More February flowers - Snowdrop surprise.The entire seed order has not arrived but only one order is outstanding and that one should be in soon. The others arrived on two separate days last week in the mailbox on top of each other. Here is the list of seeds we plan to plant in the 2012 garden . . .
2012 Seed Order
Totally Tomatoes -TT
Pinetree Garden Seeds – PGS
Territorial Seed Co. – TSC
Johnny’s Selected Seeds – JSS
Sand Hill Preservation Center– SHP
Healthy Pepper – TT
Ice Age Hybrid – TT
Golden Treasure – TT (free)
Sweet Gourmet – TT
Ethnic Sweet Antohi Romanian – JJS
Italian Pepperoncini pepper- PGS
Azoychkas Russian tomato – TT
Country Taste Hybrid –TT
Moonglow – TT
Old Brooks – TT
Persimmon Orange – TT
Sugary Hybrid – TT
Sweet Treats Hybrid –TT
Five Star Grape – JSS
Tomatoberry Garden Hybrid – PGS
Cheesemans tomato - SHP
Alpine Daikion radish – JSS
Dragon Hybrid – TSC
German Giant radish – PGS
Tender Gold Chinese cabbage - TSC
Panisse lettuce – JSS (all Johnny’s seed is pelletized seed)
Concept – JSS
Adriana – JSS
Winter Density – JSS
Costal Star – JSS
Radichetta – PGS
Tom Thumb lettuce - SHP
Pepinex Hybrid cucumber – TSC
Summer Dance – PGS
Socrates – JSS
Glorie de Paris cucumber - SHP
Bordeaux Hybrid spinach – TSC
Tortoiseshell Hybrid – TSC
Regatta Hybrid– TSC
Space - PGS
Space - JSS
Viroflay - PGS
Spinach Mix – PGS
Tyee spinach – JSS
Emu spinach – JSS
Burpees Golden beet – PGS
Golden Ball turnip – PGS
Javelin Hybrid parsnip – TSC
Romano pole bean – PGS
Goldmarie– TSC
Northeaster– JSS
Marengo Romano pole bean - PGS
Gunnison onion (pelletized seed)- JSS
Perfection fennel – TGS
French thyme – PGS
Petra parsley – PGS
Prezzemolo Gigante D Italia parsley – PGS
Nufar basil (pelletized) JSS
Caraway – SHP
Dukat dill – SHP
Astro arugula/roquette – JSS
Sylevetta wild arugula – JSS
Roquette arugula – JSS
Rucola Selvatica arugula – PGS
Arugula - SHP
Dandelion Red Rib – JSS
Italiko Rossa dandelion – TSC
Spicy Green mustard – TSC
Tokyo Bekana Asian greens – JSS
Watercress – PGS
Spring Greens mix – SHP
Fall Greens mix - SHP
Tasty Bites melon – TSC
Jelly melon - SHP
Piccolo Hybrid summer squash – TSC
Rainbow winter squash – SHP
Scarchuks Supreme winter squash -SHP
Giant Sunglold sunflower – TSC
Double quick Orange sunflower – JSS
Profusion Cherry zinnia – JSS
Profusion Yellow zinnia – JSS
Butternut Brown cotton - SHP
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Have you grown cotton before? I didn't think we had a long enough season. Do you have a heated greenhouse, or is an unheated house enough to get the "boll" rolling? (Sorry, I couldn't resist. In my defense, occasionally I can be funny) I have a hard to control urge to grow things that aren't really hardy here. My latest temptation are persimmons. I've been resisting, but there's a zone six hardy kaki, 'Ichikikijiro,' that's supposed to be dwarf, though at ten feet not as small as your figs, that I dream of growing in a pot, wrapping in a carpet, or perhaps tipping and burying to get through our Wisconsin winters.
ReplyDeleteHi planthoarder,
ReplyDeleteYes to cotton - twice! A nice brown variety not the same one as this new one and a green one. I started the plants as early as possible ( I only heat the greenhouse in March) and put them in the warmest location I have in the yard and got crops both times. As for the persimmons might be tough even in pots but just one crop could be worth all the work. I have pictures of huge unripe fruit on a tree in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NY - so go for it. Maybe in a sunny but sheltered spot you might try a full size, an American variety. Check out One Green World for possible varieties.
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Hi DJP
ReplyDeleteDo you use the cotton for something, or is it just a cool ornamental?
Do you have a favorite tomato? I'm looking for one as delicious as 'Gold Medal,' but more generous with its fruit.
Even the American persimmons may not make it, if one of these years we get a real winter, but I'm willing to try. Everyone was out of 'Morris Burton' so I'm just going to try some seeds for now. They take seven years to fruit, so here's hoping we have winters as easy on us as this one's been.
planthoarder
Hi Planthoarder,
ReplyDeleteThe cotton was just to prove I could grow it - sorta like your persimmons. I grow so many varieties of tomatoes that picking a favorite it tough - both my wife and I really like "Sugary" - a semi-indeterminate grape tomato and I like my old time "Red Peach" just because I picked it for my grafting work. I also like "Country Taste" and wouldn't you know - a yellow orange called "Persimmon"
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