Pick Your Five Plants

So you want to grow!

In this post, you'll be picking what you want to grow. And exploring the many options a garden offers. We are going to keep you're first five minutes of planning your garden very simple. 

Let's focus on picking 5 plants you want to add. to your garden this year.
Here's great way to think about what you want to harvest.
​ What do you eat or want to eat from the garden?

Lettuce for sandwiches and salads? Herbs for sauces, and dressings? Tomatoes? 
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Lettuces that I love to grow include: spring mix, mesclun, boston bib, romaine, and buttercrunch is my absolute favorite. 

Tomatoes that I love to grow:
Slicing Tomatoes: Kentucky Beefsteak
Cherry Tomatoes: Tiny Tim & Red Currant
Paste Tomatoes: San Marzano
​Salad Tomatoes: Sun Gold and Black Cherry
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My top five items I grow are first fresh herbs, then lettuces, cucumbers, tomatoes and finally tea blends. 

When I started I chose just a few herbs and now I have established plants as perennial like my thyme and rosemary, yet others continue to self-seed like basil and dill. 

My Herbs: Oregano, Thyme, Rosemary, Basil, Dill, Cilantro

My Tomatoes: Kentucky Beefsteak, Black Cherry and Sun Gold

My Lettuces: Bostin Bib, Buttercrunch and Romaine

My Cucumbers:  English, Armenian

My Teas: Spearmint, Mint, Echinacea, Rose Hips, Feverfew, Chamomile, Anise Hyssop


My suggestion is that you pick one from each category to add to your garden this year, and then continue to add in the following years. So many of my herbs now self seed and so many of my teas are perirenal. I have placed in bold all the garden plants that are perennial above. And in Italic all the plants I leave to go to seed in the fall to produce self seeded plants in the spring.