Time to order some seeds!

 I usually already have my order picked out by now, but I'm behind this year.  Most of my seeds last year came from Seed Savers. 

I had really great luck with my tomatoes.  I had three different kinds last year.  Italian Heirloom was by far my favorite.  If you are looking for a good canning tomato, this is it.  Most of the fruits were in the 1-1.5 pound range.  I even had one that hit over 2 pounds.  I took a picture of it on my phone last year, we'll see if I can get the picture off of it.  Chalks Early Jewel was a good slicing tomato.  It was perfect for putting on sandwiches and very prolific.  My favorite novelty tomato this year was a Green Zebra.  It was so much fun to watch them turn green with green stripes to yellow with green stripes.  Although I have to say it was a little weird eating a green tomato. 

Last year my tomatoes were out of control!  My cages were not sturdy enough for them.

These plants are a couple weeks old.  Potato bush right there in the front.



And the out of control tomatoes begins...cucumber plant down there at the bottom



That is not one big tomato plant, but rather about 8-10 plants.

Needless to say, I learned a lot of about the correct spacing of plants.  Although you can fudge a little from what they say, since most seed packets give directions for commercial plantings.

My absolute favorite veggie I grew last year was Amish Snap Peas.  Absolutely delicious and the more you pick the more they yield. 

And of course, I have to laugh at my potato snafu last year.  I bought both Yukon Gold and Red Gold (can't find it on the website) thinking that I ordered a good all purpose yellow potato and a red potato.  Wrong!  They are both varieties of Yukon Gold, except the Red Gold has red skin...duh!  If you've never grown potatoes, you definitely should.  They have great big beautiful bushes and they are a lot of fun do dig up at the end of the season.