First Major round of Planting Done

Over Saturday through yesterday, we got a lot into the ground. Some of the stuff is easy to identify a month from now such as peas and beans. However, we have six different varieties of tomatoes and twelve different varieties of peppers. So I made a hand drawn map showing the general location of each plant with a key to the numbers. Here's my crudely drawn map of the main yard:


This does not include the back corner or the parking strip. I do have some red and blue potatoes planted in the upper back corner which have come up. But I have not planted in the lower back corner or the parking strip yet. And I have not planted the winter squash, pumpkins or beets but I will probably do that this coming weekend. Here's the key to the map:
1. Green Zebra Tomato
2. Amish Paste Tomato
3. Maritan Giant Tomato
4. Perone Sprayless Tomato
5. Tangerine Sweet Pepper
6. Purple Beauty Bell Pepper
7. Sunrise Orange Sweet Pepper
8. Cilantro
9. Red Ruffled Pimento
10. Nardello Sweet Pepper
11. Corno di Toro Pepper
12. Pole Beans
13. Sorrel
14. Broccoli
15. Bush Snap Peas
16. Prize of the Trials Tomato
17. Amana orange Tomato
18. Ring O Fire Chili
19. Czech Black Chili
20. Bolivian Rainbow Chili
21. Ancho/Poblano Chili
22. Conquistador Chili
23. Hungarian Hot Wax Chili
24. Lemon Basil
25. Aromatto Basil
26. Garlic
27. Dry Soup Tiger's Eye Bush Bean
28. Red Cherokee Wax Bush Bean
29. Round Black Spanish Radish.

The radishes and some of the bush snap peas are left over from my experimental February planting. I had to replant more bush snap peas, and I believe our two attempts at lettuce were eaten by slugs.

My body was toast last night after two days of shovel work and then choosing to ride my bike to work on my hilly commute. But the planting got done at just the right time around 7 pm as it started to rain quite seriously at about 8 pm.

Next up, I need to clear the cover crop from the lower back corner and get the rest of the potatoes planted and plant my sweet corn, squashes, beets and some various greens. I'm going to break down and buy some lettuce starts but I will give the seeds a try again too. Then I will continue my ongoing battle against my invasive species problems of bamboo, blackberry, two different types of morning glory and a vine that spreads along the back cyclone fence.