Seed Sale!
Serenity Project – First Year – Post # 1
Our local farming store has a seed sale on – 25% off, so we made our first major investment and our first step toward self-sufficiency in food… seeds, glorious seeds!
Nitrogen Fixing, Edible Legumes
Sugar Snap Peas (*A = Annual *H = Heirloom Variety 150g)
Lincoln Homesteader Peas (*A *H 200g)
Scarlet Runner pole beans (*A *H 100g: bonus: really pretty flowers)
Tendergreen Improved bush beans (*A *H 200g)
Pinto Beans – dry, pole bean (*A)
Other Vegetables & Fruit
Bright Lights Swiss Chard (*A – Bonus: Beeeeauuuutiful!)
Baby’s leaf Mixed Lettuce (*A *O = Organic Seed)
Mixed Mesculin (*A)
Jolly Rosso Sweet Red Pepper (*A)
Bonny Best Tomato (*A *H)
Beefsteak Tomato (*A)
Lungo Della Cina Cucumber (*A)
Buttercup Squash (*A *O)
White Scallop Squash (*A *O)
Spagetti Squash (*A)
Danvers Half-long Carrots (*A *H)
Atlas “Paris Market” Carrots (*A)
Countess F1 Parsnip (*A)
Marion Swede Turnip (*A Bonus: Cold tolerant)
Crimson Sweet Watermelon (*A)
***WANTED: Potatoes & Sweet Potatoes — will we buy seed potatoes or grow from grocery store? Wild Strawberry plants, Raspberry bushes, Rhubarb, Goji Berry, Popping Corn***
Herbs
Cilantro (*H Bonus: Pretty flowers)
Garlic Chives (*P = Perennial)
Chives (*P, I think – Bonus: Pretty flowers)
Russian Tarragon (*P)
Dill (*A)
Giant of Italy Parsley (*A *O *H)
Summer Savory (*A or *P?)
Thyme (*A or *P? unknown)
Rosemary (*H *Tender Perennial – we’ll protect it and hope for the best)
Sage (probably *P)
Basil collection (*A includes Thai, Genovese, 2 greens and a purple that I can’t identify)
Dwarf Munstead Lavender (*P Bonus: one of my favourite flowers)
***WANTED: Marjoram, also I will try growing my culinary fennel — at which point I can make Herbes de Province
Edible/Medicinal Tea Flowers (all beautiful)
Chamomile (*A)
Taiyo Sunflower (*A Bonus: for the birds in winter)
Autumn Beauty Sunflower mix (*A – Bonus: for the birds in winter)
Nasturtiums (*A vine)
More flowers/Companion Plants
Perennial Wildflowers Mix (*P – 24 varieties – contains many useful & edible/medicinal, I hope)
Old fashioned Mixed Pinks (*P)
Carpet of Snow Allyssum (*A – 2 packs – oops!)
Calendula (*A)
Carpatica Blue Bellflower (*P)
Russel Mix Lupines (*P)
Climbing Sweet Pea – Spencer Giant Mix (*A)
Pacific Giant Delphinium (*P *H)
Blue Compact Agastache (*P)
Goldsturm Rudbeckia (*P)
Marigold (*A – Hero Mix F1 Hybrid)
***WANTED: Clovers & Stinging Nettle – which we may have already
Treats for Kitties (Hopefully a distraction from our other plants)
Catnip (*P)
Cat Grass (*A)
Groundcover for the walkways between our future raised beds:
Creeping Thyme (*P)
