Every year, I add a new flower bed or two, thus greatly enhancing the beauty of my yard and greatly decreasing the amount of lawn left to be mowed.
This year, however, I am adding a dedicated vegetable bed. I usually just tuck my veggies into the flower beds, producing crops of eggplants and peppers that I share with friends, or drop things like tomatoes into pots, where I'm eager to harvest a measley eight or nine tomatoes each season.
I learned the first problem with my tomato plants: I was buying determinate plants, which are bushy and have only one crop, as opposed to indeterminates, which are viney and produce for many weeks.
That learned, I have gone crazy this year with all the types of tomatoes I want to try! I have found seeds for giant heirlooms, tiny cherries and grapes, mid-sized romas! I have found tomatoes that promise to come in all colors: not the just the same old red we all see, but pinks and yellows and blacks and striped! Oh I can't wait to see what I actually grow ...
And peppers! Who knew there were so many varieties of peppers?!? I usually buy one pitiful plant, or maybe two, and add them to my beds. Plain old bells. Whatever is available.
But not this year! I am going to attempt some bells again, but I am adding anchos and jalepenos and bananas to my collection. Oh I hope I get to harvest a few ... I so love peppers of any and every kind!
What else? What else? Okra and beans and squash, oh my!
Now if the warmer weather would only arrive so I can start my planting ............
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