Tangled Branches: Cultivated

A work in progress. I’ll update this as the season progresses and as I have time.

Update, 6 April 2012: Well, this wasn’t quite the answer to my record-keeping problems either. I’m currently working on a private wiki, not quite ready for public viewing yet. When it’s in better shape, I’ll replace this page with a link to it.

Update, 16 May 2012: see CultivatedWiki for my current kitchen garden activities.

Currently growing

Onions/Shallots

• Yellow of Parma: 2 sowings, 2nd sowing planted out May 13
• Red Long Florence; planted out May 13
• White Lisbon
• Yellow Potato; tops starting to die down June 18
• Yellow Moon Dutch Shallots
• White Multiplier; tops starting to die down May 22
• Egyptian aka Walking Onion aka Topset Onion; starting to make more sets May 14; last year’s sets started in the cold frame in late winter and planted out May 20

Garlic

• Nootka Rose
• Romanian Red

Tomatoes

• Matt’s Wild Cherry; lots of green tomatoes May 27; first harvest June 17
• Ceylon; one tiny green tomato May 22; first harvest June 20
• Jaune Flamme; lots of green tomatoes May 27
• German Pink
• Virginia Sweets
• Striped Roman; planted a second transplant in the garden June 3
• Tess’s Land Race; planted out May 20
• Riesentraube; planted out May 20
• Black Krim; planted out May 20
• Ten Fingers of Naples

Peppers, Sweet

• Quadrato asti Giallo; transplanted into garden June 3
• Kapiya; transplanted into garden June 3
• Odessa Market; transplanted into garden June 3
• Sweet Chocolate; transplanted into garden June 3
• Bull Nose Bell; transplanted into garden June 4

Peppers, Hot

• Chimayo, transplanted into garden June 4
• Kashmiri, transplanted into garden June 4
• Padron; transplanted into garden June 14

Eggplant

• Listada de Gandia; transplanted into garden June 22
• Rosita; transplanted into garden June 22
• Pingtung Long; transplanted into garden June 22

Herbs

• Lemon Mist Thyme
• Provencal Thyme
• Variegated Lemon Thyme
• Broadleaf English Thyme
• French Tarragon
• Garlic Chives
• Chives
• Rosemary
• Sage ‘Extrakta’
• Oregano, white-flowered; harvested and dried in the dehydrator May 31
• Oregano, pink-flowerd
• Horehound
• Rue
• Wormwood
• Germander
• Costmary
• Mint-leaved Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa var. menthifolia)
• Sorrel
• Bronze Fennel
• Eucalyptus gunnii ‘Silverdrop’
• Dill ‘Mammoth’
• Dill ‘Fernleaf’; direct-sown, poor germination
• Dill ‘Bouquet’
• Coriander, Lemon
• Coriander ‘Ghanat’
• Lemongrass; from stalks from the grocery store; planted out June 3

Greens

• Fenugreek (Methi): flowering as of May 13; useable as greens at this point? my guess is not. Turned under June 4.
• Chard: poor germination. Turned under June 4.
• Spinach: poor germination. Turned under June 4.

Fruit

• Strawberry ‘Mara des Bois’; only 3 plants left from last year’s planting; ripening berries from May 10 to ?
• Wild Blueberries (not really in the kitchen garden); ripening from June 2

Cucurbits

• Charentais Melon ‘Edonis’; direct-sowed June 3
• Cucumber ‘Poona Kheera’; direct-sowed June 3
• Cucumber ‘Snow’s Fancy Pickling’; direct-sowed June 3

Potatoes

• Maris Piper; flowering June 2; first harvest June 21
• German Butterball
• Rose Finn Apple aka Pink Fir Apple; first harvest June 21

Peas and Beans:

• Pea ‘Precoville Petit Pois’: 2 sowings, late February and mid March; first harvest from the late February sowing on May 27; very sweet and tender; finished within 10 days
• Bush Bean ‘Tavera Filet’: direct-sown June 4
• Bush Bean ‘Roc d’Or’: direct-sown June 4
• Pole Bean ‘Neckargold’: direct-sown June 4, second sowing June 21
• Pole Bean ‘Trionfo Violetto’: direct-sown June 4
• Yardlong Bean ‘Kaoshiung’: direct-s0wn June 4
• Cowpea ‘Red Ripper’: direct-sown June 4
• Pole Bean ‘Black Greasy’: direct-sown June 21
• Pole Bean ‘Blue Marbut’: direct-sown June 21
• Pole Shell Bean ‘Habellones Regal’: direct-sown June 21

Okra

• Emerald; transplanted to garden June 14
• White Velvet; transplanted to garden June 14
• Silver Queen; transplanted to garden June 14
• Jing Orange; transplanted to garden June 14
• Cherokee Long Pod; transplanted to garden June 14
• Beck’s Big Buck; transplanted to garden June 14

Flowers

• Oenothera missouriensis
• Oenothera sp. ‘Tina James’; blooming June 3
• Dianthus barbatus; from seed in 2010, all in bloom May 22
• Dianthus spp. ‘Fragrant Village Pinks’; from seed in 2010, all in bloom May 22
• Chrysanthemum hyb. ‘Korean Hybrids’: from seed in 2010, flower buds forming on some plants May 22
• Achillea hyb. ‘Summer Berries’
• Lavender ‘Munstead’; blooming May 18
• Lavender ‘Grosso’; blooming June 4
• Lavender ‘Provence’
• Lonicera sempervirens (Coral Honeysuckle)
• Agastache foeniculum
• Agastache foeniculum ‘Golden Jubilee’
• Nepeta transcaucasica ‘Blue Infinity’; beginning to bloom May 22
• Verbena hastata (pink)
• Verbena bonariensis
• Viola (seed saved from ‘Historic Florist Mix’)
• Tigridia pavonia
• Anemone ‘de Caen’
• Cistus ladanifer (Rockrose, source of perfume ingredient labdanum)

Finished

Radishes

• Philadephia White Box: the strongest flavored so far; the spouse says it almost tastes like a real radish; 2 sowings
• Easter Egg: the first sowing of these was not good – they bolted before they made good roots; second sowing better, but still some bolting
• Roodkapje: cute, a Sparkler-type radish with red top shading into white; fairly mild
• Rudi: the beauty contest winner; bright red round roots, fairly mild, but I’d grow it just for its looks; sown ?, finished May 13
• Münchner Bier: don’t know much about this one; may not be a spring radish; I’ve read that this is grown mostly for its long edible pods; flower buds as of May 22; pods as of June 3; we really didn’t like the pods much – rather bland
• Shunkyo Semi-long: I like this one a lot, but it has a very short holding period in the garden – goes pithy very quickly; harvested all May 14
• Udaipur: this was an attempt to get a radish the spouse would recognize as a real radish; I acquired seeds from Seed Savers Exchange and last year saved my own seed, however not well-isolated so I wouldn’t offer seed to others, but I will grow it out and see what happens

Lettuce

• Hanson; maturing May 22
• Tennis Ball; maturing May 22; bolted June 3
• Forellenschluss; maturing May 22
• Red Iceberg; maturing May 22
• Grosse Brune Paresseuse; maturing May 22; left to form seeds and deer chewed off the flower stalks in early June – will see if it resprouts
• Merveille des Quatres Saisons; maturing May 22

Garlic

• Ajo Rojo; harvested June 18