[RKDinOKC]

My Dad was some kind of 4H gardening award winner when he was a kid. It showed.
Our garden was huge and divided into seven row, sections.
We rotated the crops thru the sections each year, including one that wasn't planted.
The section that wasn't planted we tilled in mulch and compost and the dead vines from the garden plants as they cycled out throughout the year. Dad said it had to rest. We even let one of each type of plant go to seed and collected and kept the seed in the freezer to use the next spring. We grew everything from seed including tomatos and peppers. Every once in a while he would try out a new variety and either put it in rotation or let it die off.

We only did watermelon one year and Dad decided it just took up too much room and watering for what we got out of it. We even visited a guy that was commercially growing watermelon in the OKC area to get the skinny on growing them before he said not any more.

We did grow Zucchini several varieties of Squash including spaghetti squash.
Let see, we had a LOT of stuff.

Radishes, carrots, leaf lettuce, head lettuce, cabbage, onions green yellow and white, green peas, green beans, yellow wax beans, big beef tomatos, yellow low acid tomatos, burpless cucumbers, zucchini squash, yellow squash, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, corn, okra, two kinds of potatos, bell peppers, Jerusalem articoke, asparagus, Brussel sprouts, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, beets, black berries, blue berries, goose berries.

The fruit trees were, cherry, apricot, plum, apricotplum hybrid, peaches, apple green and red delicious, bartlett pears. Had at least 2 of each so they could cross pollinate.

Only trees that didn't make fruit every year were the apricot. They were the wrong climate zone or something, the flowers or fruit froze all but 2 years despite everything we tried.

Hope I don't come up with parkinsons from all the harsh chemicals I sprayed powdered the garden and trees and put on the trunks to stop the bore worms. The bores took out a big ash tree we had shading the patio. After that we had to go to war with the bore worm chemicals (nasty stuff, had to wear a tyvek suit, gloves, and respirator). I still have almost a full gallon of farmer's strength Roundup from when it first came out. Only use 1/4 tsp in a gallon sprayer or the next time it rains it will kill a foot radius down to bare dirt around where you sprayed it.

I ended up doing almost all the work. Yet today, I can barely keep a house plant alive.