The garden is planted at last - final totals:

[gssgarden]

WOW!!! and thought 'I' had problems!! lol

not even going to tell you my puny numbers!! lol

Greg

[Father'sDaughter]

Finally put the last four plants (for now) in their new home last night--just in time for the heavy rain!

Bed One:
16 paste/cooking/drying tomatoes
8 eating/cherry tomatoes
8 eggplant
8 sweet peppers
2 cukes
2 zukes

Bed Two:
Garlic (about 120)
50 onions
4 Brussels sprout
4 broccoli
4 chard
2 kale
Carrots (about 40)
24 pole beans
lettuce

5 Gallon grow bags:
9 hot peppers
5 dwarfs (released/older varieties)
7 dwarf project dwarfs
4 basil

3 Gallon pots:
Parsley
Thyme
Chives
Oregano
Celery herb
Sage

New crops will be going into bed number 2 after the garlic and onions get pulled -- more broccoli, kale, chard, zucchini, carrots, beets, lettuce, etc.

Next year's garlic will go into bed number one in October after the summer plants get pulled.

[habitat_gardener]

Instead of having one big community garden plot, this year I have plants scattered at 3 smaller sites, and I'm considering a 4th site.

Site 1, all containers:
8 blueberry plants, a couple dozen strawberry plants, red currant, 3 kales, 2 kinds of oregano, several pots of garlic chives, a few garlic plants, various herbs. (Plus 25 small tomato plants I will probably give away.)

Site 2, all in ground:
8 indeterminate tomato plants, 6 rainbow lacinato kales, a couple rows of beets, 4 genovese basil, 1 african blue basil, 2 dino kales, nasturtiums.

Site 3
in containers: celery going to seed, a few onions and garlic, a couple eggplants, lots of herbs, artichoke.
in the ground: 7 indet. tomatoes, 1 cucumber, lovage, potatoes, nasturtiums, lemon balm, vietnamese cilantro, parsley, cilantro, rhubarb, perennial kale, red russian kale, yarrow, sage, comfrey, scarlet runner beans, boysenberries.

Still in cold frames
15 tomato varieties (8 dwarf), 2 bush beans, 21 pole beans (3-24 seeds each), 2 sweet corn, 6 popcorn, 1 sorghum, sunflower, 6 eggplant, 2 cucumber (7 plants), 1 summer squash, 1 winter squash, cilantro, 2 basil, sculpit, buck's horn, scorzonera.
I've cut way back on what I planned to plant, and I planted late. I'll be able to fit some of these into my existing gardens but it looks like I will need that 4th site!

In July I'm planning to start peas and brussels sprouts.

[Lcottomsvcs]

I love reading this thread! Okay, here goes:

In the main garden:
30 purple passion asparagus
8 15" rows sweet corn, Country Gentleman and Golden Bantam
15 birdhouse gourds (trellised vertically)
30' row Russian Mammoth Sunflowers
100 Centennial sweet potatoes
30 cucumber; Boothby's Blond, Marketmore, Chicago Pickling
10 trellises of pole beans (25 plants each) Rattlesnake, Cossa Violetta, Kentucky Wonder
20 tomatoes, all heirlooms started from seed
100 swiss chard, Fordhook Giant, Ruby
200 Carrots, mixed varieties
300 Candy onion plants
20 broccoli, all hybrid, some already harvested
30 peppers, Fish, Jalepeno, Chinese Giant, California Wonder, Corno di Toro Giallo, Alma Paprika
15 Shallots
10 Basil, Genovese and Lemon
100 hills of Yukon Gold potatoes (will be replaced by late corn when mature)
miscellaneous zinnias and marigolds tucked in here and there
several volunteer butternut squash
several volunteer tomatoes (cherry)

In the herb plot: lemon balm, chocolate mint, italian flat-leaf parsely, lemon grass, thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano, chives, garlic chives, all planted this year.

In august I will plant fall crops of broccoli, beets, more chard, butternut squash.

The main garden is planted on new ground tilled up from a former lawn. Thus I am fighting the grass and weeds. I am focusing on getting it all mulched to help with this.

[zabby17]

Lcottomsvcs,

Tell about that long row of sunflowers---are you planning to harvest the seed as a crop, or are they for pretty? Or as a windbreak?

I'm enjoying just imagining it!

Planning to put a few sunflowers into my last-to-be-planted bed myself, to cut for vases in summer. I LOVE sunflowers.

Z

[barkeater]

So far I have planted for food (everything goes in the ground):

80 Garlic bulbs (last fall)
50 Onion plants
25 Hot Peppers
20 Tomatoes (15 varieties)
5 Iceburg Lettuces
3 Broccoli
2 Eggplants

Still to plant:

Pearl Onions
Pickling Cucumbers
Dill
Coriander
Basil
Golden Acorn Squash
Spaghetti Squash
Pumpkins
Savoy Cabbage
Carrots
Green Onions
More Lettuce
More Broccoli

[janezee]

My feeling exactly, nicky! I want peas every day in the growing season. The very best thing about living where the summers don't get hot is that I have peas for 5 months a year, and I'm looking to prolong that time.

Mmmmmmmmmmm...peas!

j

Originally Posted by nicky

Peas make it into your house?

I thought they were universally known as gardener rewards, to be eaten every 5-10 seconds while wandering around the garden checking out plants???

I would love a hundred foot row to nibble my way down. I have them tucked in everywhere there is a fence on my property.

[Lcottomsvcs]

The sunflowers are the kind that make the big white seeds, good for people food and bird food. You have to be attentive to keep the birds from stealing them all!!