Collecting Seeds for Spring 2015

This weekend, I spent some time thinking about what I wanted to plant in the Spring. Winter is a great time to spend planning the upcoming garden. I started collecting some of the seeds. I am hoping my vegetable and herb garden will be more successful than 2014.

I want to plant a sunflower garden this Spring. They are fun plants to look at. I picked a few varieties from four to twelve feet tall. I hope it will add some nice visual interest. I bought some peas to climb up the bigger ones too and some squash to provide some shade/ground cover.

For veggies, I like to grow things that are unusual and not something easy to get at the farmers market. This year I picked some unusual varieties of bean, carrot, broccoli, kale, and cabbage.

For reference the seeds are:

• Cabbage – COL Salad Delight
• Carrot – ZANAHORIA Kaleidoscope Blend
• Garden Bean – EJOTE SILVESTRE Royalty Purple Pod
• Kale – COL Lacinato
• Broccoli – BROCOLI Romanesco
• Summer Squash – CALABACIN Early Golden Crookneck
• Cilantro – CILANTRO Coriandrum sativum
• Pea – GUISANTE Dark Seeded Early Perfection
• Sunflower 4’ – GIRASOL Solar Eclipse
• Sunflower 6’ – GIRASOL Autumn Beauty Mix
• Sunflower 12’ – GIRASOL Mammoth