2026 - Plans for next year

I wrote my plans down in my garden journal over the weekend:

No green beans, grow yellow/purple/mottled pods only

Grow less varieties of dry beans - I grow more than I can eat so should reduce them

Only grow sweet peppers - I never eat all the chili peppers I grow but quickly run out of sweet peppers

Only grow two varieties of squash, probably Uchiki Kiri, maybe a butternut

Sow spinach early - I always forget!

Only grow one cucumber

There are also flowers to move - one bed is covered in verbena so they'll be dug out and transferred elsewhere. In their place I'll transplant the overgrown dark leaf dahlias I leave in the ground each winter. That'll leave more space in a prime sunny bed for more summer edibles

Only grow dwarf french marigolds - the ones I grew this year swamped everything as they were too tall.

Only grow apricotta cosmos - I usually grow different varieties but it's so difficult to save seed as they all intermingle. The apricotta is my favourite so I'm buying fresh seed and sticking with that