Mike has most of his vegetables picked out, and has already received a bunch of the seeds in the mail. Having reviewed his choices for this year, I can testify he has chosen NO FEWER than 30 tomato varieties and 15 peppers. And, you know, about 40 other kinds of vegetables, almost all of which are an unusual variety in color or taste. We will be renting a garden plot (or 2) this year to increase our growing space! Here are his 3 favorite seed companies:
Seed Savers Exchange: an heirloom seed company based out of Decorah, IA
High Mowing Organic Seeds: only 100% certified organic seeds
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds: lots of varieties of heirloom seeds
Mike's mostly choosing heirloom varieties, which are plants that have been grown unchanged for at least 50 years, and many of which are rare. He loves them because you can save the seeds and reliably grow the same vegetable again the next year. I love that so many of them come from just one family that handed the seed down between generations. So unique!
I'm still trying to figure out what annuals to plant. I'd love to find a few great sources for flower seeds, so if you have a favorite, please share it!
Finally, here are some photos of Mike's latest project: homemade hot sauce. He made 5 different varieties to give away as Christmas gifts. All I contributed was making the labels, which show pictures of the actual peppers he grew.
I'm glad he found something productive to make out of all those hot peppers! Now I'm off to browse catalogs for the the best part of our garden... the flowers!
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