Since I started this blog well into planting season I should probably get you up to date on what’s in the garden. I have three beds, well technically I have 12 and three garden areas. The main 8 beds I had a friend come over with an old Speedex small farm tractor and till it up. The other four I dug with the spade shovel and loosened the sub soil with a pitch fork. In the all the beds are a bunch of vegetables, here is the list. Everything was grown from seed and almost everything is organic

  • Red Wetherfield Onion
  • Southport White Globe Onion
  • Snowball Cauliflower
  • Primo Cabbage
  • Early Green Broccoli
  • Long Island Brussels Sprouts
  • Detroit Red Beet
  • Ruby Red Swiss Chard
  • Red Russian Kale
  • Four Season Lettuce
  • NY Head Lettuce
  • Simpson Black Seeded Lettuce
  • Green Towers Romaine Lettuce
  • Mesclun Lettuce Mix
  • Brandywine Tomato
  • Amish Paste Tomato
  • Giant California Garlic
  • Sugar Pod 2 Snow Pea
  • Sugar Ann Pea
  • Rattlesnake Pole Bean
  • Yukon Gold Potato
  • Red Norland Potato
  • Dark Green Zucchini
  • Butternut Squash
  • Yellow Crookneck Squash
  • Sweet Marketmore Cucumber
  • Cherry Belle Radish
  • Roc D’or Yellow Wax Bean
  • Stowell’s Sweet Corn
  • Baby Pam Pumpkin
  • PMR Delicious 51 Melon
  • Garbanzo Bean
  • Red Kidney Bean
  • Midnight Black Turtle Bean
  • Saturday Night Special Dry Bean
  • Tiger’s Eye Dry Bean
  • Fiskeby Soybean
  • Bloomsdale Spinach
  • Temuco Quinoa (No idea if this will grow.)
  • Giant Pumpkin

Wow… I just realized I got a ton of veggies. The funny thing is I still have to plant these seedlings.

  • Ring-O-Fire Cayenne Pepper
  • King of the North Bell Pepper
  • Early Jalapeno Pepper
  • Hungarian Hot Wax Pepper
  • Imperial Black Beauty Eggplant
  • Wisconsin 55 Tomato
  • Peacevine Cherry Tomato
  • Ali Baba Watermelon (So fired up about this guy, not sure if it will grow though)
  • More Giant Pumpkins
  • and a ton of herbs…

Well, I guess I’ll rip up the front yard this weekend.

6-3-09