Project Garden Noob - Year 6

I love how gardening is having such a resurgence around the United States.  Or maybe it never left, I'm just more in tune to its presence now. For example, I was grocery shopping a couple weeks ago at a King Soopers with one of those Starbucks near the entrance.  Low and behold, there was a box of free coffee grounds - Grounds for your Garden. I snagged the last two bags and put them in our compost holding container.  Since we have a tumbler composter, it's recommended to fill with it your materials then stop adding materials until the batch is done, which is the stage we are in right now.  Since I didn't want to stop collecting kitchen scraps, we took a plastic tub with some holes and that's where "compost ingredients of the future" go. Other exciting news, I finally broke down and agreed to get a shed for our back yard.  There are so many bulky items taking up our garage (i.e., wheelbarrow, fertilizer spreader, various sleds and kid equipment, etc.....

Several weeks ago I went to Wilmore Outdoor Living Center , which is about 15 minutes from my house, at Broadway and County Line Road.  I had come here last summer as an alternative to T agawa Gardens , since it's a bit more of a drive.  My husband had gotten me a gift card from some occasion and I decided to load up on seeds for Spring.  I purchased seeds mostly from Lake Valley Organics, which have worked well for me in the past. So far my haul included: Zucchini (Black Beauty) Sunflower (Mammoth Greystripe - for bees) Beans (Royal Burgundy and Kentucky Wonder) Carrots (Danvers Half Long and Rainbow Blend) Beets (Early Wonder and Golden) Lettuce (Buttercrunch) Oregano (Greek) Chives (Some heirloom variety, no name provided) Spinach (Bloomsdale Longstanding) Acorn Squash (Table Queen Acorn) Spaghetti Squash (Vegetable Spaghetti - Heirloom) Butternut Squash (Waltham Butternut) Zinnias (California Giants - for color and bees) Cucumber (Straight...