I made a plan in December of what I would plant in my garden this year. There are always changes to the plan as seeds don't sprout or I see a really beautiful flower I want to add to the garden. So, here is what I ended up with in my garden beds and pots. There will be a few minor changes as summer chugs along, but by this time, the plants are pretty well set for this year's summer season.
My garden consists of four parts: the perennials that come back year after year in the same spots and pots, the self-seeders that pop up in different spots, the stand by annuals I plant every year, and the new varieties I try each year.
Perennials
Existing perennials in my garden are herbs (thyme, tarragon, oregano, garden chives, garlic chives, spearmint, lemon balm, horseradish), vegetables (Egyptian walking onions, sweet Egyptian walking onion, potato onion, shallots, Elephant garlic, asparagus, sorrel), the fruits (strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, Aronia bush, goji berry), and the flowers (daylilies, peonies, hydrangeas, daffodils, hellebore, surprise lilies, gladiolas, coreopsis, hollyhocks, jasmine vine).
New perennials are herbs (marjoram, winter savory, ringed all my beds with a variety of creeping thyme to keep away voles and deer, rosemary, woad, a variety of sages, a variety of lavenders, woad), vegetables (Violetta and Colorado Red Star artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes, American groundnut, pink dandelion), fruits (Alpine strawberries-Italian and Alexandria, elderberries-York and Johns, overbearing strawberries into a raised bed) and decorative plants (Sweet William around front bed, Aubrieta Whitewell Gem, Alyssum Gold Dust, Sunrise Lupine, a Summer Blues delphinium grandiflorum, a lime green creeping sedum, Grace Ward lithodora, Snow in Summer, Paprika yarrow, Blue eyed grass, blue fescue grass, and pink muhly grass, daffodils, hyacinths, Endless Summer hydrangea, David Austin roses, Utrecht Blue wheat).
I planted way more perennials than usual this year because we put in new flower beds around the addition to the house. Next year, instead of 400 new plants, it will be more like 10 to fill in the spaces where some of the new ones didn't make it.
Self-seeders
The ones from last year that came back again this year are zinnias, amaranths (Love Lies Bleeding and Chinese Bicolor), Cocks comb, carrots, celery, purple sprouting broccoli, Hummingbird vine, Morning glory, Ground Cherry, Red Malabar spinach, New Zealand spinach and Giant Blue Feather lettuce. I did also get different varieties of other lettuces popping up here and there that I transplanted into pots.
The new self seeders that I planted this year are new colors of zinnias, borage, and Magadi Compact Blue lobelia.
Edibles and Herbs
Pole Beans-1500 Year Old snap or shelled beans, Christmas speckles lima beans, Purple and Red Chinese Noodle beans, Urizun Japanese winged beans. All but the winged bean will be in the garden bed.
Okra-Red Burgundy (2)
Tomato plants (10) -Italian Pear paste, Cherokee Purple, Chocolate Pear, Brandywine, Ukranian Purple, Lucid Gem, Rebel Starfighter, a yellow Sicilian storage tomato, Better Boy, Sweetheart Cherry, Topcoat dwarf, A'Grappoli winter storage tomato
Eggplant (4)-Rotanda Bianca, Shiromaru, Amadea, Turkish Orange in pots
Cucumber (2) – Bush Champion and Beit Alpha vining cucumber
Summer squash-Trombetta since it is resistant to vine borer and squash bugs.
Winter squash – Butternut from saved seed and a new one
Snow peas in pots with peppers and eggplants
Dragon Tail radish in garden bed
Hilton Chinese cabbage
Lettuce (Royal Oakleaf, Grand Rapids, Butter King, Bronze Beauty, Giant Blue Feather, Red Romaine), spinach, chard, blood veined sorrel in pots
Snow peas in pots with peppers and eggplants
Greens that stay sweet in summer-Purple Orach, Chinese Bicolor Spinach, Tong Ho Big Leaf, Chijimisai, Japanese Mountain Spinach chard, Tronchuda kale.
Sweet and hot peppers-variety to make chili powder (3 Ancho plants), Jigsaw and Baklouti hot pepper plants, and sweet pepper plants (a chocolate one, yellow banana, bells-an orange, Baron red, a Better Bell green and a Golden Wonder yellow, sweet Habanada and sweet Tricked You Jalapeño)
Herbs-Dill, Basil (Nunum, Genovese, Cardinal, Purple Ball), Lion's Ear, Rosemary, Multicolor Sage, Papalo (cilantro substitute), Roselle Red hibiscus, a variety of onions (Flat of Italy, Australian Brown, Bronze D'Amposta, Red of Florence and sweet onion sets from Walmart)
Potatoes in the potato boxes - Yukon Gold, purple ones from saved seeds (yes, some potatoes actually develop seeds from their flowers)
Sweet potatoes-Purple Majesty, orange Beauregard and White Bonita variety pack from Southern Exposure
Dwarf Tamarillo-small orange fruits
Pumpkin-Ayote Green Flesh for pies and bread
Melons-Maybe Prescott Fond Blanc, Kajari or Lemon Drop?
Vole repelling plants around the perimeter of all my beds-creeping thyme and daffodils around every bed
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