A friend of mine gave me a gift card to Territorial Seed Company, which is closer to the other coast so we hadn’t ordered from them before even though I had previously bookmarked a few of their products in my garden planning bookmark folder. They sell an abundance of kitchen garden crops within their products. Given our garden budget for this year had nothing earmarked for kitchen crops save one rosemary starter, this was a very welcome gift. Hopefully—with some careful seed saving—it will also be one that keeps on giving. Continue reading “The unexpected seed order”
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Crazy week, and I forgot to mention…
This first bit I might have mentioned and forgot I did. My mister was insistent on transplanting the grapes despite my explaining more than once why August is a terrible time for such. (Yes, they’re not doing well. Why do you ask?) Continue reading “Crazy week, and I forgot to mention…”
11 June Plantings update.
I updated the “planting soon” list & 2018 Plantings page.
Two of three black turtle beans have broken through, as have two of three scarlet runner beans. No sign of life yet from the corn–still worried the Acorn Bombers got those. I caught one sniffing around the strawberries today. You bet I shooed it! Continue reading “11 June Plantings update.”
Heirloom Seeds arrived today…
I ordered late, hence their arrival time. They actually shipped faster than I expected since we stuck with the less expensive table shipping method. I’m a little concerned about how late we will be starting some of these seeds, given our short growing season here. Then again, our frost time did drag out this year, so many will be pretty close to right on time. Still, better a bit late then never at all!