Crop List for the 2015 Garden!

For the 2015 garden I wanted to strike a nice balance between experimentation and utility. Since we found that peppers freeze amazingly well (you can read more about that here) I decided to increase our production of peppers this season. I also wanted to devote a sizeable portion of our container space to cooking greens, as we enjoy fresh greens on a regular basis. I have wanted to try melons for years now, so I found a really neat small heirloom melon that Thomas Jefferson grew at Monticello. It will be about the size of the Sikkim cucumber that I grew last season (you can read more about the Sikkim cucumbers from last season here).

an unusual crop...

So, without further ado, here is the 2015 crop list! Anything in blue is a variety I have never tried to grow before.

Tomatoes

Blue Beauty, 2 plants in one 12 gallon pot, 1 plant in a 5 gallon pot

Golden Sunray, 2 plants in one 12 gallon pot

Roma, 2 plants in one 12 gallon pot

Frosted Green Doctors Cherry, 2 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Black Cherry tomato, 2 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Peppers

Oda Pepper, 2 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Anaheim Chili, 2 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Poblano, 3 plants in one 12 gallon pot, 2 plants in one 5 gallon pot

Orange You Sweet, 2 plants in one 5 gallon pot

Cayenne, 2 plants in one 5 gallon pot

Biggie Chili, 2 plants in one 5 gallon pot

Fort Knox, 2 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Jimmy Nardello, 2 plants in one 5 gallon pot

Eggplant

Long Eggplant, 2 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Cooking Greens

Swiss Chard (mix of red and orange), 4 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Perpetual Spinach Chard, 5 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Vates Collards, 4 plants in on 7 gallon pot

Pink Chard, 4 plants in one 5 gallon pot

Kale, 4 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Cucumbers and Melons

Ananas D'Amerique A Chair Verte Melon, 4 plants in one 12 gallon pot

White Cucumber, 3 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Lemon Cucumber, 3 plants in one 7 gallon pot

Herbs (various containers)

Rosemary

Thyme

Purple and Green Basil

Marjoram

Parsley

Oregano

Catnip

Fenugreek

Chives

Cilantro

Sage

Miscellaneous Edibles (various containers)

Green Onions

Purple and Green Bush Beans

Broccoli

Beets

Meyer Lemon Tree

Flowers

Daddy Mix Petunia

Button Zinnia

Green Envy Zinnia

Dwarf Cosmos

Marigolds

In the coming weeks, I plan on spotlighting each of these crops with in-depth photos and more information about the containers and growing habits of each plant. It should be a great summer in the garden!

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