What we’re planting in our 2021 Vegetable Garden

Lessons Learned from Our 2020 Vegetable Garden

One of the few silver linings of last year’s quarantine is that my husband and I finally got serious about our vegetable garden. Last year’s effort was a little scrappy with many lessons learned and many successes earned!

It was a rocky start – literally. I think the site we chose for the vegetable garden was an old driveway at some point. Hand sifting and tilling took weekend after weekend to prepare the site. (Quick shout out to our Sun Joe Garden Tiller. Easy to use for both my husband and me and very effective on the rocky soil). We were behind the ball on seed purchasing as well with many varieties already sold out. We had never composted before and didn’t have a clue about good soil management. We decided to hand water all the plants – how hard could that be, right? Luckily, we were blessed with rich soil, good sun, and a productive harvest (maybe we should have thinned those cucumbers a bit more).

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This year when my 2021 Burpee Seed Catalogue came in December, I had the pages dog ear-ed and our order in on January 4. We added a few new vegetables and fruit, altered some varieties that were better suited to Zone 7B (looking at you, onions – of which all bolted last year), and got our orders in before anything could be sold out!

What’s Growing in our 2021 Vegetable Garden

Squash, Summer, Fort Knox Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden

Tomato, Bodacious Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden

Tomato, Fourth Of July Hybrid | A carryover from last year – produced delicious vine ripe Tomatoes

Tomato, Cherry Baby Hybrid | A carryover from last year and a favorite of our 3 year olds

Strawberry, Seascape | New for our 2021 Garden

Corn, On Deck Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden – My goal is to use these as Garland in the Fall

Asparagus, Mary Washington | New for our 2021 Garden

Carrot, Caracas Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden, These carrots should be short, fat, and sweet. Hopefully we have more success with this variety. I’m doing some in planters and some in the ground. Last year’s were so stunted by our soil.

Cucumber, Sweet Success Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden

Lettuce, Buttercrunch | New for our 2021 Garden

Lettuce, Heatwave Blend | New for our 2021 Garden

Cantaloupe, Burpee’s Ambrosia Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden

Onion, Candy Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden. Hopefully a variety that will be better suited to our hot summers.

Pepper, Sweet, Tangerine Dream | New for our 2021 Garden. Am looking forward to a few sweet peppers. We only did hot peppers last year.

Pepper, Sweet, Candy Apple Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden

Pepper, Hot Jalapeno, Big Guy Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden

Pepper, Hot, Biker Billy Hybrid | New for our 2021 Garden

Pepper, Hot, Pepperoncini Greek | New for our 2021 Garden

Potato, Red Luna | New for our 2021 Garden

Peas, First 13 | New for our 2021 Garden

How delicious! Now all we need to do is, make a fence, get some proper irrigation equipment, draw up a plan, consult companion planting guides, and draw up a plan. Easy! *finger snap*