What have I been growing?

This year I have been introducing myself to urban gardening. I live in a house which faces SW and has minimal freedom to plant a garden in an optimal sun exposed location (which would include a south or southwest area of my yard (meaning the front or side yard)). Now in an emergency period I could rip out my lawn and garden in these locations, but right now that is not a good idea. Of course I could garden in my back yard (better security and no neighbor complaints) but it does not get the best sun exposure. However, next spring/summer I do plan to experiment with some gardening in the back.

So, this year I began planting a little later in the spring than I should have. I planted a few things in landscaping areas in my sun exposed front and side yard and a few things in pots/containers ranging from 6" pots, 24"x6" window planters to faux half wine barrel style large planters. I placed these on my front porch/patio (which is fairly small).

Here is my list of what I planted (non-hybrid preferred), many of which were chosen for small size and some for short harvest time, others don't meet my small or fast criteria but are either necessities (Onions) or are curiosities (Kohlrabi). As you can see some are not typically grown in home gardens.

• Radish -- cherry belle - champion - purple plum - german giant - crimson giant
• Turnip -- purple top white globe - red round
• Kohlrabi -- white vienna - purple vienna - superschmelz
• Carrot-- parisian market - little finger - babette [hybrid] - bolero [hybrid]
• Onion -- pacific pearl - sweet spanish yellow utah jumbo - red globe - copra [hybrid]
• Tomato -- early girl [hybrid] - oregon spring
• Lettuce -- prizehead - black seeded simpson
• Sweet Corn -- early sweet casino [hybrid]
• Pea -- little marvel (bush/dwarf)
• Bush Bean -- dragon tongue #
• Lentil -- green (from bulk bin at grocery)
• Chickpea (from bulk bin at grocery)
• Potato -- Kennebec #
• Strawberry
• Garlic -- hard neck and soft neck
• Melon -- {attempting some watermelon and musk melon, not worth mentioning yet}
• Spinach -- {crop failure, not worth mentioning}