wow!

It has been an extremely long time since I posted! What a surprise! In the spirit of the new year I have revamped my website a little...not much. I was looking for a nice winter picture to put up, but decided that I am waiting for summer and gardening too much to put up a snow picture. Granted...it is the middle of January, but I just placed my first seed order, and that makes me think spring and summer :-) What better way to stay motivated through these frigid days than to think of being outside in the warm sun!

I would like to be more consistent with writing this year, but since I have been saying that for the past 2 years without much success, I am just hoping I can update once a month! I have a ton of stuff to say, but not so much time to get it down on paper, or on the computer as the case may be.

This year will be the second year I do some gardening from seed. Last year I planted green beans and spaghetti squash, as well as flour corn and watermelon. I had mixed results because of all the rain...and the number of crows that like to descend on my yard. This year I am going to try and start seeds inside. My mom used to do that, so I have a bit of a headstart as to what I need - the lights. I ordered a bunch of seeds though, not sure if I have enough yard to plant all of these or not, but we are going to give it our best. And since seeds are so inexpensive, if I fail miserably, well I know I can always go to the greenhouse and buy my seedlings :-)

Without further ado:

Seeds I bought for this year:
Provider Bush Green Beans
Indy Gold Wax Beans
Cannellini Dry Beans
Black Coco Dry Beans
Jacob's Cattle Dry Beans - we eat a lot of beans in my family!
Coral Shell Peas
Organic Sugar Baby Watermelon
Calypso Pickling Cucumbers
Organic Boothby's Blonde Slicing Cucumber
Carnival Acorn Squash
Blue Hubbard Squash - my absolute favorite unfortunately on backorder
Copra Onions
Bordeaux Spinach

Seeds I already have:
Sugar Pie Pumpkins - from Heather's Homemaking Thanks!
Omny Hybrid Radish
Top Bunch Collard
Lettuce
Incline Cauliflower
Heirloom Red Beard Scallions
Zeus Carrots
Golden Globe Heirloom Turnips - all from Dinner Garden
Heirloom Brandywine Tomato
Heirloom Hale's Best Melon
Scarlet Emperor Runner Bean
Heirloom Yellow Crookneck Squash
Organic Roma Tomato
Cilantro
Italian Large Leaf Basil
Spaghetti Squash
Flour Corn
China Choy Chinese Cabbage
Organic Beefsteak Tomato - all of these came from random places, seeds of change, common ground fair, greenhouse

Wow, now that I listed those out, I should be able to feed an army if I actualy plant all this! My one real goal is to get enough tomatoes so that I can get all of our tomato needs for the year canned - now that we all know BPA lined cans have to be used for canning tomatoes, and I can't seem to find any glass jars of whole, crushed or diced tomatoes.

I guess that is about all from me today. Hope to see you before February!