It's officially gardening season
I've been pretty busy with house renovations so I just haven't been doing any writing here - but that will change. We are on week 33 of renovations... and that has to end at some point right? I hope so.
The upside and downside has been that I haven't been able to over obsess about my garden plans this year. I picked the tomato varieties super fast during a Burpee sale in January and haven't looked back. And while the weather hasn't been super warm yet, I pulled the trigger and started planting this past weekend. But before I put any babes in the ground, I used my handy dandy soil tester that my friend Meaghan sent me. I was VERY excited to try this out.
What's getting planted this year:
- touchon carrots
- spinach
- kale
- romaine
- Japanese cucumbers
- yellow egg squash
- snap peas
- kentucky beans
- a whole bunch of tomatoes
- herbs (mint, basil, chives, parsley, oregano, cilantro)
- no onions. They are absolutely zero work but I don't do a good job using them
- less Kale. I actually get the most value out of kale but I felt like I needed variety last year... so let's see how I feel about spinach.
- less carrots. same story as the onions - but they do freeze well so I should be better at them.
- no radishes.
Regarding the "whole bunch" of tomato varieties? I haven't completely determined which plants are getting duplicates but here are the 9 varieties this year. Obscene but true:
- black cherry (2017 graduate)
- Shimmer
- 4th of July
- midnight snack
- black krim
- black truffle (2016 and 2017 graduate)
- sweet tangerine
- big rainbow
- sunrise bumble bee
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