I can't believe it is my 3rd planting season since I started gardening. It's hard for me to imagine my yard before there was an abundance of edible things growing in it. I went a little crazy(er) this year and bought A LOT of seeds. Specifically this collection from Baker Creek.
Small Southern Seed Collection
Baker Creek has a huge variety of seeds. The catalog takes days to go through, and has really cool pictures.
Here is what I have already planted/started for the spring garden:
Basil (Genovese)
Basil (Thai)
Beet (Bull's Blood)
Broccoli (Waltham 29)
Cabbage (Early Jersey Wakefield)
California Poppy
Carrot (Big Top)
Carrot (Cosmic Purple)
Catnip
Celery
Chives
Garlic Chives
Cilantro
Corn (Fisher's Earliest Sweet)
Cucumber (Japanese Long)
Dill
Garlic (Inchelium Red)
Lavender
Leek (Blue Solaise)
Leek (King Richard)
Lettuce (Green Oakleaf)
Lettuce (Sanguine Ameliore volunteers)
Marigolds (Red Marieta)
Melon (Rich Sweetness)
Mint
Mustard
Nasturtiums (Empress of India)
Onion (Ailsa Craig)
Onion (Australian Brown)
Onion (Borretana Yellow)
Onion (He Shi Ko Bunching)
Onion (Red of Florence)
Onion (Red Wethersfield)
Parsley (Giant from Italy, flatleaf)
Pepper, hot (Chinese Ornamental)
Pepper, hot (Habanero Red)
Pepper, hot (Ordono)
Pepper, hot (Tohono O'odham)
Pepper, hot (Wenk's Yellow)
Pepper, mild (Carnival Mix)
Pumpkin (Pipian from Tuxpan)
Pumpkin (Shamrock)
Squash (Early Golden Summer Crookneck)
Strawberries
Sunflower (Mammoth)
Sunflower (Mexican Torch)
Watermelon (Golden Midget)
Zebrinas
Zinnias (Persian Carpet)
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| February 5, 2012 - Starting seeds! |
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| March 9, 2012 - Time to transplant! |
And here is what I'll be planting in the next few weeks:
Amaranth (Golden Giant)
Beans (Blue Lake)
Beans (Heavyweight II)
Morning Glorys (Grandpa Ott's)
Okra (Red Burgundy)
Peas (Oregon Sugar Pod)
Peas (Super Snappy)
Peanuts
Pink Banana
Potatoes (Yukon Gold)
Soybeans (non-GMO!)
Strawberry Spinach
Tomato (Arkansas Traveler)
Tomato (Cherokee Purple)
Tomato (Moonglow)
Tomato (Wapsipinicon Peach)
And here's what
overwintered:
Basil
Habaneros
Tomatoes (Roma)
I planted some really strange looking pumpkins. This is how big they grew in less than two weeks!
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| March 9, 2012 - These things get big, fast. |
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| March 9, 2012 - Neat leaf pattern |
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| March 9, 2012 |
This year's corn bed. Last spring I had some volunteer sorghum from who knows where grow here, so I figured it'd be perfect for the corn.
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| March 9, 2012 - The new beds this season |
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| March 9, 2012 - Garlic, leeks, radishes, volunteer lettuce. |
I let one lettuce plant bolt last spring, and below is the product. For some reason the volunteer lettuce growing in the rocks with very little water or room to develop root structure is doing phenomenally while the lettuce I painstakingly planted in even spaces in perfect soil, has almost all died. Go figure.
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| March 9, 2012 - Sanguine Ameliore lettuce |
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| March 9, 2012 - More garlic! |
I broke down and started planting flowers. Not because I'm a real girl or anything, but because I want to attract more pollinators.
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| March 9, 2012 - Marigold |
The one head of lettuce I planted that hasn't died.
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| March 9, 2012 - Green Oakleaf lettuce |
My overwintered tomato plants are a bit diseased and not at all pretty,
but they are still alive and producing fruit already.
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| March 9, 2012 - Boo yah! First tomatoes of spring in yo face. |
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Broccoli is pretty cool, you chop it's head off and then it grows more little ones for you. Like a hydra.
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| March 9, 2012 |
My sad, sad cucumber seedlings. They will probably die. I kept trying to transplant before they got root bound but we kept getting Gail force winds and cold nights. I planted seeds right in front of the seedlings when I transplanted as a Plan B, so either way I'll have cucumbers.
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