New Planting Choices For 2012... What's yours?

[vfem]

I know a lot of use have discussed our all time favorites and things we were interested in trying. I'd like to see a list of 'for sure' plantings your going to try for 2012.

New type of sweet corn? New potatoes? New perennial flower? Or perhaps an herb or veggie you've never had ANY variety of before?

Go ahead and share what it is, pictures or where you found it and are buying it from. I'd love for you even to come back later and tell about your experience and how that new planting worked out for you. Total fail, giving it another try or it was just PERFECT!?

 

[Detlor Poultry]

We're expanding from Burgess and Amish Pie Pumpkin squashes, to, well:
-Burgess/Amish Pie X (from last years plants)
-Sweet Dumpling (acorn)
-Red October (hubbard)
-Full Moon (field pumpkin)
-Fairytale (field pumpkin)
-King Golden Hubbard (hubbard)
:bee :bee

 

[Hensinthegarden]

We are doing our garden totally different this year.
I have not been able to have a veggie garden for 4 years due to the neighborhood cats.
This year I said enough is enough. I am putting a pergola over the whole garden and adding chicken wire. I am also going to use my chickens as garden aids. I am caging EVERY plant in the garden so they do not get them all.
I am going to plant:
Lemon boy tomatoes
Lemon cucumbers
Lettuce
radishes
carrots are still a maybe
I want to grow bush beans and the usual squashes.

 

[Detlor Poultry]

We are doing our garden totally different this year.
I have not been able to have a veggie garden for 4 years due to the neighborhood cats.
This year I said enough is enough. I am putting a pergola over the whole garden and adding chicken wire. I am also going to use my chickens as garden aids. I am caging EVERY plant in the garden so they do not get them all.
I am going to plant:
Lemon boy tomatoes
Lemon cucumbers
Lettuce
radishes
carrots are still a maybe
I want to grow bush beans and the usual squashes.

You'll like Lemon Cucumbers, there neat. They taste a little sweeter then regular English Cucumbers, and it's a great way to have Cucumber Lemonade 'without Cucumbers'.

Here are this year's new additions to my flower garden...
- Bearbind (Convolvulus tricolor) - Mixed colors
- Morning Glory (Ipomea purpurea) - Clarke's Heavenly Blue
- Sea Lavender (Limonium sinuatum) - Pacific Midnight Blue
- (Limonium suworowii) - these are interesting. still have to think of a pronouncable name for them...
- Elisabeth/Gentian (Elisianthus exaltatum) - Deep Blue Single Tall type
- Stocks (Mathiolla incana) - Vintage Red Double type
- Bachelor's Buttons (Centaurea cyanus)
- Forget Me Not (Myosotis cynoglossum)
- Ladybird (Cosmos bipinnatus) - Vintage Sea Shells mixture
- (Zinnia marylandica) - Zahara Rose Star
- Farewel-to-Spring (Clarkia amoena) - Monarch Dwarf mixture

And I'm re-introducing flowers that were once in my garden, but died quite a long time ago
- Lupine (Lupinis) - Yellow Gallery

 

[Casa de la Luna]

I am trying a new "black" cherry tomato (love the full size tomatoes of that type), a new "mini" cantaloupe from Gurney's (we get a short season here and the full size Cantaloupes just don't make it), a new italian globe eggplant that is pale lavender and white. A new shorter season corn that is supposed to be as tasty as full season sweet corn (we shall see), and a new warm weather spinach and red leaf lettuce as well as many other items but I am most excited to see about these items. Oh and a new purple potato that is supposed to be divine!

 

[HunkieDorie23]

I am growing a ton of new stuff this year.

Buttercrunch Lettuce
Alma Paprika Pepper
Utah Tall Celery
Sage
Rainbow Carrots Mix
Bianco di Triste (summer squash)
Cocozelle di Napole (summer squash)
Tondo di Peacenze (summer squash)
Early straightneck yellow squash
Golden Bantam Sweet Corn
* Tomatoes Collection
Black Krim
Thessaloniki
Koraliki (cherry)
Caspian Pink
Cuor di Bue Grosso (cabbage)
American Parsnips
Red bunching onions
pearl onions
I am thinking about trying radishes but only if I can get some free seed from my brother. They are for companion planting.

Just order Cour di Bue Grossa Cabbage, American Parsnips and Kentucky Pole beans. They are also new to me this year.

 

[ninnymary]

Well, I'm not as adventures as some of you. I always plant the usual boring stuff. But I do have a big container that I think I'll try potatoes in. Vfem, you have inspired me to do this since you grow yours in buckets. Now, if I can only find yukon golds. :/

Mary

 

[vfem]

Mary, Parkseed has yukon gold!

http://parkseed.com/potato-yukon-gold/p/33718-BAG-2LB/

 

[vfem]

Thanks Mary, now I'm on parkseed filling my cart! hahaha

 

[Cora]

Not a recent picture but this I am planning to put landscape fabric in between the rows so I won't be walking on on dirt or mud.