Seed Update

I finished ordering all my seeds for this season last night. Altogether I purchased…

Well, a gardener never tells!

However, it appears that to date I haven’t purchased as many seeds as I did last year.

But there is still snow on the ground and plenty of time to buy more seeds. When, or I suppose if, I decide I need more seeds, I think I’ll buy them at one of the local garden centers.

I do need to make a list of all the seeds I have and carry it with it at all times. Then when, or if, I’m suddenly overcome with the urge to buy more sweet pea seeds, for example, I can check my list and see that I’ve purchased four, oops, five varieties of sweet peas already.

Which reminds me! Dog gone it. I didn’t order any cantaloupe seeds. Last season I had a great harvest from two cantaloupe plants that I bought on impulse to fill in one last spot in the garden. Since I generally think it is pointless to buy a plant for something you can easily start from seed, I decided to buy some seeds for cantaloupe this year.

Oh wait, check that. I did buy cantaloupe seeds. I purchased ‘Hearts of Gold’ from Nature’s Crossroads. They describe it as, “this classic Midwest melon ruled the markets of the 1930’s. Fruit has a small seed cavity with aromatic juicy sweet flesh. Fruit normally weights 2 – 3 lbs with two or three per vine.”

They had me at “ruled the markets of the 1930’s”. It immediately conjured up images of my Dad and uncles growing up on a southwestern Indiana farm, where surely the kitchen garden had several hills of melons.

They also noted on the package that it contains at least 25 seeds with a 90% germination rate which means that I have more melon seeds than I need for my garden. I wonder if I have a sister or two who would like a few seeds to grow some old fashioned melons in their gardens?

I really do need to make up that seed list so that I know what I have for this season.



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