I agree with you about needing a garden ping list especially for people like me who don't know that much about the when, how and best way to get the best results out of their gardening.
For several years I've planted tomatoes and peppers in my front yard flower bed because it gets the best sun. This year I'm playing around with seeds and I'm turning all of my front flower beds into beds for herbs and veggies. I'm also turning a larger fenced in area on the side of the house into a veggie garden for the vegetables and fruits which are vines. That area is just big enough to hopefully support cucumbers, cantelope, pole beans as well as beets and yellow squash.
What started my interest was a packet of San Marzano tomato seeds from Italy I received in a magazine solicitation. In watching the Food Network and being on a cooking bbs, these are the tomatoes favored by the Italians. Then I decided if I was going to play around with those seeds, I might as well try some other vegetables. So, the front beds will have eggplant, bush beans, broccoli and maybe brusssel sprouts if I don't run out of room.
There's limited availability of small herb plants here at the local gardening places so I decided I'd also do a few herb seeds such as dill, cilantro and several different types of basil as well as the usual parsley, oregano, tarragon, sage, thyme, chives and rosemary.
I also decided to try out growing garlic after a couple of heads of my garlic started sprouting. I've since found out I should have waited til October to plant the garlic because for some reason it needs to overwinter before it produces bulbs. It will be fun to see what happens to it when I plant it sometime next week.
I’m letting Gabz know that you’re interested in the gardening ping list. Gabz is a wealth of information and the weekly gardening threads contain very useful information. Love to hear from you on the success of your plantings!
Here is another one to add to the garden ping lists.