Garden Project : Phase I - Start Seedlings

We are starting our annual vegetable garden project on time, for a change, this year. We planted some of our seedlings today and will plant the rest in 2 weeks. We'll probably plant the ones we started today around Dad's birthday, March 20th and then the rest around Good Friday. The kids are really able to help a lot these days and are very hands-on. We'll post progress photos as soon as they start sprouting. Our goal is to NOT mix up the labels this year...we've found that it's very hard to tell a cherry tomato seedling from a Better Boy tomato seedling, ditto for yellow and zucchini squash.

Here's our tentative lineup for this year:

• Better Boy Hybrid Tomatoes
• Cherry Tomatoes
• Straight Neck Yellow Squash
• Zucchini Squash
• Kentucky Wonder Green Beans
• Silver Queen Sweet Corn
• California Hybrid Bell Peppers

We may tweak the mix a little as we go along, but this is the initial plan. This is our first year trying corn, but we're going to give it a whirl. We have to plant it in a square pattern instead of long rows to help with pollination. We may replace the green beans with something else – they "run" all over the place and take up a lot of space, but we may run them along the back fence or something this year.