Hello - I am a longtime gardener from upstate New York. Before I moved to Rutland MA I always started my own seeds with great success. For twenty years I had a regular in ground garden in NY but I got tired of putting up a seven foot fence to keep the deer out so I switched to container gardening from my deck.
Last year my wife and I converted our son's basement to an apartment to help with our first grandchild and because the space was limited I did not have a chance to do any kind of gardening.
I was checking raised garden beds on he internet and I ran across this article which I plan to build this spring but I will make two 3 x 4 plots instead of one large one. I figure it will be easier to maintain on my 70 year old body.
I bought one of those 72 seed starting cells with a dome and I also bought a heat mat to start my seeds. I already had my 3 foot shop lights for light.
Here is a link to the raised bed garden using cinder blocks
http://www.vegetablegardener.c...
Some of the seeds I will grow are
Sun gold cherry tomatoes (my favorite sweet tomato)
John's huge Greek red
German giant red
Mexican beefstake
Red penna
Giant Belgium Twiggybuds
Buckbees New Fifty Day (early season)
Tomato Delicious
Super beefsteak
Lady Lucy
My friend from Michigan sent me a box of cherry tomatoes that he grew for the first time. They are called Aunt Molly ground cherry. They are also know as husk tomatoes because they have a corn like husk on them. They have a fruity nut taste that is unlike any other tomato I have ever tried. I sent away to www.uprisingorganics.com and ordered a package. Wha'ts cool about these tomatoes is that you never have to pick them. When they are ripe they fall right of the plant and I can tell you that they last for a long time on the coutner.
Hot Peppers
I love hot peppers and the hotter the better and www.thehippyseedcompany has the hottest seeds that I know of. This year I will grow
Trinidad Scorpion Butch T (with a scovil unit of 1 million
Big Bomb Hybrid cherry pepper
I also have peppers someone gave me from Canada. I once ate at this Italian restaurant in New York and they had a hot pepper plant growing on the window ledge.. I asked if I could taste one and it was so hot I just had to ask him for a few peppers. The owner was happy to give me 4 and now I have those seeds.
Beans
Jade snap bush beans
Burpee's Stringless Green Pod
Sorry about this long post. I also belong to the healthy lifestyle cubit here.
I will take pictures as I begin to build the raised bed.
