June Planting List – 2010
The front veggie garden. The big empty spot on the left is where the garlic just came out, and the okra just went it. The empty spot on the bottom right is where the onions came out and the okra went in.
Well, whaddya know, Make McKinney Weird is two years old. And things are hopping in real life, garden-wise. I’ve been out every morning and evening trying to whip this homestead into shape for the McKinney Garden Club Garden Tour. They’ve never had a vegetable garden on the tour before, so I’m trying to make a good impression. Of course, my harvest schedule isn’t cooperating, so there are pretty bare spots in places. (sigh) We’re going to distract them with wine and bread from the oven. That should do it.
Useful local references:
Collin County Master Gardeners
Dallas Planting Manual, The Dallas Garden Club of the Dallas Woman’s Club
I’ve put an asterisk by the ones I think I’ll be planting.
okra*
pumpkin
squash
I usually plant my okra wherever I pull out the garlic or peas. The timing works perfectly. It’s the late end of okra-planting season, but it’s worked every year for me. This time I started the okra seeds in little pots in the back yard. Then popped them into the space where the garlics were. Voila. Okra is amazing. The little seedlings didn’t even wilt in today’s 100 degree heat.
I pulled up the garlic, onions, and shallots about a week ago. This is our first year with shallots, at the cook’s request. They’re crazy easy to grow. We may just ditch the onions and grow shallots only. With the wet, windy spring and the cats digging in the garden, the onions were less-than inspiring again this year.
Oh, and this was my first year to plant garlic from my own previous year’s harvest. Worked like a charm! So I’ll be doing that again, as well as with the shallots.
The tomatoes are rolling in strong. We’ve gotten about a dozen so far, maybe a few more. Jan made me promise to plant fewer small tomatoes this year, so I have just one yellow pear for munching in the garden. The rest are big, beefy varieties for cooking and canning. Let’s see if we can beat last year’s 7-gallon canning fest. We made it well into the spring with those canned tomatoes.
I’ve had a request for more information about what varieties that are working for me. I’ll work on that shortly.
