A Quiet Little Woman

You can tell you're a farmgirl when...

...your most favorite magazine is a seed magazine and the most anticipated package of all year is... seeds!  We've been ordering from a GREAT seed company called SEED SAVERS  whose mission is to stop heirloom varities from going out of existence.  When you look through their magazine you'll see things that you never would have thought of... like strawberry spinach (actually has little berries on it), black tomatoes, and other strange things!  We just got our order a couple of days ago, and are getting ready to plant things inside tonight (the last frost date here is in May, so we have awhile!)  Here is the list of what we are planting... I'm so excited!! 

Empress String Beans

Red Swan String Beans

Cherokee Trail of Tears Dry Beans

Charlevoix Dark Red Kidney Dry Beans

Boston Favorite Dry Beans

Bull's Blood Beets

Calabrese Broccoli

Early Snowball Cauliflower

Scarlet Nantes Carrots

St. Valery Carrots

Premium Late Flat Dutch (green) Cabbage

Mammoth Red Rock (purple) Cabbage

Tom Thumb Popcorn

Golden Bantam Corn

Bloody Butcher (red) Corn

Five Color Silverbeet Swiss Chard

Double Yield Cucumbers

Eggplant

Bee Balm

German Chamomile

Bee's Friend

African Daisy

Lemon Balm

Kale

Birdhouse Gourd

Grandpa Admire Lettuce

Spanish Melon

Hearts of Gold (cantaloupe)

Blacktail Mountain Watermelon

Australian Brown Onions

Long Island Cheese (pumpkins)

Joe E. Parker (pepper)

Quadrato Asti Giallo (pepper)

Tobago Seasoning (pepper)

King of the North (pepper)

Joe's Long Cayenne (pepper)

Sweet Chocolate (pepper)

Alma Paprika (pepper)

Beaver Dam (pepper)

Ancho Gigantea (pepper)

Green Arrow Peas

Dwarf Gray Peas

Red Pontiac Potatoes

Yukon Gold Potatoes

Russet Burbank Potatoes

Radishes

Summer Crookneck

Lady Godiva Squash

Butternut Squash

Acorn Squash

Strawberry Spinach

Amish Paste Tomatoes

Cherry Tomatoes

Wapsipicon Peach Tomatoes

Brandywine Tomatoes

Black Beauty Zucchini

Isn't spring just the most wonderful time of the year??

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10:24, Monday, April 14, 2008 .. Posted by stitchnchick

Sounds wonderful! I do hope you take many pictures! :-)
I can't wait to get out in the dirt, but it's still just a little too cold.

Amy

Hi!

01:11, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 .. Posted by Belle

Sounds like a wonderful magazine. I might check out the link.
Your garden sounds great! I would like to plant some popcorn, I have never planted it.

Belle

Wow! And I thought I planted a lot...lol...

01:28, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 .. Posted by vgauthier

Our last frost date is june, so I understand about the waiting. And the seed catalogs are the most fun of the entire year ~ nothing like planning out a year's worth of work to squish into about 4 months worth of summer <giggle> and managing to get most of it done!!!!!!