what are you going to grow this year

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Rabbits last year I sent Major and seedcorn Yankee peppers. I was so happy to find a seed with yankee in the name
Thinking they are OP, so I saved seed. Have extra.

If they aren’t OP, will the surprise be on me.....
 

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just going to focus on a few of the usual favorites that do well. but this is what i'm hoping makes it into the garden this year.

cukes:
Boston Pickling
National Pickling
Little Tyke cuke (new for me)
H19 Little Leaf cuke (also new to me)

Brassica:
Goodman Cauliflower
All the Year Round cauliflower
Annie's Rainbow cauliflower-mix of Early Tuscan, Macerata Green, Precoce de Jesi anf Violet of Sicily
Mulberry F1 cauliflower
Orange Burst F1 cauliflower
Glory of Enkhuizen cabbage
Kalibos cabbage
Storage #4 cabbage
Umpqua broccoli
Gypsy broccoli
Scarlette F1 chinese cabbage
Red Dragon F1 chinese cabbage

beets/chard:
Umaina Japanese chard
Golden Grex beets

radish:
Cherry Bell
Champion
Purple Plum
Watermelon-winter

squash:
Butterbush butternut
Polaris butternut
the usual summer squash & zucchini
patty pan & scallop squashes

onions & leeks:
Blush (red hybrid)
Red Wethersfield
Alisa Craig
Walla Walla
New York Early
Clear Dawn
Crimson Forrest Bunching
Giant Winter Leek
Carentan leek
Giant Musselburgh leek
King Richard leek

i have carrots galore! lots of these varieties did well last year so i'm sticking to them again!
Nutri-Red (op)-new to me
Atomic Red
Purple Dragon (op)
Purple Haze (f1)
Cosmic Purple (f1)
Purple 68 (f1)
Deep Purple (f1)
Black Nebula-new to me
Amarillo (op?)-new to me
Jaune Obtuse du Doubs (op)
Yellow Bunch (OP)
Solar Yellow (OP)

lettuce i have many i want to try this year but i need to sort through them like the tomatoes, peppers & eggplants.
 

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I have started using cheap tomato cages upside down for a lot of stuff produce and floral in my garden.

I nip the stakes off the "bottom" and then I nip off the "top" most ring to create new stakes.

I'll let you know how it goes when the plants get larger. Right now they're still 4" pot size.

I have a neighbor down the street who put in a first time garden on a neighbor's property and she had cages upside down. Seemed to work pretty good.
 

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I'm toning down my maters and tuning up more taters this year.

Romaine lettuces(a few varieties but can't think of them just now)
Carrots..same as lettuce, several varieties
Broccoli
Beets
green onions
Candy onions
pak choi
Nappa cabbage
Red Pontiac spuds'

Boston Pickler cukes
Butternut squash
Rouge Vif Dtampes pumpkins(SP?)
Yellow straight neck squash

Brandywine
Yellow Stripey
New Yorkers...yes, I'm to receive some seed from NY and it will be planted here in WV, what a hoot!
Sweet one million cherry maters
half runner beans
Fortex beans
Zinnias
Sunflowers
Marigolds

Hope to plant more rhubarb this year

Got some things returning but won't know how well until they return~strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb, herbs, asparagus, garlic, perennial flowers.

Will be gardening in hay this year and have great hopes for it...so far it looks great out there, all golden and moist. Just waiting to have something planted into it.
 
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I have a neighbor down the street who put in a first time garden on a neighbor's property and she had cages upside down. Seemed to work pretty good.

They look like they could disappear pretty quickly. Meanwhile, I don't see myself out there doing much staking and tying this year when they already have 360˚ support.
 
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As of right now this is the plan...

Tomato's:

Brandywine
Betterboy
Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Green
Husky cherry red

Cucumbers:
Straight eight
Pickle bush

Cantaloupe:
Sugar cube hybrid

Bell Pepper:
Better Belle 2
Bounty hybrid

Hot Pepper:
Emerald fire x3r jalapeno
Big Guy jalapeno

Sweet pepper:
Yellow/red banana

Bean:
Blue Lake 47

Pea:
Pink eye purple hull

Corn:
Silver Queen
Bodacious

Okra:
Clemson spineless

Beets:
Early wonder

Squash:
Yellow crookneck

Zucchini:
Black beauty

Radish:
Cherry Belle

Broccoli:
Sun king hybrid

Kale:
Vates Blue curled

Asparagus:
Jersey Knight Hybrid
 

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I'm not educated enough to be very specific, but here is my 2018 list:

Lettuce
Romaine and Italian mix
Spinach
Carrots
Tomatoes

New Yorker and Romas and some kind of beefsteak
Sweet Peppers
Bell and Marconi
Jalepano Peppers
Ancho Problano Pepper
--single plant--too hot to want very much!
Sweet Corn
Blue Dent
Cabbage
Green and Red
Zucchini Squash
Pumpkins

Giant
Blue Doll
Pink Doll
Onions
???
Walla Walla
other, if I find it and like the picture on the package, or I have heard of it
Radish
Cherry Belle
French Breakfast (2017 seeds, so I gotta grow 'em)
Cucumbers
Sweet Peas
Peas
Snap Peas
Beets,Detroit

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Pole Beans
Scarlett Runner Beans
(gotta find them, or order them), (DD's back yard)
Marigolds (gotta harvest seeds soon from last years)
Cosmos
Sunflowers
Nasturtiums
Coleus
Perennial wildflowers
(DD's back yard)
Annual wildflowers (DD's back yard)
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New to start from seed, 1st time:
Cilantro
Parsley
Dill
Fennel
Leeks
Calla Lilly
(saved the seeds)
Geraniums
Impatiens

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Transplant currently growing Iris, "Iris reticulata", and white/purple crocus, which I forgot to put into the ground last Fall, but are now growing inside
1st transplant this week from two pots of 15 to 1-3/pot, then transplanting in May to the shady portion of DD's side yard
I didn't know if they were still alive, and that's why I stuffed so many bulbs into a single pot.
**
Transplant 5 junipers, now 6-7 ft. tall, were once 12 little babies, now ready for a wind block along the west wall of the horse's turnout.
 

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