Planting StonePath

This is traditionally our official planting weekend at StonePath. It has revolved around a vegetable flat sale that our local garden center has every year at this time. 

They have a 6:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. sale with steep discounts on the flats. Since we have increased our seed starting every year, our flat purchases have declined, however, we still needed a few items for this year.

We purchased all our peppers - a flat of King Arthur (a sweet green pepper), a flat of sweet banana peppers, and our hot pepper of the season a hybrid Hungarian wax pepper.

We also picked up some herbs; more basil (we did start quite a bit ourselves), two thyme varieties, rosemary, and oregano.

The driveway side of the house has been a very fruitful tomato bed. This year we have two varieties planted here, both of them heirlooms; Thessaloniki, and Tiffin Mennonite.

This is the completed hot pepper bed and herb garden. Last year our hot peppers made all of our peppers a bit to warm. This year we have separated them as far apart as possible.

Next year, this will probably be just our herb garden.

Since we utilize individual raised beds, we can pack a greater amount of vegetables per planting area. One of our beds will more then accommodate a full flat of peppers or tomatoes.

We finished planting with a tally of 92 tomatoes of three varieties; Thessoloniki, Tiffin Mennonite, and a hybrid Celebrity. 73 peppers, three beds of zucchini, a bed of acorn squash, three beds of pickling cucumbers, a bed of 36 broccoli, plus our lettuce bed and herb garden.