Annie's Heirloom Seeds! Baker Creek! Seed Savers Exchange! Even the new-to-me Caribbean Garden (found on Etsy while looking for a source for some Peruvian things--purple corn for making chicha morada, and aji amarillo peppers--that DD2 introduced me to after her study abroad trip last summer) have arrived and are now ready for me to get my 2018 garden underway.
My Dixondale Farms order of onion transplants--because I have awful luck with onion sets, and the only way I've been able to grow onions is to buy the baby plants--is awaiting it's proper shipping window (much warmer weather) in a few months. My Maine Potato Lady order (yet another variety of potato; I think I might be addicted) is also waiting for temperatures to rise.
I have the trays, the soil, and the plant markers with which to start the seeds that don't get direct sewn into the garden. Tomatoes (eight kinds this year; experimentation going on), peppers, broccoli and cabbage. A new trial is rhubarb seed and asparagus seed. I haven't had a whole lot of luck with crowns of either, so I figure why not try starting them from seed? If it fails, it's a cheaper failure than purchasing crowns that never sprout. And if it succeeds, well, I'll have lots of asparagus and rhubarb in a few years! Also, if I can successfully grow asparagus and rhubarb from seed, I might give onion seeds a try in 2019.
DD2 is excited about the seeds I found for two of her favorite Peruvian things. She can't wait to harvest and eat them. I can't wait to harvest them either--because if they grow well and we have a regular use for them, I will be saving seeds for future gardens. Neither seed was easy to find, which is why I am trying a new to me seed source; none of the nearly two dozen seed companies I either receive catalogs from or have done business with in the past offer seeds for aji amarillo peppers or purple corn.
Are you ready to get gardening? I am! I've got seeds and its mid-February, let the garden begin!
Disclosure: I am in no way sponsored by or paid to mention the seed companies listed above. With the exception of the Caribbean Garden which is new to me this year, all mentioned seed companies are ones I have found, through the years, to provide good viable seed in the varieties I want. Speaking to my readers as friends, I mention these seed companies because I like them and you might like them too, not because I get reimbursed from them in any way.
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