Yesterday I had the first baby leaves from the seeds I had sow in Thursday. It was the Brussels sprouts seeds and I call it winner.

Today I have more germinated seeds and I’m happy for this. It’s all grow so fast now. It’s funny because I have more leaves from the seeds every hour.

I thought it’s good for me to start a cost “diary” to remember how much money I spent for seeds and plants.

May 2008

• 10 tomato organic plants – € 5
• 2 cherry tomato plants – € 1
• 2 green pepper plants – € 1
• 2 red pepper plants – € 1
• 1 hot pepper plant – € 0 (gift)

• Lettuce romana bionda organic seeds – € 1
• Lettuce great lakes 118 organic seeds – € 1
• Endive riccia pancalieri organic seeds – € 1
• Spinach winter giant organic seeds – € 1
• Squash dark markant organic seeds – € 1
• Carrots organic seeds (carotte nantaise améliorée) – € 2
• Brussels Sprouts seeds – € 0,70
• Cabbage Mercato di Copenhagen (2) – € 1,40
• Melon seeds – € 0.70

• Seeds from ebay (with shipping cost from UK) – € 10,70

• Basil plant – € 0,50

Total cost for May: € 29

Yesterday I order some seeds from Ireland’s ebay. Well, ok the seeds was from UK, but I prefer to search in the Ireland’s ebay because they have Euro and it’s easiest for me to understand the prices. I can’t buy seeds online from USA but I can from European Union.

I choose seeds that we don’t have here like red carrots or yellow and cream tomatoes. I think It’s funny to grow unknown seeds and vegetables. It’s something like experiment, when you sow some strange seeds and wait to grow.

It’s time to sowing some seeds. Yesterday I put in the water pumpkin seeds (my mother’s tip) from last year’s pumpkin’s.

I choose to sow and some seeds I was buying yesterday like squash, brussels sprouts and cabbage. I found a plastic from supermarket, I suppose it used for fruits, and I thought it’s good to sowing seeds inside.

I think It’s good to use things like this to sow seeds. It’s free and you can reuse something that was garbage.

My seeds are under the sun now, the weather is very good in Greece today.

Today I buy new vegetable seeds. Most of them are organics and certified by BIO-Hellas. I think it’s difficult to find many certified organic seeds in Greece, but ok you can find some of them. Maybe it’s difficult for me to find them, because I live in big city. People can’t plant vegetables in big cities here.

I buy these seeds for my plot.

Organic (Certified by BIOHellas)

• Spinach Winter Giant
• Lettuce Great Lakes 118
• Lettuce Romana Bionda
• Endive Riccia Pancalieri
• Squash Dark Markant

Organic (Certified by AB Agriculture Biologique – France)

• Carrots (Carotte Nantaise améliorée)

Not Organic

• Cabbage
• Brussels Sprouts