when are you sowing your garden this year?

[Brian]

Had potato leek soup last night with stuff from the garden. The bacon I used was the last I had stashed from a purchase from our local board pig farmer.

How well do the leeks do here? I love potato leek soup.

[Dave]

How well do the leeks do here? I love potato leek soup.

Did mine in a wine barrel planter next to my jalepenos. I need to figure out what we did in that one because everything in there did great. One pepper plant gave us 52 chiles even with hail knocking a few out. As soon as we picked some there were new ones forming near the same spots a few days later. First time growing them for us, and we kept some seeds to plant again.. Our leeks did great and we pulled the three we planted when they got 1" diameter. The potatoes were small, but they were in buckets anyway. I'm pulling some herbs this week to dry out via the Blowhard 5000 method. Thyme and rosemary mostly.

This was out first year doing anything more than a couple of plants, and while a few things disappointed we had good success overall. I am not sure if we will plant next year since we are looking at moving after her youngest graduates in May.