Seeds started

Well, yesterday I started most of my seeds. I bought seed starters and have a grow light that we will set up in the basement to get them going. I am getting ramped up for our garden! I started broccoli, onions, beets, okra, and three kinds of tomatoes, Roma, pink brandywine and beefsteak. I am hoping to have most of them take...it saves SO much money when you start them yourself! I will also be starting cabbage, cucumbers, lettuce, and spinach at a later date. I also decided to just purchase peppers this year, I could not decide what variety to plant and it was too much for my little brain. Can't wait to see what "comes up"!

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