The seed catalogs have come and we've looked through a number of things to see what we'd like to experiment with. I'll post a "final" plant list later on, but right now we know we're doing:
- Basil
- The same two kinds of tomatoes
- The same two kinds of peppers (although less of the cayenne)
- Radishes
- Carrots
- Cucumbers
- The same two kinds of beans
This year, we're trying to branch out and do some more cool weather crops. Things like lettuce and greens are on the agenda for this year. To that end, I'm working on designing and building a frame to go on top of the elevated garden box I built last year for our front porch. We have spinach that's still managing to survive through the winter. The idea is for this frame to mount to the top of the box to provide structure for plastic to create a bit of a cold frame and also which can be sturdy enough to support some plywood for shade in the summer. I'm hoping that by providing some shade for that box, we can grow some cooler weather crops (lettuce, namely) even when it's hotter.
I have a rough idea of what I want to build and even bought some 2x2's from Community Forklift for the project.
Continuing the theme of planning for this year, I'm going to try a computerized layout for the plot. Kathy, from the Skippy's Vegetable Garden blog, does a PowerPoint layout every year for her plot. In the last few years, I've just done one on quadrille graph paper but the engineer in me really sees the appeal of having a layout that can be uploaded to this blog that I can look at from numerous locations and changed on the fly.
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