific answers please. I have several tomatoe varieties, corn, chilis, bell peppers, chives, strawberries, radishes, cucumber, cantelope, zucchini, blueberries, mint.

Answer 1

What will regrow: These are perennials and will return yearly.
Chives
Strawberries
blueberries
mint

All the rest are annuals and you can pull them out this Autumn and either throw them away or start a compost pile with them. Include some dried grass clippings, leaf litter, other vegetation from your garden and kitchen, egg shell, and coffee grounds. Just don't add any meat or fat products to your compost.

Answer 2

Of what you mentioned, the only plants that will, or should come back are the strawberries, blueberries, mint and chives.

The tomatoes might if they are an "old fashion" type such as yellow plum.......their seeds seem to be able to withstand moderate winters....but don't go looking for them next year. If they appear, wonderful, they can be transplanted to your new tomato section.

The rest you harvest and eat or give away.....looking at the zucchini. They can really produce quickly and you end up sharing that.

At season's end when the frost comes and kills everything or the plants just give up and die, you can chop the residue into smaller pieces with a shovel and turn it into the soil to rot over winter. Problem here is if they plants have a disease or insect problem, the bad things remain with the plants and can return next year. Many people remove all the dead plant material completely and throw it away...just in case it's infected or infested. Third option, with clean plants, create a compost pile somewhere else and compost (decompose) the plant material to make a nice humus product for the garden next summer (takes about 14-16 months for compost unless you go to extraordinary work). Frankly, I like turning it all in along with manure at the end of the season and letting nature break everything down.

Answer 3

Strawberries, blueberries and the mint should comeback next year. Throw all the other stuff into a compost pile or just throw the plants away.

Answer 4

the only thing i think would regrow would be the strawberries. the bell pepper plant might re-produce. and everything else would have to be replanted.

Answer 5

no that will not regrow and if you planting flowers some say perenials they grow every year if they dont say it they wout grow every year

Answer 6

it's been my experience that they will not grow back unless the seeds are replanted in spring