I spent the weekend celebrating my birthday. It wasn’t a “special” birthday and the intention was for it to be very low-key, but things kept popping up, so I just kept eating and drinking and celebrating with friends and family. That was fantastic, but it pushed off me organizing my seed order for another weekend. And I have to say, I’m starting to get nervous about it.
I have, however, been perusing catalogs and websites and finding so many interesting things to grow. No one can ever say that growing a garden is boring after seeing the amazing selection of seeds available these days. I never can decide whether to go to the tried-and-true varieties or something a little more oddball.
Here are some of the interesting seeds that I’ve run across (some affiliate links used).
Asian Winged Beans also available here |
Dara Ammi (flowering carrot) also available here |
Lobbericher Yellow carrots |
Dwarf Coffee Plant |
Molokai Purple Sweet Potato |
Jarrahdale Pumpkin also available here |
Martian Jewels sweet corn |
A Grappoli D’Iverno tomato also available here |
What sorts of varieties do you favor? Old standards or something new? Have you ordered seeds yet? If so, please tell me about it so I can live vicariously through you!
Even though I don't do seeds I had seen that carrot and some other cool things on Annie's Annuals and was thinking maybe I should do it. But I have almost maxed out on online plant orders — some quirky things there as well. Some trees and shrubs so I would not being doing them from seed!
Belated Birthday wishes. Sounds like you had a good time.
Happy birthday….and wow! that corn looks fantastic! How pretty.
Happy Birthday! I'm done with most of my seed orders but I order Fedco with my parents so I haven't gotten those yet (hopefully my mom ordered by now). Seeds of note: neat new super frilly kale, dahlias (they outperformed my dahlias from tubers last year), tillage radish, and blight resistant tomatoes (I've been having big problems with tomatoes in the past 2 years). Looking at seed catalogs is so much fun (narrowing the order down isn't though). 🙂
Ooh … what tomatoes did you order? I'm going to grow tomatoes from seed this year for the first time after a few years of really disappointing results. Last year, most of the heirloom tomatoes I bought were nothing like what they were supposed to be. And late blight continues to be an issue here as well.
I ordered Mountain Magic (cherry) from Fedco and Iron Lady (midsize)from High Mowing Seeds. There was a disease resistant beefsteak kind I wanted to order but it was 8-something for like 10 seeds! Still cheaper than buying plants, but I wasn't ready to spend that much. I've had trouble with heirlooms too–I love them but they just don't seem to be able to cope with whatever it is in my soil. 🙁
I have to be honest and tell you I haven't even looked at the cataglogues yet. I want to grow some rainbow beets, more kale and yellow carrots from seed this year. Guess I better get at it.
That Dari Amma(Queen Anne's Lace), is so pretty but I find QAL invasive. Birds planted one and I was initially happy about it but then it was all through my garden by the end of the growing season. I pulled out as much as I could this fall but w/the taproot it requires a shovel to really get it removed. As far as new, to me, I ordered Dwarf Wild Spudleaf tomato seeds from Heritage Seed Market which is involved w/the Dwarf Tomato Project. It apparently is similar to Cherokee purple. I was leery about the site but learned of it in an interview w/Joseph Tychonievich on A Way to Garden.com. And they're sending a few gift seeds which are also similar to CP so I can do a comparison, which I'm excited about!
Awesome choices! Those purple sweet potatoes would be a surprise at Thanksgiving! I grow ammi every year. I love it! All my seed choices are on my So Seedy page. But I think I'm growing too much this year and will have to expand my seed starting empire to a card table as well, which means I need to buy more grow lights. Woo hoo!!