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Gardening

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mopinko

(72,174 posts)
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 07:10 PM Jan 2016

ok, who's planting? who is drinking in the seed catalogues? [View all]

i'm predicting that el nino is gonna bring us a good growing season this year.
first round of seedlings started today. hot hot peppers. always slow to germinate for me, and often iffy. more to follow in the next week or 2.

pouring over seed savers right now. anybody spot any must haves in there?
have plenty of tomato, pepper and bean seed, and learned the hard way that squash family members are iffy to save seed. liked tigger watermelon and pattison panache squash. got a few fruits in a really awful year, which is a good enough sign for me. might do cukes, which i havent done in a couple years.

bought some novelty strawberry (blue and yellow) seed. looking at a fruit tree or 2. need a good crab apple pollinator.

had fun last year with a rainbow of carrots. all taste a little different.
need a couple beets. looking at cylindra, a long one.

should have a lot of volunteer lettuce, but will start some to sell.
mostly have enough herb seed leftover from last year.

back to shopping.

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