The garden didn't work out quite as I had planned. It's late in the season here for planting and it was hard to find transplants for the veggies I wanted to grow. So, I ended up planting:
- 2 green bell peppers
- 2 jalapeno peppers
- 4 sweet banana peppers
- 4 Italian parsley
- 4 green beans (blue lake, bush variety)
- 2 rows of mustard greens
- 4 green summer squash, called Cocozelle (very similar to zucchini)
I put in seeds for the mustard greens and squash. Hopefully they will grow fast and vigorously enough to make up for the lack of starter plants.
Everything went in on June 4, yesterday.
The mustard greens were a last minute substitution for a row of green beans. I could only find 2 pots with nice looking bush bean plants and each of those pots had 2 plants in them. I separated the two plants to make a row. The greens are from seeds given to me by a friend who is Hmong. She called them "Hmong Mustard Greens." I don't know exactly what variety they are, but I planted some last year and they were very good.
I chose a variety of peppers because I could not find many green bell peppers. It'll be fun to see if I get some banana peppers. I haven't tried them yet.
Additionally, the plot turned out to be slightly larger than 10 feet long. I could fit in six rows, altogether.
The cocozelle squash was a substitution for official zucchini, mainly because it takes only 45 days to harvest, compared to the black beauty zucchini seeds I found at 50 days (or so). Every day counts when you are starting so late!!
(By the way, I included the links so you could see what the plants look like. I don't have any relationship with these seed/plant vendors - I neither endorse or denounce them and I do not receive any compensation for linking to them.)
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