Gardening Plans for 2011

Okay so its 2011. This year I'm determined to create a garden of edible foods.

I've chosen a few vegetables and herbs that I would like to have.

For vegetables I've chosen

1. Squash - Dark Green Zucchini
2. Pumpkin - Small Sugar
3. Squash - Straightneck Early Yellow

I chose squash because I hear you can eat their flowers and I'm eager to see how they turn out. Plus adding a bit of squash to your cooking is always a plus.

I've also picked

1. Onion - Sweet SpanishYellow Uatah Jumbo
2. White Texas Sweet Onion
3. Red Onion
4. Chives
5. Shallots

Okay onion is just essential to cooking. You can put it in virtually anything. Now for the onion I will be using bulbs for the white and red and shallots but I will be starting from seeds for the yellow onion and chives.

Also I've always wanted to grow corn. I always liked to see in the movies how people would run through the corn fields so I wanted to bring a tiny bit of that to my home. So I picked

1. Sweet Corn Golden Cross Bantam Hybrid
2. and Early Gold Bantam

Two plants I was just plain curious about were

1. Okra - Clemson Spinless
2. Egglplant - Burpee Hybrid

Now I love tomatoes. And I grew one tomato plant last year and it was big success for being my first ever. The only problem was that I planted it mid summer so its freezing out in the cold right now. This year I'm starting on time. I'll be planting

1. Roma VF - I hear this is great for tomato paste
2. Tomato Money Maker - this is what is freezing outside right now
3. Better Boy Hybrid - this are supposed to be big

Okay for spices I've chosen

1. Basil
2. Oregano
3. Parsley
4. Lavender
5. Cilantro
6. Epazote (Wormseed)
7. Spearmint
8. Hibiscus (Red Drop) what I think Mexicans call Jamaica

Okay so what I'm planning to get most of them started within the month of February. Now hopefully I have room for all these indoors and outdoors. I will be posting pictures. My goal is every week and some notes on my progress.