How Green is My Garden

I ordered my seeds last night

Beans:

• Good Mother Stallard
• Hidatsa Shield Figure
• Hutterite Soup
• Rattlesnake Snap
• Ireland Creek Annie

Corn

•   Country Gentleman

Cucumber

• Telegraph Improved

Melon

• Golden Jenny
• Bidwell Casaba
• Charentais

Pepper

• Jimmy Nardello

Spinach

• Bloomsdale

Tomato

• Arkansas Traveler

Watermelon

• Wilson’s Sweet

I had three catalogs

• Baker Creek
• Seed Savers
• Bountiful Gardens

There were so many selections that I used a database to compare and select.  I used flavor, productivity, whether they grow in heat  and whether they were organic or not as the criteria.  I think a couple are wishful thinking but hey it could happen.

I also ordered a bunch of flower seeds I couldn’t resist in the momentum of ordering seeds.

I have lots of left over seeds from the last two seasons that I hope will still germinate. I used some this fall and they worked.  And, I saved seeds from my earliest and best Black Krim and Cherokee Purple tomatoes last season and an unidentified melon that was delicious.

I was going to go to the nursery this morning and get organic non soil seed starter but I feel compelled to use camomile tea or cinnamon or some other recipe from the interwebs to discourage damping off. I think it is the guilt about ordering the flowers.  It is so hard to control yourself when ordering seeds.

Okay off brew chamomile tea, get the cinnamon, and clean my six packs and planting tools in a diluted bleach solution.  I bet that is not organic, but what to do?

(Oh crap gotta go look for my Pontiac red potatoes to order)

January 15th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL