I love it when a plan comes together
I have already published my plan to plant 81 things in the 2025 vegetable patch. You can find it here.
I’m setting myself some guiding principles to stay on track during this time.
- I will plant in containers, pots, bags and half-pipe gutter planters
- I will build if I can do it well, and buy if I can’t
- I will keep the vegetable garden to the back patio and use irrigation systems
- I will plant more than one variety at a time
- I will start seeds based on a 50% germination and use LED light systems to improve this
- I will carefully count the seeds I start and not feel the need to finish a packet
- I will use companion planting and trap crops to improve the crops that make it to harvest
- I will not plant crops I have no interest in eating
- I will try the Three Sisters planting method
foodandsnark 
I was surprised to see this pop up on my RSS feed: long time no see!
I’ll be watching with interest, and — I know, you’ve just bought a load of seeds — wanted to recommend Real Seeds and Incredible Vegetables as good sources of interesting varieties / plants.
(Yuck, this now sounds like spam, doesn’t it?)
If you like kale, see if you can get a cutting from a Daubenton’s or similar. They’re perennial, and so much easier (but you don’t get the tasty flowers). I’d offer you one of mine but I moved back up north so probably not practical.
Hi Flick, it has been a while. I decided to remove the old content from this site and make it a useful one for my interests as they are now. I will take a look at those seed companies as I’m always interested in varieties. As I said King’s Seeds won because they sent me a very appealing catalogue.
I’m afraid I cannot stand Kale. I consider it a vegetable that does not pull its weight. Of course I have ended up with seeds for them which I will hopefully recycle for something I always need like Nasturtium or Marigolds.
Perennial kales definitely pull their weight, and as you can grown them like a standard fruit tree they’re very good value for the space they need, but if you don’t like it then there’s no point growing it (or anything else!).
Three sisters: good luck, but people tend to struggle with the climate here. Also, the varieties: the traditional ones would have been to store / dry, not to eat fresh.