Have you decided on your seed order? - Page 2

[PNCTink]

I just decided on mine yesterday, and I'm ordering from Pinetree. This is my first year and we're doing a fairly small raised bed garden. We're getting pole beans, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, onions, sugar snap peas, spinach, sweet potatoes, yukon golds, garlic, and tomatoes. I'm also getting a few varieties of flower seeds to add to my collection.

[artemis33]

I ordered from Pinetree a couple weeks ago. Mostly greens and a new winter squash I want to try this year.   I didn't need too much this year because I have lots of leftovers from Territorial and Seed Savers from the past couple years.  I buy tomatoes as starts because I don't have a good set up yet for starting warm weather crops from seed (unless they can be direct sewn, like beans, cukes, squash...) - so I need to order those still.  I plan to order a few online that I usually can't find locally, and the rest I'll buy at the farmer's market when it starts up in May.

This year I'm growing (these are just my annual crops):

potatoes (lots!  mostly yukon gold, but also reds, ozette, possibly some fingerlings)

tons of lettuce - different varieties

spinach

kale (lots of lacinato, my favorite)

arugula

leeks

shallots

onions (yellow, red, walla walla)

carrots (a couple varieties)

parsnips

cabbage

fennel (bulb)

cilantro

thai basil

basil

italian flat leaf parsley

shelling peas

beans (have a couple different ones....may just do basic green beans though)

cucumber (pickling)

zucchini (cocozelle)

pie pumpkins

delicata squash

red kuri squash

various tomatoes - mostly paste (8+), a couple Sungold, and a couple small slicing (probably Oregon Spring)

garlic in the fall

I have a perennial herb garden and berry patches as well.

This fall, if all goes well, we will be expanding into our back pasture and will be able to have a much larger garden!  We are hoping to fence it in later summer.

[JamieCatheryn]

I ordered mine ages ago, wary of long processing times, but southern exposure was quick anyway. I just tilled under the first bed's cover crop so the rye can die and break down in time for an early planting of peas and radishes. The soil looks great this year. I'm going to get started early as possible with my cold weather stuff this year, 2 more weeks and I can begin. They say my potatoes will ship late march. I'lll buy tomato plants again this year from the farmer's market, looking forward to a little greenhouse someday so I have somewhere I can do that myself.

My seed order:

cherry belle radishes

spring mesclun mix

summer mesclun mix

mammoth melting sugar snow peas

danvers and cosmic purple carrots

tender gray zucchini and early prolific yellow squash

contender bush green beans

caribe and rose gold potatoes

mammoth sunflowers

[SuburbanHippie]

I still haven't received my order from Heirloom Seeds.  I'm starting to freak out.  Luckily, I have some tomato seeds I saved from last year that I can start just in case mine don't show up until April.  :/

[mattemma04]

I got my order from sandhill. I might order from bountiful gardens since my local soil and water isn''t selling seedlings this year. And I still have lots left over from last year.I love anything that grows tall or is edible!

 GIR is cute!

[AimeeT]

Oh I love this thread! I am new to mothering community online and loving it. Just reading everyone's seed orders is inspiring and gets me all excited to dig in the dirt! I was looking to see what areas you guys are from since I'm near Kansas City/climate/etc. I love Bakers Creek and Seed Savers!

[JamieCatheryn]

Welcome, Aimee! What are you growing this year? Are you planting anything yet? I just got my peas in the ground, we've had a lovely warm week out here and peas are quite cold hardy.

[Ldavis24]

Another newb to this thread as well!

Hello all! I have been on mothering for a few years but never even peeked down here.

Due to our living situation we can only have a container garden this year but I was feeling ambitious so I just placed our order with Baker Creek. Late yes but better than never.

I ordered a bunch of herbs and several interesting varieties of tomato as well as their yellow wonder strawberries. We'll see how it goes just doing containers. I wish I could really lay a few beds out in the yard but my MIL is crazy and our apartment is on her property. No gardens allowed in the ground!

[PNCTink]

Originally Posted by Ldavis24 

Another newb to this thread as well!

Hello all! I have been on mothering for a few years but never even peeked down here.

Due to our living situation we can only have a container garden this year but I was feeling ambitious so I just placed our order with Baker Creek. Late yes but better than never.

I ordered a bunch of herbs and several interesting varieties of tomato as well as their yellow wonder strawberries. We'll see how it goes just doing containers. I wish I could really lay a few beds out in the yard but my MIL is crazy and our apartment is on her property. No gardens allowed in the ground!

I read in one of my gardening books that someone used the bags of soil as containers. They just cut 8 to 10 drainage holes on one side of the bag. Lay the bag down (holes on the bottom) and cut an X in the top of the bag, from corner to corner. Water the exposed topsoil to remove salts, let it drain for a couple of days, and then you can plant and mulch right in the bag.

[Ldavis24]

Originally Posted by PNCTink 

I read in one of my gardening books that someone used the bags of soil as containers. They just cut 8 to 10 drainage holes on one side of the bag. Lay the bag down (holes on the bottom) and cut an X in the top of the bag, from corner to corner. Water the exposed topsoil to remove salts, let it drain for a couple of days, and then you can plant and mulch right in the bag.

thank you for that. I have never ever. Even when working at a commercial Nursery and was slinging bags of soil daily (I used to be so buff from that job!) did I consider just leaving the soil in the bag! love it. I think I will try it for a couple of things I'm planting.
 

[BirthIsAwesome]

I bought from Victory Seeds and got: Eating tomatoes, sauce tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, spinach, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, string beans, eggplant, yellow-rind watermelon, pumpkin, and onions. I have some garlic and shallots that are sprouting that I'm going to try to grow also. And we plan on buying 6 raspberry brambles from a local nursery. I will be buying basil plants, mint plants, and peas locally and getting some oregano from my friend, as it sprouts up wild in her yard :) 

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Johnny's:

Arugula Surrey

Carrot Napoli

Kohlrabi Eder or Winner

Cuke Diva

Encore Salad Mix

Calendula Antares

Fedco:

Bush Bean Masai

Beet 3 Root Grex

Carrot Mokum, Nelson, & Yaya

Chard Bright Lights

Cilantro Caribe

Kohlrabi Kolibri

Spinach Space

Cuke H-19 Little Leaf

Fennel Zefa Fino

Snow Pea Blizzard

Bachelor's Button Black Gem/Garnet

Chamomile Bodegold

Calendula Zeolights & Resina

Leftover from last year:

Dill

Kale Rainbow Lacinato & Kale Mix

Scallion Evergreen Hardy

Radish Pinetree Mix

Collards

Lettuce Waldmann's, Jericho, Winter Density

TBD:

Basil

Holy Basil

Summer Lettuce Mix

Marigold - one of the Gems

Nasturtium

Parsley

Cosmos

Sunflower

Morning Glory

Braising/Stirfry Greens Mix

To be purchased as plants:

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Cabbage

Lemon Balm

Rosemary

Tomato definitely Sungold as it's my favorite cherry and I have grown it since I was a kid, my dad did send me seeds from his heirloom Italian Pears that I will try to start but I am not sure if I am up for setting up grow lights right now

Pepper - some kind of pimento and other small sweet