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I started on learning how to grow last March, and this is the result so far. I'll choose the ones to grow more of next spring by how well these are growing.

There is a planter on the brick wall down at the end of the strawberries. It doesn't show in the picture of the strawberries. That planter doesn't get much sun, and I think I talked to you about that and you suggested growing herbs in there, which I will in the spring. I'll buy the herb plants as the plants are cheap at Lowes. I need to check again to see which ones are perennials. You could help me with that - which ones are perennial? The ones that need more sun will go in containers.

I need to use deck cleaner and clean the deck.

I'm going to buy a dwarf fruit tree of some kind at that place in south Texas. I'll also get deck corn seed when Burpee is ready to sell them. Will also buy blackberry plants that grow well in Texas - I researched that and have the website to order them from on my computer. I have seed for everything else, including several kinds of peppers, but will buy more envelopes of Black Seeded Simpson lettuce and Little Finger Carrots, and Tromboncino Squash for the future.

I've decided on finger potatoes and think I put the place to buy them on my computer. The finger ones would work better, I think, in containers than the large ones will. I don't know, however, if some of those could be stored to have slips from them the next spring.

At some point, before I started trying to grow plants, I bought a sealed package of various seeds for long term storage and it's in my freezer and I have no idea what seeds are in there. I think I got that from Amazon so need to look at the package to see what company that is, or go through my Amazon orders and find it and pull it up on Amazon to see what the hell I bought back then.

I've certainly learned having long term seeds means nothing if you don't know how to grow plants.

I think you have learned that you will be able to grow some of the best “survival food” ever, not to mention great stuff to eat for anytime.

I especially enjoy snipping off a green pepper, some chives, and chopping up some onions from my garden to add to my omelet, pizza, salad, etc.

IIRC, the list of herbs that are for partial shade were taken from my medicianl herbs in as little as 50 sq feet book. Those are all perennial that I highlighted and posted.