veggie garden

I'm looking forward to measuring this veggie garden because it's fairly ambitious. We've got 2/3 of the soil dug up and prepared so we hope to finish that by Monday night.

I ordered the veggies from the Seed Savers Exchange - doing my part to help out endangered species and also keeping our culinary side interested (if I'm going to grow tomatoes, they better be interesting ones). Here's the plan:

As soon as the seeds come (later this week) we hope to plant peas, lettuce, and arugula. At that trip to Agway Sue filled my trunk with a soil/fertilizer mix that she suggests so as soon as we finish digging we'll lay that down. We also need to purchase some sort of trellis for the peas to climb.

The weekend before memorial day our peppers and tomatoes will arrive. We bought a variety pack - 6 different varieties of each. Either nothing will grow in our garden or we'll have more salad than we can possibly eat. If you live close and like veggies - stay tuned :). We need a cage or steaks or something for the tomatoes to climb but I can't believe the variety of products that claim to be just perfect for that. More research needed . . . good thing it's school vacation.

Once we plant the tomatoes and peppers it will also be the right weather to plant flowers. Annuals? Perennials? What will we choose? Will others be transplanting plants into our garden or will we attempt to grown from seed? Just for fun, I wanted to try to plant sunflowers . . . just to see if they would grow . . . and what they would look like. So I spend $2 and ordered a packet of seeds. Sam FLIPPED out. That was just this morning so we'll see what happens. I didn't think he cared what kind of flowers I planted in our yard but apparently sunflowers are "ridiculous". Good times, good times.