It's not even the first day of spring yet (tomorrow!) but already we are planning our garden for the summer. I wish it was as easy as spreading some seeds out in the ground but we have to do some planning to make sure everything gets what it needs.
I started tomato and pepper seeds this past week so they will have time to grow and be ready for the ground once the warm weather sets in. Last year we did Roma and regular 'big' tomatoes and this year is about the same with a little expanding. I have planted Romas, Big Boys, and a mixture of heirloom tomatoes (just for the fun of it) out of curiosity. It was a mixed seed packet so I will be curious to see what comes up! I am rooting for the striped purple ones! I also planted cayenne, jalapeno, and bell peppers.
We have planned on the calendar when to plant certain things and written them down so that way if something was planted too early (or late as in the case of the pea catastrophe) we can tweak it next year. So far on the garden 'roster' we have the tomatoes and peppers mentioned above, corn, black beans, wax beans, and black-eyed peas, lettuce and spinach, spaghetti squash, onions of all types, radishes and rhubarb. I am sure there's more - we don't grow a whole lot of a lot of these - just enough for the two of us to eat. Other stuff like the peppers and tomatoes are used for canning and freezing - we are just now using up the last of the tomato sauce I canned last summer and we have enough canned green beans to last through the apocalypse!
I will keep updated how the growing grows! Here is our first little sprouts coming up:
Future tomato plants! Grow my pretties grow!
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