I'm not always the best about paying attention in church, especially during hymns, so I usually bring a pen and doodle in the service leaflet. This morning instead of drawing my usual dinosaur collection, I sketched out what I want to plan in the garden for the year. I want to start seeds so that they'll be ready in time for the last frost. The garden is already cleared out and weeded, so I can even start some of the cold-weather plants now.


I started with a brown thumb and slowly graduated to a yellow one. Last year I tried to grow a bunch of things, like soybeans for example, that weren't right for the size of my garden. I thought about it carefully and I'm trying to stick to veggies that make the biggest difference for our bottom line. These are the plants that I'm going to use for my spring crop:

• Peas (Serpette)
• Lettuce (Buttercrunch)
• Swiss Chard
• Red Orach (a salad green)

• Zucchini
• Spaghetti Squash
• Beans (Romani Purpiat and Scarlett Runner)
• Tomatoes (yellow pear and juliet )
• Cucumbers (TBD)

• Lavender
• Bee Balm
• Strawberries (Technically they're a biennial, but they have so many runners that the tale care of themselves with a little thinning from me here and there.)
• Chives

Labels: gardening, projects

posted by Alison 3/15/2009 11:25:00 PM : (0) comments : splink