About 3 years ago I decided I wanted a garden. At the time, we lived on 2 acres of the poorest soil in Alabama. I did like most folks and went to the nearest Lowes/Home Depot to purchase my garden plants. As I walked down the isles, looking at the prices per plant, I was amazed at how much people were paying for a tomato plant.
Being me, I immediately went to the seed section, selected a few different plants, a bag of soil, and a couple pots. Since that first little garden of tomatoes, peppers, and squash I have learned A LOT about plants but more importantly I learned how much I love to watch things grow. There is a lot to be said for people with nice gardens and fine hunting dogs......lots of patience.......lots of "want to." The reward is mostly personal, rarely appreciated outside of "looks great honey" by the wife, and on a different level it's good for the soul(or is it soil?).
My first little garden had a tomato, a jalapeno pepper, and a few squash. We have evolved a bit and are now planting flowers but the same nucleus of delicious summer veggies still exists. This is what we are going with this year, in no particular order:
Veggies......
Tomatoes.....jetstar, farm stand, right bite
Peppers.....cayenne, jalapeno in both early and hot
Pole beans....Kentucky blue lake
Squash......yellow crookneck
Cucumber
Flowers......
Phlox......twinkle mix
Cosmos......cosmic mix and sunny red
Veronica....blue bonnet(I wanted purplicious, couldn't find seeds)
Dianthus....cheddar pink
Geum......Mrs. Bradshaw Improved
Saponaria......ocymoides
Sedum.....dragons blood
Nasturtium......princess of India
Vinca.....some of my personal all time favorites!
Some pretty rare ones in,
Commelina dianthifolia
Echinus fastuosum
Geranium......purple haze
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