The plan includes snap peas, lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, Swiss chard, and sweet peppers. The plan calls for Brandywine tomatoes, which are a very large heirloom variety. I have grown it with success, but it can be tricky in mild Pacific Northwest summers. A novice gardener would probably have a better time growing tasty cherry tomatoes or a smaller-fruited standard tomato like Stupice or Siletz. The link to the BHG page is here. To get the detailed plans (a nice 2-page PDF), you have to sign up for free online membership (via another link on that page), and they will entice you to subscribe, but you don't have to.
In chicken news, we didn't get home until after dark last night, past the ladies' bedtime. We found them clustered at the bottom of the henhouse ramp. Clearly they are not ready to put themselves to bed yet. But they were all nice and mellow. I picked each of them up in turn--one, two, three, four--and placed them in the henhouse. (Not like Sunday evening, when they went to the furthest unreachable reaches of the under-henhouse part of the coop and I had to fish them out, which they responded to with much squawking.)
I pet them for a few minutes, as they gently peeped and pecked around their pine shaving bedding. Even Miss Buttons didn't object to petting, and her response is almost always the chicken version of "Ahhhh, no! What are you doing to me? Oh my god! Stop! Stop!"
I shut the henhouse door and listened as they settled down with gentle peeping. Tired ladies.
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