Every year I intend on keeping track of what we plant in our gardens along with its variety, but before I know it I am too busy weeding the garden to care about any of that. Then once we start harvesting all of our veggies I start wishing that I really knew what we had planted. As some of you may know, certain varieties of veggies work better when it comes time to preserve them and unfortunately we never know until it to too late. Well this year since I had a garden apron I actually saved all of my seed packets and now I can finally keep track of what we planted. Of course it will take us a few years before we know which variety works best for us, but eventually we will figure it out.
We have two big gardens. In our Main garden we plant most of our veggies and in the Pumpkin garden we plant all of our peas, pumpkins and squash.
2 Rows: Sunflowers (Velvet Queen Girasol, Giant Gray Striped Girasol, Dwarf Sungold Teddy Bear, Mammoth)
1 Row: Popcorn (Robust) & Ornamental Corn (Earth Tones Dent)
10 Rows: Corn (Robust, Silver Queen: 92 days, Sweet Corn, Incredible: 83 days, Sweet Corn, Butter and Sugar: 75 days, Sweet Corn, Early Choice: 67 days)
1 Row: Onions
2 Rows: Cucumbers (Wisconsin: Pickle, Marketmore 76)
2 Rows: Tomatoes (30 plants)
1 Row: Cabbage (18 plants)
1 Row: Green Peppers & Jalapeno Peppers (18 plants)
1 Row: Eggplant (18 plants)
1 Row: Brussels Sprouts (18 plants)
1 Row: Broccoli (18 plants)
1 Row: Lettuce (Buttercrunch, Salad Bowl), Radishes (Champion), Swish Chard
2 Rows: Beets (Detroit Dark Red: 65 day)
2 Rows: Carrots (Royal Chantenay& Scarlet Nantes)
1 Row: Onions
2 Rows: Garden Beans (Long Tendergreen: 52 day)
Hills: Zucchini and Squash (Enterprise)
Hills: Watermelon (Sugar Baby)
1 Long Row: Peas
Hills:
Squash (Royal Acorn/ Mammoth Table Queen, Spaghetti, Buttercup
Snake Gourds, Birdhouse Gourd
Pumpkins: (Fairytale, Baby Boo, Jack O’Lantern, Silver Moon, Pumpkin & Squash Blend, Jaradale)
Total spent this year to plant the garden: $143 in seeds and $114 in plants.
I want to get more involved in the garden too.Richard does everything,poor guy! Were getting ready for some am making today! The apricots are ripe. I love your blog layout.was it hard to do Christina?
Yikes i meant jam making
oooooooo, love gardens, but i have a black thumb. I hope you share pictures of the venture! 🙂