Garden is planted!

It might have been a little early, but I had an appointment cancel on me this morning so I rolled up my sleeves and got everything planted. If we have a cold snap, I'm going to cover the garden in dead leaves and hope that the frost doesn't kill any baby plants, but we'll see how this method works.

Garden #1: Upper Garden nearest the Fody's front door

1. Carrots - lots of carrots
2. Banana Peppers
3. Hot Portugal Peppers
4. Parsley
5. Cilantro 
6. Basil

Garden #2: Upper Garden nearest our side door

1. Asparagus - Year 2
2. Mixed Greens - Year 2 (may need to supplement with some new plants, but waiting to see how well the old ones do after cutting them back last weekend)
3. Red Onions
4. Green Onions

Garden #3: Lower Garden, nearest the Fodys - this one has never previously had squash, so I'm hoping it might keep the vine borers at bay

1. Cucumbers
2. Yellow Squash
3. White Squash
4. Zucchini

Garden #4: Lower Garden, middle of the yard - I saw vine borer grubs in the dirt today! and there have been no squash in this garden for at least the last 2 years!

1. Purple Prudens Tomatoes
2. Grape Tomatoes
3. Purple Tomatillos
4. Pink Mini Corn

Garden Prep Done

Way behind schedule this year, but got the raised garden boxes tilled, chopped down dead plants and a few overgrown mixed greens. Ready to plant next week.

We're doing a few things different this year:

1. Lakeside Garden Boxes - no squash, cukes, or other gourds will be in the Upper Garden Boxes this year. We're going to give it a rest this year and plant these in the boxes down by the lake (which haven't had gourds in two years) to try to combat the vine borers that destroy our crop each year.
2. We're planting a LOT more carrots this year - they were great last year, all 6 of them ;-).
3. We're planting a lot more mixed greens this year - I also have a bunch in my office in a planter. Need to eat more leafy stuff.
4. Tomatoes and tomatillos are getting moved down to the lake as well. We're going to replace that area with some herbs and more mixed greens. We had 0 tomatoes last year, and only a handful of tomatillos. I don't know what we did wrong last year.
5. Corn - we definitely are going to plant pink corn again this year. It actually doesn't taste bad, but my 1st Grade teacher mom and the kids really liked it.