Garden 2024
This year’s garden was inspired by my desire to grow more food and support more plant-forward meals in the kitchen. Highlights include pickling cucumbers, melon, beans, and greens.
What’s in the Garden:
Vegetables:
- Carrots
- Garlic
- Parsian pickling cucumbers
- Sugar snap peas
- Zucchini
- Barese swiss chard
- Mortgage Lifter and Martino’s Roma tomatoes
- Jalapeno and Ajarvski peppers
Greens:
- Gustav’s butter lettuce
- Romaine lettuce
- Merlot lettuce
Fruits:
- Sweet Passion and Lemon Drop melons
- Alexandria Alpine strawberries
Herbs:
- Genovese basil
- Sage
- Oregano
- Chives
Flowers:
- Echincacea
- Cornflowers
- Bambino and Kilimanjaro white marigolds
- Milkweed
- Peppermint Stick and Pink Senorita zinnias
- Cleopatra salvia
In the Perennial Wildflower Garden:
- Coreopsis
- Macaroon shasta daisy
- Black eyed susans
- Yarrow
- Geranium primrose japonica
- Rose “Rose de Rescht”
- Irises, tulips and hyacinths
- Stachs Hummelo
- Geum
- Gayfeather liatris
- Forget me nots
- Moarda Raspberry Wine bee balm
- Phlox
- Salvia
- Daylilies
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