Got the last of the seeds started for 2018. I expect to start transplanting the first plants in about 5 weeks. I have decided to limit my garden this year to tomatoes, sweet peppers, cucumbers, squash, summer melons and watermelons.

TOMATOES: White Cherry, Tangerine, Red Sweet Pea Currant, Old Virginia, Kellogg's Breakfast, Gold Medal, Garden Peach, First Pick, Cuostralee
SQUASH: Early Prolific Straightneck, Italian Vegetable Marrow, Yellow Crookneck
SWEET PEPPERS: Golden Treasure, Sweet Chocolate, Buran, Keystone Giant, Sunbright, Caserta
CUCUMBERS: Parisian Pickling, Boothby's Blonde, Spacemaster 80
SUMMER MELONS: Old Original Israeli, Delicious 51, Ananas, Yellow Canary
WATERMELONS: Dixie Queen, Cream of Saskatchewan, Sweet Princess, Mountain Sweet Yellow, Orange Flesh Tendersweet, Bush Sugar Baby

I'll try to throw up some pics when I have something of consequence. What are you planting this year?

Outstanding. I'd like to do that one year. I want to do pumpkins.

Try some carnival tomatoes

What? No okra?!

Sounds like a great garden, getting ready with a little bed prep and probably should start my seeds too

Gruvin said:

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What? No okra?!

Sounds like a great garden, getting ready with a little bed prep and probably should start my seeds too

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I normally do plant okra, and a bunch of other stuff too. This year I am going to use the space to grow more of less. I am leaving the hot peppers to my brother-in-law this year.

bobo said:

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Try some carnival tomatoes

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I have grown Carnivals several times and I like them. They are very similar to a related cultivar called Celebrity. I like to rotate the varieties that I grow every year, usually keeping a few that I liked from the previous year, adding a few new ones, and bringing back some of the favorites from years past. The new ones this year are Cuostralee, Red Sweet Pea Currant and First Pick. Since we started keeping track of the tomato cultivars that we plant (12 years now), we have produced a total of 87 different varieties.

Malbec said:

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... I like to rotate the varieties that I grow every year, usually keeping a few that I liked from the previous year, adding a few new ones, and bringing back some of the favorites from years past. The new ones this year are Cuostralee, Red Sweet Pea Currant and First Pick. Since we started keeping track of the tomato cultivars that we plant (12 years now), we have produced a total of 87 different varieties.

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How big is your garden plot? How do you control critters? At my old place, I set aside a 20'x20' plot and hauled in and mixed in lots of soil amendments. I soon had beautiful plants. I soon had tomato worms and squash bugs. The next year I planted concrete in that spot. I went out one morning and there was a large, very angry tomato worm on my concrete garden - he was looking for breakfast!

I admire your organization and your diligence.

Plant your melons (mush/cantaloupes) away from your cucumbers. They will cross and make awful melons.

NoBSU said:

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Plant your melons (mush/cantaloupes) away from your cucumbers. They will cross and make awful melons.

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That sicko stuff only happens in Missouri.

57Bear said:

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Malbec said:

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... I like to rotate the varieties that I grow every year, usually keeping a few that I liked from the previous year, adding a few new ones, and bringing back some of the favorites from years past. The new ones this year are Cuostralee, Red Sweet Pea Currant and First Pick. Since we started keeping track of the tomato cultivars that we plant (12 years now), we have produced a total of 87 different varieties.

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How big is your garden plot? How do you control critters? At my old place, I set aside a 20'x20' plot and hauled in and mixed in lots of soil amendments. I soon had beautiful plants. I soon had tomato worms and squash bugs. The next year I planted concrete in that spot. I went out one morning and there was a large, very angry tomato worm on my concrete garden - he was looking for breakfast!

I admire your organization and your diligence.

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I have a total of about 5,500 sf, some of which is in terraced-raised beds (maybe 500-600 sf). I am at the edge of the Texas Hill Country, so the soils are thin and angry. Over the years, I have brought in a combination of filtered top soils and amended garden soils and now I have a really good base with which to work. My biggest critter issue has always been squirrels getting fat on my tomatoes, melons, peaches, plums and apples. I have taken to trapping them and releasing them several miles down the road. The birds have been an on and off problem that I have finally cracked with a netting system.