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Monday, February 4, 2013

Buying Seed

This will be the first year I will have my own backyard garden. I have a 20x50ft plot! I'm going to also try to have sunflowers, corn and cucumbers (climbing the sunflowers and corn) in a circle around the fire pit. I hope to have Beam's yellow pear tomatoes lining the side of the house and to cast mushrooms next to the fence in the shady area.

Resources:
responsibly saved seeds

From Seed Savers Exchange, I will have:

Kale - Red Russian 

Lettuce - SSE Lettuce Mixture
Lettuce - Red Romaine
Swiss Chard - Five Color Silver Beet
Spinach - America
Kale - Red Russian
Broccoli - Calabrese
Broccoli - Romanesco
Pea - Amish Snap
Tomato, Amish paste (for preserving)
Tomato, Wisconsin 55 (preserve in salsa)
Tomato, Beam's Yellow Pear
Tomato, Black Krim 
Corn - Blue Jade
Cucumber - Japanese climbing
Cucumber - pickling (Preserve as pickles)
Ground Cherry - Loewen Family Heirloom
Collard - Georgia Southern
Leek - Prizetaker
Cabbage - Mammoth Red

Jung's
Onion Set - Cobra (a good saver)
Onion Set - another
I will also buy some early, mid and late ripening strawberries from jungs and 
if I can't find a friends raspberries to clip from, I will buy those from Jung's as well.
I'll also buy my asparagus from Jungs, but I know it won't come up for a few years.




Terrior Seeds
Corn  - Cherokee long ear (Preserve for popcorn)
Black-Seeded Simpson Lettuce (warm-weather lettuce)

Annie's Heirloom Seeds
Thai Basil 2.00 (add to calendar)
Kamo Eggplant 2.00 (add to calendar)
Argenteuil Asparagus 2.00 (add to calendar)
Mary Wisconsin Asparagus (add to calendar)

Sunflowers - ?
Nasturtiums - ?
Pepper - from saved grocery seed
Basil - ?
Beans - ?
Pumpkin - ?
mushroom spores - ?
strawberries - ?
Onion sets - ?
Raspberries, Blackberries - ?


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