Garden 2012

It's already the middle of February of 2012! I have been thinking about my garden all winter long and now finally is the time I can start doing things.

I purchased all my seeds at the end of last month. I tried out two new seed companies this year: Bountiful Gardens (www.bountifulgardens.org) and Le Jardin du Gourmet (www.ArtisticGardens.com).

Bountiful Gardens is a sustainable agricultrure research company located Willits, CA. All their seeds are open-pollinated and heirloom, and most of them are also certified organic. Since I want to be able to learn how to gather my own seed for the next season, I chose to try out this company. They have an extensive amount of seeds they offer, and all are very reasonably priced. They only have seeds, so no live plants, so you have to be confident in your seed-growing, but I am very excited and am very impressed with the quality of their seed and what their business supports.

I actually found out about Le Jardin du Gourmet from a flyer in a mailer packet (go figure). They specialize in the "40 cent sample seed packets". Since this was very inexpensive I decided to give them a try even though I knew nothing more about them. Their website is obviously simple and not super proffesional-looking, but it's effective and I was very glad to have an option to order online. They had a very nice selection of garden fruits and veggies, and also had some live plant options. I opted to just try out their seed this year, but if they grow well I may try their live plants next year to add some more herbs and perrenials to my garden. They also sell onion and shallot bulbs which I may try next year. All their products are very reasonably priced, and the 40 cent seed packet option is just right for a small gardener like myself. I still got a very decent amount of seed in each packet, definitely enough for my one-family garden.


So now I have all my seeds. I have sorted them by the month in which I should start sprouting them. With my new baby it has been a challange to make time to actually get things done, but here's hoping she starts sleeping longer!