my seeds are arriving in the mail already. i have received packages from high mowing, johnny's and tomatofest. just waiting on my orders from fedco and seeds of change. so far, it looks like the orders shipped in full except two items, the red ace beet seed and hakurei turnip seed. these are back ordered and i will receive them at the beginning of april. this won't be a problem. i expected to run into many more out of stock items since i did my seed order so late. i did have a hard time finding leek seed that i wanted.
i have already started sorting the packages of seed into groups. i will probably track down some small food-grade buckets from restaurants to store my seeds in. we did this at a farm where i worked and it was a good system. we labeled each bucket with the name of a plant family.
seed packets are beautiful. the seeds of change envelopes are most striking with rich photography. i find the fedco envelopes just as beautiful in their stark whiteness and simple type. in the past, i have saved them and made cards out of them. i just remembered that when spencer and i got married, i made our wedding invitations from high mowing envelopes. romantic, creative, fun and practical.
tomatofest is a seed company that sells organic heirloom tomato seed. i really like this company. they always include a free packet of seeds to try. this year they sent me arkansas traveler. i ordered a few varieties that are new to me ... box car willie, glacier and a red cherry tomato called koralik. i can't find a red cherry tomato that i love. the last red cherry i grew was angora super sweet and the year before that was peacevine. two years ago, we grew 60 cherry tomato plants made up of 6 or 7 different varieties. we sold beautiful mixed cherry pints made up of dr.caroline, matt's wild cherry, green grape, yellow pear, black cherry, sungold and angora super sweet. in burlington, we had a great market for them. stone soup and penny cluse each bought 4 or five flats a week, plus i sold them at city market and the farmers markets.
we had a wintry mix of weather today.... rain, sleet and some wind. much milder though. i am starting to hear reports that the sap is running and sugar makers are beginning to boil. sugaring season always seems to come out of nowhere. we have about 30 maple trees on the property that we could tap. i hope we can integrate sugaring into our farm life eventually. spencer has some experience sugaring. the extent of my experience is endless school field trips to sugar houses in the spring and going to our annual maple festival in st.albans. eating all that sugar on snow has to add up to something. on a side note, i marched in maple festival parade with the school band from sixth grade until i graduated high school.
i have already started sorting the packages of seed into groups. i will probably track down some small food-grade buckets from restaurants to store my seeds in. we did this at a farm where i worked and it was a good system. we labeled each bucket with the name of a plant family.
seed packets are beautiful. the seeds of change envelopes are most striking with rich photography. i find the fedco envelopes just as beautiful in their stark whiteness and simple type. in the past, i have saved them and made cards out of them. i just remembered that when spencer and i got married, i made our wedding invitations from high mowing envelopes. romantic, creative, fun and practical.
tomatofest is a seed company that sells organic heirloom tomato seed. i really like this company. they always include a free packet of seeds to try. this year they sent me arkansas traveler. i ordered a few varieties that are new to me ... box car willie, glacier and a red cherry tomato called koralik. i can't find a red cherry tomato that i love. the last red cherry i grew was angora super sweet and the year before that was peacevine. two years ago, we grew 60 cherry tomato plants made up of 6 or 7 different varieties. we sold beautiful mixed cherry pints made up of dr.caroline, matt's wild cherry, green grape, yellow pear, black cherry, sungold and angora super sweet. in burlington, we had a great market for them. stone soup and penny cluse each bought 4 or five flats a week, plus i sold them at city market and the farmers markets.
we had a wintry mix of weather today.... rain, sleet and some wind. much milder though. i am starting to hear reports that the sap is running and sugar makers are beginning to boil. sugaring season always seems to come out of nowhere. we have about 30 maple trees on the property that we could tap. i hope we can integrate sugaring into our farm life eventually. spencer has some experience sugaring. the extent of my experience is endless school field trips to sugar houses in the spring and going to our annual maple festival in st.albans. eating all that sugar on snow has to add up to something. on a side note, i marched in maple festival parade with the school band from sixth grade until i graduated high school.
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