For completeness, here is the rest of my planting plan.
Starting indoors, soon (next week or two): cool-tolerant plants.
Romanesco broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Direct sow as soon as I get the seeds/starters:
Onions
Rainbow lights Swiss chard
Potatoes
Parsley
Starting indoors in mid April: fast-growing cool-intolerant plants.
Cherry tomato
Cherokee Purple heirloom beefsteak tomato
Tall vine Brandywine heirloom tomato
Yellow squash
Pie pumpkin
Cerinthe purple bells*
Direct sow in mid- to late May: cool-intolerant plants with sensitive roots.
Rattlesnake and Purple Pole heirloom climbing beans
Nasturtium
Note that this leaves out the watermelon radish. The folks at Agway suggested this as an autumn crop. Any thoughts as to what to grow in their place until then? Maybe more beets? It has to be something that'll be harvested by August.
*An impulse purchase! There's so much sunlight that I fell confident that anything will give, at the very least, a decent showing. The picture on the seed packet at least showed rather unusual, luxurious drooping purple flowers on bluish leaves. A bit of reading online makes me optimistic that this plant will do well.
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