Did you get a new name?

i have my list somewhere of warm season plants.

Maybe? Not sure whaat you're talking about.. . . lol. I have to go back to the spreadsheet to figure mine out.

I noticed that too. Normally your name shows as Nancy RW, now it's Nancy Waggoner.

I'm going to try tomatillos this year. And I got several different eggplant so I want to try them too. But I haven't finished making my list yet, so I don't know what else.

I think I figured out the name thing. Apparently I'm Nancy Waggoner on my laptop. lol (the two computers aren't synced.) Maybe someday I'll address that issue.

I'll try tomatillos ONE more time. Maybe. (Aphids LOVE the tomatillos.)

Meanwhile. . . the warm season list.

Beans: Chinese Red Noodle beans (at Lincoln, if we get some trellises built); Contender, Royal Burgundy, Sunset Runner.

AMY! Have you grown Sunset Runner? Check them out!

Cucumbers: Both from Kitazawa--Housaku, Palace King

Gourds: Bottles, Dippers and Bowls (trellis)

Melon: Charentais (Hakucho)

Okra: Steward Zeebest, Burgundy, Chinese Angled Luffa (if we get a place for it on the fence)

Peas: Kiawah Pinkeye Purple Hull

Peppers: Keystone Resistant (Bell), Ancho Gigantia, Jimmy Nardello, Ashe County Pimentio

Summer Squash: Tromboncino, Early Bulam, King Ka AE and Meot Jaeng I AE (all c moschata)

Winter Squash: Autumn Delight

Tomatoes: Arkansas Marvel, Beefsteak, Costoluto Fiorentino, Delicious, Jersey Giant Paste, Matina, Sunny Boy, and one each of the cherry ones: Amy's Sugar Gem, Isis Candy, Igleheart, Cherokee Green.

I think I'll grow rattlesnake and or blue coco pole beans this year.

Provider bush and Tanya's pink pod. Provider is supposed to germinate in cooler soil and Tanya's is heat resistant (Dawn recommended). My understanding is runner beans don't grow well here. I HAVE looked at that variety. If you get it to bloom I'll try it next year.

I have lots of cucumber seeds and I'm experimenting with growing them with papalo this year for bug resistance.

I don't know why we have trouble with tomatillos. Mine were tiny. Maybe we're not the right climate, they grew for Dawn.

No melons here unless I decide I have room under okra. I plan to only grow emerald velvet . I grew it early on and loved it. I think it's more tender than the others.

I have a couple of varieties of pimento peppers and an elephant ear. I suppose I will have to grow a jalapeno. At least start some for my daughter. I like to grow one cayenne, not for eating, but to help deter rabbits.

I don't think I can bring myself to grow squash. You know acorn squash is c. pepo? I love acorn squash. And BTW immature acorn is the best summer squash there is.

I plan to grow roselle, Egyptian spinach, Jewels of Opar, purslane, buckwheat (leaves are supposed to be edible).

I was very pleased with the sweet potatoes we grew last summer. The big fabric pot did great. And they tasted good.

I listed tomatoes on the tomato thread. I probably will have nothing new this year.

There will be some kind of cow pea. Even though Ron never cooks them and will go out and BUY blackeyed peas which I hate.

I might just plant all the Cherokee trail of tears pole beans for dried beans. I usually get a couple of long bean volunteers, too.

The pallets are still where they were last year. I always thought about growing cowpeas there to shade out Bermuda and planting winter wheat there in the fall. Then in spring planting Flint corn. But that would require cooperation from the husband, and the dogs. Underground cables there so no trellis or fences. Every year is a new adventure.

Amy, I know the Autumn Delight was pepo, but it sounded so delicious! I think I'll plant it in the raised flower bed. Maybe it can sort of hide out there. Our first year for a real garden here, we had zucchini in the raised beds, and butternut in the raised flower bed. (I'm not sure what variety, but know it wasn't c moschata.) The SVBs found the zucchini in no time, but never did find the butternut. We'll see. But the rest of the squash are c. moschata. I also have early Bulam, which I remember you talking about.

And my other lists grew to include peppers Ancho Gigantia, Jimmy Nardello's Itaian sweet, and Aji Dulce.

Tomato list grew to include Dwarf Noah's Stripes, melons to include Edisto 47, and watermelons, Crimson Sweet.

We're hoping to be out of here by this time next year, so I'm keeping an eye towards resale value as I plan this year. So I plan to downsize a bit of my already small garden (PLAN being the key word lol). I haven't decided on exact varieties yet, it'll depend on what I actually get growing. Again, thinning out old seed so I'm expecting low germination rates

Tomatoes: 3 mineral tubs, 2 in ground and 2 or 3 micro or dwarf varieties

dwarf/micros: birdie rouge, baby, sleeping lady, premus, hahme gelbe

mineral tubs/in ground: rebel yell, brown berry, alpine, frankenstein, peiping chieh, kotlas, carbon copy

Peppers: 5 containers, possibly 2 or 3 in ground

Eggplant: 1 or 2: black beauty, casper, listadia de gandia, pumpkin on a stick

Tomatillo: 1 or 2: purple or green

Cucumber/squash/zucchini: 2 or 3, would love to find a variety I can grow in containers

Gourd: if room, possibly 1 or 2: luffa, spinning top, nest egg

Herbs:

Basil (anywhere I can find open space)

chives

yarrow

rosemary (if it survives winter)

dill/fennel/parsley

spilanthes

mint (hopefully they come back

sage

lavender

calendula

nasturtium