First Seeds of 2012 Planted

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I have planted the first seeds of the new gardening season. I planted a 4x8 bed of Oregon Sugar Pod II snow peas. The weather got really cold the last two days, but it is supposed to be warmer after that. I hope I have a pretty good germination rate.

I planted these last year, but made the mistake of not trellising them. Supposedly this variety doesn't need trellising, but I won't make the same mistake twice. I also planted the seeds and rows farther apart this year. Last year I packed the seeds so tight, it made them difficult to manage.  We will see how it goes.

2011 Garden Slideshow

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I got the idea from Ed at Tales from the Mountainside  to create a highlight slideshow from my 2011 garden.  This is a nice way to put an end to the 2011 garden.  I used Google Picasa to create my slideshow and then uploaded to youtube.  I am impressed with how easy it was to put together.

2011 Final Harvest and Year End Total Numbers

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First I want to wish all my garden bloggers a happy and prosperous 2012.   I hope everyone has a great gardening year.  I learned a lot in 2011 and I hope to learn even more in 2012.

Now for the year 2011, my total harvest was 325.51 pounds.  My goal for 2012 is to grow 500+ pounds and that is roughly a 55% increase in total output.  We will see how it goes.  I have added a tab on my blog for harvest totals and this is where I will transfer my historical data from previous years.

Vegetable Name - Variety	Weight
Broccoli - DeCiccio	0.50 lbs.
Carrots - Danvers #126	9.59 lbs.
Cowhorn Peppers	2.68 lbs.
Corn - Peaches and Cream	61.88 lbs.
Eggplant - Black Beauty	13.40 lbs.
Field Peas (Shelled Weight) - Pinkeye Purple Hull	9.63 lbs.
Jalapeno Peppers	8.40 lbs.
Lettuce - Great Lakes #118	17.14 lbs.
Lima Beans - Unshelled	38.56 lbs.
Radishes - Champion	1.25 lbs.
Spinach	1.19 lbs.
Snow Peas - Melting Sugar and Oregon Sugar Pod II	6.61 lbs.
Squash - Dixie Hybrid	26.00 lbs.
Tomatoes - Big Boy, Better Boy, and Roma	35.51 lbs.
Watermelon - Crimson Sweet	31.37 lbs.
Zucchini - Elite Hybrid	61.82 lbs.
Total	325.51 lbs.

The last harvest for this year was some more spinach and lettuce.  The lettuce is doing great, but the spinach is just doing OK.

Here is the spinach bed I planted, not very pretty.  I planted four rows of spinach and only one really came up.  The other three are messy looking.


Here is my lettuce bed before my harvest...


And after I harvested it, I love this variety.  It just keeps on growing back.