Seed Orders

HAPPY NEW YEAR Friends!!

I hope everyone has had a blessed holiday season. I know it's been a great time for me, even just for the time off from work.

Well I think I've got all my seeds ordered. I nearly made a mistake with the Purple Sprouting Broccoli by ordering broccoli raab. It had a description just like the sprouting type that forms a head. Even so, I'm not so sure I'm getting the product everyone has spoken so highly of. Here's the picture:
It's the strangest picture format, having a lot of space above and below the actual picture. I hope it publishes alright.

Then I ordered the leek seed Michel told me about that he and Janine like for pies. It's a French heirloom called jaunes du Poitou. There was only one company here in the States that I could find that had it and the packets have only 20 seeds in them. I will have to start saving the seed should it do well in the garden. It is a large, sweet, yellow leek.

If the broccoli is not a hybrid, I'll do the same with it. Since the flavor of the broccoli is better when grown during cooler weather, I'll experiment with how early I can get it out there without killing it! I could keep it in the greenhouse perhaps.




Above ground









below ground - but they really don't look yellow, do they?







So, in addition to the above newbies to my garden, let me introduce you to the rest of my guest list ;)

• MERVEILLE DE QUATRE SAISONS (49 days)( lettuce)
• HOLLAND GREENS TYFON (42 days)
• TINY TIM TOMATO - to grow in a hanging basket
  
• GIANT NOBLE SPINACH
• JERICHO LETTUCE (60 days) - withstands high temps without bolting
  
• PRINCIPE BORGHESE TOMATO (78 days)
• RAPA DI MILANO COLETTO TURNIP (57days)

This is the tyfon green. They say it will feed an army!
It does look as though it could!

It might take up one whole bed, but they sound interesting so we'll give them a try.


I have a lot of seeds from last year that I'll plant this year too like parsley root, cutting celery, chantenay carrots, Masai bush beans, Dragon Langerie bush bean, scarlet runners, summer squash, beets, early broccoli, radish, peppers and tomatoes.

I also ordered soft neck garlic for spring planting and have shallots for spring too. Soon I'll be planting seeds in the house and not long after that, transplanting in the garden!