Glynn's Farm is Adding a New Garden Plot

I've ordered close to $100.00 in seeds and plants from Park's Seeds, who advertise on the Glynn's Farm blog site. I know it's way too many, but how do you know when to stop when you want it all. Since my present garden plot will still be bearing (it's still producing egg plants and peppers and starting to produce a few black-eyed peas and beans and I ought to gather my first mess of okra that week.) when it's time to plant for the fall, I've decided to dig up a new, larger plot.

I gathered a couple of bell peppers that had turned red and several other peppers that were supposed to be hot, but are not--"like letting the moon shine in your mouth" as my grandfatehr Harper used to say about my mother's coffee. I'm diappointed in the Bell peppers too; not much flavor and very thin-walled skins--also almost tasteless. There from plants I bought at WalMart, so I'm hoping to do better with seeds from Parks.

I got an email from them this morning that the seeds had been shipped, so I'll list what I plant when I plant them--when I get the new plot tilled up of course. I started by scraping the sod off with my tiller, and as soon as the sod is dead (it happens quickly in this heat) I'll till it up to a depth of about 6 to 8 inches, the deepest the tiller will reach. It's back-breaking, hot work, but it only has to be done once, so next year, all I'll have to do is till it when I get ready to plant and not scraping off sod, unless of course I decide in a moment of insanity that I need yet another plot. I'm already planning to enlarge the present plot when I plant in the spring. I think I'll need more space than I've got now for a potato patch.