what I've planted so far

I need to write this down, for crop rotation purposes to avoid pests.

From my backdoor, straight ahead and against the fence from the far right to about 20' left: okra.
Blank space to the left for about 15', then sweet potatoes (three varieties).  Blank space (mizuna once I beat off the ants?), then some cabbage and broccoli against the fence to the front fence.

In some spots around, beans and watermelon, to the left of the raised beds.  Far right raised bed, swiss chard and lettuce.  Middle bed, beets and carrot.  Left bed, sweet potatoes and now garlic and mizuna. 

Clearly I need more space to plant! :) 

a planting day, hello fall

Just planted:

garlic (softneck, silver white)
mizuna (a type of mustard green that I'm very fond of)
cabbage (Copenhagen Market)
leek (King Richard)
celery (Utah)
broccoli (di cicco)

One of the beds that I'd prepped and covered had a ton of fire ants in it, so I need to deal with that. 

In the meantime, in a raised bed I put in garlic and mizuna.  There had been a sweet potato plant there, just one, and its roots were all over but none formed ready to harvest.  Bummer.

In a small bed that I just prepped and mixed with compost (and used a colander to sift out the rocks, which I should probably do everywhere), I put in a few leeks and celery seeds.

In another bed that I had earlier prepped, I put in broccoli and cabbage.  Not much, maybe just five plants each. Trying to see what's growing well here.  I also put in a bag of compost there.  (it's a compost mix that I buy locally from a company that collects food and vegetative waste from supermarkets and such and then composts it.)

I'm afraid to tally up how much money I'm spending on gardening.  I need to think of it as a hobby, with costs, rather than as a way to self-sufficiency.  I am learning a lot and could produce more food to eat, but mostly I'm just experimenting. 

That said, I just pulled my first satsuma off a tree I planted last spring, and it was super tasty.  I would like to have more food coming from my yard as I really like the idea of that.  The execution I sometimes fall short on.  But, does it matter, so long as I'm having fun and not going bankrupt? 

There are still some watermelons out there trying ... we'll see.