Order from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds... and Dragons

Maybe I went a little overboard.  

But to be fair, my goal for next year is to go totally overboard with the garden.  456 pounds of produce isn't gonna come easy!

Mom, if you want any of these for next year, lemme know... I'm sure I'll fill the solarium this spring with more seedlings than we can handle.  May have a few extras to give away to my locals or your friends too.

Here's the edibles:

• Tomato (I wanted at least one in every color, and all indeterminate)
• Red:  Amish Paste.  80-85 days, 6-12oz.  Thick and perfect for sauces.
• Red striped with orange:  Tigerella.  55-75 days, 2-4oz
• (Orange:  Sunsugar, will buy the hybrid later.  62 days, 0.5oz, earliest tomato and gave something to eat every day this season)
• (Yellow:  Lemon Boy, will buy the hybrid later.  72 days, 7oz, hugely prolific)
• Green striped with yellow:  Green Zebra.  75 days, 3oz, sweet with a sharp bite.
• Purple:  Black Plum.  70 days, 2oz, perfect for sun-drying or sauces.
• Purple:  Black Krim.  75 days, 10-14oz, sweet, perfect for slicing/salads.
• Cucumber
• Dragon's egg.  Could not resist it.  Where are my dragons?!  It has a mild flavor, and theoretically has ridiculous yields.  Will grow on 1/3rd of the main trellis.
• Lemon Cuke.  Only the best tasting cucumber ever.  I wanted another small prolific cuke, since the Dragon's Egg packet didn't have many seeds.  Will get 1/3rd of the main trellis.

 Please, please let my Dragon Eggs hatch.

• Squash
• Lemon.   Vines upward, very prolific, delicious.  Will grow some in the center of the main trellis.
• Zucchini, Gray.  Bush type, very prolific, had the best reviews.  I MUST make zucchini work this year, I love them.  These will go over by the pool in small raised beds.
• Vining Greens
• Red Malabar Spinach.  Has a spinach flavor, grows huge and vines upward, heat tolerant.  May be the answer to summer spinach.  I intend to grow it up the porch railings from large pots, and try to grow it up the apple tree.  It will come back from its roots every year in our climate.  
• Nasturtium, King Theodore.  Most amazing nasturtium color I have seen.  The leaves are spicy like watercress, and they grow like crazy on vines.  They also attract aphids... aphids have been a problem this year, so I wouldn't mind using them as a sacrificial crop.  Will grow interspersed amongst the trellised plants.
• Radishes
• Long Black Spanish.  Very hot, 12 inches long, grows deep and keeps soil bugless before tomatoes (pull them out when the tomatoes go in).  Cutworms killed a tomato plant this year, and I like multi-tasking plants.
• Long Scarlet Radish.  Just lovely, and great for salad greens too.  A pre-1870's heirloom... probably tastes like what radishes are supposed to taste like.  And frankly, with the raised beds I just have really good long radish soil.
• Flowers... all edible, but mostly for the pretty.
• Sunflower, Mammoth Grey.  Notorious for being the best sunflower for edible seeds.  These will go between the roses against the fence where they won't block any sun.  There was a rogue sunflower growing in the gravel when we first moved to the house so they obviously grow well here, and it was so lovely that I wish I grew them this year.
• Calendula, Ball's Improved.  Balls!  Hahaha.  Um, where was I?  Calendula leaves are bright orange and edible, making salad, pasta salad, or tea fun.  Calendula oil is also the only homemade bruise/scrape remedy I have found that works.

Last year's volunteer sunflower.

Is that it?
 
I have a lot of other seed left over from the last few years, which may or may not germinate.  There's some fast-growing radishes, spinach, chard, mustard greens, oriental greens.  A few summer and winter squash which have not worked for me in previous years.  If the sweet potato produces well this fall, I'll do it again since it shaded the fall greens really well during summer so they could get an early start... but sweet potatoes are so cheap it may not be worth it.

There are also some garlic cloves already planted which should mature next year, and some fruit trees.

The tomatoes are all indeterminates, for the best yields.  I also wanted one in every color, since there's just something about a multi-colored salsa topping that makes any food exciting to eat.  Ryan actually requested at least 3 colors for the fun salsa.  I am still doing 2 hybrid disease-resistant tomatoes that I know have done very well in the garden, because I want to have some guaranteed tomato success. 

A lot of items grow upward on vines, which will save me some square footage next year.  I'm also growing at least 2 things in each category because I need to figure out what grows best in our climate.  And since most things are heirlooms, collecting good seed should be a snap.

If you were trying to grow as much produce as possible in limited space, what would you plant?