| What |
In |
First |
Remarks |
| Leaf lettuce | 4/24 | 6/5 | Back row, in the maple's shade. Bolted in the July heat, as usual. |
| Sugar Snap peas | 4/24 | 6/19 | On the chicken wire. Most never made it to the house. |
| Onions (sets) | 4/24 | 8/21 | Pulled and drying on screens in the garage. |
| Strawberries | old patch | 6/19 | 8 jars freezer jam. Picker paid in strawberries. |
| Early Girl tomatoes (3) | 5/22 | 7/17 | First every year. Dependable as the sunrise. |
| Better Boy tomatoes (4) | 5/22 | 7/31 | The workhorses. Most of the canning. |
| Brandywine tomatoes (2) | 5/22 | 8/14 | First year. Late, lumpy, cracked, and the best tomato I've grown in twenty-four years. Four plants next year. |
| Green peppers (6) | 5/22 | 7/24 | Slow to start, then fine. Chopped and frozen for chili. |
| Kentucky Wonder pole beans | 5/22 | 7/24 | To the tops of the poles. 16 bags frozen. |
| Zucchini (3 hills) | 5/22 | 7/10 | One hill would have done it. See August. |
| Straight Eight cucumbers | 5/22 | 7/24 | 9 pints of dill pickles, Jimmie's mother's way. |
| Mammoth sunflowers | 5/22 | — | Tallest 10 ft. 8 in., measured by Jimmie from the stepladder. Seeds saved for the birds. |
| State Fair zinnias | 5/22 | 7/3 | A bouquet on the kitchen table all summer, one on my desk at work. |
| Pie pumpkins (2 hills) | 5/29 | 9/18 | Seven. Five for pies, two for Bailey to paint. |
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