It's a modern day Victory Garden (really, it is more like an "Oh crap, Obama got elected and I need to make sure my basics are covered garden"). Like every other venture in my life, this was an all or nothing deal.

Here is what I decided to grow-

VEGETABLES-

 

Beans

Blue Lake

Kentucky Wonder Pole

Contender

Kidney

Pinto

 

Broccoli

Coronado Crown

Green Magic

Pacman

 

Carrot

Imperator

 

Corn

Silver Queen corn

Kandy corn

 

Cucumber

Calypso

Dasher III

Poinsettia 76 Slicing

Swt. Slice

 

Herbs

Dill

Lavender

Oregano

Swt. Basil

 

Lettuce

Salad bowl

 

Okra

Clemson

Lee

 

Onion

Candy

Texas Grano

 

Peppers

Big Bertha

Garden Salsa

 

Peanuts (Virginia)

 

Potatoes

Red La Soda

Yukon Gold

 

Pumpkin

Big Max

Connecticut Field

Jack Be Little

Small Sugar

 
I tried to order most of my seeds locally. I used Willhite Seeds but found out when I picked up my seeds they have all their seeds shipped in, So much for local! At least the seed company itself is local, right?  We set up grow lights, a tray warmer, and got busy planting.

 

Within a few days, seeds started sprouting! Lettuce was the first followed by onions.





 

We learned pretty quick our lights were too far away from the seedlings.The little plants were stretching toward the lights. The lights stayed on 14 hours day.

 

 

 

We moved the lights closer and that helped significantly.

 

 

Once the weather warmed up and the plants grew stronger, we moved them outside during the day.


On the Outside...

I paid a neighbor down the road to till up a section of our land. I'd estimate the size was 40 x 300 ft.

In February, this is what the *garden* looked like-

 

After a good 18 inch tiling, this is what is looked like-

 

We let the ground settle for a fews months, then got busy planting. April looked like this-





April showers brought May GRASS! Good grief! In about a month, the grass (in the garden area only) grew about 3 ft! It pretty much took over everything.





Okay, time for plan b: raised garden beds!