What are you planning to plant?

jambunny

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My DH is supposed to be enlarging my garden and repairing my fence. I hope so because so far I have ordered.
6 different kinds of Heirloom tomatoes
ground cherries
green bush beans
purple pole beans
Chinese red noodle beans
2 kinds of lettuce
3 kinds of Heirloom cucs
2 kinds of pumpkins
corn
butternut squash
zucchini
onions
leaks
garlic is planted
3 kinds of potatoes
hubbard squash
purple carrots
turnips
rasberries
strawberries
and a few new fruit and nut trees if I can figure out where the heck to put them.
 

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I recommended the wrong book,but the other one is good. This is the one I meant to write:


Author: Pleasant, Barbara.
Title: Starter vegetable gardens : 24 no-fail plans for small organic gardens



Sent in my first seed order today!
 

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I got my garden fenced yesterday. I can start looking at planting stuff. Yay.

I'll be doing peas and spinach and kale until it warms up a bit.

chicory and tomatoes and beans and peppers from Damummis (thankyou!)

eggplant, garlic, onions, and shallots

Maybe 1 zucchini plant.

I don't have a lot of space: 2 plots of about 5x10 so I need to keep from going crazy.

I'm gonna try radishes and carrots but don't have much hope. Even with doubledigging and the compost added, the soil here is pretty clay-like. So I don't know how well it'll work. We'll see.
 

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Bubblingbrooks said:
mrbstephens said:
Bubblingbrooks said:
Have you tried carrots?
You would need to start them very early, but they love sandy soil.
Carrots were fabulous the first couple of years but didn't do well after that. :(
I say it sounds like depleted soil.
With it being sandy you are losing the fertility of the soil faster then if it were less porus.
I add compost every year. It's a mix of kitchen scraps, chicken poo/pine shavings, and rotted oak leaves.
 

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We are planting the following. Yep, I swear we are. Absolutely NOT going to be lazy this year. (guess I better continue my search for canning jars)


Lettuce
Spinach
Kale
Cabbage (oriental and European)
Carrots
Fennel
bush and pole beans
peas of various sorts
corn - Dent and sweet
peppers - red, green and chili
onions - sweet, red and some crazy chinese variety
tomatoes - cherry, paste, canning, beefsteak & volunteer
eggplant
asparagus
okra
cauliflower
brussel sprouts
and probably other stuff I can't remember

Putting in raspberry canes, blueberry bushes and hopefully 2 peach and 2 cherry trees.
 
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