3rd split, I keep getting logged out...OKRA, eggplant, peppers

Okra. Eggplant, both large and baby varieties. Peppers, mostly a mix of colorful bell peppers, Anaheim, ristra chilis. Heirloom tomatoes, and a mix of local varieties I´m not familiar with but will try as the gardener farmer I get my seeds and plants from suggested it. He and his wife grow the plants--one year I gave them some bluebonnets to grow, as lupines grow wild here and no one had seen these tiny blue and white ones---then they sell on to the shops. I go out in the country further and furtherest out, to them, so I can ask them directly, and see what all they have. I don´t mind not perfect plants, or unusual plants, which usually are not sold on to the shops, but I buy when I discover them. Their farm is by the sea, down a long winding lane of grassy knolls either side, old traditional wooden houses with flint rooftops, huge old plants of blackberries so old they´re not shrubs not stalks they´ve rambled together so tightly. I always wishfully think of transplanting a few, but not sure they will grow on this part of the island, even though time wise it´s not that far away, but weather wise we get different climate here, oddly enough and some people don´t believe me,).

Right. So this year what I´d like to plant---okra, LARGE tomatoes mostly heirlooms, mixed colorful bell peppers and such, corn in The 3 Sisters squares, various heirloom and short carrots, colorful radishes, small and full-sized eggplants, patty pan yellow squash, yellow squash, watermelon and musk mellon....spinach, and some edible and non-edible flowers, and various herbs-----is currently what I will be trying to start by seed, indoors.

Barring that not working, I will then have to get small plantlings from the farmer to plant directly in the soil later on in the year.

A few of the herbs I´d like are chocolate mint, lots of varieties of other scented mints such as grapefruit mint (not necessarily for cooking, but simply as I like the scent wafting thru the air as summer breezes wisp them about), verigated mints as they´re pretty too; zinnias, French marigolds and some other flowers, a bit as my Mom plants them and I like them. Watermelon as my stepdad always has such flavourful ones every year, and it reminds me when the kids would help pick them. :)

We´ll see.

So how is your garden coming long by now? Still on paper, in your head, or already lucky enough to have some actual sproutlings slowly popping up here and there?:)

Happy Gardening!

I´m now wistfully leafing thru colorful photographs in my French and Italian garden books:) how lovely! One day I hope my garden here will be as packed and full of such sights, and I can actually once again walk thru the diverse, wonderful garden, picking the days food, rather than heading off daily to the market to decide the day´s meals:).

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