What I grew in 2017

Beans: [Dvds on strings really scare the birds away!]

• Purple Teepee - Pole beans.   Loved them from 2016.  Easy to shell.
• Kentucky Wonder Pole beans:  Flat and strings.   Prolific.

Flowers:  zinnia (loads!), calendula, cosmos, tithonia [love this!!], sunflowers, batchelor button, agastache.

Garlic:

• Chesnock Red
• German Red

Greens:

• Arugula

Herbs, Annual:

• Basil, Genovese
• Genovese red basil
• Basil, Sweet Blue.   Great bee plant, tea plant and makes the whole garden smell wonderful all summer. 
• Cilantro, Slo Bolt.  Got original seed from BC.  Now I use our saved seed. Mostly it self sows.
• Dill.  Self sows now

Herbs, Perennial [ongoing plantings]

• Lavender - mulched with gravel 2016.  Made a huge difference in how bushy and big the plants got.   
• Thyme - will plant in front of lavender.
• Sage - loves the gravel
• Chives
• Anise Hyssop
• Hyssop
• Chamomile [self sows]- must plant more.
• Alpine Strawberries
• Costmary
• Lemon balm
• Sorrel
• Purslane: volunteers.
• Oregano
• Echinacea
• Comfrey 

Peas:   Sugar Snap.   Did not do well.

Peppers -We're shooting for sweeter, meatier peppers this year.

• Jupiter pepper.   

Radish:   

• Early Scarlet Globe
• French Breakfast

Squash, Summer

• Zucchino Rampicante - Got one.
• the rest of the summer squash got eaten by borers and squash bugs

Squash, Winter: Going to try them in a bed that has been covered in black geotextile.

• got none

Berries

• June bearing strawberries
• Ever bearing strawberries
• Blackberries - good ones from Stark Bros.   Keep all side shoots pruned off up to 3-4'.
• Raspberries - these need a ton of water, so will be watering almost every day.
• Elderberries - Wild.  Wonderful.  

Tomato

• Amish Paste:  Good standby.  Roma type.  Does OK with septoria.
• early girl:  did great.  Deer ate them all at the end of the summer.

Fruit trees

• Sweet cherry
• Sour cherry - good!
• Apricot - none
• Plum - got one
• Peach - none
• Fig [Chicago Hardy] - got about 30.

2017 Canning Season

2017 Canning and Freezing

February:  Barbecue sauce.  5 batches

March:

• Maple Syrup: no sap this year because of the weird weather.  
• Marmalade:  Mixed citrus.  3 batches. 

June:

• Strawberries - 8 gallons, sliced and frozen
• Sugar Snap peas - planted 4 rows, end of March: poor season, no extra.
• Rhubarb: Ate it all fresh!

July:

• Blueberries - 40 lbs.  3 batches Blueberry Cinnamon Jam [8 cups berries, 8 Tablespoons Dutch Jell All Natural Lite,  1.5 cups honey, 2 cinnamon sticks.]
• Peaches -  NONE
• Mixed berry jam -  2 batches Berry Plumcot
• Tomatoes:  100 lbs [4 boxes from Reeves] canned:  60 quarts

August: 

• Spaghetti Sauce [Here's my recipe]:  15 pints from our own tomatoes.