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SE Wisconsin is cold, cold, COLD! -7 tonight, but the days will be sunny and NO SNOW for the rest of the week! Yay! This cold snap isn’t as bad as the one we had in February with -30 REAL temps. Good Golly!

Anyhow, I’ve been planning my garden and wanted to share varieties I will be growing this season. I have gone to almost ALL Determinate types of tomatoes - so sick and TIRED of MONSTER tomato plants hogging too much garden space even with pruning and staking and caging! I’m getting too old for this. ;)

Seed Vendors: Jung Seed Company, Totally Tomatoes, Vermont Bean Seed Company, Burpee and Botanical Interests.

Tomatoes:

Bella Rose
Bush Champion
Early Girl
Chef’s Choice Orange
Defiant
Cherokee Carbon
La Roma 3
New Yorker
I’ll pick up ONE cherry-type, locally

Peppers:

Baron
Recovery
Gourmet (Green to Orange)
Sweet Banana
Carmen
Big Bertha
...and a few California Wonders/King of the North and Jalapeno that I can pick up locally

Summer Squash:

Ez-Pick Green & Gold
Whatever light green Lebonese-type I have from last year

Winter Squash:

Sugaretti (Spaghetti)
Honeynut Butternut & Betternut Butternut

Potatoes:

Kennebec and Red Norland

Popcorn:

Crème Puff
Calico
Glass Gem (Look that one up - Surreal!)

Green Beans:

Velour Purple
Seychelle Pole Bean
Yard Long Red
Scarlet Runner (for my Hummingbirds)
Goldmarie Romano Pole

Lettuces & Greens:

Avon Spinach
Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch Kale
Black Seeded Simpson
Green Towers (Romaine)
Outredgeous (Romaine)
Red Salad Bowl
Ruby Glow
Rainbow Chard (local purchase)

Cukes:

Diva
Summer Dance

Peas:

Sugar Ann
Sugar Magnolia (Purple Pods; just gorgeous!)

Sweet corn:

Supersweet Offer - 3 types, staggered maturity dates

And whatever else catches my eye! Herb plants will be bought locally and used as fillers in my Porch Pots, which will also have Red Okra (love the plant!) and colorful Hot Peppers and I was adding something ‘purple’ in there, I forget!

Flowers:

Strawberry Blonde Marigold
Empress of India Nasturtium
Envy Zinnia
American Giant Sunflower
Gladiolus - 3 colors
Fireball Marigold
Sweet Peas
Magellan Coral & Mixed Zinnia
Neon Calendula
Orange King Zinnia
Orange Procut Sunflower
Soraya Sunflower

I know; it looks like I’m overly ambitious, but I AM ‘retired’ and I start a lot of these seeds myself in my house and greenhouse. 14 raised beds - and counting!

Also am adding a Rose Bed and a dedicated Herb Bed.

Life Is Good! :)