I have months to write something here and the gardening season for 2011 just started for me. February was the month of seed madness. I send many heirloom seeds to friends in Greece and other countries so my desk it was full with seeds, stamps and envelopes.
I also search for my new needs. I found some interesting heirloom seeds from different people and organizations and I order some seed packets. Some of them are here already and I am waiting for the rest seeds to come.
The other thing I wanted except seeds it was plant labels. Every year I sow more seeds and I need more labels. It’s not so easy to find here plant labels so I order from uk eBay usually. This time I order 200 plant labels and I hope I will not need other plant labels next year. It’s a big cost for me with package and posting from uk. The good part is that you can use these plant labels many years. I write the varieties and dates with a pen I had for cd’s and the autumn I clean my labels easily with cheap blue alcohol.
Gardening again!
Last year I was sowing my tomato seeds from January. This year although we had very good weather I didn’t sowing anything until now.
So let’s see my first Heirloom Tomato List for 2010
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I was waiting this moment many months. I just collect my first Eruca sativa (rocket or arugula) seeds from the plant I grew in my city garden. I had the Eruca sativa plant in a big flowerpot from November.
The seeds I sowed were from one Greek NGO. They have a small seed bank and they send me free some seeds. But now I must save my seeds for the next years. My plant don’t have so many seeds, they send me 3 times more seeds than the seeds I save from my plant but it’s ok, it’s my first seeds anyway.
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Last night I start reading one interesting book of Suzanne Ashworth “Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
” where she had written in the first pages about the increase of biodiversity and heirloom varieties in the United States because of immigrants.
USA is known as a country of many immigrants. People from every corner of the earth moved in the great land of opportunities and continue to migrate until today.
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I order to bring me some pea seeds to sow in plot the next week (yeah! I will probably go to my plot). I ask to bring me normal seeds and not hybrids so I can keep seeds the next years.
The seeds were not in package. They sell pea seeds from one big sack so you can buy as much you want. Now I have half kilogram (500gr) from these pea seeds. The cost for 500gr was 2 euro.
The problem is that the seeds have this pink thing as you can see in photo and I have no idea what is this.
Do you know what is this?
