It's Winter Seed Ordering Time!

You know you are a gardener when...."THE NEW SEED CATALOGS ARE IN!!!".

Seed ordering is one of the fun things about this time of year, for a gardener anyway. I have received catalogs from several of the seed companies now and have already placed an order for some seeds that will need to be started next month for transplanting into the garden in late winter and into early spring.

Though I have plenty of seed leftovers from last years purchases and from my own seed harvesting, I have to try a few new items.

So far, I have ordered:

Mei Qing Choi - a bok choi green
Sahuaro - a hot pepper
Serrano del Sol - a serrano pepper
El Jefe - a jalapeno variety
Brandywine - heirloom tomato
Golden Sweet - a cherry tomato
Olivade - a Roma-like tomato for sauces
Black Seeded Simpson - a leaf lettuce
and another variety pack of lettuces

The peppers and tomatoes will get an early start in the greenhouse, and transplanted into gallon containers after getting a good start. We will grow them to a decent size in the greenhouse, or out as conditions warrant, before setting them out. Last year doing it this way, and waiting until we were pretty confident that the last freeze was past, we had a really good early production of tomatoes when no one else was harvesting any, or had lost plants to late freezes.