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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

I need to learn the true meaning of "Enough already!"

Once again, I have bitten off far more than I can chew in the garden. I have more plants and types of plants than I know what to do with.  Quite literally. I don't have enough space and I have so many plants that I know nothing about. I am growing 47 different types of edible plants this year. Types. I have no idea how many individual plants I have. But for anyone who is interested, here is the list...

Tomatoes
1. Jelly Bean (cherry)
2. Sweet Baby Girl (cherry)
3. Christmas Grape
4. Moby Grape
5. Brandywine
6. Beefsteak (variety unknown)
7. Abe Lincoln
8. Celebrity
9. Better Boy
10. Italian Sweet Beefsteak
11. Mexico
12. Toma Verde Tomatillo


Peppers- HOT (Scoville rating...a sweet bell is 0, an habanero is 300,000)
1. Garden Salsa (2,000-4,000)
2. Thai Hot (4,000-8,000)

3. Jalapeno (4,000-10,000)
4. Kung Pao (7,000-12,000)
5. Hot Portugal (5,000-30,000) (hell of a range!)
6. Red Chili (20,000-40,000)
7. Cayenne, Thick (20,000-40,000)
8. Tabasco  (30,000-50,000)
9. Cayenne, regular (35,000-55,000)

Peppers- SWEET 
1. Jupiter
2. Giant Marconi
3. Tasty Purple
4. Ace

Eggplant
1. Orient Express 
2. Rosa Bianca 

Basil  
1. Sweet
2. Italian Large Leaf
3. Genovese
4. Thai Magic

Other Herbs
1. Cilantro/coriander
2. Italian parsley
3. Chocolate Mint
4. Peppermint
5. Stevia (sweet leaf plant) 

Strawberries 
1. Honeoye Junbearing
2. Albion Everbearing 


Other
1. Sugar Buns Sweet Corn
2. Chioggia radicchio
3. Rubicon Chinese Cabbage
4. Mei Qing Choi Pak Choi
5. Chocolate Vine
6. Early Spring Burpless Cucumber
7. Edamame (variety unknown)
8. Concord Grape

And now to see if I can move this over to FB.