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Wintersowing

preparing for spring!!

Wintersowing Journal, Part 2

Part 1 is here.

Blue (Okame spinach hybrid) out 3/27/08!! – moved to cold frame, + 3 yogurt cups: solanum molangena (Greek Gods), Bot Int Eggplant (Chocolate Underground), sanguisorba minor (french vanilla)
#201 Clear plastic soup tall – edamame Bot Int Tohya
Blue Bonnet – shikaku mame/Winged Bean Kitazawa
#203 Salad – Akahana fujimame – hyacinth bean Kitazawa
#204 [...]

Wintersowing Journal

started 28 January 2008 and succeeding days:

Row 1

valeriana officinalis – valerian
satureja montana – winter savory
salvia officinalis – broadleaf sage
rosmarinus
pisum sativum – snow pea
perennial oregano
marrubium vulgare – horehound
spearmint
levisticum officinale – lovage
cress fine curled
inula helenium – elecampane
hyssopus officinalis
arugula – germinated week of 2/11/08, some died, okay again 3/25/08
carum carvi – caraway

Row 2

purple top white globe turnip
flowering chinese [...]

In the Past Four Weeks

- we traveled twice to St. Lou/Cape and back
- I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; finishing up Mansfield Park today
- tried out Door-to-Door Organics and didn’t like it
- wintersowed roughly 46 seeds, with at least 4x more coming in the next few weeks
- changed our phone plan to something $10 [...]

Wintersowed #1

I finished up the last of my seeds of the ff:

Mentha spicata – Spearmint – Plantation 2006
Rosmarinus officinalis – Fothergills
Marrubium vulgare – Horehound – Fedco 2004
Bellis perennis – English Daisy True Wild Type – JL Hudson 2004
Mirabilis jalapa unknown color 2005
Brassica rapa – Purple Top White Globe Turnip – Seeds of Change 2002
Rudbeckia hirta Gloriosa [...]