when are you sowing your garden this year?

[Jonsey]

Researching for my garden next year and how to improve.
I need to use techniques for window planter gardens and not regular gardens. Need better quality seeds and start earlier, and start with pregrown tomato plants as from seed did not grow fruit until first freeze. Probably need to add some clay or other moisture retaining device so soil stays wet longer. The green onions never grew beyond 4" tall, should have been the star of the garden. Need different carrots. Cucumbers may need more sun than the planter location provides. Mo more cabage, the caterpillars killed it.


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These cucumbers grew great for me several years. They are sweet if they get enough water and also make great pickles.

http://www.rareseeds.com/delikatesse-cucumber/

http://www.rareseeds.com/muscade-carrot/

These carrots grew well for us and are tasty. Cover the seeds with a piece of cardboard until they sprout to keep them from washing away.

For tomatoes, choose a plum or cherry variety to get earlier fruit. As far as nice big tomatoes go, I have grown Brandywine and Cour do Bue with lots of success, and they get pretty big but I can harvest them Sept-early October.

My cabbage got eaten too. I do better with kale and mustard greens.

Much luck to you this year!