A tale of raspberries and fish.

Ok, that is a strange post title to be sure, but it does have some significance  Saturday I ordered most of my seeds and plants for my garden this year including red and gold raspberry varieties!  I am very excited about my garden this year, my housemate has decided he is tired of mowing his entire lawn and is tired of spending so much on food; so this yeah he is letting me steal a 20 ft. x 28 ft. piece of his back lawn to turn into a pretty fantastic (well I hope) garden!

The raspberries will actually be going to the back part of the yard (it's a pretty darn big back yard), to form sort of an edible privacy hedge. If the raspberries I plant this year do well I will most likely plant purple ones next year as well. I adore most berries and cherries, but I can't usually afford them from the grocery store ($5 a half pint ).

But here is a list of things I hope to have growing!

-Carrots-

Atomic Red (red with orange core),
Purple Dragon (purple with orange core),
Red Samurai, (solid medium red)
Royal Chantenay, (solid orange)
Snow White, (solid white)
Yellowstone, (solid light yellow)
Purple Sun Carrots (solid deep purple, may or may not have a white core)

-Brussel Sprouts-
Diablo (green)
Flagstaff (purple)

-Tomatos-
Glacier (medium sized red)
Red Currant
Yellow Currant (tiny tiny pea sized tomatos, should be awesome for salads)
Sundrop (orange cherry)
Gold Nugget (yellow cherry),
Sweetie (red cherry),
Green Grape (green cherry)
Super Snow White (white cherry),
Bicolor Cherry (pink/white striped cherry)

-Beets-
Oxblood (deep maroon red)
Chioggia (pink and white interior stripes)
Golden (deep yellow orange)

-Greens-
Dwarf Blue Kale
Red winter Kale
Buttercrunch Lettuce (green)
Marvel of 4 Wonders Buttercrunch Lettuce (red)
Common Sorrel
Bordeaux Spinach (red veins)
Lavawa Spinach (green)
New Zealand Spinach (weird vining plant that isn't actually spinach at all but is suppose to taste the same and last thought summer)
5 Color Silver Beet Chard
and a mixd packet containing:
Arugula/Rocket . . . . . . . . . . . . 8%
Lettuce, Four Seasons. . . . . . . . . 8%
Lettuce, Romaine Cos. . . . . . . . . 8%
Lettuce, Salad Bowl Red . . . . . . . 8%
Lettuce, Tango . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8%
Lettuce, Black Seeded Simpson . . 6%
Lettuce, Lolla Rossa . . . . . . . . . 6%
Lettuce, Oak Leaf . . . . . . . . . . . 6%
Lettuce, Romaine Cimmaron . . . . 6%
Lettuce, Ruby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6%
Spinach, Bloomsdale . . . . . . . . 6%
Bok Choy, Tatsoi . . . . . . . . . . . 6%
Swiss Chard, Golden. . . . . . . . . 5%
Swiss Chard, Magenta. . . . . . . . 5%
Endive, Broadleaf Batavian . . . . . 4%
Mustard, Mizuna . . . . . . . . . . . . 2%
Mustard, Red Giant . . . . . . . . . . 2%

-Peppers-
Orange wonder Bell Peppers (orange and green large bell peppers)
Sweet Cherry Peppers (red and yellow tiny guys)

-Onions-
Flat of Italy Red Onions

-Peas-
Super Sugar Snap Peas

and

-Kohlrabi-
Purple Vienna
White Vienna

Also there is a smattering of herbs and edible flowers, but I will post those later, since some times there are some that come from the local nursery.