what are you planting in your veggie garden this year?

[majorcatfish]

since we have heard what we are not planting this year.
would like to hear what everyone is planning on planting in their veggie garden for 2013!!!

this year the wife and I are doing mainly a fresh/canning/drying garden and of course we plant extra, so the extra's goes to an women's shelter.

1. sweet corn... nothing sweeter than pulling the husk off a ripe ear and eating it...............fresh and canning

2. blue lake pole beans.. mainly so I don't have to call the wife to straighten me up as much.....fresh and canning

3. cucumbers 2 types ............... fresh and canning and freezing
pickling
armenian

4. tomatoes. 3 types.......fresh and canning
howard german
green giant...fried green tomatoes yum
garden peach

5.hot and semi hot peppers. 2 types.....fresh and drying
ancho san luis..chili relleno's
hot Portugal..drying

6. sweet peppers....... fresh
green,red,orange and purple bell peppers
banana peppers

7.summer squash. 2 types.......... fresh and drying
zucchini
yellow crookneck

8.green onions........fresh

9. artichokes...not in the main garden.........fresh

10.parsnips....fall crop

11. the odd experiments.........fresh
white eggplant
minors lettuce
joi choi <bok choi>
tigger melon

fortunately the season is long enough here that we can plant some crops 2-3 times...

that's the line up for us....

 

[897tgigvib]

Oh boy that's gonna be a fun garden Major!
(I was only a sp5)

I see you're in North Carolina. Some folks around there would also grow some Greasy Beans.

My garden will be almost all Beans this year. Some new to me, and some of the most challenging late season dry beans.
I also have a bed dedicated to an assortment of some more unusual bramble berries. I will indeed plant my red seeded golden pod pea selection to see if they breed true. I may tuck a few other things in such as a few Quinoa plants.

 

[HunkieDorie23]

Sorry I have a couple of questions.

3. cucumbers 2 types ............... fresh and canning and freezing
pickling
armenian

I have never heard of freezing cucumbers. How do you do it and what do you use them for?

7.summer squash. 2 types.......... fresh and drying
zucchini
yellow crookneck

Do you use a dehydrator for the squash? Does it take forever because they are mostly water and how do they turn out afterwards?

As for what I am planting....everything LOL

Golden Bantam Corn, blue lake bush beans, beefsteak tomatoes & moneymaker tomatoes, 3 types cucumbers (pickles and salad), black beauty zucchini, hales best cantaloupe and crimson sweet watermelons, green sprouting brocoli, spanish onions, asst garlic, lincoln shell peas, scarlet natntes carrots, asst peppers, asst cabbage and Mary Washington asparagus.

New stuff:

Bloomsdale spinach
Champion radish
Lucullus swish chard
Detroit dark red beet
Snowball cauliflower


I am elimiating a lot of stuff so that I can start seed saving. Until I put in a second garden with a lot of space so I can save seeds of multiple varieties this is what I am going to be dealing with. I think it will be plenty to keep me feed and busy.

 

[MontyJ]

Well, I finally have a basic seed list established...sort of...for now...you know how it is...

It looks like this:
Carrots: Nantes, Danvers, and Chantenay
Beets: Ruby Queen, maybe detroit
Turnips: Purple Top
Cucumbers: Chicago Pickling
Celery: I don't yet know which variety will disappoint me this year.
Onions: Yellow Spanish, red and white varieties yet to be determined
Beans: Blue Lake Pole
Corn: Bodacious and an heirloom variety yet to be determined
Tomatoes: Either Early Girl or Early Doll and Delicious, Abe Lincoln, Romas
Potatoes: Red Pontiac and Kennebec
Sweet peppers: Marconi, maybe others
Hot peppers: Jalapenos, and maybe cayenne
Cabbage: Megaton, Copenhagan Market, Early Jersey Wakefield, subject to change
Broccoli: Green Goliath and an heirloom variety yet to be determined
Snow peas: yet to be determined
Snap peas: yet to be determined
Cauliflower: Amazing
Romain lettuce: yet to be determined

Herbs (actual varieties yet to be determined)
Basil
Leaf celery (figured I would give it a try since the celery will probably die)
cilantro
fennel
majoram
oregano
parsley
rosemary (going to try to overwinter it again)
sage
thyme
spearmint ( I have a special use for a wild roaming patch )

I still have to go through the list and sort out the OP and heirlooms since I want to go with as many heirlooms as possible. I know many of the varieties I listed are hybrids, but I hope to have heirloom or OP varieties as well.

 

[majorcatfish]

Sorry I have a couple of questions.

3. cucumbers 2 types ............... fresh and canning and freezing
pickling
armenian

I have never heard of freezing cucumbers. How do you do it and what do you use them for?

7.summer squash. 2 types.......... fresh and drying
zucchini
yellow crookneck

Do you use a dehydrator for the squash? Does it take forever because they are mostly water and how do they turn out afterwards?

As for what I am planting....everything LOL

Golden Bantam Corn, blue lake bush beans, beefsteak tomatoes & moneymaker tomatoes, 3 types cucumbers (pickles and salad), black beauty zucchini, hales best cantaloupe and crimson sweet watermelons, green sprouting brocoli, spanish onions, asst garlic, lincoln shell peas, scarlet natntes carrots, asst peppers, asst cabbage and Mary Washington asparagus.

New stuff:

Bloomsdale spinach
Champion radish
Lucullus swish chard
Detroit dark red beet
Snowball cauliflower


I am elimiating a lot of stuff so that I can start seed saving. Until I put in a second garden with a lot of space so I can save seeds of multiple varieties this is what I am going to be dealing with. I think it will be plenty to keep me feed and busy.

the wife makes a freezer pickle she sweats baby cucumbers in salt and then adds sugar, vinegar and onions and freezes them in Tupperware pints and we have them through out the winter. when she gets off work tomorrow will post the recipe.
for the dehydrator we broke down and purchased a Excalibur 9 tray.. worth every penny!! it dry's everything very quickly during the summer it's running non-stop.
tomatoes, peppers, squash, leeks, herbs, beef jerky...etc etc. biggest thing is not to slice your veggies to thick. 1/4" max

dehydrated veggies make great crock pot soups.

 

[digitS']

Major, this is a little premature for me but here goes:

1. sweet corn, Ambrosia, Sugar Snow, Sugar Buns
2. beans, Rattlesnake (Cascade Giant) pole beans, Jade bush beans
3. cucumbers, Muncher, Poinsett, Turbo
4. tomatoes, oh gosh . . . Goliath, Legend, Early Girl, Thessaloniki, Fireworks, Gary O Sena, Casey's Pure Yellow, Earl of Edgecomb, Dagma's Perfection, Gold Dust, Ildi, Sungold, SunSugar, Dr. Carolyn, Sweet 100's, Buisson, and Bloody Butcher, Porter, Kimberley, and my Grandma Pearl's tomato for hybridizing . . .
5. hot and semi hot peppers, Thai Hots, Super Chili, Garden Salsa
6. sweet peppers, Yummy, Giant Marconi, Carmin, The Big Early bells
7. summer squash, Cashflow zucchini
8. onions, Stuttgarter sets, Gallop, Lillia green onions, Esteem, Red Beret, Ovation, Walla Walla bulbing onions
9. kohlrabi, Green Queen
10. parsnips, Harris Model
11. eggplant, Dusky bells, Shoya & Roleks Asian, Apple Green
12. lettuce, Buttercrunch, Jericho, Forellenshlus, Salad Bowl, Red Romaine, Majestic Red, Red Express, Red Ruby, Tango
13. Asian greens, Mei Qing Choi, LuLan Choy, South Seas GaiLan, Maruba Santoh, Senposai
14. melons, Passport, Goddess
15. mustard, Twisted Stem, Southern Curled
16. peas, Oregon Sugar Pod, Super Sugar Snap, Green Arrow
17. radish, White Russian, German Giant
18. winter squash, Burgess Buttercup, Cha Cha Kabocha
19. basil, Large Leaf Sweet, Gecofur Genovese, Nufar Genovese, Dark Opal, Siam Queen, Lemon
20. parsley, Forest Curled, Italian Flat Leaf
21. celeriac, Mars

digitS'

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Still working on the list.

BEANS
Long Beans Thai #3
Purple Podded Pole Bean
Jade Bush Beans
Trofeo Bush Bean
Blue Lake Pole Beans
Rattlesnake Pole Beans

FLOWERS
Nasturtium Tall trailing Mix
Hollyhock Halo Apricot
Sunflower Skyscraper
Morning Glory Heavenly Blue
Crazy Daisy
Will be more.

POTATOES
Kerr's Pink
Purple Majesty
Red Red
Beauregard sweet potatoes

GREENS
Spinach Bloomsdale longstanding
Lettuce Black Seed Simpson
Lettuce Vivian
Arugula Rocket Salad
Kale Nero Toscana
Spinach Tyee
Swiss Chard Rainbow Blend
Lettuce Farmers Market Blend
Swish Chard Fordhook Giant
Kale Dwarf Blue Curled
Radicchio Dandelion
Collards Vates
Swiss Chard Rhubarb Red
Lettuce Baby Romaine
Kale Blue Curled Scotch
Mustard Red Giant
Swiss Chard Bright Lights
Black Mustard Greens

CUCUMBERS
Richmond Green Apple
Lemon
Picklebush
Ruby Williams Old Time White
Straight Eight
Spacemaster Bush
Still shopping. Most of these are old seeds.

SQUASH
Black Beauty
Yellow Crooked neck
Delicata
Max's Gold Zucchini

CARROTS
Berlicum 2
I have other seed too.

BEETS
Bulls Blood
Mammoth Red Mangel
Mangel Yellow Cylindrical
Chiogga Guardsman Improved

HERBS
Common thyme
Sweet Basil
Parsley Italian Dark Green Flat
Cilantro Longstanding
Basil Summerlong
Oregano
Basil Dark Purple Opal
Basil Cinnamon
Oregano
Maybe more.

RUTABAGA
American Purple Top

TURNIPS
Purple Top White Globe

CABBAGE
Late Flat Dutch
Brunswick
Cour Di Bue

BROCCOLI
Early Purple Sprouting
Green Sprouting Calabrese

CHERRY TOMATOES
Risentroube
Lunch Box
Super Sweet 100
Sweet baby girl cherry tomatoes - ?
Sungold
Still shopping for cherry tomatoes

TOMATOES
Better Boy
Roma
Mortgage Lifter
Brandywine
Fireworks - ?
Still shopping for tomatoes

PEPPERS
California Wonder
Albino Bullnose
Lipstick
Red Mercury
Still shopping for peppers.

PEAS
Little Marvel
Tall Telephone

ONION
Ailsa Craig

WATERMELON
Blacktail Mountain
Golden Midget

 

[majorcatfish]

holy compost piles both of you are going to be busy in the garden this year..my hat is off too the two of you.

 

[digitS']

I forgot 2 things that should have been a given for Gardening with Rabbits and my part of the world: potatoes and beets (but no, not sugar beets ).

The spud selection is still up in the air since I haven't checked yet on what Potato Garden will charge to send seed to me. I'd also better get to Irish Eyes' website in WA state. The local garden center's selection has just become a source of vexation :/. Beets will be Red Ace but I should be planting Perpetual Spinach seed, too. Hey! Perpetual Spinach counts either as a beet or as chard . . . & I don't care much for chard .

You should know that I haven't seen a sugar beet field around here for years. They used to be here. There were even sugar beet processing plants - smoky things.

& Gardening with Rabbits padded her list with flowers!

Steve

 

[HotPepperQueen]

Oh boy, what am I growing this year? I'll just list the veggies. Here we go-

Tasty Green Cucumber, Homemade Pickles Cucumber
German Giant Radish, French Breakfast Radish
Bright Lights Swiss Chard
Golden Rod Bush Bean, Blue Lake S-7 Stringless Pole Bean, Royal Burgundy Bush Bean
Cascadia Snap Pea
Athlenia Muskmelon, Solitaire Hybrid Watermelon, Yellow Doll Hybrid Watermelon
Little Gem Romaine Lettuce
Golden Beet
Yukon Gold Potatoes, Red Norland Potatoes
Amazing Cauliflower
Belstar Broccoli
Florence Fennel
Tango Celery
Walla Walla Onion, Yellow Spanish Onion, Ringmaster White Onion, Red Zeppelin Onion
Yellow Stone Carrots, Cosmic Purple Carrots, Nelson Hybrid Carrots, Atomic Red Carrots
Dill, Mint, Oregano, Chive, Basil, Thyme, Rosemary, Lemon Basil, Parsley

Tomatoes: Oregon Spring, Bush Early Girl, Bush Beefsteak, Italian Tomato Tree, Giant Beefsteak, Golden Jubilee, Northern Exposure, Brandy Boy, Orange Wellington, Red Zebra, Martonos Roma, Black Sea Man, Old German, Sugar Lump, Heirloom Cherry Blend, Big Rainbow, Black Krim, Brandywine Pink

Peppers: Goliath Jalapeno, Cayenne Purple, Serrano, Aji Dulce, Santa Fe Grande, Giant Jalapeno, Fushimi Sweet, Chocolate Bell, King of the North Bell, Garden Sunshine, Sweet Banana, Hungarian Wax, Golden Habanero, Anaheim, Claw of the Eagle, Jumbo Red Cayenne, Tobasco