This is my kind of mail!

The last two days I have gotten some exciting packages in the mail! Last week I started researching and shopping for vegetable seeds for the garden. I had four companies that I was planning on using. I have a favorite gardening blog that I have read it for about a year now.

   Hickory Holler Farm

 

 

I am truly inspired by The Canned Quilter and have learned a ton from her blog. I found all of the seed companies that I purchased seed from on her blog post, How To Select A Seed Company. This post is one of four on how to plan your garden, select seeds and seed companies and what she plants in her garden and how to read a seed catalogue. I chose to plant all open pollinated seeds so that I can save seeds and plant my own next year...if I have enough. Did you know that hybrid seeds will not grow that same the next year? You may get a plant but it will not be what it was the year before. Well, I didn't know that and I am glad that I have this blogger to help me out.

 

Anyway...back to my mail. I ordered seeds last week and they have started to arrive. I also ordered a grow lamp to rig up in the basement and that should be delivered today as well. I am just waiting on seeds from one more company (my big order) to arrive and I will start my onions. I am starting my onions from seed indoors this year. I have formerly always planted sets but I have learned that onions grown from sets seem to not last as long as onions grown from seeds. Well, I just have to give it a try and see for myself.

 

 

Hopefully my links work...still learning how to do this. Thanks

K.Aberle