Is it spring yet? Two and a half months of total bordom. I've been surfing the seed catalogs online for weeks now, carefully selecting next year's cultivars...
Last year's vegetable garden wasn't as big as previous years. The mystery vine turned out to be pie pumpkin and not cucumber, and my experiment with volunteer tomato plants gave me store bought tomatoes in my own back yard! The eggplants went in late but I still got enough vegetables to make so amazing pasta dishes.
One tomato I will always have in my garden is the Brandywine. What a champion! Of all the crap tomatoes that sprouted in my compost pile the Brandywines were distinguished by their potato like leaves and even after Aphid Attack '08 followed directly by Neem Oil Massacre '08 they still delivered a hefty yield. Thank you Brandywine!
Ah such fond garden memories.
This year my parsley was host to many Swallo
wtail butterflycatapillars. These guys eat a lot and grow really fast. They helped me out a lot though because I cannot eat parsley fast enough to keep my plants from going to seed, but these little guys can. It was always sad to see them go because I can't recall the last time I saw an actual swollowtail around, although with the success of this year's hummingbird feeder I will be starting a Butterfly garden in the back yard wich will include Milkweeds and Parsleys and stuff they like to lay their eggs on as well as pretty nectar filled blossoms. This should be interesting because my older dog likes to eat giant bees that will no doubt come to feast on the flowers.
Well... come February I'm going to bust out the seed mat and the florescent lights and start some seeds. Been saving toilet paper rolls to use as seed cels so I'll let everyone know how that works out. Here are the seeds I have saved from years past and some new ones. I'll be getting more seeds in the mail in the coming months and I'll list those later.
Seeds from previous years:
- Jalapeno Pepper
- Sweet Banana Pepper
- Long Thin Cayenne Pepper
- 'Sequoia' Purple Bush Bean
- Brandywine Tomato
- Roma Tomato
- 'Super Sweet 100' cherry tomato
- Eggplant 'black beauty'
- Eggplant 'Apple Green'
- Eggplant 'snowy hybrid'
- Cucumber 'extra long yamato'
- Zucchini 'black beauty'
- Winter Squash 'table ace hybrid'
- Watermelon 'sugar baby'
- random spinach packets
- Okra 'clemson spineless'
- Beet 'tall top early wonder'
- Lettuce 'buttercrunch'
- Brussel Sprouts 'falstaff'
- Carrot 'danvers half long'
- Carrot 'nantes coreless'
- Mammoth Dill
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