Gardeners are returning from hibernation, dusting off their blogs, pulling out their seed starting supplies, and rethinking their garden plans for 2013. Welcome back everyone. Welcome back.
We’ve started our summer crops as well: tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, and flowers. We’ve even started some spring crops of lettuce, spinach, broccoli, and kohlrabi. Outside, we’ve planted our onions, leeks, turnips, collards, more spinach and lettuce, and potatoes.
This year, we have mostly repeat crops, but we will be trying lots of new varieties. For tomatoes, we will do Cherokee Purple and Heinz again (our favorites from last year), but we will also try Amish Paste, San Marzano, Brandywine, Indigo Rose, Matt’s Cherry, Aunt Lou’s Underground Railroad, and Pineapple. Yea, we’ll have a few more tomato plants than we had last year. We were out of salsa two months after tomato season!
For peppers, we decided to go with jalapeno early, Anaheim and a repeat of Fish Pepper. For our sweet peppers, we decided against the slow ripening bell peppers and will try Corno di Toro, Poblano, and Alma Paprika instead.
So, we have a few new varieties, but much of the same crops. Although, there is one new harvest that we are expecting…..What is that you ask? Sometimes around June/July, we’ll be expecting our first EGGS! You read that right; EGGS.
Stay tuned 
Yay for spring plantings. Welcome back to blog land. Maybe next year I should do a complete sabbatical from my blog during winter. (I just slowed up to about once every 2 weeks.) I love blogging, but sometimes the time commitment is hard.
ReplyDeleteGood for you having chickens of your own. I looked into it briefly, but we don't live in a good location for chickens, and I have mixed feelings about the birds due to an old boyfriend who raised them. (I know, it's not the chickens' fault, but there it is.) :)
I didn't purposely take a 2-month break (!). But it ended up that way. I feel kind of re-energized and ready to start a new season; so maybe the break was good for me.
DeleteYou are much more organized than I am. Have no idea what I am planting and we are going to get a late start anyway because of some different circumstances going on here.
ReplyDeleteI think you are far enough south that you can start a little late and still get in a good harvests. You could even cheat and buy starts if you have to.
DeleteSounds like a fabulous selection. We are in the midst of our summer harvest so I am eating many of the things you are sowing at the moment. Yum!
ReplyDeleteI know; I have been peaking! Your posts get me excited about the harvests to come and long for the days of summer!
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