TomatoNut95 said: Would you like a few Tiny Tim seed?
My first thought was "hell ya" but then I remembered yesterday and the seed swap.
It was heavily a old commercial seed packets that have been donated because they were packed for sale sometime in the last two years giveaway. Everyone got five tickets to trade for seeds just for showing up. If you brought seeds you got an extra ticket for each packet/envelope/whatever you brought. My sister and I entered with 22 tickets between us. They also had some older packets from previous years of questionable germination ability that were just "free to a good home."
I came home with sooooooooo many seeds. There are seven packets my sister and I picked for a cousin that was not there. We had tickets left, things were winding up, and some lonely seeds were still sitting there waiting for adoption by any home with good soil.
I wanted some kind of sweet pepper and A, as in one, mid-sized tomato variety. As I was prepping I realized that my yellow bush bean saved seeds had gone walkabout so a bush bean was on my list. I figured maybe an experiment or two might come home with me. What I ended up with:
- Cucumbers - Armenian Cucumber (really cucumber doppleganger melons) and a Garden Sweet Burpless Hybrid. I had a planned space for three cucumber plants of the variety I grew and liked last year.
- Tomatoes - the vaguely named heirloom Red Cherry Tomato, Wisconsin 55, and an even older "no ticket needed" Oregon Spring. I had space planned for 5-6 non-micro plants with one more maybe in a large container.
- Spearmint - I had maximum security spot I tried and failed to grow some of my sister's older mint seed in last year. So at least I do not need to figure something else out. I had forgotten about that spot so I was really happy with that find.
Peppers - So I got one, then one more, and rounded out with a third. I have lots of seeds to throw at my bad pepper growing luck -Sweet Banana, California Wonder bells, and Serrano as a hot pepper.
Beans - Gerritsun yellow bush beans which are at least simple. They are my quick and easy direct sow in gaps and along one flower border area.
Brussels Sprouts - Catskills variety. Shared that packet with my sister who has space for a small crop. Still not sure what I am going to do with them. Might get 2 in where my chard that I overwintered for some early greens before flowering is sitting. I just really like the alien plant life looking thing growing in the garden idea. What was I thinking?
Summer Squash - Billiard Blend (three colors of round zucchini) packaged together. Like the Armenian cucumbers and Brussels sprouts the lure was heavily "I always thought those looked neat."
I'm still vaguely considering a couple of the bush lima beans my sister took home. I might charge a delivery fee of couple of the Lacinto Kale seeds we got for my cousin. I also took home some New England Aster seeds to add into one or two flower beds. I'm still doing leeks, with seeds in hand, for the first time this year.
70 days until last frost, my seed storage space runneth over, and my not quite finalized garden plan is now in utter shambles. Oh and they put out information about a plant swap the weekend of our area's last frost just to lure me into the rocks like a siren song. I tell myself it is merely a chance to start too many plants while I finalize the garden plan and give the extras away to good homes. Just go and give plants away...only give not take...
Thanks for the offer
I should probably not distract myself with more adoptions at this point. Soooooooo, soooooo many seeds.
Maybe if my Pinocchio do well, I can save some seed and we can...*smacks myself*
Chinese pink celery?
. Now that I think about it, I might try planting some whole cranberries in the garden this fall and see what happens... that works very well for starting asparagus, and I also get new blueberry plants every year from berries that drop into the pots and sprout. (My blueberries are growing in large pots that I move into the unheated high tunnel for the winter.)
