Seedy Consideration

Alistair and I spent the afternoon browsing through the seed catalogue.  Going into year 3 of our CSA, and year 9 of a kitchen garden, we have a very good idea of what vegetables work well for us and which we like and do not. 

This year we are going to pare down the number of tomato plants to just four varieties (celebrity, lemon boy, wapsipinicon peach, and smurf) and focus instead on row crops (snap peas, bush beans, radishes & daikon, summer turnip, rutabaga, beets, and carrots) in the main garden.

We will also plant cucumbers, potatoes, onions, garlic and eggplant (which we are not going to start from seed this year).

We will plant a huge variety of lettuces, chard, kale, spinach, borage, spicy greens (arugula & sorrel) and herbs in our box and pallet gardens, as well as the Parisian carrots that were such a hit last year.

I remain exhausted and defeated from last year's battle with the squash vine bore so this year I will only be planting the more resistance varieties of squash and zucchini from the cucurbita moschata family.  This includes crookneck, butternut and long island cheese varieties of winter squash and trombocino zucchini.

I am forgoing the mouse melons this year for cantaloupe instead.

We plan to continue to shift our focus from very spicy peppers to sweet peppers and we will plant rhubarb from seed in hope of having a bumper crop of both annual and perennial plants this year.

I am committed to trying to grow broccoli and cauliflower again (hopefully more successfully this time) but we will be taking a break from the brussels sprouts (ew!).

If there are any of your favourites that you think we should grow but that I have missed, let us know!  We are still in the planning stages so there is room for improvement.