The time of year when seed companies send out their yearly catalogs! I tell 'ya, it's more wonderful than being a kid and getting the Toys R Us Christmas catalog in the mail!
I love nothing more than receiving all my catalogs and waiting to open them.
Yes, waiting! I stockpile them and at the end of January I pick a particularly cold and rainy day to curl up on the couch in a big quilt, brew a pot of hot tea, and pour over them for hours. Sometimes I'll even get out my sketch pad and start planning based on compatible plantings.
This year I'm going ALL heirloom!
Last year I mixed convention seeds with heirlooms and found that the heirloom varieties had much more appeal, insect resistance, better flavor, and quantity of production. I'm also going to try my hand at seed saving this year - something you can't do with hybrids - and maybe next year I will be able to plant my entire garden for FREE!
If you'd like to plot and plan your own heirloom garden, request some FREE catalogs from the vendors listed below:
HEIRLOOM SEEDS (online ordering only)
BAKER CREEK HEIRLOOM SEEDS
SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE
SEEDS OF CHANGE
BOUNTIFUL GARDENS
SAND HILL PRESERVATION CENTER
TERRITORIAL SEED COMPANY
Those should be enough to get you started! It's not too late to order!
To read more about why heirloom seeds are so important
CLICK HERE
I love nothing more than receiving all my catalogs and waiting to open them.
Yes, waiting! I stockpile them and at the end of January I pick a particularly cold and rainy day to curl up on the couch in a big quilt, brew a pot of hot tea, and pour over them for hours. Sometimes I'll even get out my sketch pad and start planning based on compatible plantings.
This year I'm going ALL heirloom!
Last year I mixed convention seeds with heirlooms and found that the heirloom varieties had much more appeal, insect resistance, better flavor, and quantity of production. I'm also going to try my hand at seed saving this year - something you can't do with hybrids - and maybe next year I will be able to plant my entire garden for FREE!
If you'd like to plot and plan your own heirloom garden, request some FREE catalogs from the vendors listed below:
HEIRLOOM SEEDS (online ordering only)
BAKER CREEK HEIRLOOM SEEDS
SEED SAVERS EXCHANGE
SEEDS OF CHANGE
BOUNTIFUL GARDENS
SAND HILL PRESERVATION CENTER
TERRITORIAL SEED COMPANY
Those should be enough to get you started! It's not too late to order!
To read more about why heirloom seeds are so important
CLICK HERE
4 comments:
We just sat down and drew up our garden plan this weekend (what with the snow and ice, well, it seemed like the perfect time!).
We've got a 60 x 80 "house garden", and a patch for potatoes and another for corn/peanuts.
We need to buy some seed this year, but not too much.
We're planning on onions, carrots, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, and peas right off (potatoes will go in then, too, but they're separate). And then watermelons, pumpkins, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, pole beans, and cukes. I'd like to start working on a raised bed for asparagus, as well as putting in a spot for some sunflowers, too. But we'll have to see what we end up with, come planting time...
Glad to see your back - hope all is well - miss ya ! Lea Ann
Glad to see your back - hope all is well - miss ya ! Lea Ann
We just sat down and drew up our garden plan this weekend (what with the snow and ice, well, it seemed like the perfect time!).
We've got a 60 x 80 "house garden", and a patch for potatoes and another for corn/peanuts.
We need to buy some seed this year, but not too much.
We're planning on onions, carrots, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, and peas right off (potatoes will go in then, too, but they're separate). And then watermelons, pumpkins, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, pole beans, and cukes. I'd like to start working on a raised bed for asparagus, as well as putting in a spot for some sunflowers, too. But we'll have to see what we end up with, come planting time...
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