I bought my seeds for this year’s garden today. How exciting! I’d gotten catalogs from several companies: John Scheepers, Seed Savers, Seeds of Change, but not Baker Creek. (Apparently, Baker Creek had more catalog requests than expected, and they haven’t shipped the second set yet.) After looking over the catalogs, I decided to go with John Scheepers, as they carry the specific cherry tomato that I wanted by itself.

Here are some of the things I ordered. If we need any more, or the seedlings don’t do well, I will supplement what we have with transplants from the farmer’s market or garden center. Most of these are varieties I’ve never planted before.

Jade Green Bush Beans

Parmex Baby Ball Carrots

These are the round carrots shown here. I’ve grown baby carrots before, but not a ball variety. They are supposed to be nice and sweet!

Sugar Ann Snap Peas

Sungold Cherry Tomatoes

These are the tomatoes I originally went looking for. I have grown them for the past two years, and can’t get enough of their flavor. We are sticking to cherry tomatoes this year, because the season is shorter here and larger tomatoes take too long to ripen. With cherry tomatoes, you get to have one or more each day when you walk by to harvest them. Tomatoes rarely make it inside the house when I pick them, and I like picking them regularly.

Black Cherry Tomatoes

Nat loves black tomatoes. One day, we’ll grow Paul Robesons… but for now, we’ll stick with the Black Cherry tomatoes. I bet they’re good!

I also purchased these: Silor Mini Cucumber, Colorful Fantasia Sunflower Mixture, Torino Italian Misticanza salad blend, Catnip, Dukat Dill, Lemon Balm, Hidcote Lavender, True Greek Oregano, Gigante d’Italia Parsley, French Summer Thyme, Sweet Broadleaf Basil, Caribe Coriander/Cilantro, and Alma Spicy Paprika Peppers.

We’ll be doing at least one 4×4 box of square foot gardening, along with some bushels of tomatoes, beans, and the peas in the ground. Our soil is quite acidic here, but I have heard tomatoes like acidic soil. I also have some agricultural lime to sprinkle where we want to push the soil towards a more neutral pH. I need to sprinkle some on the garlic, now that I think of it!

What are you going to grow this spring?