Friday, May 29, 2009


This past weekend, Memorial Day weekend, we wrapped up about 97% of our planting in the garden. Here is a basic estimation of what we planted this year. The photo shows an aerial view of our garden. You'll see that we've run out of space again and have used twelve containers to supplement our existing raised beds.

  1. 24 Tomato plants- early girl, grape, roma, cherry, sweet
  2. 20 Various pepper plants - green bell, jalapeno, sweet red, mixed variety, orange, etc.
  3. 4 plants of zucchini
  4. 4 plants yellow summer squash
  5. 1 plant amber cup winter squash
  6. 2 plants sweet potato squash
  7. 30 red skin potato plants
  8. 6 blue potato plants
  9. 14 cilantro
  10. 16 oregano
  11. 24 sweet basil
  12. 16 broccoli
  13. 16 bush green beans (16 more to plant in 2 weeks)
  14. 16 Italian green beans (16 more to plant in 2 weeks)
  15. 24 red beets
  16. 40 spinach plants
  17. 60-80 radish
  18. 3' x 15' - ever bearing strawberry plants
  19. raspberries - currently resides in about a 3' x 6' section
  20. 8 blueberry bushes
  21. wide assortment of lettuce greens
  22. 60-80 carrots
  23. 40 early sweet corn

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