hoping to go to the garden center on Friday and pick some seeds.

and regular green peppers are being started today.

Note: I couldn't find my pepper seeds from last year, so I looked at a regular store. I was aggravated at the price of Burpee pepper seeds being something like $2.79. Maybe it was $2.39. In any event, too high.

Went to Aldi and got them for 50 cents a packet.


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and I plan on doing an herb garden this year because my round horse trough developed a leak and it's begging to be brought over to my garden area for that purpose. I bought some annual flower seeds to start early for my planters. I love poppy's and found some called Shirley Poppy that have double fluted flowers. I'm seeing a little green sticking up through the straw in my Carnation bed boxes and in my Columbine boxes.

spaghetti squash. Decent replacement for regular old high carb spaghetti, extremely easy to prepare in a microwave, decently productive, and the picked squash last for months in storage. I think it was December or January when I used up the last of last year's crop.

I'd love to do 'glass gem' corn as well, but the last few crops of corn I've tried, something is coming along and simply buzz-sawing through the crops before the corn ears are more than a few inches in length.

Garlic is a good starter for beginning gardeners, as long as you realize you plant it in the fall, not the spring. Plant it, water it off and on, and pull it up. As to varietal, I prefer Inchelium Red.

I grew my own mustard seed last year, but it was a pita to winnow out the seeds from the pods, so I probably won't be doing that again soon.

We find the 'straight eight' cucumbers work decently for straight eating or use in making relish, although you have to make sure they're well watered all along, or else they turn bitter.

My 'main' crops, year in and out, though, are a wild black raspberry I picked up a starter from out in the woods and got a patch started in my back yard about ten years back, and everbearing strawberries. We did about 60-70 8 oz jars apiece of black raspberry jam and strawberry jam this last year, and thanks to having gotten a food mill, I'll be trying my hand at a seedless jelly of each this coming harvest. The red delicious and golden delicious apples were abundant last year as well, but I didn't have the gear to preserve them last year, so the birds, squirrels, and wasps got most of them. If the weather is good this year, I'll be ready to make apple butter or apple sauce this year.

It's the 4th time I've tried, and this one is taking off. Tabasco peppers have a subtle difference than most peppers and I adore them.

I'm also growing mega-roma tomatoes for sauce and a beefsteak variety. Both are heirloom. Cucumbers, because I love them, though I have never grown bush cucumbers before.

We put in several dozen tomatoes, all different varieties from local greenhouses. Also, 30 pepper plants.... 3 kinds of bell, gypsy, and red cherry.

I still have to work on annuals (I did put some in containers yesterday) and herbs. Still have to plant dukes and pumpkins in the "old" garden.

We have to wait until the end of May here, so I think June 1 is pretty darn good!

I haven't started tomatoes from seed for a couple of years because of work and health issues. I will save some seeds this year and try next March.

Happy growing to all!!!

put in black eye peas, okra seeds, a few Hungarian Hot wax seeds.

I'll be starting my tomatos in starter pots this week, along with eggplant.

I'm zone 9 1/2 to 10 west coast of Floriduh so it's time for the old reliables. The peas will be tilled under when planting season comes around (September/October).

Also the usual stuff and maybe some others:

Dwarf kale
Various Romaine
Cabbage
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Watermelon
Green onions
Bulb onions
Various squash
Various flowers (some for eating)


Trying some peanuts. Just planted a fig tree a few years ago. Not sure if it's growing right!