Goals for 2007

1. Cool season vegetables in raised bed: peas (followed by green beans), carrots, broccoli, onions, and garlic hopefully with room to plant a hill of butternut squash later. In August I hope to replant broccoli, peas, and maybe cabbage.

2. This year, I want to start a couple hanging growing bags of strawberries on the porch.

3. Other containers: Mr. Stripey & roma tomatoes, bell pepper, eggplant, collards, mustard, spinach, lettuce, cucumber, zucchini, & yellow squash This is pretty much the same as last year with the addition of eggplant.

4. I want to try the lasagne technique (where you build the soil up in layers instead of digging and amending). I plan to create a good size bed for corn and okra as my experimental crops.

So far, I have sown half a row of peas and started 4 broccoli seedlings in the house. Nothing that exciting to announce from either, but it's still February.

I have also found two GREAT books in the library that I would like for my own library.
*Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening -- This book has it all. Lots of pictures and charts and easy to follow descriptions for every aspect of gardening. It's truly and encyclopedia, and I know it will help me tons.
*Month-by-Month Gardening in Tennessee & Kentucky -- Nicely organized by garden type and month. Then further organized by planning, planting, water, etc. Super nice because it's hard to find information specific to this area. Lots of handy charts