No real gardening news here yet, heading into full winter for the next two months, followed by peeks at spring in March.
Went through my seed collection and organized it. I will need to get tomatoes (looking for a variety to replace Celebrity, it has been disappointing the past couple of years), peppers (used all my seed last year after mice ate the first planting), shallots (I like Ambition, but used all the seed last year, and the patch got flooded), spinach (Space hybrid is the only reliable true spinach I have found - can't stand the New Zealand and other pseudo-spinaches), and maybe eggplant. I've got a half dozen catalogs, but 2 of them I don't order from, and don't know why I keep getting them.
I also found a ton of flower seeds (all pre 2014) that I'm going to try and start this year, because why not? If they grow I'll find spots for them.
I grew Monte Gusto pole beans last year, and liked them a lot. Since the packet was small and I used all the seeds, I left some pods to dry and picked them before frost. Finally cleaned them, and now testing 10 random for viability.
Will start onions, shallots near the end of January. Peppers too, they start so slow and take forever to grow here I like to start them early.
