Seedy Thoughts

It's easy to have seedy thoughts in the deep of December and January in Chicago.    Actually, I had them as early as November when I selected vegetable and flower seeds for my new Potager.


Last year I grew Patty Pan squash from seed and if anyone's familiar with squash they know it's one of the easiest veggies to grow.    Swiss Chard was another that I planted  in a container and used for adding to salads.


Here are my 2011 vegetable seed selections :

 

Fine Leaf Chives, Tricolor Bush Beans,  Asian Salad Greens,Green and Red Romaines,Red Winter Kale, Dwarf Blue Curled Kale and Alaska Variegated nasturtium

This list is by no means complete.  I will add  leaf lettuce and Swiss Chard seeds.  Our season is apparently not long enough for eggplant or for whatever reason it didn't bear .  I've never grown tomatoes from seeds because I buy them from our garden center's greenhouse grower who comes up with some very unusual varieties.

Spring is getting closer.  I noticed last night that it gets dark around 5 now.  Soon I'll have to dig out that mini-greenhouse I bought on sale at the garden center last Fall and start sowing my seeds.

Last year we had an early April Spring and I'm hoping that it'll repeat this year.