July 31, 2010

seeds in the mail

I often get requests from small seed companies to check out their seeds. Here are packages I received from Urban Farmer. Shirley poppies, Roma tomatoes and Large leaf Italian basil. The packages are recycled magazines. They have a nice website to check out. Here’s a link: http://www.ufseeds.com/ I looked up the poppies on google images and found: this link. Beautiful! I also looked up when to plant and it says fall or spring. I will save a place to put these seeds this fall.

April 7, 2010

seed potatoes arrived

I got a big box in the mail today – seed potatoes from Moose Tubers! Its a busy week in the garden.

February 20, 2010

potato order placed

I meant to order these a few weeks ago, but didn’t actually do it. Now the order is placed – the day after the discounts ended 🙁 I’m excited about the varieties I found though. Three of the four show resistance to late blight!! I should have had these last year. I got only 4 orders – last year I got 5 and this was a bit too much. Here are the Moose Tubers’ catalog descriptions: Irish Cobbler Early. Buff skin, white flesh. Slightly larger than a golf ball, great…

February 11, 2010

ordering seed potatoes

Moose Tubers discount ordering deadline is Feb 19! I’d better get my order in. This year I’m planning to grow just two varieties of potatoes: a Russet (Burbank) and a blue (All Blue) potato. (BTW, Burbank is the famed Russet McDonald’s and most fast food places use for fries. The most common variety grown in Idaho. I’m just curious to try it. I grew the newer Rio Grande Russet last year, which was excellent. All-Blue is the most widely grown Blue potato. I should balance these selections with a rare…

February 7, 2010

a few more seed packets

Home Depot has big racks of seeds out now and I couldn’t resist buying a few more…..

February 3, 2010

seed sorting

I’m getting ready to plant! Today I sorted my seed packets. I made a pile for each planting date and wrapped these with rubber bands. A pile for 12 weeks (before last frost), one for 10 weeks, one for 8 weeks etc. I also stopped by my local True Value hardware store and got a bag of soil and some seed trays. I got my old stand by soil – MiracleGro seed starting mix. For trays, I got 4 large trays (no holes) and 4 packs of 1×1.5 inch planting…

January 22, 2010

seeds have arrived!

The seeds of a new garden! All my seed orders came today. So many exciting new things. I’m pleased I remembered to order inoculant – for peas, beans, broad beans and soy beans. And the green plastic mulch looks interesting. Territorial send a free packet of carrot seeds to grow for the food pantry. A very nice thought. This is a perfect vegetable to donate. (I brought butternut squash last year, which worked out well, too.)

January 18, 2010

seed order placed

My seed order is placed. I ordered: – about 30 varieties from 3 mail order companies (blue text)– green plastic mulch for melons and squashes to increase soil temp and reduce weeding– bean, pea, broad bean and soybean inoculants– clover cover crop seed Much of the seed I will plant this year is left over from previous years (green text). Some is also self collected. Here’s my list of varieties.

December 27, 2009

the seeds of a new garden

I walked by a display of fresh new seeds yesterday and couldn’t resist. I got packets of Heavenly Blue morning glory, cilantro, Mammoth and Bouquet dill, and Boston Pickling cucumber seeds. So my garden is starting! I’m planning to set up my plant lights and shelves soon. Maybe next week. The earliest crops don’t get planted til mid February, but I’d like to try growing sprouts, which I’ve never done. Maybe even some winter lettuce in containers. I haven’t yet put together my seed lists for mail order, but I’ve…

December 6, 2009

first seed catalog

There is something special and exciting about getting seed catalogs in the mail. My first is Fedco. Our first serious snow is falling and I have a seed catalog to read. (All I need now is a nice martini.) The Fedco catalog is wonderful to read. Tables of information. Lots of varieties. I look forward to going through all of it.

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