seed order!

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I have to say that when it is less than 5 degrees outside, receiving a seed order in the mail is like a little bit of warm sunshine in your life.  That was what it was like for me this past weekend.  My first seed order came in.  I'm sure I will end up buying more seeds, but because my local greenhouse carries seeds that I feel comfortable buying, I will end up going there for whatever I missed when I ordered.

This is the first year that I have ordered from Baker Creek, which are all heirloom seeds.  I am really excited to see how these work in my garden...and in my short growing season.  I tend to buy seeds from Fedco and Johnny's Selected Seeds, because they are both in Maine, and I figure they know what seeds Maine gardeners would use.  Of course I am sure that they sell seeds all over the country, but I like to think they cater to a short growing season!

I didn't buy a lot of exotic seeds, even though I wanted to.  I really stuck to what I knew we would eat and want to preserve.  Here is my list:

Dakota Black Popcorn
Jubilee Bush Watermelon
Black Beauty Zucchini
Golden Zucchini
New England Sugar Pie Pumpkin
Boston Pickling Cucumber
Marketmore 76 Cucumber
Blue Hubbard Squash
Dwarf Siberian Kale
Calima Beans (french style green bean)
Golden Wax Beans
Contender Green Beans
Monstrueux De Viroflay Spinach
European Meclun Salad
Cosmic Purple Carrot
Pantano Romanesco Tomato
Pink Berkeley Tie Dye Tomato
Amish Paste Tomato
Roma Tomato

And I also received for free:

American Melon
Lemon Queen Sunflower

I am incredibly excited about this growing season!  A lot of these seeds I do not have to start indoors, and that is a good thing, because I seem to forget about seeds that I start, or something comes up to ruin my plans for starting the seeds and eventually getting them into the garden.

I still need to get shell peas and I am going to attempt bell peppers and jalapenos from seed this year.  We shall see how it all goes!

Have you ordered your seeds yet?  Are you trying something new this year?

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