Planting day!

Mother's day weekend turned into the garden weekend to beat all garden weekends. I planted in two days all of the following (a star means it's near a trellis for future support):

Tomatoes - 38 Total
7 Cherry:

• 1 Blondkopfchen* (Little Blond Girl)
• 2 Black Cherry*
• 1 Camp Joy*
• 1 Hawaiian Currant*
• 1 Gardener's Delight*
• 1 Ghost Cherry*

17 Paste

• 6 Roma
• 11 Early Annie (odd number, I know, but I sold more plants than I intended

14 Slicing

• 3 Mr. Stripey*
• 4 Mexico*
• 3 Cherokee Purple*
• 1 Brandywine*
• 3 Eva Purple Ball*

Lots of Beans

• October Beans (for beans and greens and cornbread, quite possibly the most perfect comfort food ever!) - 8 square feet
• Bush Beans - Early Contender - 8 square feet
• Pole Beans* - Kentucky Wonder - 10 linear feet, about perfect for fresh eating and some sharing
• Soybeans - Beer Friend (for edamame) - 18 seeds - these will be succession planted over then next 8 weeks so that we can have a tasty treat every few weeks this summer.

Squashes a plenty

• Cucumbers* - Burpless and White Pearl - 8 seeds - this will give us enough to share!
• Yellow Crookneck Squash* - 3
• Spaghetti Squash* - 3
• Pumpkin Lumina - 3 (I know, I'll kick myself later for not trellising these)
• Zuchinni - 2

Eggplant - Black Beauty - 2

And 24 Peppers

• 5 Jalepeno
• 5 Banana
• 7 Sweet Bell
• 7 Garden Salsa

I also replanted some volunteer Cilantro, a pot bound Thyme, and some hostas that a friend gave me. Oh, and Marigolds everywhere. Oh, and some sweet alyssium for a pop of color. Oh, and zinnias for more color. Oh, and the alpine strawberries that I started from seed. (I think that's everything.)

In the Front Yard, I also planted 80 Gladiolus, several handfulls of zinnia seeds near the house, and I made a little zinnia patch near some mailboxes that aren't ours.

Quite an exhausting weekend! Pictures of all of these will follow in the coming days. For now, my poor hands are a little chapped from playing in the dirt (I try to remember gloves, really I do.) And my hamstrings are definitely feeling toned after all of that squatting and standing! Gardening is my favorite work out.