I'd be jealous of your big gardens if it weren't for the fact that I am truly lazy at heart. I have all I can do to keep up with what little I do plant. I am thinking of increasing the size of my tomato bed. I also grow a cuke vine or two and some chard and peppers. This year I've promised myself to be less diverse when it comes to the latter and grow what I know really works best for me. My husband doesn't like green peppers, and I can only eat so many, but giant cayenne dry well, so no of the former, more of the latter. Part of my garden bed area is over an old cistern, so the soil is only a couple of inches deep. That is my lettuce/greens bed that I get at least two crops out of (it could be as many as four if I were less lazy!). It is just he right amount for the two of us plus some to bring in salads for potlucks. I always grow a mixed blend. It is funny how different gardening has been in different places I've lived. In Florida I grew a lot of brocolli and onions, neither of which seem to do all that well here (like I said, I learn my lessons and just don't grow what doesn't work well). In Florida and Hawaii, tomatoes didn't do all that well (birds, fungus, etc, would get them before I could). FLorida can get too hot for lettuce. So, different strokes.
