In the Garden: Upper South January, 2012 Regional Report  Share
|  This year, choose something you've never grown before, like a
purple sweet potato.  What Vegetables are in Your Future?
Before I even began to crawl out from under the Christmas
wrappings and ribbon, seed catalogs were overflowing from my
mailbox. In only two months, it's going to be the time to plant
the first of the hardy vegetable seed outdoors, while cabbage
transplants should already be growing. At the same time, we
should be starting tomato, pepper, and eggplant seeds indoors
for transplanting out after the last frost. All of which means,
there isn't much time to plan the vegetable garden, if we want
to be at the top of our game.  I will throw out a caveat curve
ball, however. Don't panic if you don't plan. There will be
wonderful seed assortments and transplants available at garden
centers later this spring. Even if you wing it, you can have a
wonderful garden producing outstanding vegetables.  But for
those of us with at least slightl