Our Garden Plan - Jan 15th first draft

Dear Gardeners,

From our meeting this morning, Sat. Jan 15th, the plot plan is all rotated and in this cartoon rendering, very very good-looking (!)



Click on this 'first draft' jpeg above,in order to view the picture in "large".(and then use back button to return here again.)

The two EARLY crops for spring planting will be a salad bed and vine peas in beds 1 and 3. Spinach and other cool weather lettuce seed can be started indoors in about seven weeks. So we've visualized a "salad bed" with a mixture of lettuce, scallions, radish, baby spinach....wowza. I'm visualizing!

So the EARLY crops are decided (green), and some of the HEAT LOVING summer crops (red) are sketched in the above version as well. We're planning the rotation at the same time.

Heat-loving zuccini and winter vine squash just might work in pots if we perhaps try small, compact varieties? That would make lawn cutting easier; let's think about that.
Small quickly maturing crookneck squash suitable for our raincoast.
Another bush-sized butternut squash type suitable for our climate (short season.)

More seed-selection to come; and some contemplation of onion sets, and even shallots!
:>)
We had fun making group decisions and many thanks for the hot beverages and cake!!
Yum! :>D
Thanks so much to all the helpers and thinkers!
More exact varieties to check seed orders for, but moving ahead well!

Best, Jen

P.S.
Local planting times for spring seeds are given here.

P.P.S. And we have to remember the Winter veggies too. Here's a list of locally successful winter veggie varieties.

Here's a chart showing times of year to plant each veg: