garden 2011

last night i was thinking about what i wanted in my garden this spring. seems like i'll actually have 3 gardens - vegetable, herb, and flower. veggies i want - cucumber, lettuce, tomato, squash, zucchini, some kind of melon, strawberries, beets, onions, green onions, bell peppers, hot peppers, pumpkin, and turnips. maybe some cabbage. i'd like to grow broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots, but those don't do well in this soil. herbs - basil, chives, sage, lemon verbena, parsley, rosemary, thyme, oregano, spearmint, peppermint, catnip, dill, savory, sweet marjoram, anise, black cohosh, blue cohosh, chamomile, boneset, burdock, chickweed, coltsfoot, horehound, comfrey, damiana, dong quai, fenugreek, feverfew, garlic, lemongrass, licorice, lobelia, marshmallow, mugwort, mullein, mustard, nettle, pennyroyal, st. john's wort, seneca, shepherd's purse, valerian, vervain, wintergreen, wood betony, and woodruff. flowers - hyssop, english lavender, aloe, thistle (blessed and milk), golden marigold (calendula), cornflower, dandelion, coneflower (echinacea), goldenrod, goldenseal, hawthorn, hydrangea, juniper, lady's slipper, passion flower, periwinkle, red clover, safflower, violet, and yellow dock. now i've got to figure out which of those will grow in this area and which ones are kind of duplicates, function-wise.

i'd also like to start a stand of blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, and raspberries. witch hazel, too.

stuff i want to try to make

flan
sugar plums
fig pudding
salted caramel
savory cheesecake
pad thai (from scratch)
korean BBQ
rugelach
texas lizzies
lemon ricotta cookies
pumpkin cheesecake
bread pudding