Seed catalogue
 

This winter will end eventually. VFR flying conditions will again return. Private pilot students will start being able to fly (and pay CFIs).

And the earth will also thaw, and plants will again begin to grow. In the meantime, I lust over this seed catalogue in front of me and all the tasty wonders it promises I can have growing just out my back door.

Things that have me particularly excited this year:
-Prescott Fond Blanc melons- "The flavor is very rich if picked at perfection, and the fragrance is heavenly"
-Turkish Orange eggplant- "very sweet and flavorful flesh. It imparts a strong, rich flavor to any dish" and are as bright red as a ripe tomato.

and this year I may try okra for the first time.


Anyone else who gardens care to share their hopes and aspirations for the coming spring and summer?

Nice thoughts. Okra is one of the best and most underated vegetables out there, not to be confused with the toxic vegetable Oprah.

"There will be new growth in the Spring."

Looking for a new garden:

YouTube - Being There -My favorite crucial scenes

This year, I am determined to try more heirloom tomatoes in a pot. I plan to use spent coffee grounds and other organic compost from my coffee shop to help things along.

Otherwise, I don't really have a green thumb; the plastic flowers at home are all dead. :o

We put pumpkins in and let the neighbor kids raid the patch during the first week of October. Also, squash, tomatoes, and a half-hearted attempt at watermelons.

Year round we do herbs, I can't imagine a meal without fresh herbs!

Years ago before I had the good sense to leave Texas :p I put in a pepper garden - Jalapenos, Serrano, and Habaneros. In keeping with my black-thumb-of-death gardening practices I put 3x as many seeds in as I should have. They all came in, grew like weeds, and I swear the Serrano and the Jalapenos cross-polinated to form a pepper nearly as hot as the Habaneros.

having a problem getting my herb garden on the window sill. may be to cold
the house stays at 65ish. is that to cold? its 20ish outside. dont know. since most of u are black thumbs, help???? cilantro and chives just wont grow

Last fall I had to dig up my pepper plants and bring them inside because the peppers hadn't ripened before the first freeze. Now I have a slowly disappearing string of dried peppers hanging over my front door and some indoor greenery to brighten a dreary Midwestern winter.

I'm still not sure if I'm going to try to plant these outside again when it gets warm enough, or if I will try some new ones (and possibly a different variety) for this year and keep these inside.

I wish I lived somewhere where I could keep a pepper plant alive outside for more than a season.

Peppers are talented!
Are peppers perennial or strickly annual? - Hot Pepper Forum - GardenWeb

You've probably seen the TV commercials urging us to invest in Gold. I saw one yesterday urging us to invest in seeds. Seeds -- the most important investment you can make. At first, I thought perhaps I had accidentally changed the channel and was watching a Saturday Night live parody.

No, he was serious. In a crisis, he pleaded, there can be no more important asset than seeds to plant a rich, bountiful garden, and he could assure us that none of his seeds had been genetically altered.

Am I the only one who saw that? :confused:






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TonyC, it's called a Victory Garden. Grow your own food so the farmers can send their crops to our troops. Back when there was food rationing, a Victory Garden was quite important.

As for myself, my new place has a 5x10 patch of dirt outside. I won't be here much, but I did plant my garden last weekend. I have drought-resistant peas, radioactively altered Russian giant sunflowers, marigolds, morning glories, and alyssum.

Tomatoes, grown in a planter. That's it- I'm out.