I think I've finally worked out the gardening list for this year. Maybe. There may be some minor tweaking as I go along, but for now, this is it. Please don't feel obliged to read through the list. Please don't think it necessary to dial 911 either. But would someone please please please question my sanity on planting 35 different varieties of heirloom tomatoes?
Oh wait, someone already has. In the form of "HOW many more garden beds do you expect me to build???"
But never mind him, he needs more to do anyway.
Since my personal laptop has been down for awhile now, I don't have access to my gardening database and have had to make do with an Excel spreadsheet. I have veggie/fruit type, name, vendor, sku, price, days to maturity, height, price, how many seeds come in a packet, and how many I want to plant. That last one is the kicker. That's the number that keeps changing depending on my mood and alignment of the stars. That's the dangerous number. For instance, 35 tomato varieties is not that bad. But I like to plant at least two of most varieties. Paste tomato varieties usually get two or three buddies to hang with. So if I break out my calculator (not enough fingers and toes for this one) that gives me at minimum 70 tomato plants.
Then you have to add the fudge factor to that. If I want two plants, then I should sow at least four seeds to make sure two survive. This may seem like sound thinking to some, but in my case it's detrimental to my sanity. Inevitably, all four seedlings will germinate and grow into beautiful plants that I can't bear to toss into the compost pile. Anastasia is probably reading this and thinking "but you're growing some for me this year too!" Which means if I want two and she wants three, I have to sow at least eight.
In the end it all means that I need a greenhouse. A really big greenhouse.
Good thing Glenn has nothing to do.
Oh! I almost forgot the list. :)
| Amaranth | Love Lies Bleeding |
| Artichoke | Green Globe |
| Basil | Dark Purple Opal Basil |
| Basil | Genovese Basil |
| Basil | Lettuce Leaf |
| Basil | Lime Basil |
| Basil | Siam Queen Thai Basil |
| Bean | Chinese Red Noodle |
| Bean | Dragon Langeri |
| Bean | Purple Trionfo Violetto (pole) |
| Beet | Crapaudine |
| Beet | Cylindra |
| Beet | Golden Beet |
| Borage | Blue Borage |
| Borage | White Borage |
| Broccoli | Calabrese |
| Broccoli | Early Purple Sprouting |
| Broccoli | Nutribud |
| Brussels Sprouts | Catskill |
| Cabbage | Mammoth Red Rock |
| Cabbage | Perfection Drumhead Savoy |
| Carrot | Amarillo Yellow |
| Carrot | Atomic Red |
| Carrot | Cosmic Purple |
| Carrot | Snow White |
| Carrot | St. Valery Orange |
| Chard | Bright Lights |
| Cilantro | Slo-Bolt Cilantro |
| Collards | Vates |
| Corn | Argent |
| Corn | Chires Baby Corn |
| Corn | Sugar Buns |
| Cucumber | Boston Pickling |
| Cucumber | Dragon's Egg |
| Cucumber | Little Tyke |
| Cucumber | Parisian Pickling |
| Cucumber | Yamato Extra Long (Japanese) |
| Eggplant | Blush |
| Eggplant | Casper |
| Eggplant | Ebony King |
| Eggplant | Pandora Striped Rose |
| Eggplant | Rosa Bianca |
| Eggplant | Ukranian Beauty |
| Endive | De Louviers |
| Fennel | Florence Fennel |
| Gourds | Crown of Thorns |
| Greens | Extra Dwarf Pak Choy |
| Greens | Japanese Giant Red Mustard |
| Greens | Tyfon (Holland Greens) |
| Herb | Lemongrass |
| Herb | Parsley - Italian |
| Kale | Nero Kitoscana |
| Kohlrabi | Early White Vienna |
| Leek | Carantan |
| Lettuce | Pinetree Lettuce Mix |
| Lima Bean | King of the Garden |
| Melon | Banana |
| Melon | Boule D'or |
| Melon | Charentais |
| Melon | Crane |
| Melon | Kansas |
| Melon | Million Dollar |
| Melon | Prescott Fond Blanc |
| Melon | Thai Golden Round |
| Melon | Valencia Winter Melon |
| Onion | Ailsa Craigh Exhibition |
| Onion | Crimson Forest (bunching/bulbing) |
| Onion | Egyptian Walking Onions |
| Onion | He Shi Ko Bunching |
| Onion | Southport Red Globe |
| Parsley | Triple Curled |
| Pea | Knight |
| Pea | Mr. Big |
| Pea, Snap | Cascadia |
| Pepper, Hot | Black Hungarian |
| Pepper, Hot | Lemon Drop |
| Pepper, Hot | Tabasco |
| Pepper, Sweet | Chocolate Beauty |
| Pepper, Sweet | Orange Sun |
| Pepper, Sweet | Pimento |
| Pepper, Sweet | Quadrato D'Asti Giallo |
| Pepper, Sweet | Quadrato D'Asti Rosso |
| Potato | All Blue |
| Potato | All Red |
| Potato, Sweet | Vardeman (Bush) |
| Pumpkin | Howden |
| Radicchio | Rossa Di Verona A Palla "Dragon" |
| Radish | French Golden |
| Radish | Green Heart Daikon |
| Radish | Purple Plum |
| Radish | Watermelon |
| Roselle | Red Roselle |
| Rutabaga | American Purple Top |
| Salsify | Mammoth Sandwich Island |
| Shallot | Shallots |
| Spinach | Giant Noble |
| Squash, Summer | Benning's Green Tint Scallop |
| Squash, Summer | Green Bush Vegetable Marrow |
| Squash, Summer | Lebanese White Bush Marrow |
| Squash, Winter | Black Futsu |
| Squash, Winter | Buttercup |
| Squash, Winter | Cream of the Crop |
| Squash, Winter | Jarradale |
| Squash, Winter | Turks Cap |
| Tomatillo | Pineapple |
| Tomato | Anna Russian |
| Tomato | Barnes Mountain Yellow |
| Tomato | Bloody Butcher |
| Tomato | Break O'Day |
| Tomato | Carbon |
| Tomato | Chocolate Stripes |
| Tomato | Delicious |
| Tomato | Egg Yolk |
| Tomato | Green Pineapple |
| Tomato | Green Skin Long Keeper |
| Tomato | Green Zebra |
| Tomato | Hazelfield Farm |
| Tomato | Japanese Black Trifele |
| Tomato | Jerry's German Giant |
| Tomato | Mountain Princess |
| Tomato | Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge |
| Tomato | Pineapple |
| Tomato | Pink German Tree Tomato |
| Tomato | Tlacolula Pink |
| Tomato | White Oxheart |
| Tomato | White Tomesol |
| Tomato | White Zebra |
| Tomato, Cherry | Black Cherry |
| Tomato, Cherry | White Cherry |
| Tomato, Currant | Tess's Land Race Currant |
| Tomato, Paste | Amish Paste |
| Tomato, Paste | Bonny Best |
| Tomato, Paste | Huge Lemon Oxheart |
| Tomato, Paste | Joe Thienemann's Australian Heart |
| Tomato, Paste | Mama Leone |
| Tomato, Paste | Orange Oxheart |
| Tomato, Paste | Pink Oxheart |
| Tomato, Paste | Polish Linguisa |
| Tomato, Paste | Roma |
| Tomato, Paste | Speckled Roman |
| Turnip | Petrowski |
| Watermelon | Gold Baby |
| Watermelon | Orangeglo |
| Watermelon | Sweet Siberian (apricot colored) |
| Watermelon | White Wonder |
| Watermelon | Will's Sugar |
6 comments:
Garden Harvest Supply is a good online source for plant information. They also have potted garden plants if you get in a time pinch. http://www.gardenharvestsupply.com/category/home-garden-plants-potted
noooo!!! do not encourage her! she needs a 12 step program :)
Great list! It isn't far off now!
I love it!
Come on over and visit my new gardening blog and you can see our new Lakeside Veggie Garden. That should give your man some ideas.
Better yet, if you have seeds left over, send them to me!!!
Have you considered that you may have to add on to your pantry to fit all the canned goods? :-)
My friend, you are nuts! But don't worry, I am too. I thought I was the only who would write down the pricing, how many seeds in a package...but I didn't have a spreadsheet. Well, Glenn better rest up for the next few months because come spring, he's got LOTS of work to do.
I'm like you when it comes to tossing seedlings away. You are right, they are perfectly beautiful plants, how can I bear to cut one off and save the other?
I think I need to go back and "study" your list again.
I'm impressed!! I just wish I was able to garden this summer. I'm going to go to Morgantown and get some raspberry canes from the old farmer I bought hay from but beyond that, what am I going to have time for?!!!
A definite yes: moving my rose collection. And getting good starts from all of my herbs. Ugh...how about digging up my entire herb garden and moving it too!!
I would really love to do a set or two of blue potatoes. We'll just have to see how it goes!!
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