What's in YOUR seed order?
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I'm still going through the catalogs to figure out my veg order but I fell down the wildflower seed rabbithole. I ended up with a large bag of native wildflower seed mix from American Meadows with which to do some Concern Citizen Tired of Looking at Non-Native Weeds gardening over some finished road construction sites in my neighborhood. Anyone else have something cool on order?
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Date: 2017-01-09 09:13 pm (UTC)On order at the moment, several varieties of nasturtiums which I dearly love, nigella, borage, cardinal vine, zinnias, calendula (yellow, orange and that lovely peach colored one) and a really pretty pink agastache which I like to plant in a large urn near the front door---the hummingbirds are mad for it.
Veggie list is unsurprising, cukes, zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes (Beefsteak and Cherokee Purple), a bag of yellow seed potatoes and onions (Spanish yellow). Next up I will troll for a few perennials to try.
I always get so zealous when I start looking at the seed catalogs!
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Date: 2017-01-10 01:02 am (UTC)I've grown Scarlet Empress and several different varieties and colors from Territorial Seeds. I thought they aii tasted nice but can't remember if any were tastier than others.
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Date: 2017-01-10 01:41 am (UTC)Here is a close-up of Agastache (aga-stacky)
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Here's a shot of it in the pot - the background tall green plant is Aloysia citrodora (lemon verbena) and blue salvia (S. farinacea) 'Blue VIctoria' and a little upright fuchsiawhish I later dug out and replanted because it was being overtaken). The agastache has a bit of a unkempt appearance and works better if it has another plant to help support it (thus the lemon verbena)
This is a shot of the back garden in late August - cardinal vine (Ipoemea sloteri) -it's on a bit of fence that you can't really see in the shot-, Gallardia grandiflora "Oranges & Lemons" and the S. guarantica 'Black & Blue' te hummers like both cardinal vine flowers and the salvia.
Another annual hummers love is Penta lanceolata - best grown in a pot and placed where you can observe; they need to be deadheaded fairly often.
Other plants they like - lantana, bee balm, hosta flowers, diascia and mints of any kind when they flower though be careful where you plant it lest it take over your part of the world. They also visit butterfly bush.
Aren't ya glad you asked? :)
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Date: 2017-01-10 02:55 am (UTC)Jonny's Selected Seeds from Maine might be a helpful resource. http://www.johnnyseeds.com/fruits/watermelons/ I haven't used them for years because the climate I'm in is so different but when I did I liked them a lot.
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Date: 2017-01-10 04:28 pm (UTC)Oriole - Zinnia - just an orange zinnia
Miss Willmott - Zinnia - lovely huge purple zinnia
Polar Bear - Zinnia - big white ones
Redman Super Cactus Zinnia - one of the pricier "rare" ones, pink with greenish tint
Queen Lime Red - uhhh I guess another zinnia 8)
Echinacea - Tennesseensis - like I need more scraggly coneflowers... "rare" so I hope they're nice
Goldilocks - a double black eyed Susan / daisy thing. They're big and fluffy!
Cosmo Velouette - random cosmo I threw in
Lucid Gem Tomato - new for me this year, but it had good reviews
Freebies:
A small black tomato variety with poor reviews (mealy and not much flavor.) don't know if I'll waste space on it. Could be people are waiting too long to pick, since it's a black variety?
Purple carrots- eh why not.
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Date: 2017-01-11 05:37 pm (UTC)There's one good review and a bunch of bad.
I grew Black Krims last year and they were pretty good but not amazing.